GHOST SADIST MIKAMI #19

 As romance kindles Mikami's heart, her urge to pummel her heart's desire grows exponentially in "Stand by Me."

 

Although her confusion is also shown by her withholding justified violence on one occasion-- which makes Yokoshima fear that she now "hates" him.

 

GHOST SADIST MIKAMI #18

 "Death Zone" starts off with Mikami in their usual modes.

  

But the advent of a goddess sends the two sweepers back to medieval Japan. There they meet their reincarnation-ancestors, with Yokoshima's being an exorcist while Mikami's is a demon, and of course both of the ancestors look roughly like their descendants. Though the demoness Mephisto is initially subservient to exorcist Takashima, she can't keep the dominant Mikami nature from surfacing.

 

In Mephisto's case, her animus proceeds from a sort of feminine modesty. To what extent such modesty influences Mikami remains an unanswered question.

   

GHOST SADIST MIKAMI #17

 Diverse scenes from "Danger Everywhere."

The above sequence is the only time (so far) Yokoshima calls Mikami "big sister" in this translation. This makes an interesting comparison to the way Mikami addresses Saijou, her unrelated first crush on an "older man," as "brother," in "The Man Who Could Summon a Storm."    

GHOST SADIST MIKAMI #16

 In "Battle with Wolves," Yokoshima flips over Mikami.

Also some contentions with a young girl, Sanae Himuro, in "Sleeping Beauty."

 

GHOST SADIST MIKAMI #15

 Yokoshima's kindness to a young girl almost has a domino effect that leads to him marrying both her and Mikami in "The Beauty of Poverty." But even before this contingency comes to pass, Mikami is anything but pleased with the prospect of her assistant marrying someone else.

Naturally she still finds all sorts of reasons to beat him up for declaring his love for her.

 

The status quo returns by story's end, but gentle Kobato resolves to go after Yokoshima despite the way he and Mikami act like "a real couple."

GHOST SADIST MIKAMI #14

 A double-smash by Reiko and Emi in "Someday, Sometime."

And then Yokoshima gets both his face and his heart mangled by Reiko's encounter with an old crush, in "The Man Who Can Summon a Storm." 

GHOST SADIST MIKAMI #13

 It's a "Showdown in Hong Kong," and once again, Yokoshima is outgunned.