The Great Jahy Will Not Let Saurva Upstage Her, Episode 9!

Saurva hides from Jahy in the public bathhouse. Jahy wastes money at a department store. Later, Saurva fails at retrieving Jahy’s lunch.

Restoration Plan No. 9 – “Saurva Can’t Catch a Break…”

Hmm.

The Great Jahy is cruel to its characters. Look at how much it beats down on poor little Jahy. Her pride keeps her railing defiantly against her circumstances, but otherwise, Jahy is self-aware and accepts reality. Saurva is different. She’s surviving well in the human world, but her mission hasn’t changed. She still wants to usurp Jahy as the Demon World’s Number Two! Her priorities are out of order.

The audience got a comedic reality check on Saurva’s importance and recognition because Jahy has no idea who she is! Saurva has delusions of grandeur. Granted, The Great Jahy only shows Saurva’s situation from her obsessive perspective, so we don’t know whether she commanded armies or had her own minions. But it looks like she was a scrub with no influence in the Dark Realm. She serves as a lesson for those who have clout in their own minds. Or think they’re a “big deal” in another area of their lives. People should make sure their self-image matches third-person objective reality.

Speaking of objective reality: lightsaber toys are just sticks that light up. The Great Jahy is full of lessons this week. It gave us a slice-of-life comedy bit on escaping a store with a lighter wallet. We should cut Jahy some slack for not having experience with cheap goods and worthless toys burning her. She should have shopped at J-List… At least the Store Manager got some effective sponges from Jahy’s ordeal. Anything that makes her happy is a blessing.

Saurva experienced the Store Manager’s “blessings” firsthand, and they put her mind at ease. I gratefully appreciated The Great Jahy supplying us with two episodes of Jahy fanservice from the same bathhouse scene. The Store Manager also increased her yuri harem by one more demon from the Dark Realm.

Heh.

Oh my. The Great Jahy is going for two bites of the same apple! Saurva was indeed in the background of Jahy’s visit to the public bathhouse. Now we get to see what happened from Saurva’s perspective. Saurva needed to hide from both Jahy-sama and the Landlady. Jahy-sama is understandable, but the Landlady merely scared her, so Saurva wants to avoid her. The Magnificent Saurva does not appear to be that magnificent. Hahaha! Jahy stole so much of Saurva’s “complimentary” shampoo. How does Saurva support herself in the human world?

Now’s the time to strike! Not. Saurva’s unluckiness struck her instead. She slipped on a bar of soap instead of the Great Jahy’s banana peel. Ooh. Soft landing. Oh? Does Saurva swing that way? Or does she simply admire the goddess that is the Store Manager? Let’s go with the latter because I’d be in a daze after landing on the Store Manager’s ample bosom too. Oh, yeah. Saurva will come again to the bathhouse, for sure.

The Great Jahy’s good mood wasn’t only about the rich scent from Saurva’s shampoo. It was also payday! Time to buy weapons to defeat the Magical Girl. Where? At the home goods department store! I would love to have seen Jahy’s shopping cart next to an adult-sized one because that little thing must be the kiddie version some shops have. Oh, dear. Jahy should have gone shopping with the Store Manager or the Landlady. She has no experience or defenses against useless gadgets and manipulative upselling.

Hahaha! Magical weapons belong in the toy department! Oh, what an indictment on otaku merchandise. I can’t even argue that The Great Jahy is wrong here. Yes! The lightsaber will surely defeat the Magical Girl. If it wasn’t a stick that lights up… Jahy gave up eating meat for a month for all that crap. At least the Store Manager was happy with some sponges.

The Great Jahy makes its version of the Home Alone movies. The hole in Jahy’s logic is that the Magical Girl already stole her fist-sized mana crystal. She has no reason to come to her apartment again. Oh well, let’s make some jokes about homemade traps and how ineffective they would be. Har. Jahy still wants to use her “stick that lights up” against the Magical Girl.

Oops. Jahy realized she had trapped herself inside the apartment. Jaheek! The tiny skull with hair tuft bones will always make me giggle. Ah. It’s the Landlady. Jahy doesn’t want to make her mad! It’s not like she cares about hurting her, okay? Hoh. I wonder what “defenses” the Landlady improved around the apartment building to guard against the Magical Girl.

Okay. We’re back to Saurva to close The Great Jahy episode. She has nightmares about Jahy and the Landlady. Jahy scaring Saurva makes sense because of shared history, but she met the Landlady while impersonating Jahy. Saurva is a traumatized scaredy-cat. How does Saurva support herself? She has an apartment, and she can have lunch in a park on a weekday.

Ah. Saurva thought she recognized Jahy. But it’s just some little girl fighting crows from taking bread away from her. The Great Jahy has an aura. This little one does not. Bwahaha! Saurva never needed to worry about Jahy noticing her! She has no idea who the “Magnificent Saurva” is. Oh, man. That’s perfect.

Still, Saurva likes cute girls with fighting spirits! Useless! Saurva can’t even fight crows as an adult! Jahy lost her lunch! Jahy also won’t take pity from a random stranger. She lost her lunch, and that’s that. Saurva is such a loser that she needs advice from a toddler about becoming strong. Never give up! The Great Jahy will not be defeated if she never gives up. Every loss is a minor setback on the road to ultimate victory! Saurva takes the lesson to heart, but she’s not ready to put it into practice. An irritated Jahy on a busy night at the pub is too scary! Saurva didn’t give up, though. She’ll just try again when circumstances are better. Yeah, right!

Next time, the Magical Girl suffers more misfortune.

The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated! (Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai!) streams on Crunchyroll and VRV.