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Title What's New Pussycat?
Release date October 19, 2024
Chapter number 62
Volume 9
Previous chp. Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Next chp. No country for old men

What's New Pussycat? is the sixty-second chapter of the Black Lagoon spinoff series Dismemberment Galore! The Gore Gore Girl. It was originally released on October 19, 2024.

Plot

Outside her workplace, Frederica Sawyer brings out a bowl of food and places it on the ground for a stray cat to eat. Once eating the food, the cat yawns and runs away from the squatting Sawyer, who decides to head back inside. Traveling through Roanapur, the cat walks by one house and hears gunshots, noticing a man and woman inside. Stressed out, the woman repeatedly shoots a dead man and mocks him by saying that his money is now hers. Her male accomplice urges her to get out of the house, reasoning that they can buy some time until others discover the dead man. Noticing the cat in the corner of her eye, the woman glares at it and warns it not to look at her. Walking away, the cat walks on a fence and jumps down, only to see the two murderers flee in a car. Watching the car speed away, the cat yawns again but is suddenly pushed by a strong breeze from another speeding car, which crashes into a street pole.

Emerging from the Cadillac, Martin asks Renfield what happened, to which the latter clarifies that he had to avoid hitting the cat. Agreeing with the excuse, Martin walks up to the cat and picks it up, telling the animal that it should go somewhere safer. Dropping off the cat elsewhere, the freelancer waves goodbye to the feline and departs. Nearby, Revy and Rock are hanging out at an outdoor dining place, with the former relaying to the latter that a "Bonnie and Clyde" couple killed a street dealer affiliated with Hotel Moscow and took off with the man's drugs and money. Rock notices the cat looking at him from under the table, interesting him. Though he offers his plate of food to the animal, Revy chastises him and warns against it on the grounds that the cat will die if it eats human food, disappointing him. Walking away, the cat then travels to the Roanapur Public Cemetery, where Bunny the Undertaker, The Undertaker No. 2, Jacqueline and Jessica are all wowed with the animal. While Bunny remarks that she only has tea and cake, the cat climbs onto Jessica's head, taking her by surprise. Worried, No. 2 asks her not to kill it, but Jessica assures her she has no murderous intentions. Looking at the cat, Jessica flashes a devilish grin, startling the cat and causing it to run away. She is confused as to why it fled, whereas No. 2 laments that she did not get to play with it.

Suddenly, an unfamiliar car shows up and stops on the cemetery grounds, irritating Bunny. The gravedigger tells them they cannot drive in the cemetery without permission, but the gangster couple retorts that they need to use the graveyard to hide. Bunny again orders them to leave, making the woman angry enough to shoot at one of the tombstones near her and threaten to kill them. The unfazed Jessica and No. 2 wonder what to do, but Bunny is enraged at the damage to the tombstone. Interrupting them by saying he will end things, Martin proclaims that he has been requested to hunt down the murderers. Noticing No. 2, the freelancer thanks her for her previous help and bows his head to her. Shocked, the male gangster recalls that Martin is a skilled man, prompting his girlfriend to yell that they need to escape. The couple immediately embark their car and speed past the cemetery gate, agreeing that they will not be taken down so easily.

However, the cat from before is laying in the middle of the adjacent street. The woman orders her boyfriend to run it over, but the man is hesitant to do so. As a result, a second later, a barrage of bullets rains down on the right side of the vehicle, killing the two criminals as they crash into a wall. Arriving on the scene, Boris picks up the cat while Balalaika looks down upon the dead couple and insults them as fools. Examining the car and the couple, Boris comments that they were lucky to run into their targets, asking his captain what they should do. Uttering that the couple would be a waste of bullets, Balalaika orders the sergeant to have a third party handle the corpse disposal, prompting him to agree to the command. Subsequently, Sawyer the Cleaner's employees bring the couple's bodies inside the corpse disposal building. Standing outside, she notices that the same cat from before has returned, so she brings it another bowl of food and happily watches the cat eat.

Notes

  • The chapter title is a reference to the 1965 American comedy film What's New Pussycat?