Reading practice: THIS CHEEKY LITTLE SH*TCome read this glorious panel with vocab/grammar notes unde

Reading practice: THIS CHEEKY LITTLE SH*T

Come read this glorious panel with vocab/grammar notes under the cut. (Blue Exorcist spoilers, obvs)

So here we have Yukio literally daring the freaking King of Light to kill him, like… yeah I tricked you and blew up your airship, u mad bro?

どうせ僕は死ねない
I can’t die anyhow.

どうせ at any rate, after all, no matter what
僕 (ぼく) I, me
は makes 僕 the topic of the sentence (he’s talking about himself and how he can’t die)
死ぬ (しぬ) die
Changing the -u on an u-verb to -eru means “to be able to verb”: 死ぬ–>死ねる (しねる) “can die”
~ない not, doesn’t: 死ねる–>死ねない (しねない) “can’t die”

万が一殺せるならどうぞ殺してくれ
If, by some chance, you CAN kill me, please, be my guest.

万が一 (まんがいち) Literally something like “one in ten thousand.” It usually means something that’s unlikely, but we still need to plan for it. So… “Just in case,” “In the unlikely event that…” “If, god forbid, the worst should happen…” etc. He’s saying hey, I figure there’s like, a 0.01% chance it could work, but knock yourself out man.
殺す (ころす) kill
殺せる(ころせる) can kill (same form as 死ねる above)
なら if, if that’s the case
どうぞ Please, go ahead, feel free to… This is the same word you’d use to, say, tell someone the seat next to you is free and they are welcome to sit in it. But with, you know, murder.
殺して (ころして） the te-form of 殺す (kill) which is used to connect it to other verbs and phrases.
verbてくれ “verb for me.” It’s like an informal “verbてください” (please verb for me) if you know that form. くれ is from the verb くれる “give to me”–you’re doing the verb and then giving it to me as a gift. You wanna kill me? I’d love to see you try. Go ahead, make my day.

You know, sometimes it’s weird in anime when a teenager is just randomly able to take down an entire evil organization when perfectly functional adults have failed.

Other times, it makes perfect sense, because only a teenager could be so catastrophically reckless when they get truly Done with everything.

Good work, kiddo. I hope you don’t get any radiation sickness from this.