To expand on the answer given earlier, you’ll sometimes see this where (typically) the furigana tells what the person says, but the main text gives the meaning. In this case, one of the girls is saying サイトウ (by name), but the “meaning” is “警察”, perhaps to remind the reader of who the character by that name is.
In some cases, the main text may not include kanji and/or the furigana may include kanji. (I don’t think we’ll see that in this series, though.)
Some authors use it the other way around, where the main word is what is being said, and the furigana gives the meaning, such as saying 「あいつ」 with furigana telling the name of who あいつ refers to.
It can be a bother when the kanji and furigana don’t match up, because then you can’t look up the kanji as easily. But that’s why weren’t all here on WaniKani, isn’t it? So we can read that kanji regardless of the status of furigana, whether there is no furigana, or if it is there but it’s playing shenanigans on us.
I read this as, “You too, blockhead?!” If English would allow a question mark mid-sentence, I’d have put it before the comma rather than at the end.
This follows Saitou saying, “I don’t want it. I don’t want it at all. I could die of not wanting it.”[/spoiler] This leads to Sacchan saying:
くたばる + て + も + いい = “it’s okay if you drop dead”
から = “because (of that”)
買え = “buy (it)” (impertative form)
よ = emphasis
All together, it’s along the lines of saying “It’s find if you drop dead, so buy it already!” in English.
Even though he’s using a raised voice here, with the です I wonder if he isn’t actually speaking to the old woman here. Something like, “Are you at an appropriate age to be so gullible?”
His verbal treatment of the kids in chapter one starts to make more sense…
This one’s a tricky one at first, but it’s とこ, which is short of ところ (place). Thus さっちゃん(の)とこ(ろ) is Sacchan’s place, referring to her mother’s shop.
The は marks 「さっちゃんとこの果物」 and the topic. The comment being made on this topic is 「絶品だ」. “On the topic of Sacchan’s place’s fruit, it is an exquisite item.”
I wonder if this is from 行ってくる + volitional = 行ってこよう. A web search didn’t turn up any decent results, but I did find that for the anime they rewrote the line as 「よーし！売るぞ！」
正義の味方 is modifier カラーズ, for a meaning of “Colors, the Defenders of Justice”, the group the girls formed (which took place sometime before chapter one). The enemy of Colors is Saitou (something that also seems to have come to be before chapter one).
Kotoha’s working out how she’ll making use of the reward. She’s essentially saying, “I will sever bones and flesh.” Recall her line from the start of the chapter, when she agrees with Sacchan’s idea back in the clubhouse secret hideout.
It is indeed the kids (I’m guessing Sacchan, as she seems to be the idea person of the group).
Over time, you get used to speech patterns and personality types, and you get better at recognizing who’s saying what. (That’s how I knew the speaker in my response above was Kotoha.)
When a っ is at the end of a sentence, it’s sort of like putting an exclamation point in English, although maybe with a bit less strength to it than an exclamation point.
Welcome to manga =D
In English writing, it’s considered bad style to write words the way they’re spoken. But it’s common in Japanese comics. Y’ull git yuztuit. (You’ll get used to it.)
