Chapter 72

Mission 72 (: 72) is the seventy-second chapter of the SPY x FAMILY manga, written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo. It was released on December 12, 2022.

Summary
Billy and his squad are surprised to see that the Berlint City Police found them. The children, noticing the police cars outside, they excitedly get up from their seats preparing to leave the bus, but Billy stops them by shooting at the ceiling, threatening that if anyone tries to get out he will shoot them. The woman begins to wonder how they were found, since it is not possible that any kid knew where they were going. At that moment, the hijackers turn to see the students, and Anya gets scared as she was the one who found out the address. The Berlint City Police starts giving an announcement to the Red Circus Members to surrender. Billy asks the driver if they can break through, but he replies that it will be impossible with flat tires. The woman then warns Billy that the SSS is coming from the other side, so with no other choice, he grabs black cloths from his back and orders them to cover the windows. The police notice this and worries as they won’t know what will happen with the hostages, but then Billy walks out with Damian and tells them that if they plan on doing anything he’ll blow up the student and everyone inside the bus. In shock, a guard asks Billy what does he want, and he asks for two demands: the first one is to freedom all his comrades that are in jail, and the second one is to give all of them a safe passage to Nortica. He also states that for each comrade the police frees, he’ll release 5 students. The Berlint Police leader worries for their situation, and at that moment the SSS guards arrive and ask him to withdraw his forces, as they were preparing to storm the bus. The Police leader opposes as there are children inside the bus, but one of the SSS members recalls how his duty is to protect the country, and that a few dead children wouldn't be as bad as starting capital terrorism. The Police leader, angered, tells him that they won’t decide anything until the ministry gives orders. The agent agrees, and then watches to the bus addressing Billy, saying that several of the comrades he wants released are already dead.

Back in the bus, the driver scolds Billy saying he should’ve put a bigger threaten to the kids, but Billy tells him that as soon as they give the SSS a deadline, they’d start storming the bus, which would cause parents to start putting pressure on the government. Damian walks back to his sit as he recalls how embarrassing was to him that everyone saw him like that, worrying that it may cause problems for his father. Then Bill cheers him up saying that he did a great job pulling it together, and their only hope is to wait for their parents to do something. Emile and Ewen agree with Bill and also try to cheer Damian, but he only mentions how he is a 40-year-old grade schooler, offending Bill. Is WISE HQ, Sylvia is having a conversation with the WISE Agent vis telephone about the bus that is still missing, as she was announced that the missing bus went to a road where schoolbuses don’t even pass, so Sylvia decides to leak that lead to the Police. In the State Security Service HQ, an SSS agent recieves Sylvia’s leak and tells other two agents about the possible location of the missing bus. Yuri, who was tied to a pillar by his boss so that he doesn't get involved in the case, listens to everything and begs to be released to investigate more, since he has contacts that can help him get the location. At the end he was released so he starts to search for clues immediately. He asks for some information about a schoolbus passing through suspicious areas. Yuri knows it would be a real problem to dumb a bus and then transport 40 kids in car, so he decides to scour the area where the bus was probably stashed. Heading back to the SSS agents surrounding the bus, they get informed that they got a lead to the possible location of the other schoolbus, and they also denied the request to storm the bus, bothering the SSS member who asked that petition. Inside the schoolbus, Billy notices that many kids have to go to the bathroom, so he tells them to raise their hand for anyone who needs to go and he will escort them to the shrubs behind the bus. Emile is the first one to raise his hand as he says he can’t hold it anymore, so Billy accompanies him and tells him he knows what happens if he tries to run away. Emile tells him he would never, as he knows Damian has a bomb around his neck and he’s worried for him. Billy and Emile strat going down of the bus, alarming the agents outside. One of them asks if they should fire, but other one denies since it won’t do any good if they can’t have all the culprits at once. Suddenly, Becky’s father and Martha arrive to the scene, where some guards had to stop Mr. Blackbell as he tried to go see her daughter. In that moment, Henderson and another teacher arrive too. Henry is surprised to see Martha, and both of them share their concern for the health and well-being of the students inside the bus. Inside it, many kids start feeling dizzy as they are tired, thristy, hungry and scared, overwhelming Anya by the inmense number of children thinking. Billy gets off the bus and asks the agents for the council’s answer, where they answer him they’re still deciding, but in the meantime, they’d like to bring food and water to the students. Billy agrees as long as a teacher is the one who delivers the food, so Henry offers himself to go give the supplies to the children.

As Henry is escorted to the bus, the kids get relieved to see their master. He asks if they’re alright and tells them they should keep the dignity of Eden Students, assuring them that they will be rescued. The dorm tutor, who is still injured for the electric shock, tries to apologize with Henry for not being able to help, but the headmaster worriedly tells the hijackers he needs to go to a hospital, but Billy denies. Henry tells him that in exchange of the dorm tutpr being released they can keep him, so the terrorist agrees. He proceeds to handcuff Henderson and let the tutor go. As Henry sits down, he notices both Anya and Damian have a bomb, so he angrilly stares at Billy thinking him as a despicable coward. Then the headmaster asks the kids if all of the, have food and water supplies, whoch Anya says she’s so hungry she could eat an entire horse. Henry gets shocked by Anya’s nerves of steel, remembering the words Anya told back in the interivew.