No Work Completed During Tournament Time. Or Any Other Time.

There's no infidelity allowed when your mistress is lady Justice, chum. Unless she's in a catsuit and carries a whip. Then all bets are off. 

As I mentioned in Part 5 of the 2025 Year in Review series, Volume 11 of Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General, covering chapters 157 to 171, is my favorite of the series so far. Jin sticks to short stories, two chapters long at the most, focused on the cast in their day-to-day lives and relationships with their coworkers, which is the strongest part of the book, and the source of a lot of the best laughs.

Even when he takes the focus outside RX, Jin follows that, sparing us the bureaucratic nonsense about the Hero League that wasted pages in prior volumes. His one chapter focused on the 3-person "Organization" is Jester assuming his colleagues are busy thinking up ways to break out of jail, when, really, the Professor is busy virtual conferencing with a mad scientist that works for the Hero League, and the crazy cyborg girl is pacified by giving her access to the security feed of Jester's cell. So she can creepily drool over him all day.

Similarly, the Villain League gets a single chapter about the Monster Benefits Society setting up their new base in a different part of the same junkyard where RX is housed, and the women's coalition demanding the boss be isolated because his gelatinous body absorbs and radiates the stench. 

The Hero League get three chapters. One where Braveman's two apprentices see how, let's say "modestly" he lives, and decide to, 'teach Braveman extravagance,' with predictably disastrous results. At one point, they give Braveman a piece of toast with a variety of fancy foods piled on it. Caviar, foie gras, truffles, and son. This is such, culinary blasphemy, as one character puts it, that Jin depicts the food as blurred out, as though it's obscene. In the second, he's assigned as a mentor to another new hero, Esga, who has some weird mechanical fists, is always on her phone, and talks in what I assume is roughly current teen lingo (or Jin's understanding of such.) Posting pictures of Braveman to "Insta", describing herself as 'deffo legit strong', and calling the General "mid." Which earns her a harsh introduction to the world of fighting real villains, or whatever the General is.

Also, the younger characters have started using "paisen" instead of "senpai" when speaking to Braveman. It apparently means the same thing, so I don't really understand why Jin flipped the order of the two halves of the word, but I guess it reflects some shift in the culture. Anyway, the third Hero League chapter introduces a new character, as "Serious Glasses" wants to produce a promotional anime for the League, and this Shozo just so happens to create things he imagines, at the cost of his emotions. Serious Glasses, long accustomed to dealing with unreasonable expectations, passes this on, and utterly destroys the cheerful, eager, and competent young hero. It's just like working in the real creative arts!

All those stories come in a 6-chapter span in the middle of the volume (160-165). The lone RX-focused chapter in there is 164, "Kunoichi Fashion", where GG-Chan undergoes the same horrible experience of Scientist-San offering new, extremely fan-service-y costumes, that the General underwent a few volumes ago.

Everything else is RX doing goofy shit together. In the first chapter, they make way too much mochi to celebrate New Year's, so that's what Boss and Secretary-San start eating for every meal. Until X-Kun makes Secretary (hoping to get closer to Boss this year) conscious of her weight from all those carbs. She crash diets, leaving Boss to handle the mochi alone and get sick from eating some that goes bad. Which leads the rest of the Organization to the mistaken assumption "New Year's Sex" is happening, and no, I won't elaborate.

The final chapter of the volume, "Don't Get Greedy," loops back around to the couple, as RX's recent success has lots of criminal organizations wanting to strengthen ties with them. By offering Boss women, sending Secretary-San into a spiral of insecurity that he'll get a harem. The General makes a typically mixed effort in reassuring her coworker and Boss turns down all the offers. He has Secretary-San, after all. Just so long as he doesn't eat her pudding (not a euphemism.)

The two chapters after the mochi episode involve RX trying to corral a mysterious monster in some virtual world, who demonstrates bizarre abilities. The Henchman and the General are sent in (with the Henchmen given avatars resembling the General, Secretary and GG), and quickly realize it's just some loser sitting at home in front of a computer, going on about purity and virgins. They kick his ass, in the real world and the virtual, the General showing her usual absence of self-awareness in berating him for not respecting people's boundaries and autonomy.

Chapters 166 and 167 are the high point, as Scientist-San creates a Street Fighter knock-off with the RX characters, and the entire organization - really just Boss and the General - get way too into it, and a tournament is arranged. Most of that revolves around how hard Boss and the General are trying to win, Boss using his powers to cheat, the General having trained non-stop for an entire week, all to beat X-Kun's ass. Which, she does, and it's very satisfying, even if the annihilation is so complete we don't even see it. (Also, in what's a bit of a touching moment, Boss plays as Secretary-San, and Secretary-San plays as Boss. Awwwwwww.)

Unexpectedly, Jin turns this into a chance for some actual development in the situation between Braveman and the General, as the latter collapses in exhaustion. She's taken to a hospital, where Braveman was visiting Oobaa-sama. He gets lost, and wanders into the General's room, is mistaken by the nurses for a chaperone (for an unconscious person?) and gets stuck trying to corral the hyper-active, sleeping, General. At which point, she kisses him. Without realizing it happened or that he was ever in her hospital room. But Braveman knows, and it is fucking him up, as seen in the first scan.

In between that and "Don't Get Greedy" is a summer beach chapter. The General invites Eight Foot Tall-Chan to the beach, as an apology for not inviting her to participate in the video game tournament. She just didn't think Eight Foot Tall-Chan (can we not get her a shorter name?) was ready for that sort of violence. (I don't know if this was what Jin always planned, or he realized he forgot their newest member, who joined for the chance to have friends, and scrambled to compensate.) Anyway, Eight Foot Tall-Chan also invited her other friend, the creepy lady the General's beaten up twice already, in the hopes they could still be friends, too. Unfortunately, "Slit-Mouth-San" can't let bygones be bygones, or more accurately, can't let her urge to pursue kids go, and is hurled into the sea.