1. Props to Barbonymus and Milly for the translation
2. Sorry about the font size, but many of those panels are chock full of text.
3. Sorry about the file size; the original (457k) file was 8 bit indexed; when I tried moving this to 8 bit index the result was crap. This is greyscale (1.5M), full RGB would have been 2.6M.
Okay, I was almost going to say that I was happy this section was going to end on a good note. And then I remembered the next panel. And then I SAW the next panel.
No-one's commented on this... but the hatless Komarisa provides an interesting inversion of how this situation usually works. Normally, the accessory-less yukkuri is set upon by its friends and family for being "unable to take it easy" and "not a yukkuri", without understanding why they can't recognize it or why they'd want to hurt it. In this case, the Komarisa's mother and sister are smart and easy enough to accept her even without her accessory... but she's initially completely convinced that without one, they'll hate her and be unable to recognize her.
Still new, don't know all the precedents. I saw one story about the accessory status thing. In that story, the marisa's hat was removed while it was asleep. so: 1. the family didn't witness the accessory removal. 2. The way I remember it, the rejection happened before the yukkuri could realize that it's hat was missing.
Perhaps accessories are a primary identification, but when the yukkuri know their family member has has it's accessory stolen, they refocus on some secondary methods?
Or it could just be this story rejecting it as a hard rule.
The agreed-on implication is that a yukkuri cannot take it easy without its accessory and that missing its accessory makes it somehow less than a yukkuri or not a yukkuri at all - which means other yukkuri can't fully take it easy around them.
The actual response to an accessory-less yukkuri, however, varies depending on the author or artist. But I've noticed that because most works are out to simply abuse yukkuris, most authors/artists will have the family or other yukkuri immediately act hostile to it and ostracize or kill it on sight, regardless of whether the yukkuri is family.
I guess ammo decided to disregard that in order to lengthen out the story and to focus more on all the hardships of the family.