Chapter 241

"A forced smile" is the eighth chapter of the 27th volume and the 241st chapter overall of the Tokyo卍Revengers manga series, written and illustrated by Ken Wakui.

Summary
With a Concorde plastic model in his hand, Mikey races across the room and rashly leaps in the air. Takeomi warns him that it is dangerous but he proceeds to show off his brand new possession. As he ignores Takeomi, Baji and Haruchiyo chase after him and beg to play with his toy. Mikey refuses to share it and runs away with the Concorde.

Senju, spotting the airplane model, marvels at the toy and wishes to have one for herself. However, Takeomi scolds her for her unconventional way of speaking as she had used a traditionally masculine term. He calls Haruchiyo and reprimands him for teaching Senju the incorrect words. Haruchiyo apologizes.

In the present, Takemichi is surprised that Haruchiyo used to be an ordinary child. Senju explains that she and her siblings were raised by a single father which caused Takeomi to fill in the role of a father figure for them. As such, Takeomi would put the blame on Haruchiyo as the older sibling of the two for Senju's mistakes, but he never complained until that fateful day.

Senju continues her account: outside the Sano Dojo, Haruchiyo weeps to himself after getting reprimanded by Takeomi. He tells Senju that he no longer wants to talk to her as he would always shoulder the blame for her mistakes. As Senju apologizes, Haruchiyo remarks how he wishes to know how to talk back to Takeomi like how Baji and Mikey do.

After some time, Senju roams around the dojo alone and suddenly finds Mikey's Concorde model. She plays with it around the living room until she trips on accident and breaks the toy. Mikey later arrives, looking at the broken toy. While Senju tries to apologize, he asks her who broke the model and she lies that it was Haruchiyo.

Senju is reading manga alone when she hears the commotion outside the dojo. Running to the scene, she finds Haruchiyo with the corners of his mouth wounded and Mikey with blood in his hands. Baji sits on the ground in shock. Mikey instructs Haruchiyo to laugh and Haruchiyo obeys.

Frustrated at herself, Senju believes that the Mikey she witnessed on that tragic day was the same Mikey that appeared in the Battle of Three Deities. She also believes that, because of the lie she told, Mikey, Baji, and Haruchiyo changed. After realizing that it is too late to revert her mistakes, she calls herself a failure, but Takemichi consoles her and acknowledges that he himself is a failure as well. Believing they can remedy the past, he invites Senju to Thousand Winters and announces that they will defeat the Kanto Manji Gang.