Oh, 9-kun, so your family won't support you any more... 9労 is a pun on 苦労 (kurou), which means "toil, labor"; 9 can be pronounced "ku" like 苦. Don't ask me to weave this pun into the English translation.

Fire wall

...luckily, the master here is poor, so he still lets me work, but you know...

...I'm the same.

Dad said, "When this year ends, you'll have exhausted your usefulness"...

The two of us might be just alike, don't you think?

Note: both are unaware of ME's support extension