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Soul Eater Chapter 76: Black Star's Adventures in Wonderland, or The Little Ninja That Could
Okay, it's official. I really, truly believe that Ohkubo is totally playing his own personal game of Let's See How Much Crazy Shit I Can Get Away With Before My Editor, Squeenix, or The Censorship Arm of the Japanese Government Comes Down on My Ass Like a Ton of Bricks.
I mean, look at the evidence: Last month we had rape rape rape rape rape, in the months leading up to that we had fuck numerical order I'M ATSUSHI OHKUBO AND I'LL NUMBER MY CHAPTERS HOWEVER I GODDAMN WANT TO, and this month we have...
Well, we have the cover to this month's GanGan, that's what we have.
First there's Maka flashing part of her bare ass on the cover of this supposedly preteen-oriented magazine. (No, that's not her thigh. What constitutes Maka's "thigh" ends roughly two inches below the line of her pulled-up skirt. The rest that you can see exposed would be, if Maka were standing upright, clearly part of her asscheek.) And then there's what is apparently the Little Oni's decapitated head, which it looks like Maka is rubbing against her crotch, for some reason. While she's smiling and winking at the reader. Um, hawt?
Ohkubo, you are clearly the Studio Shaft of the manga world.
NGL, I think that the idea of a woman who actually masturabates with the severed heads of her enemies is INCREDIBLY BADASS. I mean, that is pretty much the most badass thing that anybody could ever do, ever. And we all know that Maka is the living definition of badass. But is that hawt, though? Not in my humble opinion. Well, er, I guess it depends on how you feel about necrophilia.
But I digress. Anyway, speaking of badassery!
I'm a technician, Maka think-bubbles as our chapter opens. I can't do anything by myself... But when I'm together with Soul... Soul and I are going to become stronger together!
Soul notices that Maka's soul wavelength has suddenly powered up so much that it's spraying feathers all over the room. "Maka..." he says.
You know, Soul looks awfully healthy for a guy who just got his chest ripped open by a chainsaw.
And in the next panel, Maka looks an awful lot like she's making the Waffles face. Except I think that this is supposed to be her "determined" expression or whatever. But her face looks way more like she's thinking Noah-samaaaaaaa why do you love that asshole shinigami more than meeeeeeee?! Goddammit, Ohkubo, learn to draw more than five facial expressions, for Pete's sake!
"I'm sorry, Soul," Maka says. "I---..."
Soul reaches for her hand. "It's okay. You don't have to say anything."
Soul transforms back into his scythe form. Meanwhile, Giricco dramatically pulls a sheet off... something. No seriously, what the hell is he doing in that panel? "Looks like your engine's finally warned up..." he says. And then he gives a hard yank to his own pull cord.
That sounds naughtier than it actually looks.
Eight hundred years... Giricco think-bubbles. I was waiting for Arachne for eight hundred years. "Don't make me wait any longer..."
Holy shit!
Giricco's chains are all over the freakin' room!
Maka manages to dodge and avoid a grisly dismemberment, but Giricco's not done yet. "The chains are coming back this way!" Soul warns Maka. And next we get an extremely poorly-drawn panel in which Maka just kind of stands there and looks mildly surprised as the chains somehow manage to completely miss her. I think this panel is supposed to, like, show Maka dodging or something. Fail panel is fail. Moving on.
Giricco leaps toward Maka and--
Holy SHIT!
That is one hell of a weapon form. No seriously, how does that thing even WORK?!
I don't know, because Giricco only keeps his weapon form for one panel. By the next panel, he's back to trying to decapitate Maka with flying kicks again. "HEY BRAT!! WHAT'S WRONG?!" Giricco gloats, as he clearly has Maka on the defensive.
He's so strong...! Maka think-bubbles. But his strength is totally different from Arachne's strength. His strength is so direct!
"You're a worthless technician," the zombie girl from the previous chapter repeats, "who can't even swing a mop properly..."
SHUT UP!! Maka think-bubbles at her. I can't afford to think about boring things like that right now!!
Giricco sends Maka flying backwards. She screams. Meanwhile, Soul is still not naked in his weapon form. "Maka! What are you doing?!" Soul yells at her. "Don't start thinking that you can fight him alone!!"
Maka stands up.
"A technician and a weapon are two who become one," Soul says. "I'll show you our real power!"
Uh, "our"?
I think we all know what that means.
"But how?" Maka asks Soul. "He's not the type of enemy that we can defeat with a direct frontal attack."
Instead of answering Maka's question, Soul turns to his little demon. "Hey, oni!" he calls out. "Get everything ready."
"Yeah, yeah," the little demon says."Also, why aren't you naked out there?"
Soul steps into the Black Room. "I defeated Arachne and became a Death Scythe... Now I can use the power of the 'Queen of Spiders.' Maka... Focus on that guy's soul wavelength for me."
"Got it...!!" Maka says. "But now what are you going to do?"
" 'Noise Canceling,' to put it simply," Soul explains. "With my piano, I can play a song that is the exact opposite phase of Giricco's soul wavelength." Science, kiddies! Y'all remember how two sound wavelengths with inverted phases will cancel each other out, right? "When my wavelength hits Giricco's engine, it should shut him down. I'll totally silence all of his damn noise!"
Meanwhile, Giricco is getting bored with Maka talking to her pointy sharp thing instead of paying attention to him. "HEY!!" he yells. "What's wrong? What the hell are you doing just standing there!!"
Go for it... Soul. Maka think-bubbles as she fends off another one of Giricco's attacks.
All right... I can hear Giricco's wavelength now... Soul presses down on a piano key.
Three pages and many musical notes later, Giricco is starting to slow down. "Nn... What's with this sound...?"
Three more pages, and he's shut down completely.
"Soul Adagio," Soul says. Yeah, because all of the cool kids say their super-special awesome attacks names six pages after the fact nowadays.
"Do it now, Maka!!" Soul shouts.
"DEMON HUNTER!!" Maka shouts. Now that's how you proclaim your super-special awesome attack moves. Are you taking notes, Soul?
Anyway, Giricco gets sliced in half.
And then he FUCKING EXPLODES.
"We did it..." Soul says.
"If we use Soul's power and my soul perception abilities together, then we can beat even Giricco!!" Maka says, momentarily donning the Captain Exposition Hat. "Demon weapons have to fight together with a technician. That's why they're Demon Weapons in the first place. Not alone... Let's get going to the next page."
And all of a sudden HOLY FUCKING SHIT Giricco is RIGHT BEHIND MAKA
STANDING THERE
DOING NOTHING
DOING NOTHING
OH, GIRICCO! And now she's a hawt woman, too.
"I'm not alone, either," Giricco says with a smirk. And then Giricco slices open Maka's back with her
her
her
uh
ponytail chainsaws.
Three of them.
Oh, Ohkubo!
Maka goes down. "How did she... Since when were there two of them?"
"It's because this is the Sloth chapter..." Giricco says, ripping that Captain Exposition Hat right off Maka's head. "You were so sloppy that there were times when your soul perception wouldn't even have noticed me. What you killed was just the golem that my previous body used! But that was a worthless body!! He was falling apart from too many years of partying too hard!! So I went and got myself this new body just so that I could kill you with it. This was a child whose genes were imprinted with my memories. Once I had created the embryo, I used the Brew to quickly grow her to adulthood... I was able to age this body from embryo to adult in an instant! I wasn't too thrilled about becoming a woman, but that's the only part of this whole thing that I couldn't control, so..."
where
the
fuck
did
he
get
a
fertilized
embryo
from
No seriously how the FUCK did he do that? Waaaaay back in that chapter when Giricco was first introduced he made it sound like he just kept imprinting himself on his own offspring continuously for eight hundred years, which in turn had led me to assume that Giricco was at least procreating in a more-or-less natural manner (although last chapter's revelation of his rapist tendencies has in retrospect added a whole heaping bucketful of OH JESUS FUCK NO to that whole part of Giricco's backstory), but now all of a sudden he's all like "and I just happened to have an embryo lying around" like it's no big deal but I thought that he'd been hanging with the Team Failboat sausagefest this whole time so WHERE THE FUCK could he have possibly gotten an embryo from if he didn't have any chicks around to knock up?!
I'm unclear as to whether Giricco created the embryo himself, or whether he procured it somehow and then modified it to be imprinted with his genes, but either way the same question remains: How the FUCK did he manage to pull this off?!
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olgiebear to the rescue! Yes, it is entirely plausible that at any time during his tenure with Team Failboat, Giricco could have impregnated some random woman and gotten his embryo via his usual method. Granted, when you think about that, suddenly it opens up a whole world of unfortunate implications, particularly since we know that Giricco is a rapist, we know that he must have gotten the embryo out of that poor woman somehow, and we know that in the previous chapter Giricco mentioned that he likes to kill his rape victims when he's done with them.
There isn't enough D: in the world for this. Goddammit, Ohkubo.
Edited again: Or maybe not. Asspirit_albarn points out in the comments below, we already know that Noah has the ability to artificially create empty bodies, which is likely how he made Gopher. So if Noah can create empty biological vessels, he might very well have made the embryo that Giricco imprinted himself into, too. So Giricco wouldn't have had to rape anybody in order to get his embryo. Hooray!
Edit the third: Aside from the embryo issue, there's also the confusing tidbit about fem!Giricco referring to the Giricco that Maka and Soul killed as "a golem that my previous body used." Vector explains that whole thing in this post. Basically, previous!Giricco made a golem of himself. We've seen Giricco make clone-like golems of himself before - remember his fight with Justin in Alaska? And we know that he can imprint his own memories and personality onto a golem. So that explains the identity of the Giricco that Soul and Maka killed (and also why he EXPLODED). Golem!Girrico is NOT the same as previous!Giricco (AKA the Giricco that we knew in Arachnaphobia). I dunno when exactly previous!Giricco bit the dust offscreen or when fem!Giricco took over the Official Real Giricco role, but that's kind of a moot point anyway. She's here now, and she's pissed.
Anywhoo. Moving on.
"You were pretty fucking pleased with yourself when you beat that golem, weren't you?" Giricco goes on, mocking Maka. "You thought you'd killed me, didn't you? Huh?! PEOPLE DON'T EXPLODE WHEN YOU KILL THEM, YOU DUMB SHITS!!"
"Th... That's not true..." Maka says, still crawling on the ground and unable to get up. "The moment that we killed her, Arachne exploded..."
oh shit
goddammit maka
that was NOT a smart thing to mention right now
"Wha?!" Giricco says. Then she throws back her head and laughs. "NO WAY!! SHE FUCKING DID IT!! NOW THAT'S THE WOMAN THAT I WAS WAITING FOR!!" Giricco powers up her ponytail chainsaws again. "Wonder if you're gonna explode when you die."
MEANWHILE!
In the Greed chapter, Black Star is orally molesting ellipses.
"Hey, Index," Liz says. "Kid is in the next chapter, isn't he?"
"Takoni-- Eh, fuck this pun. Indeed he is."
"Then hurry up and take us there!"
"I can guide you no further than this page," Index says. "From this point onward, whether you may proceed or not is his decision... One must have the permission of the Great Old One to continue on to the next chapter... This is the chapter of Greed. What is it that you all desire the most?"
"Power," Black Star answers immediately. "The power to defeat our enemies. The power to protect our friends. The power to save Kid."
And then a big hole opens up in the ground in front of them.
Tsubaki looks down at the hole. "This is..."
"An invitation to the strange chapter has arrived..." Index says. Although in Japanese he actually calls the final chapter the "i" chapter, and the character that he uses for "i" can mean strange, or weird, or wonderful, or mysterious.
Which are all adjectives that one would use to describe Wonderland, right?
Hmmm. I wonder which famous work of literature Ohkubo is stealing to use as the type covering Index's little cloak this time.
Unfortunately, Tsubaki, Liz, and Patti are repelled from the gateway. But Black Star looms over it, staring down into its maw intensely.
Kirikou sweats and rubs at his forehead. "Th... This is... insanity?!"
"You guys wait here," Black Star says. "I'm going in alone."
"What are saying, Black Star?!" Tsubaki yells at him. "You know I'm not going to let you go in there alone!"
"Either way, only one person may pass through this gate," Index says. "Furthermore, the one who was called forth is that brat specifically."
"This can't be," Tsubaki says.
Black Star pats her patronizingly on the forehead. "You don't gotta worry about anything. I'm coming back no matter what!"
"Bu... But!"
Black Star turns to Liz and Patty. "Liz, Patti! I'll bring back Kid for you guys in just a little bit, okay?"
"Hey, wait a minute!" Liz says."What about MY character development, dickbreath?!"
"See ya!" Black Star says as he jumps into the gateway. "I'll bring back Kid as a souvenir."
"HEY!!" Kirikou shouts.
"BLACK STAR--!!" Tsubaki shouts.
Meanwhile, I am amused at the way that everybody seems so concerned about Black Star heading off alone into certain danger while they have yet to show even the SLIGHTEST amount of concern about the fact that SOUL AND MAKA HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR THREE CHAPTERS.
So Black Star falls down the rabbit hole.
He falls for a while, then he finally thinks to ask himself: "Um, is it really okay for me to be falling like this?"
So he re-arranges himself into a more cool-looking pose as he falls. Of course.
(Soul would be so proud.)
Black Star falls right past Kid, does a double-take, then stops his fall and grins up at Kid. "Kid!!"
Then Black Star sees the look on Kid's face.
Then Black Star's smile slowly fades.
Finally, Black Star sighs. "Geez... First I have to deal with Crona, now I have to deal with you... I guess this is just the price I gotta pay for being so awesome... Listen, we're going back together. Even if I have to knock you out and drag you outta here."
Caveman style. Hawt.
So Kid is all like look at my intimidating glare and I'm all like how the HELL did Giricco make himself that embryo, NO SERIOUSLY?! and the chapter is all like ha ha fuck all y'all I'M DONE.
NEXT MONTH: Will Kid and Black Star finally have their epic homoerotic brawl? Will Liz and Patti have ANY significant role to play in Kid's rescue whatsoever? Will Justin say something mean and make Tezca cry again? Will Maka find some way to defeat Giricco even though she still can't even stand up?
Well at least we know that the answer to the last question is YES, OF COURSE. As for the rest, oh, the suspense!
I mean, look at the evidence: Last month we had rape rape rape rape rape, in the months leading up to that we had fuck numerical order I'M ATSUSHI OHKUBO AND I'LL NUMBER MY CHAPTERS HOWEVER I GODDAMN WANT TO, and this month we have...
Well, we have the cover to this month's GanGan, that's what we have.
First there's Maka flashing part of her bare ass on the cover of this supposedly preteen-oriented magazine. (No, that's not her thigh. What constitutes Maka's "thigh" ends roughly two inches below the line of her pulled-up skirt. The rest that you can see exposed would be, if Maka were standing upright, clearly part of her asscheek.) And then there's what is apparently the Little Oni's decapitated head, which it looks like Maka is rubbing against her crotch, for some reason. While she's smiling and winking at the reader. Um, hawt?
Ohkubo, you are clearly the Studio Shaft of the manga world.
NGL, I think that the idea of a woman who actually masturabates with the severed heads of her enemies is INCREDIBLY BADASS. I mean, that is pretty much the most badass thing that anybody could ever do, ever. And we all know that Maka is the living definition of badass. But is that hawt, though? Not in my humble opinion. Well, er, I guess it depends on how you feel about necrophilia.
But I digress. Anyway, speaking of badassery!
I'm a technician, Maka think-bubbles as our chapter opens. I can't do anything by myself... But when I'm together with Soul... Soul and I are going to become stronger together!
Soul notices that Maka's soul wavelength has suddenly powered up so much that it's spraying feathers all over the room. "Maka..." he says.
You know, Soul looks awfully healthy for a guy who just got his chest ripped open by a chainsaw.
And in the next panel, Maka looks an awful lot like she's making the Waffles face. Except I think that this is supposed to be her "determined" expression or whatever. But her face looks way more like she's thinking Noah-samaaaaaaa why do you love that asshole shinigami more than meeeeeeee?! Goddammit, Ohkubo, learn to draw more than five facial expressions, for Pete's sake!
"I'm sorry, Soul," Maka says. "I---..."
Soul reaches for her hand. "It's okay. You don't have to say anything."
Soul transforms back into his scythe form. Meanwhile, Giricco dramatically pulls a sheet off... something. No seriously, what the hell is he doing in that panel? "Looks like your engine's finally warned up..." he says. And then he gives a hard yank to his own pull cord.
That sounds naughtier than it actually looks.
Eight hundred years... Giricco think-bubbles. I was waiting for Arachne for eight hundred years. "Don't make me wait any longer..."
Holy shit!
Giricco's chains are all over the freakin' room!
Maka manages to dodge and avoid a grisly dismemberment, but Giricco's not done yet. "The chains are coming back this way!" Soul warns Maka. And next we get an extremely poorly-drawn panel in which Maka just kind of stands there and looks mildly surprised as the chains somehow manage to completely miss her. I think this panel is supposed to, like, show Maka dodging or something. Fail panel is fail. Moving on.
Giricco leaps toward Maka and--
Holy SHIT!
That is one hell of a weapon form. No seriously, how does that thing even WORK?!
I don't know, because Giricco only keeps his weapon form for one panel. By the next panel, he's back to trying to decapitate Maka with flying kicks again. "HEY BRAT!! WHAT'S WRONG?!" Giricco gloats, as he clearly has Maka on the defensive.
He's so strong...! Maka think-bubbles. But his strength is totally different from Arachne's strength. His strength is so direct!
"You're a worthless technician," the zombie girl from the previous chapter repeats, "who can't even swing a mop properly..."
SHUT UP!! Maka think-bubbles at her. I can't afford to think about boring things like that right now!!
Giricco sends Maka flying backwards. She screams. Meanwhile, Soul is still not naked in his weapon form. "Maka! What are you doing?!" Soul yells at her. "Don't start thinking that you can fight him alone!!"
Maka stands up.
"A technician and a weapon are two who become one," Soul says. "I'll show you our real power!"
Uh, "our"?
I think we all know what that means.
"But how?" Maka asks Soul. "He's not the type of enemy that we can defeat with a direct frontal attack."
Instead of answering Maka's question, Soul turns to his little demon. "Hey, oni!" he calls out. "Get everything ready."
"Yeah, yeah," the little demon says.
Soul steps into the Black Room. "I defeated Arachne and became a Death Scythe... Now I can use the power of the 'Queen of Spiders.' Maka... Focus on that guy's soul wavelength for me."
"Got it...!!" Maka says. "But now what are you going to do?"
" 'Noise Canceling,' to put it simply," Soul explains. "With my piano, I can play a song that is the exact opposite phase of Giricco's soul wavelength." Science, kiddies! Y'all remember how two sound wavelengths with inverted phases will cancel each other out, right? "When my wavelength hits Giricco's engine, it should shut him down. I'll totally silence all of his damn noise!"
Meanwhile, Giricco is getting bored with Maka talking to her pointy sharp thing instead of paying attention to him. "HEY!!" he yells. "What's wrong? What the hell are you doing just standing there!!"
Go for it... Soul. Maka think-bubbles as she fends off another one of Giricco's attacks.
All right... I can hear Giricco's wavelength now... Soul presses down on a piano key.
Three pages and many musical notes later, Giricco is starting to slow down. "Nn... What's with this sound...?"
Three more pages, and he's shut down completely.
"Soul Adagio," Soul says. Yeah, because all of the cool kids say their super-special awesome attacks names six pages after the fact nowadays.
"Do it now, Maka!!" Soul shouts.
"DEMON HUNTER!!" Maka shouts. Now that's how you proclaim your super-special awesome attack moves. Are you taking notes, Soul?
Anyway, Giricco gets sliced in half.
And then he FUCKING EXPLODES.
"We did it..." Soul says.
"If we use Soul's power and my soul perception abilities together, then we can beat even Giricco!!" Maka says, momentarily donning the Captain Exposition Hat. "Demon weapons have to fight together with a technician. That's why they're Demon Weapons in the first place. Not alone... Let's get going to the next page."
And all of a sudden HOLY FUCKING SHIT Giricco is RIGHT BEHIND MAKA
STANDING THERE
DOING NOTHING
DOING NOTHING
OH, GIRICCO! And now she's a hawt woman, too.
"I'm not alone, either," Giricco says with a smirk. And then Giricco slices open Maka's back with her
her
her
uh
ponytail chainsaws.
Three of them.
Oh, Ohkubo!
Maka goes down. "How did she... Since when were there two of them?"
"It's because this is the Sloth chapter..." Giricco says, ripping that Captain Exposition Hat right off Maka's head. "You were so sloppy that there were times when your soul perception wouldn't even have noticed me. What you killed was just the golem that my previous body used! But that was a worthless body!! He was falling apart from too many years of partying too hard!! So I went and got myself this new body just so that I could kill you with it. This was a child whose genes were imprinted with my memories. Once I had created the embryo, I used the Brew to quickly grow her to adulthood... I was able to age this body from embryo to adult in an instant! I wasn't too thrilled about becoming a woman, but that's the only part of this whole thing that I couldn't control, so..."
where
the
fuck
did
he
get
a
fertilized
embryo
from
No seriously how the FUCK did he do that? Waaaaay back in that chapter when Giricco was first introduced he made it sound like he just kept imprinting himself on his own offspring continuously for eight hundred years, which in turn had led me to assume that Giricco was at least procreating in a more-or-less natural manner (although last chapter's revelation of his rapist tendencies has in retrospect added a whole heaping bucketful of OH JESUS FUCK NO to that whole part of Giricco's backstory), but now all of a sudden he's all like "and I just happened to have an embryo lying around" like it's no big deal but I thought that he'd been hanging with the Team Failboat sausagefest this whole time so WHERE THE FUCK could he have possibly gotten an embryo from if he didn't have any chicks around to knock up?!
I'm unclear as to whether Giricco created the embryo himself, or whether he procured it somehow and then modified it to be imprinted with his genes, but either way the same question remains: How the FUCK did he manage to pull this off?!
Edited to add:
olgiebear to the rescue! Yes, it is entirely plausible that at any time during his tenure with Team Failboat, Giricco could have impregnated some random woman and gotten his embryo via his usual method. Granted, when you think about that, suddenly it opens up a whole world of unfortunate implications, particularly since we know that Giricco is a rapist, we know that he must have gotten the embryo out of that poor woman somehow, and we know that in the previous chapter Giricco mentioned that he likes to kill his rape victims when he's done with them. There isn't enough D: in the world for this. Goddammit, Ohkubo.
Edited again: Or maybe not. As
spirit_albarn points out in the comments below, we already know that Noah has the ability to artificially create empty bodies, which is likely how he made Gopher. So if Noah can create empty biological vessels, he might very well have made the embryo that Giricco imprinted himself into, too. So Giricco wouldn't have had to rape anybody in order to get his embryo. Hooray!Edit the third: Aside from the embryo issue, there's also the confusing tidbit about fem!Giricco referring to the Giricco that Maka and Soul killed as "a golem that my previous body used." Vector explains that whole thing in this post. Basically, previous!Giricco made a golem of himself. We've seen Giricco make clone-like golems of himself before - remember his fight with Justin in Alaska? And we know that he can imprint his own memories and personality onto a golem. So that explains the identity of the Giricco that Soul and Maka killed (and also why he EXPLODED). Golem!Girrico is NOT the same as previous!Giricco (AKA the Giricco that we knew in Arachnaphobia). I dunno when exactly previous!Giricco bit the dust offscreen or when fem!Giricco took over the Official Real Giricco role, but that's kind of a moot point anyway. She's here now, and she's pissed.
Anywhoo. Moving on.
"You were pretty fucking pleased with yourself when you beat that golem, weren't you?" Giricco goes on, mocking Maka. "You thought you'd killed me, didn't you? Huh?! PEOPLE DON'T EXPLODE WHEN YOU KILL THEM, YOU DUMB SHITS!!"
"Th... That's not true..." Maka says, still crawling on the ground and unable to get up. "The moment that we killed her, Arachne exploded..."
oh shit
goddammit maka
that was NOT a smart thing to mention right now
"Wha?!" Giricco says. Then she throws back her head and laughs. "NO WAY!! SHE FUCKING DID IT!! NOW THAT'S THE WOMAN THAT I WAS WAITING FOR!!" Giricco powers up her ponytail chainsaws again. "Wonder if you're gonna explode when you die."
MEANWHILE!
In the Greed chapter, Black Star is orally molesting ellipses.
"Hey, Index," Liz says. "Kid is in the next chapter, isn't he?"
"Takoni-- Eh, fuck this pun. Indeed he is."
"Then hurry up and take us there!"
"I can guide you no further than this page," Index says. "From this point onward, whether you may proceed or not is his decision... One must have the permission of the Great Old One to continue on to the next chapter... This is the chapter of Greed. What is it that you all desire the most?"
"Power," Black Star answers immediately. "The power to defeat our enemies. The power to protect our friends. The power to save Kid."
And then a big hole opens up in the ground in front of them.
Tsubaki looks down at the hole. "This is..."
"An invitation to the strange chapter has arrived..." Index says. Although in Japanese he actually calls the final chapter the "i" chapter, and the character that he uses for "i" can mean strange, or weird, or wonderful, or mysterious.
Which are all adjectives that one would use to describe Wonderland, right?
Hmmm. I wonder which famous work of literature Ohkubo is stealing to use as the type covering Index's little cloak this time.
Unfortunately, Tsubaki, Liz, and Patti are repelled from the gateway. But Black Star looms over it, staring down into its maw intensely.
Kirikou sweats and rubs at his forehead. "Th... This is... insanity?!"
"You guys wait here," Black Star says. "I'm going in alone."
"What are saying, Black Star?!" Tsubaki yells at him. "You know I'm not going to let you go in there alone!"
"Either way, only one person may pass through this gate," Index says. "Furthermore, the one who was called forth is that brat specifically."
"This can't be," Tsubaki says.
Black Star pats her patronizingly on the forehead. "You don't gotta worry about anything. I'm coming back no matter what!"
"Bu... But!"
Black Star turns to Liz and Patty. "Liz, Patti! I'll bring back Kid for you guys in just a little bit, okay?"
"Hey, wait a minute!" Liz says.
"See ya!" Black Star says as he jumps into the gateway. "I'll bring back Kid as a souvenir."
"HEY!!" Kirikou shouts.
"BLACK STAR--!!" Tsubaki shouts.
Meanwhile, I am amused at the way that everybody seems so concerned about Black Star heading off alone into certain danger while they have yet to show even the SLIGHTEST amount of concern about the fact that SOUL AND MAKA HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR THREE CHAPTERS.
So Black Star falls down the rabbit hole.
He falls for a while, then he finally thinks to ask himself: "Um, is it really okay for me to be falling like this?"
So he re-arranges himself into a more cool-looking pose as he falls. Of course.
(Soul would be so proud.)
Black Star falls right past Kid, does a double-take, then stops his fall and grins up at Kid. "Kid!!"
Then Black Star sees the look on Kid's face.
Then Black Star's smile slowly fades.
Finally, Black Star sighs. "Geez... First I have to deal with Crona, now I have to deal with you... I guess this is just the price I gotta pay for being so awesome... Listen, we're going back together. Even if I have to knock you out and drag you outta here."
Caveman style. Hawt.
So Kid is all like look at my intimidating glare and I'm all like how the HELL did Giricco make himself that embryo, NO SERIOUSLY?! and the chapter is all like ha ha fuck all y'all I'M DONE.
NEXT MONTH: Will Kid and Black Star finally have their epic homoerotic brawl? Will Liz and Patti have ANY significant role to play in Kid's rescue whatsoever? Will Justin say something mean and make Tezca cry again? Will Maka find some way to defeat Giricco even though she still can't even stand up?
Well at least we know that the answer to the last question is YES, OF COURSE. As for the rest, oh, the suspense!
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