Another chapter is ready! Chapter 117 is out there now as well. This one concludes the fight between Seiji and Miltiades. This chapter was interesting because I ended up changing my mind back and forth between two decisions. I wrote 116 and 117 in the same week and as quickly as possible. So they were closely tied together.

The original idea of the chapter was that Seiji was going to defeat Miltiades through a combination of making use of the environment and blind rage. As Seiji points out, he is not built the same anymore. He has a lot of strength now, which allows him to do some pretty crazy stuff like punching down trees and denting metal poles. The original design was going to have him get so angry with not being able to lay a hand on Miltiades that he was just going to start chopping everything down until he met Miltiades, which was going to be a rather humorous scene and totally Seiji thinking.

The final product did not end up with Seiji winning, though I did end up using the elements still. Seiji still does punch a tree down and use it as a bat. But as I wrote it, it ended up almost making more sense to have him lose. In part, I thought it would be interesting to have one character that should never lose actually lose. Which actually ended up building into his character more anyway, since he actually used to lose quite a lot, but he's so strong now it just seems impossible that he ever did.

I ended up deciding that I would decide him winning or losing would be figured out when I got to the end. It came out that he lost and I am actually quite happy with the way it turned out. Because of that I actually have a lot more ideas planned for him in the arc. The most immediate was the fact as I finished writing this chapter I had already figured out what the next chapter was going to be. But I think it is also good to have loses and not always win.

Enjoy!