Yeah, I'm running behind, by a week. You can thank FFXIV for that. Anyway, I've caught back up at least. Chapter 217 is now available. This is the last chapter of the current sub-arc. Which means after over 100 chapters I've finally ended some things. It also means that we're at the mid-point in the arc and reaching for the climax. A lot of things are starting to move, something that is very important for the third sub-arc. The fighting aside to come, the pace of the next sub-arc will be moving pretty quickly. A lot of things will be happening when there is not fighting and a lot of secrets are going to be coming out.

I start out with revisiting Athene. She was teased a little, a while back during the exit from the camp. She was shown determined to find Yori, desperate to locate him and have her revenge. She is still on his trail, planning on settling the score between them. She is heavily driven by the personality inside Yori's head that taunts her. She wants to beat it.

The bulk of the chapter covers the reveal of Ayumi and resolving matters between Simonides and the group. The most interesting pieces are the fact that Eudokia is in the fact strongest. Something that is not fully answered in the last chapter or this chapter. It is remains a question of who the person that they have been following is and why they should trust anything she says. And what her motives or even goal are. It brings up a lot of new questions and mysteries. Simonides also explains his motives, which needed to be said because it would be a little odd to any one a sudden shift of sides without reason. He's still on the side of Atlantis, but he can't make his goals a reality anymore with what he has. So he must rely on them and the easiest way to make sure it happens is to watch them.

The last bit and the chapter as a whole is the reason the sub-arc is over now. Simonides' fight with the Yuki and his group is over. He has resolved matters with them that he will no longer fight them. Their main opponent for the last hundred plus chapters is no more. However, a new opponent even worse than Simonides presents itself. Simonides foreseen a dire future with the opening of the gates to the Omega Division. It talks them up nicely to being this huge threat to everything and not just Yuki. The council finally agrees to make a move making a big shift in the direction and enemy.

Enjoy!