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[Andromeda]

Chapter 234 is now up. The fight continues with Seiji and Cosmas growing to some more ridiculous scales near the end. A lot of the fight is about control, specifically for Seiji and his control over his emotions. It was seen in the first chapter of the fight, but faded away here. Though it'll be returning before the fight is over. Though we do get to see a Seiji that is actually fighting with a little more of a head on his shoulders.

Something that is a staple of Seiji's fights are that he mindlessly fights. However, because he realized that he's willing to kill and wants to kill, he's having to hold himself down. Which means he is actually having to fight a little differently, because mindlessly fighting is pointing him in a direction that he's afraid to go down. As I've shown on a couple occasions, Seiji is not really dumb. He just gets sucked into the heat of moment fighting. He actually does understand how things work on a basic level. There is still the problem that makes things up as he goes along and doesn't actually follow plans well. But he does have enough of a working grasp to know how to fight them.

I've been continuing to hint at it, but there is a little more seen with his mysterious power that helps him out. It has never been completely explained, but it's pretty clear what the power is given his background. So I've never really felt the need to really come out and say it. Plus, Seiji has been ignoring it the entire time. But the fight he is having with Cosmas is forcing him to confront that part of him. All of the teases of it in the last fights have been leading up to this fight though. The full power display of it is still off for another arc, but a good awakening of his power is in store for this fight.

Enjoy!

[Andromeda]

Chapter 235 is now up. The fighting with Cosmas continues as things increase. More elements come out about Seiji's power and I toss in a few new things for Cosmas. A fair bit of it is about Seiji's power and him maintaining his focus and resolve. He's clearly got a ways to go in understanding his power. There is still an important element for him missing, which will become a little more clear in the next chapter.

The mystery of the talisman really only is a mystery to Seiji and even he has a pretty good idea what they are. But he's still not really using them in the right way. There is going to be a decent amount of things coming out the next chapter because of what is happening in this one. The arrival of Nerine is a big part of that. Considering how significant she was in the last encounter, she made sense that she'd show up for the fight. I wouldn't have Seiji do this alone. She's sort of needed to win the fight as Cosmas has some very broken abilities against someone like Seiji.

This chapter is more of the march up hill for Seiji. He struggles, but keeps getting back up without doubting himself. Things are leading into the climax though. So things will start turning around for him with a big fight to the finish between Nerine and Seiji and Cosmas. I've got new things for Nerine as well as she was preparing for another showdown with him.

Enjoy!

[Andromeda]

Chapter 236 is now up. The fighting is getting pretty intense. Nerine joins the fight and manages to do pretty well against Cosmas, but being a MP they fight differently. So I can do different things with her than I can with Seiji. Plus I did get to use some new stuff that she's never done before.

Like with a lot of the fight, the big thing for the chapter is Seiji trying to come to terms with his killing rage. It was probably expected that Nerine would end up triggering things for Seiji. He's going to have to come face to face with his desires. And he's lost all control of himself now. And he has a powerful move out on the cliffhanger. The whole thing upped the lethality of the fight. It is sort of weird to think about. Other series part of Shounen Jump will have big fights and everything, but not really anything more than injures or blood, no lose of limbs. Though to be fair, my sort of story has a get out of jail free card when it comes to injures like limbs going missing.

The next chapter will be the conclusion. I have quite a lot of pack into that last chapter, so it is probably going to seeing a lot of things. But I feel like both of these chapters are pretty heavy. Things get pretty intense and the fighting keeps getting raised to a new bar. The conclusion might surprise you on how things turn out.

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[Andromeda]

Chapter 237 is now available! This is the conclusion to the desperate battle between Seiji and himself as well as Cosmas. It actually ran a little long, so I sort of figured it might. I was worried if I'd have to do the aftermath in the next chapter because I was cramming quite a lot into this chapter. Ending the fight was one of the bigger things as well as getting time show off more of Seiji's power. This is the last battle for him though. He won't be fighting for the rest of the arc aside from maybe some minor things, but nothing that's going to be too heavily focused upon.

The one thing I wanted for the fight was the team up between Seiji and Nerine. They were working together but it was more one or the other, rather than both at the same time. They work well with each other and so I wanted a team fight. Plus Cosmas is important to the both of them. I really felt the end had a great image of the two working together to take him down.

It was rougher trying to find an end to the fight. I don't want too many cases where it is just using their final attacks to just end things. This was a little more focused with them finally putting their all into it and ending things rather than an arranged final showdown sort of thing. The bigger issue I had is that I wanted to show off more of Seiji's new power, but too much of it requires him to actually know what he's doing with it. In time, he'll be able to control it, but it something that will require many more fights to hone.

And yes, at the end Cosmas is dead at Nerine's hand. It was originally planned Seiji'd let him go, because he's come to terms with his killing desire, though Cosmas would still say what he did. The dialogue all was planned out the same way. But coming into this fight I realized that Nerine is going to be more practical about the situation than Seiji. So she'd do an offscreen kill that Seiji would not know about and it'd be a secret she'd hold on to for a while. All secrets will come out in their day.

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[Andromeda]

Chapter 238 is now up! The chapter actually came together really fast despite my own uncertainty about the chapter. It was a transition chapter so I had less of a focused idea on what was going to happen unlike the fights which were clearer in my head. But it all actually came out to be a lengthy chapter. Everything from Team Yumi closed up and I placed Team Yuki where they needed to be. Because of where they got, it is actually a really important chapter.

I actually did manage to have a more cheerful and humorous chapter after assuming that things would be getting too heavy for that sort of thing. Yuki manages to bring it out well and it was too perfect of a scene for him not to get excited. It was completely in his character to be jumping all over something like a secret passage. So I went with it. The whole thing pretty much just wrote itself. He knew what he was going to do and I just followed along. It is nice not to have to think about these sorts of things at times. It just coming out naturally.

Even though Yuki brought the comedy, it is pretty much the end of that. There is one fight that I can imagine that is going to have some humorous things, but that aside. Things will remain very serious. The first major fight is over with there being 8 more fights left to go. Every single character will be having their major fight. I have a little bit more setup to do with Yuki and Ayumi. I'm imagining it being another couple of chapters and then everything will hit the fan. When the next fight begins all of the fights will begin. That part will be very clear. It's going to be very chaotic soon.

One thing that I haven't done a lot of in the chapters is really get into a lot of details about things. I have been giving just enough to really get by. But Atlantis really deserved a good image. I had a couple of things that I really wanted to get across with it. It needed to feel grand beyond just a fantasy sense, because it really is massive as it does truly hold millions. The other part is that it needed to feel otherworldly because it was constructed in part by the powers they possess. So impossible structure exist and impossible beauty. It is the one thing that is going to be really difficult to put into pictures.

Enjoy!