I'm a little late on this, but chapter 322 is now available! This picks back up on the Fumiko and Haruo fight, now that most of the setup is out of the way. They were the first to start things, so returning to them made sense. There are going to be some interesting things I'll be doing with Fumiko and some good character moments with her.

This chapter actually took a while to write because I was a little aimless in what I wanted. Fortunately, I've resolved that and I have a better direction of where things are going with the fight. Haruo is a difficult one to write for due to the way he is. He is a contrary individual, he's is silent, but highly talkative in his mind. He doesn't understand what he does, but does it anyway. The only thing that I wish I could do was speed up his understanding of his powers more. But it is a progressive thing since the way his powers work are in complete defiance to the way he is. So it is not something that he'll naturally think of. But once that mystery is gone, it does leave him rather empty.

Fumiko on the other hand is nothing but problems. She is really fun to write for, though since she is on the enemy side right now, I'm not doing the fight from her perspective. That'll change later in the fight, but she has a lot going on. A little to my surprise, she ended up going through a lot of changes in the second arc, much like Yumi. Though Yumi's changes were throughout, while Fumiko's largely occurred in the second half. The things that happened to her are her new problems and ghosts. The second arc was a big setup for her character to push into her own arc later on in the story. And she'll be managing all of the mistakes and things that made then for a long time. It is what shapes her character from now on.

Enjoy!