Chapter 408 is finally available, I had trouble yesterday with the forum deleting all paragraph breaks. So that mad it pretty much unreadable. So I fixed it today and it's up now. This concludes the mini-arc for the story. I'll be jumping over to the other characters now getting them up to pace with the time in the story. And eventually everyone will end up back together.

This chapter moves around a bit in tone, Yuki's influence for sure. But it does hit on one of the more important notes, the question of Yumi wanting more power. She refuses the training and denies the need for more, even though she does repeatedly wish to be stronger. There is a conflict going on inside Yumi that this very combat focused arc is drawing out of her. She's got a lot of changing going on and she'll need to figure out what it all means in time.

And a demon does join the group. He'll get his name once back to Yumi's group. In many ways, he'll fill that rival position as they are fairly equal in power at the moment. But he's also rather fun because he's a little more like Yuki in that he takes a more casual approach to fighting. He's serious about it, but also carefree, especially out of battle. Which throws Yumi off balance and it's good for her to see that there are different sorts. Something she knows, but needs to understand.

Enjoy!