I would have had this done a long time ago had not gotten stumped while working on it. I ended up having to do the bulk of it the last two days because I just could not make any head way on it. This was despite the fact that I knew exactly what I was going to happen. Anyway, Chapter 95 is now up and this is it for the introduction sub-arc, which was just for travel. The next sub-arc will be lasting for quite sometime though as it covers all of the time until reaching the capital of Atlantis.

I knew there was not going to be a lot going on for this chapter which made things a little difficult to completely justify two chapters, but I knew it would be too much of a rush for one. But I did manage to keep with my trend of setting up things. I'm continuing the drama revolving around Yumi and her developing jealousy, which she doesn't really understand at the moment. This may seem strange that someone doesn't recognize their own jealousy, but I think it is actually probably a fairly common occurrence. It is compounded by the fact that Yumi has never really had a crush or been in love before, so experience such deep and overwhelm emotions as love born jealousy is something foreign to her. But don't worry, she's not dumb and will figure out it soon enough. The complicated triangle by Yumi, Ayumi and Yuki will continue to be developed through the arc.

I think I mentioned it before, but it is a little funny that I've been focusing so much on the romantic tensions between them. I think it is good thing though, since Shounen tends to avoid those subjects, a point I think I also made before. It will be something that I will continue to do to set things apart. And Yuki won't be the only one with romance. I've already got several characters planned out and can sort of see the hints on one that I've been developing lightly the last few chapters. I think you know who I'm talking about and I think they make a pretty couple.

The fighting between Seiji and Chiharu is pretty reduntant, but there were a couple of points that I wanted to make that the fight itself was not the most important part of what happened it just happen to be the device that I needed to deal with other matters. The end of the fight is where the focus is actually on despite how brief it actually it. As I said above, I setting up things and the fight set up one relationship and helped to demonstrate something else.

But they're on Antarctica now and Atlantis is ahead of them. I believe it is only going to be a chapter or two before I reach the borders of Atlantis, but there is going to be a lot of explanations coming. You're probably expecting them, since I've left a lot of things unexplained right now. I'm not going to do a huge info dump on you, but you'll recieve information as a fairly even pace at this point about Atlantis and the history. So look forward to it.

Enjoy!