The next chapter for Shift is out now, Chapter 257! I've finally arrival at the Yori battle, which you should all understand what that means. As promised, you'll have your answers very soon. I have all of my fights roughly guessed to be no longer than 5 chapters as you've seen in many cases. But I don't strictly follow that. If it is shorter, it's shorter. I won't drag it out longer. I do want to keep things at or under 5 chapters. Though for this one I thought it'd be 5 just because the others have been, but the way I'm looking at it things will probably only be 2 or 3 chapters. I don't have a ton that needs to be done. Just have a cool fight showing off what Yori can do and get some story on Athene then end things.

The most important thing about their battle is the resolution, which comes with quite a few answers to the entire first two arcs of the story thus far. Naturally, I wont be answering everything. There is too many things still to resolve, but Ayumi's primary action and what it means for everyone will finally be answered. It's a pretty big deal, considering as I already revealed it'll get Yuki killed.

This fight starts out with the classic sort of rage fueled attacks only for Yori to come to his senses and not know what's going on. He won't be able to do all of the cool things with his power yet, but it is unlocked right now and his desperation will be enough to keep him in the fight. But the initial focus for part of the next chapter will be explaining some of Athene's history. Yori's already gotten a piece of her history when he went running around in her mind.

Enjoy!