(Welcome back to another chapter guys the Evangeline arc is coming to an end, but here's a little calm before the storm. Enjoy.)
One morning at Mahora dorms Kaede woke up, "Mmm, morning." She yawned and looked around seeing no sign of her roommate, "Negi? Negi where are you?"
"Hey Kaede," Chamo popped up from under a blanket, "If you're looking for Aniki he already left with Dustin."
"This early, that's surprising." Kaede said as she got up and got ready.
When she exited her room she saw Mana and Zazie while Domino was perching on Mana's shoulder, "Dustin left early with Negi." Mana said.
"Early bird gets the worm." Zazie said.
"Well let's go." Kaede said as the three left the dorm.
Meanwhile Dustin and Negi were riding on top of Zyphon's shoulders while the robot wheeled along the path heading for the building, "Whoo-hoo!" Dustin cheered.
"Ah I missed moving about like this." Zyphon cheered as he continued wheeling along.
"Ohayo." Negi waved to some girls walking by.
"I'm the King of the World babe did ya know that?" Dustin asked a girl as they rode by who only nodded as if playing along. Some girls however were in the way and moved quickly avoiding Zyphon, "Excuse me, can you please move? Me and my friend Negi are coming through can't you see that?"
Negi looked around and tapped Dustin's shoulder, "Look there's Ayaka and Yuna."
Dustin turned, "Oh hey Yuna!" he lets out a wolf howl.
The two girls looked at them, "Ohayo Dustin-kun, Negi-kun!" Yuna waved.
"Why good morning Negi-sensei and Dustin-sensei." Ayaka greeted.
"Ohayo girls, let's see to it that today is extravagant!" Negi cheered as Zyphon continued wheeling on.
"Ah look at our dear senseis as lively as ever just as they should be." Ayaka smiled.
"Yeah they've definitely had their spunk back since their incident." Yuna added.
Soon Negi and Dustin were walking to class while Negi held a piece of paper in his hand, "So we're really gonna do it?" Dustin asked.
"Yes, it's time I settled the score with Evangeline, after all if Chachamaru has told her what we did we'll be in for it anyway." Negi explained.
"Alright whatever happens we'll go down like real fighters," Dustin said holding out his hand, "Duo together."
Negi clamped his hand with his, "Duo Forever."
They entered the room, "Ohayo girls!"
"Oyaho sensei!" some of the girls greeted.
Negi and Dustin looked seeing no sign of Eva or Chachamaru, "Evangeline's still a no show huh?" Negi asked.
"What would you expect from her?" Dustin asked.
"Excuse me, but are you two talking about Evangeline?" Ako asked.
"Yes that's right Ako." Negi answered.
"Well I'm afraid she called in sick, says she has the flu so she's staying in bed." Ako explained.
'Oh like I'm supposed to believe a vampire can succumb to a simple cold like that?' Negi thought skeptically.
'The nerve of that Eva, and I invented the flu excuse.' Dustin thought.
Kaede, Mana, and Zazie arrived, "Did we miss anything?" Kaede asked.
"Nothing at all. We're sorry ladies Dustin and I have matters to take care of, but it shouldn't take too long." Negi explained and some of the girls whined at their teachers leaving.
Dustin looked at Zyphon, "Zyphon while we're gone, you're in charge of the class."
"Me really?" Zyphon asked.
"Think of it as an experience." Dustin said.
"Hold up, you're leaving a robot to teach class?" Asuna asked.
"You best watch your tone with me young lady." Zyphon warned her.
"Good luck Zyphon." Dustin said as the two boys headed off.
Soon Negi and Dustin were off in the academy woods searching for Eva's residence, "Hmm… Academy District… Sakura Gaoka, 4th District 29… Ah! Wow! Is… this where she lives?"
The boys stood outside a very big fancy looking log cabin, "Wow so much for my belief she hangs out in graveyards or old churches." Dustin joked.
The two walked up the stairs and rang the doorbell, "Hello, anybody home?" Negi called, "Evangeline?"
Dustin frowned as he pounded on the door, "Open up Eva we know you're faking it!" he noticed that the door was unlocked. So they creaked the door open and tiptoed inside before shutting the door behind them.
They looked around the living room that was lovingly decorated like a fairytale scene, complete with dozens and dozens of dolls and stuffed animals lined up on several shelves and on the floor like a pigsty, but most of these dolls and animals had a Gothic touch to them or bandages wrapped around the heads.
"Is this really the home of a vampire?" Dustin asked.
"Yeah no coffins, what a shock." Negi joked.
"Speaking of shocks." A female voice spoke.
The two boys jumped and saw Chachamaru in a maid outfit holding a tray of tea and medicine, "What a surprise to see you here Negi-sensei and Dustin-sensei. Do you have an appointment with my mistress?"
"Chachamaru, nice outfit." Dustin complimented her.
"Arigato." She replied.
"Um Chachamaru about what happened the other day, I'm sorry we…" Negi began.
"I understand, me too." She answered.
"So where's your boss?" Dustin asked.
"My mistress is sick if you got the message."
"Come on a vampire getting sick, it's unheard of." Negi said in disbelief.
"Yeah and we're suppose to believe that involving her?" Dustin asked.
"Who's there?" a muffled, wheezing and angry voice came from upstairs. The three of them looked up to see Evangeline standing at the top of the stairs leading to the upper floor, with her nose bright red, her eyes half closed, and wearing pink frilly pajamas. She had several catalyst bottles clutched in her hands, "Ah, it's you," she wheezed, forcing an evil smirk up. "Very bold move showing up here by yourselves boys. While my powers aren't at their peak I still have the energy to strangle your little necks."
Dustin growled as Chachamaru spoke, "Mistress you really shouldn't be out of bed." Chachamaru feared.
"Evangeline!" Negi called holding out the letter of challenge, "Me and Dustin challenge you to a rematch, to teach you a lesson about skipping school, how do you expect to graduate like this?"
"Graduation is of little importance to me," Eva answered and smirked, "But if you two are so eager to lose your heads and your blood I'll be happy to oblige."
"Let's end this once and for all," Dustin said powering up his spirit energy while Negi powered up his magic. When it looked like a battle was about to break out Eva lost her footing going down the stairs and fell flat on her face at the bottom, "That was anti-climatic." Dustin said.
"Evangeline!" Negi gasped helping her up seeing she looked out cold, when he felt her forehead he gasped, "My goodness she's burning up!"
"Seriously?" Dustin placed his hand on her forehead, "Wow she's hotter than Brooklyn during a heat wave."
"Yes please help me get her to bed." Chachamaru said helping Eva up.
"Alright, Negi we'll take the South end." Dustin said as they took her by the legs.
They brought Eva up to the second floor where they laid her in bed as the clock chimed 9, 'We better get back to class soon.' Dustin thought.
Negi looked at Eva who was wheezing in her sleep, "She's not looking so hot." Negi said.
"Chachamaru what gives what happened to tough sneaky Evangeline that we fought nights ago?" Dustin asked.
"I'm afraid since the full moon has passed her powers have been extinguished making her nothing more than a normal ten year old girl, therefore you can see how she's able to succumb to simple illness' like this." The gynoid explained.
"I had no idea." Negi said actually feeling sympathy for her as Chachamaru spoke.
"Senseis?"
"Yes?" Negi asked.
"I need to go to the University Hospital to meet a trusted pharmacist who can slip me the antibiotics needed to help mistress. Will you two look after her until I return?"
"Eh!" Negi gawked.
"Us?" Dustin asked in shock.
"I need someone dependable and I feel you two fit the bill."
"Well I suppose but be quick Dustin and I still have class to teach." Negi said.
"I understand." She left.
Dustin smirked, "Alright Negi let's eliminate Eva now."
"Dustin!"
"I'm just kidding… mostly," He muttered. They hear Eva cough again as they look at her, "Great what do we do now?"
"It's too bad the only healing spells I know are flesh wounds and not curing colds." Negi said.
"Thirsty…" Eva mumbled in her sleep.
"Thirsty? I know, Dustin go get some water."
"Alright." Dustin left and came back with some water.
"Here you go." Negi offered it to her but she moaned in her sleep, "No huh? Tea? Cola? I know…" he nipped some blood form his finger ignoring the pain and put it to her mouth, "Here's a little blood."
"What, oh that's real good Negi why don't you let her suck you dry while you're at it?" Dustin asked in sarcasm.
"Look." Negi said as Eva licked the blood and calmed down a bit.
"Well that's a relief." Dustin said.
Eva suddenly turned the covers over lying on top, "Uhh… hot."
"The sunlight." Negi said as he covered the blinds.
"Cold…" she shivered.
Dustin frowned, "She's so needy when she's sick."
"Dustin Eva's clothes are soaked in sweat; we'll need to do something." Negi said.
"So let's change her." Dustin suggested.
"What, Dustin how can you say that?"
"Either that or we let her freeze to death and have Chachamaru go postal on us for going back on our word." Dustin reminded him.
"Ok come on," Negi said as they slowly undressed Eva while avoiding eye contact with her body and dressed her up in a longer clean pair of pajamas, "Well she's no thrashing anymore."
"What's our lives come to Negi, look at us taking care of some half blood vampire out for your blood." Dustin sighed.
"It's very insane I know, ever since we were told about her all I kept thinking about is how she knew my father."
"Well let's recap; fifteen years ago your old man cursed her to these school grounds. And this was years before you said you met him." Dustin explained.
"I know she has the answers to my father, like where he could be." Negi said, "I know maybe she has some documents or history chronicling her life before she was cursed here."
Dustin smirked, "Well then let's be like kids and go diary snooping."
The two tiptoed away eager to find some book or scroll that may have a hint on Negi's father until, "STOP!"
The boys jumped at that shout as they spun seeing Eva, "We weren't doing anything!" Dustin cried until the two saw she wasn't awake.
"Stop Thousand Master please!" Eva mumbled in her sleep.
"Oh she's just dreaming." Dustin sighed in relief.
"And about my father," Negi added, "Dustin I think we may find the answers I'm looking for."
"How?" Dustin asked. Negi concentrated as his staff floated over Evangeline, "Negi what're you doing?"
"I'm aware invasion on dreams is invasion of privacy, but if she's dreaming about my father The Thousand Master we might know just what kind of wizard he was up close and in person." Negi muttered an incantation as they were consumed by light. Soon the two boys saw themselves by a shore where a lake was.
"This must be Eva's memories." Negi gasped.
"Negi look!" Dustin motioned ahead.
He looked and saw a duel going on between an older woman in a dark cape holding a small puppet up, and the three facing her Dustin saw were his parents, "Dustin that's your parents."
"Yeah back when mom was alive." Dustin added.
Negi's gaze focused upon the third person who was a man wearing a hood and holding the same staff as Negi's who was facing down the woman who looked like Evangeline as an adult.
"Is that Evangeline?" Negi gasped seeing she was an adult, a hot, gorgeous voluptuous adult.
"Wow she looked hot." Dustin admitted.
They heard the woman speak in Eva's voice that sounded older, "Thousand Master, I've finally caught up to you. The man who commands a thousand spells, today is the day I will kill you and claim your flesh and blood! And your Spirit Warrior comrades will be an excellent bonus!" She exclaimed as she held her puppet up which appeared to be identical to Chachamaru but smaller and wielded two machetes.
Then the Thousand Master spoke while his face was covered by the darkness around his hood, "Dark Evangel… Doll Master… Maga Nosferatu… The Undying Wizard, Evangeline… your trickery shall not prevail this time."
Negi gasped, "It is, it's my father! The Thousand Master! He's so cool! He's just as I imagined he'd be! Oh the joy to be the son of such a wonderful mage. He's really…" his mouth was clamped shut by Dustin.
"Don't go fanboy on my now Negi and let's just watch this." Dustin said as Negi giggled sheepishly as they watched.
"The truth is Eva I never ran from you; I was giving you the chance to come to your senses. Sadly you have not." Thousand Master continued.
"And you'd think someone of your age would actually listen." Roswell Bowers said.
"What do you expect from a vampire skank?" Bianca asked her husband.
"Skank?" Eva frowned, "I'll see to it you become my first victim Bianca." She charged for them while Roswell and Bianca got ready.
"Go mom and dad." Dustin smirked.
"Oh no father what're you going to do?" Negi panicked until Dustin shushed him.
"Let's just wait and see Negi."
The Thousand Master stepped aside from his standing spot where Evangeline landed on the ground which was a pit trap. She fell in and crashed in the sand. Negi was surprised, "Huh?"
"That's it?" Dustin asked.
They watched as Eva and her puppet struggled as the Thousand Master laughed joyfully while dumping stuff in the pit, "Anybody hungry?"
"Yuck onions, garlic, and leeks!" Eva cried.
"Sorry I thought vampires love vegetables." The mage chuckled.
Roswell scowled, "Nagi for crying out loud stop showboating."
As Eva continued to squirm her puppet spoke, "Mistress please calm down or else…" The adult Eva transformed into her ten year old self, "You'll break your illusion spell."
Nagi chuckled, "What would the townsfolk say if they knew the infamous monster that tormented them was just a wee little girl?"
"They'd probably punish her with a barrage of spankings." Bianca humored him.
Negi sweat dropped, "He seems a little different from what I expected."
"Some things just aren't what they appear to be." Dustin said.
Eva called, "What kind of a wizard are you Thousand Master? Using cheap tricks, why not use magic like a real mage?"
"Well it's hard to bill me as the man of a thousand spells," Nagi removed his hood revealing he looked like an older Negi but less serious, "Truth be told though, I only know 5 or 6 spells altogether. I mean I did drop out of the magic academy of course."
"He what?" Negi cried.
"Well that's a shock." Dustin said lost for words.
"Look Thousand Master maybe we can make some sort of deal." Eva tried to reason.
"Sorry but I don't make deals with kids." Nagi answered.
"Kid? This is only my outer look, I'm actually older than all three of you." Eva reasoned.
"You've got to share with me your secret." Bianca chuckled much to Eva's annoyance.
"And in that case you're just an old hag." Nagi added.
"I AM NOT AN OLD HAG!" Eva shouted.
"Please mistress you'll only sink faster." Her puppet warned her.
"Eva, please. Isn't it time you stop chasing me around and give up this vampire gig of yours a rest?
"Yeah if you are really that much older why don't you act your age and grow up?" Roswell asked.
"Never!" Eva huffed.
"She's like me when I had a stubborn streak." Bianca chuckled.
"Well then it's on to Plan B," Nagi said whipping out a spell book, "Performing a transforming spell should restrain you from your evil doings. Now let's see…" an aura emitted around him.
"Ah! Your aura! What're you planning to do?" Eva feared.
"Nagi what are you up to?" Roswell asked.
"Well guys old man Konoe did say he wanted a security guard and I think she fits the bill." Nagi answered.
"Are you serious?" Roswell asked.
"Oh ya never know with Nagi." Bianca replied.
Nagi started an incantation as magic started surround Eva, "No wait! Stop! Don't, Thousand Master! I beg you! No!
"So this is what happened?" Negi asked.
"Well how about that." Dustin crossed his arms.
"I can't believe I loved you!" Eva cried.
"Infernus Scholasticus!" Nagi called as his magic electrified Eva as she screamed.
The light brightened as Evangeline suddenly shot up from her slumber out of her bad dream, "Ugh I hate that dream." She scoffed and sighed until she saw the boys asleep at the head of her bed, "Oh that's right they came here for a battle. I did say I'd kill them. But… were they really looking after me? No one besides Chachamaru's ever done this for me.' she thought with a faint blush on her face.
Suddenly the boys woke up and saw Eva sitting up, "Oh Evangeline." Negi gasped.
"You ok?" Dustin asked.
She turned her head, "I'm fine, look how about I rest up and you two leave? We'll pretend this day never happened."
"Agreed." Dustin said.
"We understand, we'll save this challenge for some other time. In the meantime rest and get well soon." Negi bowed his head as the boys left.
'All of that was real.' Dustin whispered to Negi.
'Yes that was really my father.' Negi whispered back.
Eva glanced seeing the wand in Negi's possession, "Hold it!" the halted, "Boy why were holding that wand while you were sleeping?"
Negi turned looking sheepish, "Uh I always hold it while sleeping, keeps bad spirits out of my thoughts."
Eva gasped, 'You two didn't…" the two quivered as a dark aura surrounded Eva, "You were watching my dream? Weren't you?
"You were dreaming?" Dustin asked playing dumb.
Outside Chachamaru was coming back holding a plastic bag full of medicine as she heard commotion from inside, "YOU WERE, WHAT DID YOU TWO SEE?" she demanded.
"Nothing important!" Negi cried.
"Total bore show!" Dustin added.
"SO HELP ME I'LL KILL YOU TWO!"
"Oh good my mistress is sounding much better." Chachamaru said.
Soon Negi and Dustin were walking back to class with a few tears in their suits and their hairs were all messed up form the thrashing Eva gave them, "Well that coulda gone better." Dustin said.
"Yes, but at least I got to see my father up close, even if he wasn't what the rumors said about him, I'm still satisfied." Negi said as they opened the door to class and to Dustin's horror saw Zyphon was wearing women's jewelry around his neck, a blonde wig, and was also wearing the Mahora cheerleading outfit surprisingly in his size and carried two pom poms.
Zyphon looked sheepishly at his master before Dustin put a hand on his face and cried, "OH MY GOD!"
"What happened while we were away?" Negi asked in shock.
"These girls ganged up on me and made me wear this outfit." Zyphon explained.
Dustin turned to the cheerleader trio, "I can't believe you did this to my robot."
"What I think he looks cute." Sakurako said.
"And he really pulls it off." Kakizaki added with a thumb's up.
Dustin sighed as Zyphon lowered himself down to his masters' level, "You should do him a favor and give him his dignity back, this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen." He took the wig off his robot.
"Dustin you were not kidding these girls are lively ones." Zyphon said.
"Tried to warn ya." Dustin replied.
"Negi-sensei Dustin-sensei what happened to you two?" Ayaka gasped at the state of their clothing.
"We got attacked by a pack of stray dogs, their food landed on us and they cleaned us by eating it off." Dustin explained.
Mana and Kaede looked to each other knowing they must've had a quarrel with Evangeline, "Well then now that we're back let's pick up where we left off." Negi said using what remaining time of class they had left.
When the day was over Negi, Dustin, Zyphon were walking with Kaede and Mana through the halls, "You saw your father in Eva's dream?" Kaede asked.
"Yes, though he wasn't what I expected it still felt good seeing him." Negi admitted.
"Though Eva didn't take it kindly at what he did." Dustin added.
"You can be sure she'll come at you harder next time." Mana warned them.
"Like this wasn't already harder." Dustin groaned until Kasuga caught up.
"Hey guys, so Eva did that to you?"
"Yeah even sick she still hits hard." Dustin groaned.
"Hold on Kasuga how do you know about Evangeline?" Negi asked.
"Come on Negi I'm also a Mage-in training ever since I came here I've heard about Eva and what she is. That's why I spent all full moon nights indoors at the dorms." She replied, "And I recalled when you four came back that one day, you tried to fight her assistant Chachamaru weren't you?"
"Guilty." Negi admitted.
"We even went so far into using partners." Dustin added.
Kasuga's interest perked up, "partners, you mean you two… And you?" she looked at her fellow students.
"That's right." Mana nodded.
"And if you're partners that means you've… Oh man I missed my own chance."
"Chance?" Kaede asked.
"I would've wanted to join you guys after all I know the existence of magic and all."
"True, except you weren't around when it all happened and we didn't have time to contact you." Dustin explained.
"Well next time don't count me out." Kasuga waved her finger.
"Alright next time we'll include you." Dustin said as the track and field girl hugged him from behind.
"Arigato."
The very next day at Mahora the girls waited for their teachers to arrive, and soon enough they walked in, "All rise!" Nodoka called. As they did so and bowed.
"Ohayo senseis!"
"Ohayo girls, please be seated." Negi instructed and they did so. He thought to himself, 'I still can't get over the fact of what I saw about my father, was that really who he was or how Evangeline remembers him. I wish I could ask her, but that doesn't seem to be possible. He looked in the back and jumped in surprise seeing both Evangeline and Chachamaru in their respective seats.
"WHA Evangeline?" Negi gasped making Dustin do the same noticing her while the class stared at them with sweat drops.
"Now why have you come here?" Dustin asked edgy.
"Senseis is something wrong?" Ayaka asked concerned.
"Yeah is it a problem for Evangeline to be here?" Kazumi asked.
Eva answered, "Right why wouldn't I? And if you must know I felt obligated to come here, after you two looked after me and all." She looked with a faint blush of guilt for coming.
"Really?" Negi's eyes lit up, "Well thank you, and I'm glad you could come."
Dustin looked skeptically but spoke, "Well we're glad you could join us after all," He thought, 'Well I guess even she had honor.'
"Did something happen?" Sakurako asked the girls about their conversation.
"They took care of her?" Ayaka asked a little jealous.
"So does that mean you're flu's better Eva?" Ako asked.
"Yes… it's fine." She admitted annoyingly from getting unwanted attention.
"Isn't that nice of them taking care of one of their students?" Sakurako asked sweetly.
"They truly are wonders." Ayaka added.
"If I get sick I hope Negi-kun comes to look after me." Makie put in.
"We're sure lucky to have them right girls?" Kazumi asked.
"Yeah!" half the girls cheered.
'What're they getting so excited for?' Asuna thought not seeing the big deal.
'Bakas.' Chisame thought.
"Alright then girls let's get started." Negi said feeling extra joyous for Eva repaying him by coming to class.
When class ended the girls were clearing out as Dustin looked to Negi, "I'm gonna grab a drink and meet you back at the dorms."
"Alright we'll be waiting." Negi said leaving with Kaede.
Dustin walked down the hall looking, "There must be a good vending machine here." He said as he approached a corner until an arm reached out and hand clamped his mouth shut pulling him around the corner and pushed him into a wall. He mumbled in protest until he saw it was Chao, "Chao?" he asked with a muffled voice.
Chao put her index finger from her free hand to her lips quietly shushing him and whispered, "Follow me."
Dustin confused as ever reluctantly followed Chao. Soon Chao had brought him to one of Mahora's labs while Dustin looked shocked, "What, Evangeline's gonna restore her powers using the Mahora black out done every two years?"
"That's right," Chao replied as she looked through something.
"But hold on Chao how do you know about magic?"
"I've always known about magic, about Evangeline, even about Negi and you Dustin-kun."
"You mean you know I'm…"
"Yes, you're a spirit warrior while Negi's a mage in-training. Don't worry I won't tell anyone."
"But why're you telling me this, you and Satomi built Chachamaru, Eva's servant." Dustin reminded her.
"I know, and I apologize for what Eva's been using her on you two. And that's why I'm going to help you stop them." Chao explained.
"How?"
"Well this for starters," Chao held up a microchip, "Insert this into Zyphon's system and he'll have downloaded into his system multiple combat styles allowing him to keep up with Chachamaru."
"You seriously want my creation to defeat yours and Satomi's creation?" Dustin asked skeptically.
"Well it'll give our creations a chance to prove how they match against each other." Chao noted another way of looking at it.
"Good point, but that takes care of Chachamaru, how can I help Negi defeat Evangeline, my spirit energy still isn't up to snuff with hers."
"I know, that's why the past few days I've been working on these." Eva held up a pair of blue wrist cuffs with a power gauge in them going from 1-5.
"What are they?" Dustin asked.
"Spirit energy amplifying cuffs, wear these and your spirit energy will be increased by the number the gauge goes up to, saving you the trouble of having to recharge your energy." Chao explained.
"Awesome. I'm gonna clean Eva's clock." Dustin smirked until Chao continued.
"But I must warn you, you don't wanna go past three on the gauge."
"Why not?" Dustin asked.
"Given the current level of your spirit energy, your body won't be able to stand the pressure of too much spirit energy being added to you. You could very well die if you go past the limit. And personally I wouldn't want that."
"Alright then, no over three," Dustin nodded, "Though can I ask you something? Why go through all this to help me and Negi?"
Chao smiled, "Well I've grown fond of having you two as teachers and the idea of anything happening to you would make not only me sad but the other girls as well. And on a personal note, I think I really like you." She smiled.
"Seriously?" Dustin gasped and the Chinese genius nodded, "Thanks, hey listen maybe you can give me some extra support, you know become one of my…" she put a finger to his lips to shush him.
"Let's save that for another time, personally I know you two can defeat Evangeline without me joining you in the fight."
"Well I don't know what to say, so thanks." Dustin said as he hugged the girl with his head pressing into her chest.
Chao smiled lowering herself to his level and hugging him back with her head resting on his shoulder, "Just promise you'll be careful alright?" she asked raising her head up to look him in the eyes.
"I will," He promised her and was unprepared for what happened next as she cupped his chin and placed a peck on his lips leaving him lost for words, "Wow, that was… very exceptional."
Chao giggled, "If you win I'll give you an ever bigger one."
Dustin's eyes widened and smirked, "I'll catch you later." He said taking the cuffs and microchip before leaving the lab thinking, 'Negi and the others have to hear this, this may be our last chance to defeat Evangeline.'
(And that's the chapter the boys got a sneak peak at their parents through Eva's dream and Negi got to see what his father was really like in terms of sorcery. Now they have one last chance to even the score with Evangeline before she uses Negi's blood to break free from Mahora for good. Catch you all next time.)