Chapter 32: Ghost Town
"Alright, who's not dead: Sound off."
"Ugh…"
"My head…"
"Dammit, I think my dick is…"
Momo could hear multiple groans and complaints from several of her subordinates, but truthfully, she knew that anyone who was actually dead would just be revived by Kodai, so right now, she was basically just doing a headcount of anyone who was still able to work.
The airship was damaged superficially, thank goodness. It seemed like the fight tore the wood off the hall, sending a bunch of their supplies hurtling down towards the ground, but nothing vital was destroyed. Momo was sure that if the JSDF tried hard enough, they would be able to recreate the mast and sails, but the giant crystals used to make the boat fly? Yeah, no.
Regardless of how bad the damage to the airship actually was, it wasn't gonna be flying anymore today. The explosion that happened during angelic battle overhead didn't just knock them out of the sky, it knocked everyone out of the sky, including the last of the F-15 pilots.
Man, Aizawa was gonna be pissed…
"Any idea what that last-minute explosion was?" Kendo asked.
Truthfully, Momo did have a few ideas on who helped them turn the tide of battle in the last second, but right now wasn't the time for theorizing. "We need to get to Yoarashi's downed plane. It's about a half hour walk from here. We need to make sure he's not dead."
"Got it," Monoma said. "I'll tell every able-bodied guy here to get ready to hike."
"Good," the black-haired woman said, as her two subordinates spread out. Walking around the wreckage of the airship, Momo could see that Kodai was already healing anyone with serious injuries, while Shoto was holding Melissa. "Let me guess… she exhausted herself?"
"Completely," the peppermint-haired prince said. "I think that battle against her fellow angel drained more out of her than her battle against my father did. It was just so… intense."
Yeah, that made sense to Momo. Whoever that nutcase was, he was definitely more powerful than Melissa. He brought down all of the remaining F-15s during the battle, and even then, most of his focus was still on Melissa. Who even was he? Maybe an angel with a grudge?
Momo knew that Melissa had warned them that there was a chance other angels would be sent to assassinate her, it was literally one of the first things she said when they met, but… this? This was overkill. Or maybe that was just what happened when an angel fell?
There were several instances where Momo was certain that skills such as teleportation, weather manipulation and monster summoning would have come in real handy, skills that Melissa had said she had. But she rarely ever used them, usually relying on her sword and wings instead. Maybe due to her status as a fallen angel, she needed to preserve her power consumption?
It would make sense: No longer working for the gods, she would probably be cut off from their divine power. But she could still build it up over time, as evidenced by the few times she did use some of her more high-level powers. But since using them took so much out of her, she needed to be conservative and play her cards strategically, not just spam them continuously.
Now, Momo wouldn't call Melissa a glass cannon, per se. She was still able to defend herself against most threats that would absolutely pulverize a squishy human such as Momo, but that also didn't mean she was invincible, she had limits, just like everybody else.
It just so happened that those limits tended to be people who had the power to make Chernobyl look like a fucking joke. Hopefully, they wouldn't run into any more of those kinds of people.
"How are you?" Momo asked Shoto. "Physically, I mean."
"I'm alive, and with minor bruises," her boyfriend said. "My body is a lot tougher than the average human's, so the crash only gave me superficial injuries. And since you're alive, my mental health is also fine. I should be able to carry Shield as we walk back to the Collibus Hills."
As much as Momo would love to coo at that second-to-last thing Shoto said, her mind was more inclined to agree with the last thing he said. Thanks to the battle, some of the precious supplies that fell through the hull were the LAVs. She could see that one of them landed close to where the airship crashed, and since Awase was taking a look at it, that might be a good sign.
Walking over to where he was, she asked, "Does any of it look good?"
"Good? Absolutely, not!" Awase exclaimed, as he slammed the dented hood back down. "The intake's got a thirty torque tolerance that's been blown, and the combustion valves need a new ring slip! And that's just the small stuff! The manifold and the distributor caps are wrecked, and when I found it, the engine was on fucking fire! THE CAR WASN'T EVEN RUNNING!"
As the raven-haired soldier watched Awase break down crying, two things ran through Momo's mind: One, her team's mechanic personally modified all of their vehicles, so to him, seeing them wrecked like this would be like seeing your child be horribly maimed, and crying would be is a completely natural reaction. And two, the LAVs were kaput. They would have to walk.
As soon as Kodai was finished healing everyone, Momo broke the unfortunate news that they would be walking back towards the Collibus Hills. The good news was that they were extremely close, so they'd be within the town by tomorrow morning. But before they could do that…
…they needed to check up on Yoarashi's downed plane.
As much as Momo would have loved to go and check on the other F-15s to see if their pilots were alive, they couldn't. They were too far away to get to them on foot, and thanks to the airship crash, their food and supplies were dangerously low. They could only go to one of the crashes, it happened to be the one that was on their way to the Collibus Hills.
They couldn't save everyone, that was the reality of their line of work.
Still, everyone did as told, grabbing backpacks, scrounging up whatever measly supplies, weapons and personal belongings they could carry with them, and headed out.
The terrain around them was the same open fields of grass and patches of forest as the first time they left to explore this world, only now, the sky was covered in clouds, as if to say that the battle that just took place was a tragedy that shouldn't have happened. Momo wondered if she was just being melodramatic right now, but honestly, she could really use a distraction.
She just hoped that Yoarashi being alive would serve as the perfect one.
Locating the plane crash wasn't that hard, all they had to do was follow the plume of smoke coming out of the middle of the forest. The harder thing to do was figure out where inside the forest the plane had fallen, but between Uraraka and Tsuburaba, they had a good guess.
They made their way through the trees, and soon enough they could see the crashed plane, but… there was something else there, too. Momo gave a hand signal for everyone to stop moving, quietly lower themselves to the forest floor, not make a peep, and listen.
"I don't think I can save him…"
"Well, could you ask your pet spirits to help him?"
"They're not pets! They're equals! And Eijiro would have a better chance at that…"
"You heard her, Shitty Hair. Make with the spirit hippy shit."
"Bakubro, I'm not trained to do it on command!"
Shitty Hair. Bakubro. Momo only knew two people who called each other that…
"CORPORAL KIRISHIMA! SERGEANT BAKUGOU!"
"Huh?! Lieutenant Yaomomo?! Is that you?!"
Momo immediately got up from where she was, and ran out of the trees and into the small clearing that was within the forest. The first things she noticed was the absolutely wrecked F-15, along with some pink woman with a tail, a giant raven, and an anthropometric crow-dude.
The second things she noticed were Kirishima and Bakugou, alive and well.
"Lieutenant Yaomomo!" Kirishima hugged her. "You're actually here!"
"You're alive, you're both alive!" Momo cried, before she realized something. Slapping Kirishima, she yelled, "You idiot! Do you know how worried we were?! You just disappeared on us!"
"Hey, don't slap him!" the pink woman with horns and a tail scolded her.
"Wait, and who is she?!" Momo asked, before looking at the birdman. "And who is this?!"
"Revelry in the dark!"
"Alright, sit down, Lieutenant," Bakugou said. "You're in for a weird story…"
After the initial reunion, Kodai immediately got to work in healing Yoarashi. By the time she was done reporting that he'd be awake after they'd get back to Collibus, it was already dark.
They ended up camping for the night at the plane wreck.
The fact that both Kirishima and Bakugou were alive was a highlight that rivaled the tragedy that occurred earlier in the day, if not outright eclipsed it. The explosive blond said that he promised that he wouldn't die, and that was exactly what he did. Kirishima's disappearance was actually a complete mystery, but now everyone knew what had happened over the campfire.
Momo was somewhat annoyed that the reason Kirishima went missing in the middle of the Todoroki Empire was due to a mix of spirit shenanigans, magical music, and the universal emotion of horny. However, she did manage to calm down a bit when she heard the full story.
Mina Ashido was some traveler down on her luck and needed quick cash, so she signed up to do mercenary work for the Todoroki Empire, specifically, being one of the monsters that showed up during the Musutafu Incident. Now, the raven-haired woman would normally be more upset at that, but given that she, one, didn't kill anyone, two, seriously felt bad for it, and three, saved Kirishima's life (and everyone else's by association) multiple times after he showed her mercy which eventually lead to romantic feelings, Momo decided to be a bit more lenient.
Speaking of romance, Momo did introduce Shoto to Kirishima and the others. Tokoyami didn't say much, Kirishima might have made a comment about how his feelings for Ashido developed over the course of months (while it took less than two weeks for Momo and Shoto to fuck), while Bakugou asked if that now made Momo a soon-to-be princess of the Todoroki Empire.
Apparently, the answer was yes.
"Wait, if she's a princess now, do I have to kneel?" Kirishima asked.
"Yes, of course you have to kneel," Shoto said.
Kirishima did so, as Momo said, "I'm not comfortable with that."
"Dude, why'd you do that?" Bakugou asked.
Kirishima stuttered a bit. "What, but, he said –"
"It was a joke," Shoto said, slightly smiling. "Gotcha."
Anyways, after everyone discovered that Shoto actually had a sense of humor, Momo also realized that, if something were to happen to the rest of Shoto's siblings, then that meant she actually had a shot at becoming the Empress of an entire country. She had literally been on this mission to scout an alien world for less than six months, what the absolute fuck.
Ashido, meanwhile, had an expression that made it look like Christmas had come early. She was apparently a huge romantic, and she somehow managed to get Uraraka, Kodai and Komori to cheer her on, and even telling Momo to come visit everyone when she had kids. Traitors.
Anyways, after that embarrassment, Bakugou decided to share the story of how he came across Kirishima and Ahsido after he destroyed Tartarus, the two of them sleeping naked in the middle of the woods. Naturally, Kaibara and Tsuburaba asked for pics, and the two of them got slapped for that. The story continued with Ashido summoning Tokoyami and his pet giant raven, Dark Shadow, to give them a ride back to the Collibus Hills, before coming across the airship being hounded by the enemy angel, which Bakugou promptly blasted into smithereens.
"Wait, so the massive circles of fiery death were your doing?" Rin asked.
"Yep," Bakugou said, finishing up his measly dinner. "Wasn't gonna let that Kentucky Fried Douchebag kill you all, so I unleashed an explosion on him. The recoil did knock Dark Shadow out of the sky, and we managed to land here. Still, though, I can't believe only Inasa survived."
"Inasa?" Momo repeated. "Oh, right, the wedding!"
Everyone looked towards the explosive blonde, who cursed. "Crap. Alright, full disclosure, this pilot is a friend of mine from high school, and the best man at my wedding."
"Is that so?" Aoyama said. "Then it is good fortune we saved him."
"Yeah," Bakugou said. "Though… I'm guessing the other F-15s got wiped."
Momo had a feeling that Bakugou knew the answer already. The only sounds that could be heard were the crackling of the wood in the fire, as everyone tried to think of a new topic. Eventually, Kirishima swooped in and saved everyone from the awkward silence.
"So, I might have the potential to contract spirits!"
Momo raised her eyebrows at that. "Really?"
"Yeah, so, Mina told me that I had a pretty high affinity, so if I could contract one, I could use magic! She also said something about them liking me for having a good soul…"
"Huh," Kaibara hummed, before asking, "Do I have a good soul?"
"Dude, you have me as a best friend," Tsuburaba said. "What do you think the answer is?"
Both of them were silent for a bit, until Kaibara said, "Yeah, we're definitely going to Hell."
The meteorologist agreed with the geologist. "Oh, without a doubt."
"And given that it's a fantasy world, Hell might actually be real here," Awase said.
"With you three here, it already is," Rin grumbled.
Eventually, as the conversations went on, the fire began to die down, and once the crew helped Sato clean up the empty ration trash, they got ready to sleep. Mats were set out, guard shifts were organized, and pretty soon, everyone was ready to embrace the night.
"Alright, whoever's got guard lookout duty in the early hours of the morning, don't freak out when you see a pink thing next to Kirishima, and definitely don't shoot it."
"Bakubro, Mina's not a pet!" Kirishima shouted back.
"Right… and Camie loves me for my approachable personality."
As Momo ignored the ever-quieting racket all of her subordinates were making, she laid down on her mat, when she felt someone lie next to her. "Shoto, not tonight, we have no privacy."
"I know. I just… want to hold you."
"You do know that my mat is made for one person, yes? It'll be uncomfortable."
"With you by my side, I can endure," the peppermint-haired prince said. "Plus, due to my magic, my body releases heat and coldness at a superhuman rate. I can make it less uncomfortable."
Aww, how cute, he was offering to be her body pillow with built-in temperature control.
"Alright, go ahead."
The last thing Momo felt before she drifted off was the purring of a warm Shoto's hug.
A fog had rolled in by the time everyone headed out of the woods.
Or, at least, Momo hoped it was a fog. She had seen enough ash and brimstones during her first week in the Special Region to not want to have to deal with it again for the rest of her life. The initial battle against the Todoroki Empire was so one-sided that it left the entire area around the Collibus Hills as a wasteland, and Momo didn't want to experience that again.
Everyone kept their eyes peeled for anything that might jump out at them. While the fog did exist, it wasn't so bad that the group was walking around blind, but it still existed, and mixed together with the sporadic trees and the cloudy skies, visibility was a bitch.
If there was one positive of walking together right now, it was that Tokoyami was with them. While Dark Shadow may have still been unable to fly at the moment due to yesterday's fight, the massive bird was still big enough to carry the two unconscious members of the group.
So, while Melissa and Yoarashi laid across the giant raven's back, Tokoyami gently rode his steed through the fields, as everyone else partolled alongside them, protecting the big bird and their unconscious allies. Slowly, they made it through the hills, out into the open fields, until finally, they could see the outskirts of the town Tsunotori's people were… building…
"Oh, my gosh," Uraraka whispered.
Momo could only stare ahead at her creation, this vision she had to help bridge the gap between the two worlds. It was burnt, reduced to burnt wood, and the quiet...
The black-haired soldier felt sick. It was too quiet. There was no noise, no one talking, complaining, trying to rebuild. It was like they were looking at a ghost town. Momo barely registered Shoto's hand on her shoulder, trying to calm her.
"Maybe there's some survivors…?" Sato wondered.
Yes, survivors. There had to be. Looking back towards her team, she said, "All SREU members who can use magic, with me. Everyone else, stay at the border of the town, guard up."
Everyone quickly got into their teams. Shoto gave Momo a quick "be safe," as she, along with Monoma, Bakuogu, Uraraka, Kodai, Komori and Aoyama advanced towards the seemingly abandoned town, while the others kept their distance, weapons at the ready.
"What happened here…?" Komori whispered.
"And where is everyone?" Bakugou whispered back.
Both of those are equally valid questions, Momo thought to herself, as her team walked through the desolate town. Barely anything made a sound. Not even the scavenging birds, who flew around the last time something like this happened here, were making a peep now.
"We need to find General Aizawa," Momo said.
"General Aizawa, Kayama, anyone," Monoma replied.
There was a sudden gasp, and footsteps. Everyone ducked behind one of the wrecked ruins of the alleyway as if on instinct. They were trained soldiers, not complete idiots. They didn't want to imagine it, but there was a good chance that the town was attacked. If so…
Quickly peeking out from the debris she was hiding behind, Momo could see that the figure walking down the street was human, a man with blond hair. He was carrying an assault rifle, but it wasn't a JSDF soldier, the uniform was completely off, both in texture and color.
Two more men wearing the same outfit walked down the street after that, as Momo connected the dots. "I think I know what happened… and we need to get out of here. Now."
The others nodded in unison, already figuring out what probably went down here. Making sure no one was around, the got out of their hiding spaces, and quickly made their way to –
There was a sharp gasp. Kodai.
Momo turned around to see what had happened, and… froze. Everyone else turned around, as well, and what they saw littering the street was enough to make anyone's blood run cold.
There were bodies. Tens, dozens of them, there were bodies everywhere.
Despite being burned, bloodied, and overall damaged in such horrible ways, Momo recognized several of them. Most of them were wearing JSDF uniforms; they were everyone's comrades. The rest… they were people from the Special Region, civilians. She recognized the minotaurs that came with Pony to help build the town, entire families of people, women, children…
All of them now piled up in what was basically a mountain of broken bodies.
"What is this hell?" Bakugou hissed.
Momo agreed with the blond on this. This was inhuman, like something straight out of a Holocaust picture. Who could have done this? Those men, the weapons they carried… all signs pointed to them being from Earth. But why would they attack here? For the gate?
She knew that the gate, and the world beyond it, was something a lot of countries would love to get their hands on, but to go so far as to do this? What sort of monster would –
"HEY!" Everyone turned around and realized they had been caught. Two more men, one bald and one with greasy hair, had their weapons pointed at them. "What are you –"
BREEAM-POW! BREEAM-POW!
Two blue lasers went between the mens' heads, killing them instantly, as Momo turned to see that Monoma and Aoyama were the ones responsible. "We need to hurry, before –"
"WE HAVE INTRUDERS!"
Too late. More armed guards were running towards them, most likely alerted by their comrade's shouting. Uraraka along with the two blonds prepared more spells to fire, while Momo and the others aimed their guns. Looks like they were fighting their way out of here.
Uraraka quickly slammed her hands into the ground, as she began to prepare a spell. Momo knew they were gonna need to buy her time, as she, alongside Kodai, began to lay fire down at anyone who was showing up, with several bullets going through the bodies of any bastard who showed up. Some were smart enough to hide behind the debris, but most…
BLAM! BLAM!
…not so much.
Komori, meanwhile, summoned one of her massive mushroom monsters that immediately charged towards the first bad guys it saw, sending several goons flying with its punches, all while Aoyama and Monoma kept sniping others with their laser magic.
"SPELL'S READY!" Uraraka shouted. "Get ready to run when it lands!"
Momo didn't know what the team astronomer was talking about, until a black-and-purple hole opened up above them, sending tiny meteorites crashing down in front of them. As the bad guys were busy either running away or getting squashed, Momo and the others made a run for it.
"We need to tell the others what happened!" Momo said, as she and the others shot their way through this mess. "We have to get out of here, and come back with reinforcements!"
"Like who, the Todoroki Empire?!" Monoma asked, as he blasted another cretin. "Who just took down their military, remember?! And Hatsume is too far away to ask for help! It took us a month to get to her last time, and we were driving back then! How would we get there now?!"
"Tokoyami!" Momo answered, as she shot another guard. "We could send someone on Dark Shadow to her place, tell her what's going on here, and ask for her help!"
"Yeah, if we manage to survive for that long!"
The seven of them ran as if the Devil himself was chasing them, as they saw the entrance of the town, where the rest of their party was still waiting for them. "RUN! IT'S A –"
BLAM!
Momo felt herself fall, the wind running past her body.
Pain shot through her entire body, but the place where it hurt the most was in her left leg. She didn't know if the bullet went through her thigh, but she was pretty sure that it broke her femur. Collapsing in the mud caked with ash, she could feel blood start to leak out…
"MOMO!"
SHHHK–BOOOOM!
BRAKA-BRAKA-BRAKA-BRAKA!
Momo wasn't sure what was going on right now, her face was still in the dirt. But given how cold it suddenly got, it was safe to assume that Shoto made a massive wall of ice to prevent anyone else from getting shot, and the evil goons were now trying to shoot at it.
Before she knew it, Momo felt the sensation of someone picking her up and carrying her princess style, and given that she could see flames flickering on one side of said person's arms, it was safe to assume that it was Shoto. God, she really hoped it was Shoto.
"I'M GONNA KILL THEM!"
"LATER! YAOMOMO NEEDS MEDICAL ATTENTION!"
"FINE! ALL OF YOU, START RUNNING!"
Momo was starting to get disoriented. Was it the blood loss? It was probably the blood loss. The world around her seemed to be spinning, as she could see everyone running for the hills, Tokoyami pushing Dark Shadow to go faster, the sounds of bullets getting quieter…
She could see everyone running towards the closest tree line they could find. She wanted to warn them that it was a bad idea, that would be the first place the bad guys would look for them, but… God… the pain… At least Shoto was pretty to look at… why did he look so scared…?
"Hurry, you need to hide! This way! Get moving!"
"General Aizawa?!"
Huh…? Oh… General Aizawa was here, too… gooooody…
When Momo opened her eyes again, she could tell she was underground.
"Oh, good. You're awake."
Looking around, she saw that Kodai was sitting next to her. Momo was sitting in… well… dirt. But given that her leg only feels like it had a bruise, that was a plus. "How long?"
"Twenty minutes," Kodai said. "Minor blood loss. The bullet went through your leg, thankfully, so no having to fish around to find it. Just had to cast some healing magic, and voila."
So, she was out for twenty minutes, huh? "And… where exactly are we?"
"I'll show you," Kodai said, as she offered her hand.
Momo took it, as the team medic pulled her up, and brought her out of the "room." This entire place was making Momo think of the trench bunkers from World War I, and that was not…
"Well, look who came back to the land of the living."
Her thoughts immediately cut off when she heard that voice. She couldn't believe it. He was alive. He looked worse for wear, but he was alive. "GENERAL AIZAWA!"
Momo didn't care that she had just been recently injured, and she didn't give a damn about protocol right now, as she lunged at Aizawa as fast as she could, and hugged him, as she bawled her eyes out. Her mentor was alive, the old man who trained her was safe.
A part of her thought that she was hallucinating from the blood loss when she heard his voice, and an even darker part of her thought that he was already dead, and her wounds would result in her joining him in the afterlife, but this… this was the best thing that had happened to Momo all day long. After coming back to the Collibus Hills to not just find it deserted, but to have the bodies of innocents all piled up, and then to get shocked, to have her hopes up about…
She didn't dare let go of her teacher, afraid that he might disappear the second she did.
"Good to see you too, Lieutenant," Aizawa softly said, as he hugged her back.
After calming down a bit, Momo awkwardly let go of Aizawa, and sat down on the makeshift stool in the small room. She could walk, but standing for too long was probably not a good idea for Momo right now, as she was still recovering from having a bullet in her leg.
Now that their reunion was over, she then asked, "Where are we…?"
"A little hideout me and the few remaining survivors came up with," Aizawa said, as he opened a door into another room, as the two of them walked in, revealing more survivors.
Momo could see that the new room was supposed to resemble a mess hall, but it was small, with only a couple of long, but thankfully occupied, tables, full of recognizable faces.
Pony Tsunotori, Mineta Minoru, and Denki Jiro were all there, and all of them armed with JSDF weapons. "When those bastards attacked us, their goal was to leave no survivors. Unfortunately for them, we are more resilient than that. A couple of mages that survived the initial attack were able to make a few trench bunkers for us, with Yamada and Kayama running the other ones."
"You're coming up with a counterattack plan…" Momo realized.
"Yup," the general said. "The bad news was that, until today, most of our fighters were volunteer civilians. But now that you and the rest of your crew are back, we're pretty much fifty-fifty."
Fifty-fifty? That was awful. That meant that even with fifteen more Japanese soldiers, there were so few of them that the majority of their fighting force was still composed of the civilians they were supposed to protect. "This is all my fault… I led all those people to the slaughter…"
"No, this isn't your fault," Aizawa said. "The fault lies squarely on the shoulders of these mercenary bastards. They showed up while you were gone; I'm pretty sure they planned it so that you wouldn't be able to turn back and help us fight them off. You didn't do this. All you did was try and give the people of the Special Region a chance at a better life."
"We'll fight alongside you." Momo looked up in surprise towards the Jiro patriarch. "Ah, I have been studying your language. I was able to understand a few words here and there…"
"I'm sorry for what I've dragged you into," Momo apologized.
"Your comrades saved my family during our darkest hour," the blond bard said. "You tried to give us a safe home. My wife is at one of the other shelters, alongside Hagakure-san and the others. And as long as she lives, I'll fight alongside you to protect my new home."
Momo could see that the minotaur and the gnome were both nodding along to what the bard said. She had given them all a home, a chance to make something of themselves.
It was time for them to take it back.
Momo looked back at General Aizawa. "Alright, what's the plan?"
"I've already been informed of how your battle against the Todoroki Empire went, and the condition the airship is in; we can't afford to turn tail and run. The mercenaries have the gate hostage, so we also can't expect any reinforcements from Japan," the older man said. "Plus, thanks to these mercs, all our supplies are dwindling, so time is of the essence. We can't wait for Shield to be up and functioning at one hundred percent. We need to make a move soon."
The heiress of the Yaoyorozu conglomerate thought over what they could possibly do. Well, first, she would need to know who was able to fight, and what they could do. Plus, she needed to know where exactly all of these mercenaries are operating from, but for now…
"Um, I have an idea," Momo said. "If I'm correct about this, we might be able to get some help from the outside without costing us a fighter, but I'll need some more data."
Aizawa looked at her in interest. "What's this idea?"
Author's Note: Yeah, this might have been one of the darkest chapters of the whole series. Think of episode fourteen from the first season of Re: Zero combined with the fifth episode of The Legend of Vox Machina, and you've got the picture.
On a lighter note, I was hinting throughout the series that Yoarashi was one of the few people Bakugou personally knew, and now it's officially confirmed, yay, and Kirishima has a spirit affinity! If any of you have seen Re: Zero, then you might know where this is going. That's all I've got in terms of lore for now, and up next are the comments!
Shin: Okay, thank you for the crash course on MTG. I don't think I'll ever get invested in it, but I'm glad to see that there are people who love it. Talk to you next time.
GreenBoy9000: Enji's not about to return, he'll come back in a few chapters later down the line, like, months into the future. And yeah, of course Momo would interrogate Melissa about what happened, that's why I had her knocked out. Melissa can't say anything if she's not conscious. But don't worry, she'll wake up… eventually.
AlphaLycanroc55: Ah, a fellow writer! I'm more than happy to tell you how I come up with my spells, but fair warning, the process itself is a bit… underwhelming. Basically, I first think of what sort of spell I want my character to cast in what scenario, while also referencing any spells I've seen in any official media, like in Overlord or as you said, Black Clover. Once I know, I take the official spell's name, put it into Google Translate, turn it from English to Latin, and then use the Latin translation. I hope that helps you.
valkrus: YYYEEEEESSS!
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