Well, the chapter ended up where we knew it would; how many more chapters of pre-battle discussion are we guessing? Two? Three?
Sometimes it drives me crazy, but I try to remember that the Japanese medievalperiod was heavily ritualized, and replete with formalities; dudes would literally make speeches and offer duels all day, sometimes for days and days, before anybody got down to making the ashigaru stab each other during halftime!
Chapters like this one and the last one seem like something Billy Shakespeare might make up for a stage play, but it's actually pretty accurate to the culture.
I mean, not to any other culture; I think it's weird as hell, but... totally accurate for an island nation with limited food and a historically homogeneous population; your Name, family, status, all of that social stuff becomes way more important than it ever could in a place you can physically leave/escape without a boat!
Anyway, just fight these two already so they can halfway remove the seal, and then escape like Team Rocket; then we can discover what new evil the Evil Empire of Evil™ has unleashed upon the kingdom while you were away.
(You know they did; it'll be dead kids again, and somehow everybody will still be more upset that their new gear didn't perform as well as they wished...)
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(... unless, of course, this story intends to start picking up the pace at chapter 100, in which case the seal will get removed, and the home team will have defeated an army of dolls through ganbarre and the power of friendship, or the home team just learned new things through training, ganbarre, and the power of friendship... that'd be cool to see, either way...)
pls move the meme page after the recruit page, my immersion is ruined with how it currently is
I wanna agree, but isn't that kinda the standard for uploading?
Group page is last page; you can get bounced, like the group that was putting their group page in the middle, or on the 4th page... shit like that is worse, so the group page is last.
Maybe they can, as the "memes" are mostly just advertising for the group needing redraws, TL, and Proofreaders anyway; they're basically a second group page, already!