This is pretty dark but if you think about it, letting her defect opens her up to being retrieved (which would have likely happened, look at the teleporter Ramus). Meanwhile if they kill Kayano, suddenly they go from being the attackers to the defenders, as unless the Empire captures Lucas or...
I mean it's subtle and never stated directly but through the manga they're shown together all the time, there's situations where Lucas walks in on them doing something together offscreen, then you see that what happened hit Demi the hardest, etc. You could say they're just very close friends but...
It's reinforced through the series that she was in love with Miura. So her character resolution will definitely be confronting Poppy.
What the chapter is conveying is that when Kayano managed to call the meteor, there were two options, the fort or Oscar&Zahid. As long as the mirror is usable...
Demi needs to focus and cover her eye to use her power. She's also pretty much their top logistic asset so she makes more sense back at the base. All they needed to avoid detection was to act normal, they can just walk into the capital, it's a big city and there's a bunch of travelers...
I am pretty sure that the reason that Kathryn is so reluctant to mass murder the civilians is that she's irrationally loyal to the Emperor's mission (as we saw in her interactions with the scarred guy), and given that they know that Demi keeps scouting the lands like the Eye of Sauron, if she...
It's visually implied that he has to throw a limited wave of spears, control them, then once these spears miss and lose too much velocity he has to go and toss a new wave. So the "breaks" are just the new spears making their way from where the dude was. As for the civilians indoors I guess you...
I think it's very clearly not over, given that everything from it was left hanging, the characters are aching to lash out against the Futurists and whatnot. Also we have several things to account for like that new Ramus that was set for interrogation and so on. There's going to be payoff for...