@GustavoJalles: All the "filler" were sidestories the original author released for years after the webcomic ended. This mangaka just adapted those sidestories. Probably couldn't be bothered to try to figure out how to make them all fit together in a coherent timeline, so he just threw them in...
@Anchira: She's Archer's boss's boss.
The counter guardians we're familiar with are agents of Alaya, the collective will of humanity.
Tanaka is the counter force of Gaia, the will of the planet itself, which Alaya broke off of when humanity advanced so much its will could become independent.
Yep, we've fully crossed over into Lostbelt territory now.
So is Tanaka an Elemental of some sort? Or is she a Monster, this continuity's version of the Monster of Gaia in place of Primate Murder? What if she's a joint effort between Gaia and Alaya, because they're both endangered in the miyuverse?
@SmokeWagon: It's how he's introduced her to some other people before, and she understands that because this lady's a colleague it's probably better to not stir the pot and just go with "niece" which would be less suspicious.
Knight, Fighter, Priest, and Alchemist?
And those pieces look an awful lot like Miki and Yuki.
This is just a Kirara Fantasia reference lol.
Miki game art (4*): https://wiki.kirafan.moe/#/character/12031000
Yuki game art (4*): https://wiki.kirafan.moe/#/character/12001000
I don't think the...