I feel like Seren is maybe a bit too obvious of a villain here. Yggdrasil is currently a Chekhov's gun just screaming to be fired. Why would Yggdrasil, people that go out of their way to avoid Net, send out someone that clearly bears malice towards him? That wouldn't make any sense, right...
that elbow could quite literally kill when aimed to the temple like that but i swear to god if she just tanks it and shrugs it off next chapter like that's at least a hospital visit
interestingly enough, kyoto can technically still be treated as the capital of japan, as there exists no legal document stating that tokyo is the capital city of current japan. political power was centralized from kyoto to tokyo, but the last de jure "capital" of japan is still (technically*)...
just walking around in kyoto is experiencing history in an interesting way! kyoto (kyōto, then known as heian-kyō) geomancy was influenced extremely heavily by feng shui practices—this is why the city is arranged like a grid, like the then chinese capital chang'an (currently known as xi'an), and...