I think it's one of the best developments we could've had, given how it clarifies and answers a lot about Batista and his goal, the nature of X and its power, and the high possibility of some fan theories about potential alternate timelines being confirmed. I'm only somewhat concerned about the...
Tokio asking the literal strongest character in the story the same questions he was asked back in Chapter 8 was a brilliant callback and shows how much he has grown as a character. Probably in my top 3 new gen MCs. For some reason though, I have a feeling that either Batista or someone else...
No, why would I think that? Everything in the story has been nicely leading towards this upcoming raid/battle (which btw. obviously wont be the final battle, I dont know why you'd even think that). And "abrupt" is also not a word I'd use here when the timeskip happened like 4 volumes before the...