I mean, No. 10 is still alive annoying the shit out of the Vice Captain so he don’t necessarily have to die if that’s the ending we’re going for. Though I don’t think a CQC-focused numbers weapon like Kafka would fit Mina’s fighting style, not to mention such ending would feel so cheap.
The best part of keeping up with this series, is that every few months when I catch up on something else, I can read the two chapters that have come out and not be worried of having missed a chapter due to only getting 3 most recent