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[emolibon]

chapter is out:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wqeo3z

[sarutobi_sensei]

Is that nike? And spitfire?

Nice Ikki and Ringo got there this chapter. Gogo!

[warbandit66]

Okay... The fact that Nike is on life support means that there's no way that Kilik is going to remain dead. O!G can't commit to character deaths.

[Pirulito]

Facesitting?! Nice move, Simca!
But, crap, what the hell is that Spitfire?!

[Carnevil]

Why is Simca sitting on Nike's face? It's funny that OG can't even Kill the bad guys he's really pussy'd out on this manga.

[warbandit66]

Seriously though... Is Spitfire really still alive and kicking?

[Carnevil]

Seriously though... Is Spitfire really still alive and kicking?

We'll have to wait for the summary but it sure as hell looks like it. It wouldn't surprise anybody it was always alluded to him being alive because they never found a body.

I'm still wondering why everybody is so calm nobody is freaking out over SF. You'd figure Simca would be worried or upset about Kiric and she's busy sitting on Nike's face.

[Broken_Wing]

Why is Simca sitting on Nike's face?

Sedative measures...?

[sarutobi_sensei]

I actually never thought Spit was dead, the way he was talking and telling them what to do and not to do made me believe he was still alive.

Next ones to come back to the world of living are Aeon Clock and Kilik xD

[Lectro Volpi]

We'll have to wait for the summary but it sure as hell looks like it. It wouldn't surprise anybody it was always alluded to him being alive because they never found a body.

http://www.mangareader.net/137-7668-1/air-gear/chapter-163.html

That's Spitfire; Sora crushed his hand in the same chapter. Does not change the possibility of him being alive though.

Yoshitsune is still dead =/

Nike was never dead, he just broke.

And I am actually hoping for Nina Sleeping Forest survival.

That said, I will wait for translation.

[Broken_Wing]

Next ones to come back to the world of living are Aeon Clock and Kilik xD

Whaa...no love for the Samurai Rumble King...?

[warbandit66]

I wish Yoshi was still alive but I don't think there's any hope for him.

[Carnevil]

http://www.mangareader.net/137-7668-1/air-gear/chapter-163.html

That's Spitfire; Sora crushed his hand in the same chapter. Does not change the possibility of him being alive though.

That's just a body, it was never stated that it was actually Spitfire. Considering Spitfire has the ability to create illusions it could easily be somebody else.

[Lectro Volpi]

That's just a body, it was never stated that it was actually Spitfire. Considering Spitfire has the ability to create illusions it could easily be somebody else.

"Flame King, Spitfire and Aeon Clock stand in front of Sora Takeuchi..."

The Narrator can lie or be deceived by OG! of course, but that´s not my problem you just wanted a body.

I doubt he could fool Sora and Nike without his Flame Regalia (Nina and Onibasu pulled an illusion together) and the G men were not there yet to provide a "fake" Spitfire.

As I stated before, if OG! wants Spit alive he will be alive.

[dirtywork]

wow Nike looks horrible once AG's strongest king is go beaten by Simca and what was that key for ?

[Carnevil]

wow Nike looks horrible once AG's strongest king is go beaten by Simca and what was that key for ?

Looks like the key that was suppose to open the door to where Rika was being held.

[warbandit66]

wow Nike looks horrible once AG's strongest king is go beaten by Simca and what was that key for ?

Nike may as well be dead he likely can't ride like he did before and his mental state is probably not looking too great either (not that he was a picture of sanity before).

[Carnevil]

Nike may as well be dead he likely can't ride like he did before and his mental state is probably not looking too great either (not that he was a picture of sanity before).

Not like he couldn't get an A-T's prosthesis, Simca will help him through this rough time, while he's in prison. Simca either really likes Nike or he's packing a mandingo for her to look past all his indiscretions.

[suarhnir]

oyos

just so no one is getting too confused... spitfire isn't alive... that bit of him we see is 'within' sky link. now onto the summary:

-ringo and ikki break in and more defensive measures are unleashed to stop them. some kind of wheel thing that can combine to form a huge figure that can shoot lasers. ringo and ikki have no trouble with it. meanwhile, minami is talking about how the simplest way to acheive your own dream is to destroy others, or something to that meaning; basically not everyone can get what they want.

-back somewhere else, that older detective with the trenchcoat is talking to a still alive nike... (grav kids sure are made tough). he wants nike to spill the beans on everything he knows. nike doesn't seem to cooperate but it seems he's still lost in his head after getting beaten by kazu. simca doesn't buy it and tells him to cut it out and then she shows him that key that orca had. simca tells him how they asked orca if that key really was just to get into where rika was confined, however that wasn't actually the case. after seeing a reaction, she confirms that within the key holds the secrets of the rune futhark given to the grav kids.

-we get a little side story of norse mythology and the legend behind the rune letters. the story of a time when odin was bound to the world tree yggdrasil. the wood of 9 evergreen oaks was used to construct a jail to imprison god. the code 'mazaa' is a combination of all 28 runes which formed 9 lines(paths). nike tries to bust out however simca is unfazed and goes on about how even with wind, thunder, rumble, flame, gem, fang, thorn and joining them together (pledge) but in the end that's only 8 so there's no way for the rune futhark (sky regalia) can be complete.

-simca decks nike back onto his bed (demonstrating the difference in strength a normal person has compared to a grav kid; aeon and kazu are more of a fighter type but weren't able to give a nice fist impression like that and simca isn't a fighter). next she sits on his face and explains how sora was just using him. she offers to nurse him to health and even wear nothing but an apron but he's not allowed to touch her ever again

-tanaka and the random ttt member are wandering around and suddenly the ttt member pulls tanaka out of the way from an attack blast. sora and ikki are seen battling which confuses tanaka as to how those two are already fighting. minami flies in and apologizes for not explaining but will allow spitfire to do the honors. spitfire explains that this isn't the real battle. they are currently within the lon houtz borne world and what they are witnessing is a simulated battle. spitfire explains that it isn't enough to just claim the sky regalia to achieve his goals... ikki and ringo arrive before sora.

suddenly the border between the digital and the real is blurring... i mean, how on earth did tanaka, minami and the ttt girl magically connect to the lon houtz borne place? they acted as if they just walked into it... or maybe we just didn't get to see the part where minami hooked their brains in so he can give them a full explanation of the sky regalia. i wonder what the simulation gave as far as how the fight between sora and ikki would have ended.

[Carnevil]

Why do I have a feeling that OG will use the lon houtz borne world as the excuse on why SF is still alive? With what we saw at the end of the last chapter was the SF inside that world and not the real SF.

[Exis10]

I want to ask how the **** that wheel assembling boss monster with laser weapon is in the tower, but I will resist.

[DragonOsman2]

oyos

just so no one is getting too confused... spitfire isn't alive... that bit of him we see is 'within' sky link. now onto the summary:

-ringo and ikki break in and more defensive measures are unleashed to stop them. some kind of wheel thing that can combine to form a huge figure that can shoot lasers. ringo and ikki have no trouble with it. meanwhile, minami is talking about how the simplest way to acheive your own dream is to destroy others, or something to that meaning; basically not everyone can get what they want.

-back somewhere else, that older detective with the trenchcoat is talking to a still alive nike... (grav kids sure are made tough). he wants nike to spill the beans on everything he knows. nike doesn't seem to cooperate but it seems he's still lost in his head after getting beaten by kazu. simca doesn't buy it and tells him to cut it out and then she shows him that key that orca had. simca tells him how they asked orca if that key really was just to get into where rika was confined, however that wasn't actually the case. after seeing a reaction, she confirms that within the key holds the secrets of the rune futhark given to the grav kids.

-we get a little side story of norse mythology and the legend behind the rune letters. the story of a time when odin was bound to the world tree yggdrasil. the wood of 9 evergreen oaks was used to construct a jail to imprison god. the code 'mazaa' is a combination of all 28 runes which formed 9 lines(paths). nike tries to bust out however simca is unfazed and goes on about how even with wind, thunder, rumble, flame, gem, fang, thorn and joining them together (pledge) but in the end that's only 8 so there's no way for the rune futhark (sky regalia) can be complete.

-simca decks nike back onto his bed (demonstrating the difference in strength a normal person has compared to a grav kid; aeon and kazu are more of a fighter type but weren't able to give a nice fist impression like that and simca isn't a fighter). next she sits on his face and explains how sora was just using him. she offers to nurse him to health and even wear nothing but an apron but he's not allowed to touch her ever again

-tanaka and the random ttt member are wandering around and suddenly the ttt member pulls tanaka out of the way from an attack blast. sora and ikki are seen battling which confuses tanaka as to how those two are already fighting. minami flies in and apologizes for not explaining but will allow spitfire to do the honors. spitfire explains that this isn't the real battle. they are currently within the lon houtz borne world and what they are witnessing is a simulated battle. spitfire explains that it isn't enough to just claim the sky regalia to achieve his goals... ikki and ringo arrive before sora.

suddenly the border between the digital and the real is blurring... i mean, how on earth did tanaka, minami and the ttt girl magically connect to the lon houtz borne place? they acted as if they just walked into it... or maybe we just didn't get to see the part where minami hooked their brains in so he can give them a full explanation of the sky regalia. i wonder what the simulation gave as far as how the fight between sora and ikki would have ended.

Thanks for this. And yeah, of course Spitfire is dead; for one, the only reason he seemed like he knew everything that was going on in real time, was because he is inside Skylink, and Skylink gets information and data live. And two, if the Spitfire we see in this chapter weren't the data-file version that exists inside Skylink, he wouldn't be wearing Flame Regalia. And yet he actually is wearing it

@Carnevil: Maybe you're right (about the Sleeping Forest that got defeated just now not being real but just being part of a simulation from Lon Houtz Borne Street).

[Hangedman]

chinese scan Here (http://thenamelessteam.forumcommunity.net/?t=48417874)

[Atobe the king]

Just dawned on me ikki's AT's have been obscured this whole time lol

[Carnevil]

Anybody notice Sora has the same shirt on that was destroyed in chapter 332? http://www.mangafox.com/manga/air_gear/v35/c332/16.html

But at the end of this chapter he has his shirt on which is the same one he had on when the fight started?

[suarhnir]

oyos

so... either what he did to kiric was fake (within lon houtz borne) or what we are currently witnessing is fake... the final option is that sora found a new shirt inside of the suitcase that he decided to put on after his got ripped up in making the final attack on kiric.

[Broken_Wing]

I like how O!G has gone full circle with these final battles.

When Ikki was officially accepted as a Storm Rider, Sora, Rika, Ringo and what was known of Sleeping Forest were all present.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/air_gear/v06/c043/12.html

Ikki was compared to as the new/current Sky King candidate and the philosophy of rising high above those who try to keep you grounded is first stated.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/air_gear/v06/c043/13.html
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/air_gear/v06/c043/17.html

So its basically now Sky King Sora's dream up against the next Sky King candidate Ikki's dream driving the final battles.

[Drylick]

Sleeping Forest was definitely beaten, although the images (Kilik's severed head and Mikan's skull) maybe were just from Lon Houtz Bourne. But the SF were definitely defeated.

By the way, Ringo's dress on this, http://www.mangafox.com/manga/air_gear/v35/c333/13.html is definitely the best dress she ever wore on the course of the series. I LOVE IT!!!! :)

I wanna see Nina also alive. She's hot btw. :)

[Broken_Wing]

Just dawned on me ikki's AT's have been obscured this whole time lol

Is it implied that Ikki is already wearing his regalia..?

Ringos AT design was displayed quite clearly....so is O!G purposely avoiding a clear shot of Ikki's?

If Ikki has the regalia's on he could have basically flew all he wanted around the tower instead of doing the paper plane hop scotch right?

[Drylick]

Is it implied that Ikki is already wearing his regalia..?

Ringos AT design was displayed quite clearly....so is O!G purposely avoiding a clear shot of Ikki's?

If Ikki has the regalia's on he could have basically flew all he wanted around the tower instead of doing the paper plane hop scotch right?


I think Ikki is already wearing it. OG just wanted to make a hype out of it. Save the best for last.

[dirtywork]

Storm king's true power is silence the battlefeild ikki can stop anytrick this will make victory on Koga but there isn't Butcha can he do it alone and anyone noticed where is Rika and Ringo ?

[Carnevil]

noticed where is Rika and Ringo ?

Ringo is with Ikki http://s1.mangahead.com/mangas/Manga-Raw-Scan/Air-Gear/Air-Gear-334-Raw-Scan/18.jpg
As for Rika hopefully she's out of the picture nobody wants to see Ringo vs Rika.

[Drylick]

Ringo is with Ikki http://s1.mangahead.com/mangas/Manga-Raw-Scan/Air-Gear/Air-Gear-334-Raw-Scan/18.jpg
As for Rika hopefully she's out of the picture nobody wants to see Ringo vs Rika.

Well, I wanna see Rika vs Ringo. They're both the Queen. :)

[Javiersansano]

Question:

When Simca was mentioning the thing about the 9 bars, she also mentioned some stuff regarding the base of each road:

Buoyancy - ¿?

electromagnetic force - rising / thunder road

centrifugal force - Over / Rumble Road

vibration - gaia / gem road

free fall - ¿?

thrust - ¿?

directivity - ¿?

silk connecting them - ring / pledge road


What are each of the ¿? I put above. Could anyone answer, please?

[Jiggle]

Question:

When Simca was mentioning the thing about the 9 bars, she also mentioned some stuff regarding the base of each road:

Buoyancy - Wing

electromagnetic force - rising / thunder road

centrifugal force - Over / Rumble Road

vibration - gaia / gem road

free fall - Bloody

thrust - Flame

directivity - Sonia

silk connecting them - ring / pledge road


What are each of the ¿? I put above. Could anyone answer, please?Maybe?

[suarhnir]

Question:

When Simca was mentioning the thing about the 9 bars, she also mentioned some stuff regarding the base of each road:

Buoyancy - ¿?

electromagnetic force - rising / thunder road

centrifugal force - Over / Rumble Road

vibration - gaia / gem road

free fall - ¿?

thrust - ¿?

directivity - ¿?

silk connecting them - ring / pledge road


What are each of the ¿? I put above. Could anyone answer, please?

oyos

dragon and me are discussing it over here:

http://mangahelpers.com/forum/showthread.php/72957-Gravity-Children-Original-Regalia-and-Roads?p=2649361&viewfull=1#post2649361

[warbandit66]

Chapter is out.

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/air_gear/v35/c334/1.html

[Carnevil]

So Simca has two types now first one being underage boys the second being mentally unstable murders. Kiric must be really proud of his sister.

[DragonOsman2]

She might be kidding with Nike, or at least I hope she is. I mean, she's been showing a lot of interest in Ikki for the longest time now, if she also starts showing interest in Nike, then what the hell is she, a hooker? Or could we call her a reverse two-timer (since, normally, we have a guy two-timing a girl--in this case, it's a girl two-timing a guy, hence the "reverse" part)? Well, either way, it does seem like she's teasing Nike there, for the most part. And she also did say that even though she'd be willing to cosplay as anything he'd want, he wouldn't be allowed to touch her ever again. This might also be a way to keep her away from Ikki, though, since he's already chosen Ringo. But Simca is still an official part of Ikki's harem (which also includes Ringo and Kururu; Irya Natsume, the leader of the team formerly known as Sable Tiger (now Pink Panther) also fell in love with him, so maybe she's also part of it? I don't know).

@dirtywork: Well, "silencing the battlefield" isn't really all the Hurricane Road can do, it's largely a Wind-type Road that will have aspects of Gem, Flame, Thunder, and Rumble in it as well. And the "Null Wind" Trick mainly seals Wing Road Tricks; Tricks from all other Roads can still be used. That'll still be sealing away a good part of Ikki's arsenal, though, since most of his Tricks come from the Wing Road, which means he'd be taking a huge risk himself when he uses the "Null Wind" Trick. As for how to activate the Trick, well, what I think is that he needs to take in oncoming winds, like from an opponent'(s)' and/or friends'/allies', and his own wind into amplify and multiply the winds' power in order to create a huge storm. That's what the "Null Wind" Trick actually is, the way I saw it. It being able to seal away the Wing Road is what makes it Ikki's trump card against Sora, pretty much, but as I said, this also makes it a risky Trick for Ikki himself seeing as most of his Tricks come from the Wing Road (well, most of his "special" Tricks, anyway; he'd still be able to do other Tricks that are possible with ATs but don't really belong to any of the eight Roads, or combinations thereof (like the Hurricane Road)).

Anyways, now that we have, from Simca's mouth, the fact that the Rune Futhark is incomplete since it only has 8 bars so far, and needs a ninth one, meaning that the Sky Regalia is also still incomplete, I'm thinking that the Storm Regalia will add in the ninth bar, except that I don't see how Kururu would know to add a rune into the Storm Regalia while making it. Will the Storm Regalia really be able to complete the Sky Regalia? What are everyone's thoughts on this?

Edit: Suahnir mentioned that he and I have been discussing the topic about the Regalia in another thread. I'll post what he said about the "powers" Simca mentioned and what the Regalia they relate to are (he made the post that this is from back when Dr. Minami first mentioned the "powers"):


gem: free fall (kanji used with gem in minami's explanation), motion of mass where gravity is the only force acting on it initially. gem is the only solid mass concept among the roads and therefore can experience free fall due to gravity. free fall in absence of other forces except gravity leads to weightlessness (because air won't be whipping around the object falling, it would feel like floating).

rumble: centrifuge (kanji used with rumble in minami's explanation), an object in rotation around a fixed axis. this relates to the obvious shape of the rumble regalia as a turbine (and in yoshitsune's version a ram jet which is accomplishes the same task without the turbines). artificial gravity can be achieved by use of centrifugal force.

fang: thrust (kanji used with fang in minami's explanation), a reactional force from a system that expelled/accelerates mass. airplanes are able to acheive flight by using thrust to gain lift which over powers gravity.

flame: oscillation (kanji used with flame in minami's explanation), the repetitive measurement between two or more different states. flame shape formation and efficiency affected by gravity. in gravity, flames rise upwards due to it being lighter than the denser air surrounding it - the gravity is causing bouyancy.

wind: lifting power (kanji used with wind in minami's explanation), by creating differences in pressure (an airfoil for planes) an upward force is created that will oppose gravity. air is the most prevalent mass that affects free fallling objects.

thunder: electromagnetism (kanji used with thunder in minami's explanation), the interaction between electrically charged particles. electromagnetic force can be attractive or repulsive, but gravity is always attractive.

thorn: anti-gravity (as described in minami's explanation), a space or mass that is free/independent from the force of gravity.

pledge: to spin (furigana alongside kanji for pledge), like the spinning of yarn which can be an analogy of creating the link the ties the other concepts together.

This is just part of the post, by the way. To see the whole post, go to the link Suahnir posted.

So yeah, looking at that, it's like this:


Buoyancy - Wing

electromagnetic force - rising / thunder road

centrifugal force - Over / Rumble Road

vibration - Flame

free fall - Gaia

thrust - Bloody

directivity - Thorn

silk connecting them - ring / pledge road

[Javiersansano]

Regarding the rik for Ikki if he uses th Null wind, I think that with the other regalia, he could "force" a pressure diferential, and therefore, be able to use wing tricks.......while Sora should have no trouble using his 21 regalia to do the same, but better........Fellas, Null Wind might have become useless, despite being so cool

Still, I don't like that the Storm Regalia has aspects form so many other regalias and roads.........the rumble and perhaps the thunder would have been alright, but to add the rest...........it's too much

anyway, just my opinion

[suarhnir]

oyos

well... if sora and bagram are still geared towards 'wind' tricks only (even with the fused cores, minami himself said that bagram was a wind type regalia), then it would be rather beneficial for ikki to use null wind. with ikki's storm regalia and it supposed fusion of other types of regalias, then potentially ikki can still use tricks that aren't wholly wind based that we've seen thus far from ikki and sora (minus null wind). then there's also ringo and if she doesn't get preoccupied with rika (wherever she is) then that's someone who can deal the big damage on sora. ikki, while talented with the wind tricks, has never truly needed to rely on it either so he would possibly be at an advantage against sora.

[Carnevil]

Anybody notice that the Sora's regalia is named after the small town in Afghanistan that houses a U.S airfield. Not really significant just thought it was interesting wonder why OG picked that name.

[DragonOsman2]

oyos

well... if sora and bagram are still geared towards 'wind' tricks only (even with the fused cores, minami himself said that bagram was a wind type regalia), then it would be rather beneficial for ikki to use null wind. with ikki's storm regalia and it supposed fusion of other types of regalias, then potentially ikki can still use tricks that aren't wholly wind based that we've seen thus far from ikki and sora (minus null wind). then there's also ringo and if she doesn't get preoccupied with rika (wherever she is) then that's someone who can deal the big damage on sora. ikki, while talented with the wind tricks, has never truly needed to rely on it either so he would possibly be at an advantage against sora.

Yeah, this; I agree here. And yeah, the Bagram Sora is currently was already a fusion Regalia before it was destroyed by Kilik, so 20 extra cores are doing nothing more than just augmenting Sora's Wing Road. And also, Kururu combined the mechanism of the Wind the mechanism of the Rumble, when she made the version of the Storm Regalia core that was brought to the aircraft carrier, which was then damaged there. She based the Storm Regalia core on the fusion Bagram, then she incorporated the Rumble Regalia core into it, and then she combined the Fang, Thunder, Gem, and Flame cores into it. Ikki's Regalia might also have those 20 extra cores in it, if Kururu was able to completely replicate the structure of the Wind Regalia when making the Storm Regalia.

And Ikki did also make the "Null Wind" Trick specifically for Sora. When he used it in the Sleipnir, he even said that he wanted to save the Trick for Sora, but was using it now as a big service (to Loki). It was always meant as a trump card against Sora. Too bad Sora already knows about it, probably, since it seemed like he saw the Trick, and also heard what Agito said to Ikki about the one having to fear Ikki the most being Sora himself, due to the fact that he has the "Null Wind" Trick. Agito said that his prided Wind Regalia would be rendered useless and he'd be left as nothing more than a normal Rider, to which Sora, in his room, said, "That's some pretentious behavior. . . . (*whispering to himself*)". So yeah, chances are, Sora already knows about Ikki's "Null Wind" Trick. Which may pose some problems.

[Brandnewkid]

What's "t.a.s.e.?"

[DragonOsman2]

Actually, I also want to know what that is.

[suarhnir]

oyos

in the original japanese script, it stood for "the audacious space elevator". it was a term coined in some science fiction novel.

[Atobe the king]

Lol simca and nike? The hell? I guess since Ikki and Ringo are OTP gotta shove all the other harem candidates off.

[dirtywork]

Simca likes Nike ?!?!? i think she like Ikki the most and Simca lost her sexy apeal just WTF is wrong with latest chapters

[king_crimson-]

not even 10 chapters ago she was cheering at his apparent death...

i think she's being sarcastic, and actually just wants to get back at him for all the crap he's done....

[suarhnir]

oyos

yeah, saying she'll do all that but not let him touch her would be torture for nike quite honestly...

[Carnevil]

He's not going to be able to touch her not because she said so but because he'll be spending the rest of his life in prison. Being a U.S. soldier he'd be extradited back to the states court martial'd then sent to Leavenworth.

[DragonOsman2]

@Suahnir: True. The one she's actually in love with is still Ikki, I'm pretty sure. But she also knows she can't have him, since he's already chosen Ringo. And recall that when they were coming out of the Tower, and Nike was being afraid of the light and the sky outside, Simca told him that she wants to see all of their faces in a brighter place, and then she added, "especially your handsome face". She's always been the playful sort, but chances are that Nike was already in love with her back then, and I think her calling him handsome is OG's way of hinting at a bit of NikexSimca. Simca herself doesn't really feel that way towards Nike, though, as she's only going to be doing it to punish him. She'll wear whatever he wants and do whatever he wants, but he's never again allowed to touch her. Just imagine how it would feel if the girl of your dreams said that to you (directed at all of the boys reading this).

And also, what was that about Simca's sex appeal going down? Because I don't know about that. I'd say her sex appeal is still going strong; with a body like that, there's no way she'd ever lose her sex appeal.

Edit: One post late.

@Carnevil: True, but even if this weren't the case, what Simca said still stands. If he didn't go to prison and get punished there by the US government, he'd get punished by Simca. And "Hell hath no fury greater than a woman scorned," you know? Considering what he's done to her, she is going to give him a punishment worse than hell.

[Carnevil]

Alright SSA's scan is out and once again superior to the other scanlation group. They actually explain the Kanji with the 8 roads.
http://ssa-scans.net/archives/158

[DragonOsman2]

They do, huh? That's good, I'll read it then.

Edit: Just read it. It's a better translation, I think, too. Sora mentions the last line to Ikki, saying, "As expected of the last line". I wonder, Ikki probably doesn't understand what the "last line" business is about; unless, of course, Kururu found the information on the Rune Futhark about the requirement of the ninth line to complete the Sky Regalia when she was completing the Storm Regalia and told Ikki about it.

[Onibasu]

I hope that Sleeping Forest is not really dead. They just reveal Onibasu's abilities kinda. :(

[Drylick]

I'm not really buying the Hurricane Road as the last road since it's just a modification of the Wind Road. The last road should be different. Like the strongest among them all. It's much too plain if the 9th is the Hurricane Road.

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I finally read SSA Scans! Yeah it's much better. Damn I really had a hard time understanding the other scan. >.<

Anyway, Ikki is really strong right now. Since Agito said that in his current form, he (Ikki) doesn't need to play tricks anymore.

I also saw a clear view of Kilik's head in Takeuchi Sora's hands. So yeah, I think he is really dead.

I'm also wondering why Takeuchi Sora prevented Ikki/Kururu from completing the Storm Regalia since he already knew that Ikki holds the 9th line.

[DragonOsman2]

Firstly, the Hurricane Road pretty much is the strongest Road since the Wing Road is the Road closest to the "sky," and Ikki also added in the Over Road to it with Hurricane Road, along with the Bloody, Flame, Gaia, and Rising Roads. And it's also the main protagonist's Road. So it shouldn't hard to believe that it'd be be the ninth Road, and the last line needed to complete Sky Regalia. Kanon also referred to it as the "genuine Ninth Path of the Regalia" when he was talking to Ringo some chapters ago about accepting him as a Tuner because Sleeping Forest doesn't use real Regalia and also talked about what the introduction of the genuine Ninth Path of the Regalia would mean.

As for why Sora tried to stop Ikki and Kururu from completing the Storm Regalia even though he knew that Ikki holds the ninth line needed to complete Rune Futhark/Sky Regalia, well, it could just be that he wanted to give them a bit of a challenge, acting like an all-important villain, before he himself got challenged by Ikki.

[Drylick]

Firstly, the Hurricane Road pretty much is the strongest Road since the Wing Road is the Road closest to the "sky," and Ikki also added in the Over Road to it with Hurricane Road, along with the Bloody, Flame, Gaia, and Rising Roads. And it's also the main protagonist's Road. So it shouldn't hard to believe that it'd be be the ninth Road, and the last line needed to complete Sky Regalia. Kanon also referred to it as the "genuine Ninth Path of the Regalia" when he was talking to Ringo some chapters ago about accepting him as a Tuner because Sleeping Forest doesn't use real Regalia and also talked about what the introduction of the genuine Ninth Path of the Regalia would mean.

As for why Sora tried to stop Ikki and Kururu from completing the Storm Regalia even though he knew that Ikki holds the ninth line needed to complete Rune Futhark/Sky Regalia, well, it could just be that he wanted to give them a bit of a challenge, acting like an all-important villain, before he himself got challenged by Ikki.

I don't know. I just don't like the Hurricane Road to be the 9th. I feel like, the 9th should be much more spectacular than that. :)

I think Sora delayed the production of the Storm Regalia so that Ikki won't be a hindrance to him before he get to the Sky. Basically, he knows that he would be no match for Ikki if the 9th path within him (Ikki) awakens and he only have the Bagram as his regalia.

[DragonOsman2]

The Bagram is Sora's Regalia. He was probably trying to buy time until he got his hands on the Sky Regalia so that he could give the 9th Road a run for its money, if you're right.

And we haven't exactly seen everything that the Storm Regalia can do yet, so hold off on saying how spectacular the Hurricane Road is or isn't until we do. We've only seen one actual Hurricane Road Trick so far and that's it ("Null Wind").