Here's a summary of the rest of Ch8 (only one last part, a 'battle report' left until the whole of Vol21's translated, yay!
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Ch8 pt8: Touma broke the core that's anchoring Misha in this world, and Acqua drained 50% of Misha's power. Misha then got pwnt by Accel and Kazakiri, but before it went down it lost the ability to keep its shape and collapsed into a sphere and is about to self-destruct. Accel now relies on a new philosophy (ie the one he found after being beaten by Touma again, to protect the one person he wants to protect no matter what, even if that is only a fantasy he's willing to overturn reality to make it happen) to release his power instead of his black wings, and Kazakiri gave all her power to Accel for him to manipulate a barrier to stop the sphere of light exploding.
Acqua collapsed and let go of his Ascalon. His body is totally messed up and he lost his ability to perform magic. He doesn't have long to live, but he's satisfied he'll be taking Misha down with him. Acqua's only dream is for everyone to smile in the distant future, and to him it doesn't matter if he's in that future or not - as long as that future happens it's his victory. Shiage and Rikou came across him while they are trying to stop the biological attack from Russian Military, and Shiage asked Rikou to heal Acqua as they took out some bandages. Acqua asked them to stop, as on the battlefield resources are limited and those can be better used by saving someone else, to which Shiage just told him to shut up. Acqua continued saying he achieved what he came to do, and they should just leave. Shiage then replied in a pained voice, "What about the ones waiting for you to come back?", and Acqua froze up. Shiage continued saying Acqua has saved so many people, just like when he came to save that village and him, there's no way he'll be alone as those people follow in his footsteps; so what about everyone he'll leave behind? The narrative said Shiage's words are like nails pinning Acqua down, preventing Acqua from sliding off into oblivion. Acqua flashes back to many people, the Knight Leader, the ones he saved, and most importantly -
3rd Princess Villian.
Shiage grabbed Acqua by his collar and yelled at him to stand up. Blood spurted out as Acqua tried; he may have lost all his abilities as a Saint and one of the God's Right Seat, but even now as a "Ordinary Human" he clenched his teeth to stand back up.
Ch8 pt9: Fiamma has acquired the info on the lambskin Accel has, as Misha's senses allowed him to read what's on the lambskin before without having to get his hands on it. Fiamma launched a long distance attack towards Touma who is 5Km away, but was negated by Imagine Breaker. Fiamma then used Instant Movement to move to where Touma is, and found Sasha has been buried under the rubble after his attack. Fiamma said it's time for Touma to hand his right hand over. Touma replied now that the Misha is gone, the scales have tipped towards their favour now that humans have defeated a Archangel. Fiamma pointed to the sky - where even after Misha is gone it's still dark as night.
Fiamma revealed all he wanted Misha to do was unleash this night sky. Like the 'Croce di Pietro' (aka St. Peter's Cross, see Vol9-10), Fiamma plans to unleash a grand magic that relies on the stars, and he's artifically created the conditions for his next spell to work.
The 'Star of Bethlehem' (the actual star, not this fortress), legend stated prophets knew the Son of God has been born due to that sign, and Fiamma's merely using a magic based on that legend. Fiamma boasted from the moment this fortress has started to float up in the sky, he has already won. Also, everything Fiamma has done, such as gaining control over Index Librorum Prohibitum, starting World War 3, making this fortress float, is all for getting Touma's Right Hand.
As artificial stars started to cover the night sky, flying out from the floating fortress, Fiamma stated now he would have achieved enormous power - if it weren't for the fact this world have been 'distorted'. Killing Intent flowed out from Fiamma, something huge is writhing inside his 3rd arm, as he stated it's time for Touma to see what 'true power' really is and for this world to be set straight.
My comments:
- Villian x Acqua is pretty much sorted as a couple - for once Touma didn't get a girl he came in contact with =P
- IMO Fiamma is about to go One Winged Angel on Touma - this WILL be good xD