[Avvesione]

Finally was able to read pages 415-now and figured I'll add my thoughts on Chapter 100.

Spoiler:

Okay, first things first, does anyone else thing Arclight saw the WRONG memories when using Blackout Invoke? What Aruka was doing and talking about seems very different than just the data chip. She was talking about the truth of Cruz's body (likely his fragment) rather than the datachip inside of him. And her final words about the left and right hands doesn't seem to match well with the datachip, at least right now. I'm starting to wonder if Arclight simply found the memory he was looking for and followed that one instead. Might be true, might not be but just something I'd like to mention first.

Didn't think I'd be happy with Cruz having a fragment but the way everything has progressed recently and the way it was shown is nice. What I like the most about what happened is that Cruz doesn't know what he did though everyone else around him did. Would be kinda funny to see how everyone discovered their own fragments (i.e. Mio discovering for the first time she has Power).

I'm really curious to see what Cruz's fragment is. At first I thought it was something about survivability which I've mentioned in the past but it might be something more basic than that like "reversal" or something. If it's not, then it would be something similar to Aruka's fragment.

I didn't think the datachip would be in Cruz's head but I'm fine with that happening. It ties up a loose end and I'm always happy when that happens since there are about a thousand in Needless (every chapter always seems to answer one question and ask a dozen more). Glad to hear Cruz won't suffer any damage from that extraction but that might prove to be Arclight's downfall for letting Cruz survive.

Sad to see Aruka go like that but death's magnitude has been lessened in Needless with the presence of clones. What makes it interesting is that it makes death meaningless to Simeon but it's still everything for Blade and Co. Simeon can afford to lose their soldiers since they can always be replaced but not Blade and Co. (though you have Teruyama).

Overall, really enjoyed the chapter and absolutely loved the 4koma. But that's kinda expected knowing how much I enjoy the comedy in Needless and how Setsuna is my favorite character (she's essentially the main character in the 4koma).