[PreSage]

I knew it was coming but I didn't expect first arc Soushi to

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go down that way. Beheaded? Argh...it was such a touching last moment - almost made me cry. And, I agree with Bern-san that second!Soushi is very pitiable. In his case, it's never more true to the saying 'one's own worse enemy'.

But thinking back to the first arc, it seems that first!Soushi knew such a thing was coming (along with Natsume) - he wanted to prevent it but in the end he couldn't. Was this because Natsume's power to foresee the future or was it because

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of the future characters sending back information but in the end, this attempt didn't work?

If only the anime would get this far, it would have been awesome...sad but awesome.