Happy New Year everyone!
I did enjoy the chapter as usual. I'm genuinely excited when the new chapter releases so it's kind of hard to disappoint me a great deal with this series.
I will say that I'm still not entirely a fan of the ZAO's forms. Hopefully the reasoning is along the lines of what Shiek927 said about their inferior forms. That really is something that feels very believable to me, and I'll then be looking forward to their true forms. Of course this is wishful thinking and only speculation.