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here's a better summary of the chapter.

- so emily (in obama's body) is having a hard time trying to repeat what obama (in emily's body) says. all of the broken speech doesnt bother the hardcore gatherers for this speech though. sora is not too happy about this broadcast, and obama (in emily's body) takes over to convey how sick this planet is and how the ones to cause this serious illness is humans (relating them to a virus). emily (in obama's body) hates having to suffer through being in each other's body, which obama is fully taking advantage of. obama-emily hands it off to emily-obama again and says how there's a solution to the problems on earth, which in essence is air treck, and that there is a group of 'cruel' people who are trying to monopolize this (aka sora). basically, obama makes a ploy to make air treck and its technology a free/public resource

- at the factory, konomi is talking with ami and thanking her for sending the feed since their communication has been cut off due to the jammer. konomi commends ami's ability to send that stuff despite the jammer, and ami says that its just her forte (we see her jacked into a hardline public phone) and she further explains how it works... konomi realizes she should have expected nothing less from the team's no.1 hacker.

- kururu comes running over to konomi, freaking out konomi (and ami) since she wasn't even wearing her sc suit. kururu just is wondering if ami noticed anthing from ikki's a-ts (since ami watched the battle) since he did that trick. even though kururu knows that she did as much maintenence she could before the battle, she's worried that those parts are already at their limit and about to break apart (since she knows the extent of ikki's abilities; the parts are not able to keep up with ikki and eventually break). rune sneaks in and asks how long till the storm regalia is finished, and kana answers that they are still in the process of disassembling the rumble regalia parts. kururu is bummed since it probably won't be finished till tomorrow morning. konomi berates kururu for trying to do this by herself, and the rest of ttt offer their help (all donning their sc suits now). its only afterwards that they realize they've forgotten about rune (since he's a guy) and two members drag him off but rune says his last bit about how its good that they are hurrying this along because a battle has already started in the tower.

- in the shaft, kanon is strumming his a-t guitar weapon, and its soundwaves shoot out in an attack against ringo. it rips through the floor with ease (now we know why kanon was able to stop gabi and om when they attacked sora way back when). ringo evades and she questions kanon for his actions, which kanon only replies with him wanting to hear ringo 'sing out with her best scream'...

so kanon is doing one of three things that i can imagine, 1. he's hurting her so she can't compete thereby saving her life, 2. he's still pissed that ringo never took him as a tuner seriously (never getting a proper tuning for her regalia), 3. he's been on sora's side for some time and this was all part of sora's plan that he feels confident enough to take the rest of sf alone (since the real threat will be taken out, aka ringo). the obama/emily parts was a bit funny, and of course we get loads of helpings to fanservice from the ttt girls in their sc suits.

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om-f**in-g, i can't believe how freyja was taken out. and the koga pose ver.2 was quite funny especially with nakayama and nobunaga partaking.

- so there's quite a bit of explanation here from scarab, detailing how freyja had been taken out. scarab makes the example of a bottle and a strand of hair, how when placed inside the bottle the hair doesn't move but with a strong shockwave/vibration, the hair will move. what onigiri did that ultimately beat freyja was with his 'smells' and before being taken out himself, managed to get freyja to breathe in a substantial amount, but it wasn't until being hit with the repelled grand fang fire bird by buccha did it 'move inside her' thereby incapacitating her (there's a simplistic diagram of onirigi smells inside lungs to further illustrate this).

- the wind starts blowing again, and we see sleipnir being picked up by a boat. though they are defeated, sleipnir are satisfied with this battle. freyja finally comes to and coughs out the 'onigiri smells' (frightening even thor and nott-dagr). freyja goes on about how she would like to fly with koga and with sleipnir again (not in battle, but just 'for fun'). its funny to note that when she coughs again, all of the guys back off quickly in fear of 'onigiri smells'.

- paper airplane guy calls out that its not completely over yet. kazu wonders what happened to buccha but agito answers that buccha was taken out but is not displeased about it since he took jiggy with him. jiggy is complimenting buccha and asking him to join his gym/dojo. when jiggy's shute is seen up close, we see buccha being carried by jiggy. jiggy admits that on his own he can't match up to koga.

- taeko and aeon are flying overhead in their jet. taeko mentions how they didn't make it in time to help, but aeon thinks about ikki's declaration of finishing in 5 minutes... aeon clocked it at 4min 30sec. koga (even agito, not akito) with nakayama and nobunaga do the classic koga pose during a victory lap on the remaining planes. with this victory, koga advances into the semifinals.

the onigiri smells scare me... at this rate, the #1 thing i never want to be trapped in a room with... it would definitely be onigiri. i do find it lame that they didn't even show anything with how jiggy. i mean, yay that buccha was the one to do it but they totally glossed it over. well, there's no real indication as to which battle will be focused on first... saving rika or the upcoming battle between sf and genesis...

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TO THE NEXT ARC

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asdlfkjadoiasdf....>_< one month of waiting when we were right in the middle of ikki's ultimate new trick... and all we get is the finale of kazu and agito's battle. wtf!! the kazu and agito team up was rather cool, but that's kinda not what most of us were waiting for this past month... oh well, here we go on summary:

- thought i just mention the fanservice color, whoever out there said that there would be a color of freyja in her panties... well, you were kinda right. the other color spread with koga was kinda neat too with their fashionable wardrobe.

- ikki has yet to unleash his new limit break- i mean ultimate trick on loki and freyja. there's some obvious commentary from paper airplane guy. it seems that freyja has to maintain the tornado trick which is called "nibelheim blizzard". then we cut away from that battle to go see how agito is doing...

- agito unleashes a "bloody road: saucer crush" on thor at point blank since he can't use his vaccuum trick at such close range. this attack effectively cuts into his legs at the knee area. agito comments how thor's vaccuum has the same principles as the fang then follows with a threat of taking him out with his fang in 5 seconds if he doesn't just jump off now. nakayama shares her observations concerning how agito has changed and we quickly jump back to plane #9 as agito counts down. thor tries talking it out but agito keeps counting down, so thor admits defeat since agito/akito is stronger, but he starts that little tune that sleipnir as signals and uses his fists to push off the plane and jump up to nott-dagr's, which happened to fly by at that moment. thor goes on about how its still his team's win though.

- nott-dagr welcomes thor onto his plane and turns his attention back to kazu whom he informs that its now 2 vs. 1, but after looking around, kazu is seen on plane #9 with agito. in the backgroud, we see the pilot of nott-dagr and thor's plane drifting along in his parachute. kazu comments on the wait agito had to endure for their strategy, but agito says that he's matured (so everything up till now on kazu and agito's side of the fight was part of the strategy...) and he activates his regalia. a little flashback is shown of kiric mentioning how freyja and loki were the only ones who could fly for long distances aka thor and nott-dagr are screwed if they don't have a plane to ride on. agito and kazu perform their first and rather badass combo attack called "grand fang fire bird" and utterly destroy the plane that thor and nott-dagr were riding but the two manage to muster enough strength to make one last attack, charging directly at kazu and agito's plane. unfortunately the two sleipnir members pass right through, and kazu calmly apologizes for ripping off nott-dagr's trick in making his own illusion with a'flame lens. well, thor and nott-dagr fall and are forced to use their parachutes and retire from the fight.

so... yeah, that's that. now where the hell is ikki's new trick!!!! for the life of me, why did o!g just do that!? you know what it reminds me of, the bleach anime where they put in random filler arcs in the middle of the current arc (because they fail and can't think far enough ahead to realize that they will catch up to the manga too soon). rawr!! >_< puru!!

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well f**k. this battle is turning into the stage of montyoum's dead fantasy 2 where everyone fought inside a hurricane. and what the hell is with the equipment of sleipnir!? is that seriously allowed in a-t battles? i think its a bit too much to be acceptable... whatever. oh, and finally kanon has reached an all time creepiness.

- loki unleashes his sword's flying form... its a pair of wings. wtf!? loki asks ikki where its ok for them to fly? meanwhile, the rest of the spectators are in awe. paper airplane guy equates loki's new appearance with "god's angel descended from the heaven(lit:sky)." buccha is startled as well but ikki says that it's not that special cause he can do it too, saying that loki's riding the current leaving the nose of the plane. freyja initiates an attack (while apologizing to the pilot) and loki still asks ikki where they can fly if not here.

- freyja's attack causes a typhoon (hurricane's in the pacific ocean are called typhoons, while in the atlantic its hurricane... don't ask me why they differentiate this) and it rips the plane apart. tis called "dance of the einherhar's sword" and it looks pretty badass. in the eye of the storm, loki and freyja uses their respective equipment to hover above ikki and buccha. buccha is having too much trouble keeping stable footing with the plane debris and ikki had to defend him from an attack by loki. loki with his wings flies around dbz-esque after dodging ikki's counter punch. ikki couldn't track loki's speed and ends up getting hit by loki's next attack "muspellzheimr's shining wind" (muspellzheimer is the fiery realm that existed before all creation in norse mythology)

- ikki talks about how taking along someone who can't fly is pretty much a weight that will break his wings. nobunaga who is (now mysteriously) next to scarab concludes that buccha is dead weight now and should just drop out of the battle. buccha is now miserable at knowing in this situation how useless he is on the team (i don't see why he should think that way when onigiri is worse than him...) ikki however retorts that buccha is mistaken, saying that buccha is necessary for the sake of winning. he also threatens buccha with all of his meals being some mandagora bowl if he should purposefully fall. now i'm wondering who ikki was referring to earlier.

- ikki takes another attack from loki, and thinks back to loki's question. ikki thinks about what's more important is returning to regain something that was forgotten (lit: that person; don't know if its rika or ringo) ikki's inner monologue shifts to ringo, who's looking at the photo of the family when they were kids. ringo thinks about who she was pointing to, thinking that maybe it was at the one taking the photo who could be ikki's... (relative/dad maybe?) kanon makes his very animated and musical entrance, saying he's brought ringo's new regalia as well as saying how ringo's finally come to accept him (as her tuner i guess). ringo corrects him saying that she's only doing this for the sake of winning (she's still holding out for ikki apparently...) and will go ahead with a real tuning. kanon gets all creepy at this point which makes ringo nervous. kanon says that if she does the tuning, she'd become stronger...

- back to ikki, he calls sleipnir on their weak way of flying and if there's somewhere they want to go then they should go on their own (instead of relying on him). loki is more intrigued with ikki. buccha notices ikki readying a trick and there's a little flashback of kururu wondering about ikki's constant use of his right leg... ikki is about to unleash his attack when he retorts to sleipnir that he will fly to the ends of the world (cause he wants to, whether or not others will let him ... cause that's just the way ikki is.)

so there will be a 3 issue break... this equals 4 weeks of waiting because this issue is a double issue. i can't tell if kanon is being just creepy but still well meaning or if he's turned traitor and will take out or weaken ringo. its all so confusing right now... and even worse, we have to wait a whole freakin' month just to see what happens next.

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what's air gear again lol

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so now we get to see how everyone else is doing, even nakayama and the two underclassmen. there's some other 'special' spectators as well.

- nott-dagr is chanting in norse and 'summoning' some creatures. black smoke covers plane #10 (kazu and nott-dagr's plane) and some creatures appear, surrounding kazu. nott-dagr is impressed that he hadn't jumped off in fright, saying how this is boring, and kazu tells him how 'afro black wizard' (nott-dagr) using the wind lens and figurines. mentally, kazu says that he would have jumped if kiric hadn't told him about the trick.

- nott-dagr compliments kazu by saying how he likes people who are smart. he then comments about his trick is effective in deception, to which a fake body sneaks up behind kazu, to which he dispels quickly. kazu realizes that nott-dagr had made an image of himself as well but is already hit by the multiple images of nott-dagr before he can act. the multiple nott-dagr images are talking amongst themselves as to who among them is the real one, though they also keep in mind that they should be careful with kazu since he's the flame king as well as his 'time' tricks which could prove to be disadvantageous to them. kazu can't distinguish the voices so he can't pinpoint the real one so he does his own 'kage-bunshin' aka 'flame clones' as dubbed by nobunaga(?) to match the nott-dagr images.

- nakayama is checking her watch for the time (why the hell does she need to, being a tuner and all). the underclassmen with the laptop asks her why she's checking the time, but they should still be ok. nakayama replies that it was nothing and that they shouldn't worry, but to herself she feels that something awful has happened, something has changed. someone comments that onigiri had lost despite his opponent being a girl (wow, other people know that onigiri never lost to a girl before). nakayama feels like that this fight is missing something, relating an analogy of putting together a clock and forgetting one important part.

- paper airplane guy comes in with his helicopter to better view kazu and nott-dagr's fight, commenting on how impressive its become (with the clones) as well as chaotic. kazu is busily taking out each clone and eventually takes out all of them. unfortunately, his legs are beginning to feel its toll. nott-dagr announces himself as to really having been on the underside of the plane the entire time. nott-dagr makes fun of him a bit, which pisses kazu off.

- on the ground team lionheart is commenting on nott-dagr's battle level of 147 probably being fake. they rate his battle level being closer to 95 to 100. the crowd are thinking to themselves how lionheart is here and probably doing reconnaissance on their rivals. one kid nearby asks if they are circus people. lionheart comments that its like poker in which a one pair beats a full house and that victory and defeat is decided by 'heart/spirit'. leo-san (lionheart's leader?) further explains that nott-dagr gets to you little by little, making his opponents 'dwindle' from the pressure and mind games. leo says that nott-dagr manipulates the 'wind of the heart' (this is slightly reminiscent of kazu's fight with aeon during the behemoth match, kazu being pulled along in the 'disappearing trick')

- over with agito and thor, agito had shot out another bloody blade fang but thor grabs it and makes it dissipate. agito is feeling pressured due to thor stopping his strongest fang attack. thor then asks what agito is doing, saying he also has one... 'our companions inside of himself'. agito realizes that thor is referring to 'lind' as well as stating that he's also a brain charger.

- taeko and aeon are heading over (to koga?) by jet plane, though taeko complains that getting there in 5 minutes is impossible, aeon doesn't care. aeon is guessing that sleipnir is likely from their research facility. he says that kiric probably hasn't noticed sleipnir's true form and that everything is going to fall apart for koga. the only way to fix it is with himself and taeko says that with afterburner, they can go up to mach 2.5 and will likely arrive in 7.5 minutes. aeon hopes that ikki hangs in there long enough

- loki and freyja stand over buccha and ikki, loki's brain charger eye clearly visible.

so it seems that all(?) of sleipnir is in fact brain chargers like agito. that certainly changes things, though i'm more surprised that kiric hadn't been able to figure that out... either sleipnir's match against lionheart didn't need them to go 'brain charger' mode or kiric can't calculate brain charger abilities even with his 'gaia road'. aeon seems to be more and more involved in the a-t developement world with every arc as he mentions having ties to a 'research facility' that sleipnir came from or something like that.