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These chapters are the ones in which the tide of the battle begins to turn and shit is really going left. Hugh, meanwhile, has a confrontation with Valia and he kills her in a direct and deliberate way that was extremely intense to read.

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I cried so much, okay? A lot. Both while watching AND while recording.

Y'all are mean.

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So these are the chapters in which Ziel seems to make a conscious decision to really try to focus to the best of his ability instead of just going through the motions, despite the fact that he truly seems to think there's no way he is catching up. He's TRYING TO BELIEVE!

Also, we get more interference from Monarchs and Lindon pulls an oh-so-satisfying fast one on Northstrider.

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In these chapters the Havathi manage to get through the wards and bust all the way into Skyhold, and it turns out that while Kanderon thought they had nothing to worry about, a LOT of the intel she was getting about their forces was dead wrong.

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These are the episodes where we get to see Kuma's power, which I have to confess I find truly bizarre and a little confusing. I can't say that I find him particular interesting, but I found Moria pretty interesting and he turns out to be a bit of a dud in the end so maybe it's good to have lowered expectations.

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These are the chapters where Reigan Shen is attempting his first assault to lure Lindon out of Ghostwind Hall and hopefully waste a bunch of his time so that he can't advance. We get to see Lindon put the fear of Ozmanthus into him, and we also get something that I absolutely loved that is very petty.

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These are the chapters where I under-read by accident, but I make up for it next episode so don't worry. However, the main thing here for me is that we get to be there for Talia's skeleton tattoo and let me tell you....NO.

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In these episodes we finally get Luffy fighting himself, but it's interesting because it's not as pure a Luffy VS Luffy as I was expecting. Because Oars is being controlled by Moria, and because Luffy is in his Nightmare version since he's been pumped full of shadows, they're both functioning in a much different way than usual. However, the main event is at the end, when Moria decides to beat Nightmare Luffy at his own game.

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I'm so delighted to be getting into this final book and I'm also extremely upset that this book marks the end of the line for our beloved Cradle universe. It feels so good to be back here, and it's really fun to get into the chapter that Will read aloud at that convention, for those who have seen the video. I can't wait to talk about all this!

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These episodes were pretty wild because some major things have changed, including Oars being brought under Moria's control in a much more practical, hands-on way than I was expecting, and Luffy taking in a hundred shadows to go up against Oars.

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