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Two week post because Golden Week in Japan. Seven Deadly Sins and Fairy Tail had chapters when Shounen Jump was on break, so we may have double chapters or the like because of that dissonance. The schedule should still line up within the next week, though.

Dr. Stone 9

While they set the signal fire, Senkuu and the others try to get more materials to make gunpowder, the risky nature of the signal fire still worth it to potentially find another survivor in the Stone World.

We even see that Tsukasa has deduced that the 4th use of the seashells was to make the saltpeter component of gunpowder, in combination with the nitric acid in the cave, meaning that Senkuu had already predicted that he and Tsukasa would be fighting in the future.

Tsukasa takes Yuzuriha hostage as she’s finding materials to burn for charcoal, bringing her to where Senkuu is.

Senkuu notes that Tsukasa feels threatened by the possibility of bringing forth something that would challenge his position as the strongest in Stone World.

Tsukasa doesn’t care if Senkuu characterizes it like that, more concerned about the use of gunpowder as something to wage wars and bring back a corrupt world that he hates. Therefore, he’s willing to do anything to prevent such a thing from happening.

He demands Senkuu tell him the revival formula, but Senkuu tries to bluff, saying that Tsukasa can’t sway him by threatening Yuzuriha.

But Tsukasa then slices Yuzuriha’s hair much shorter, showing his skill with the blade. He says Senkuu must’ve intentionally chose not to bury Yuzuriha’s petrified form to keep her safe, since that would’ve been the most logical way, instead going with Taiju’s request.

Tsukasa claims that Senkuu’s vulnerability is that he values Taiju and Yuzuriha, but Tsukasa has no such person that he cares about, which makes this his victory.

Yuzuriha moves the blade to her neck, saying that it’s fine if she dies, but Senkuu can’t give up his life or tell Tsukasa the revival formula.

But Senkuu relents, telling Tsukasa the precise method, after which Tsukasa thinks he doesn’t need to keep Senkuu alive anymore, pushing Yuzuriha away.

Taiju, elsewhere, sees that there were 3 signal fires set off in response to their 3 gunpowder blasts, confirming that there is a human here, the scene shifting to what appears to be a woman who set off the signal fires.

Tsukasa asks Senkuu if he’s willing to stop his advancement of civilization for his safety, Senkuu thinking such a promise would have no worth. But Tsukasa trusts Senkuu, saying that if he does so, he won’t kill him.

Yuzuriha cries out for Taiju, who barely hears her, rushing to where they are as the chapter ends

We Can’t Study 12

 Ogata is approached by Sawako Sekijou, the president of the chemistry club and her rival in math and sciences. She’s in disbelief that her opponent in the sciences has decided to seek the humanities for university and thinks that Yuiga is the root cause of it, having researched them being together over the last few weeks.

She insists that Rizu must be in love with Nariyuki, but Rizu says she’s overthinking things, insisting that Yuiga is just her teacher, heading home to have a session with him again.

Sawako follows Rizu to her family’s udon shop, acting as if she just happened to be there instead of clearly tailing Ogata. She then asks Yuiga directly about what kind of girl he likes to try and provoke Rizu’s curiosity, failing utterly as Nariyuki says he wants a girl who’s tough and can endure through hard times.

Sawako continues to pry, asking other questions, Yuiga answering in the same vein, speaking to his personal experiences with being poor.

Yuiga wonders if Sawako’s hitting on him with all these questions, but thinks that’s silly until Sawako gets into his personal space.

The two continue to act ridiculous, Rizu kicking them out, since they’re bothering her studies.

Yuiga confirms he’s not in any kind of romantic relationship with Rizu to Sawako. He then wonders why Sawako would be this interested in Rizu’s choice of going to humanities, thinking she might just want to be Rizu’s friend.

Sawako vehemently dismisses his speculations, insisting that she just wants to continue the rivalry, which can’t be done if Ogata goes to a humanities college.

Rizu shows her test to Yuiga, who observes that she’s steadily improved, even getting better at answering the questions based on human emotions that usually trip her up.

Sawako thinks it’s a bit silly to be so happy about that, but is impressed that Rizu is working this hard to improve herself relative to the weak subjects.

Yuiga, in his happiness, pets Rizu’s head, which makes her flustered at the attention.

Sawako notes that Rizu eventually started writing out Pi numbers in her nervousness at another girl getting close to Yuiga when she was studying before, concluding that Rizu might actually have feelings and not realize it.

Yuiga explains some of his and Rizu’s study schedule and location, offering Sawako an opportunity to study with them.

She leaves the two of them, thinking that Rizu being in love with her tutor could be a problem in itself as the chapter ends.

Black Clover 108

We find out that the woman yelling at the Crimson Lions is Fuegoleon and Leopold’s older sister (makes sense with how similar her facial features are). She’s furious that they fell this low and insults her brother for leaving such an incompetent group of knights behind.

Leopold defends his brother, saying he’s the best example of a Magic Knight and showed them those ideals. His sister punches him again, saying they need to prove it with action and show that Fuegoleon didn’t just mentor weaklings.

 The Crimson Lion captain then says they’ll be doing a hot springs training camp, Asta and Yuno confused about what a hot spring is or why they’d be training there.

As they try to leave, she catches both of them, saying they’ll go along with the training, Leopold excited to train with his rival and Yuno shocked that he’s been dragged into this.

We find out the name of the new Crimson Lion’s captain, Meleoleona Vermillion, someone who, in spite of not having any real interest in the government or the wars, is considered as powerful, if not moreso than even her brother was.

Meanwhile, Yami meets up with the other captains, gloating about how he’s in 2nd place after so long, Jack the Ripper especially irritated. The rest leave Yami behind as Meleoleona appears with Yuno and Asta in tow.

She ropes Yami, Charlotte and even Noelle into the training camp as well, Noelle just happening to have come to chide Asta.

The chapter ends as we see the area they’ll be doing their “hot spring” training in, the Gouma Area, massive volcanoes everywhere.

Boku no Hero Academia 136

The Heroes are worried that they’re still in the dark about Eri’s location, thinking Chisaki might have not kept her at headquarters because of her association with Deku and Mirio recently.

Nighteye explains that they’ve managed to pinpoint some locations of the groups connected with the Eight Precepts of Death across Japan. The minor Heroes there note that they’ve been grouped based on each Hero agency’s familiarity with the area.

Fatgum is furious, thinking they’re being too cautious, but Nighteye says that they can’t be like All Might; that they have to assess the situation and be as certain as possible that they can save Eri.

Gran Torino agrees, saying that they can’t go in half cocked, because they could suffer the similar problems that happened with arresting Stain, just giving more visibility to the Villain Alliance. But Fatgum still thinks they’re over-thinking the situation

Aizawa stops the fighting by asking if Nighteye could see their futures with his Foresight ability.

Nighteye qualifies that he can’t do it for everyone, because he has to wait 24 hours between each individual, which only gives him an hour of precognition, plus it’s limited to a small area related to that person, not every facet that could be considered.

In particular, if someone dies, then there’s seemingly little he can do to stop it, the other Heroes’ protests stopped by Nighteye saying he can’t account for every variable and won’t recklessly predict the future.

Nighteye moves on from this to give information for each Hero to search out for Eri’s location and get an idea of what they’re dealing with.

Deku and the other students are sitting by themselves, just processing the whole situation.

Aizawa comes in, saying he came to the meeting with the plan of advising Deku and the others to cancel their internships.

With the Villain Alliance possibly being involved, the danger is much higher and Aizawa still hasn’t gotten Deku’s trust back after his fight with Bakugou. He tells Deku that he’ll be keeping a close eye on him as a problem child, hoping he won’t be so reckless like he was in the past.

Mirio is encouraged by Hadou and Amajiki, saying that sulking like this won’t solve anything.

Aizawa tells Deku that he shouldn’t think that Eri regards his meddling as entirely a problem, Deku’s confidence restored as he and the others ready themselves.

Nighteye is talking with Gran Torino, who’s told him that he used Deku as a means to try and reconcile Nighteye to All Might through his successor. All Might’s former sidekick admits that Deku is similar in how reckless he can be in his pursuit of being a Hero.

We shift to Eri, who’s being watched over by another of Chisaki’s subordinates, told to make her feel comfortable.

The chapter ends as Eri thinks that Deku’s hand was something she had never experienced before, such a gentle touch, such kindness, Deku resolving himself to save Eri as well.

Magi 345-346

Alibaba’s still trying to figure out if he can be revived, the others having long forgotten what it was like to even want such a thing.

He asks if they can still use magic, but they say there’s no Rukh here, everything essentially an illusion. But the rocks they’re stacking came from the dimensional hole that appeared when David left, so they have Rukh in them, from the other world

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Tess, the young girl who’s the daughter of Falan and Wahid of Alma Torran, asks Alibaba what he’d want to do if he was revived, Alibaba saying he has so many things he left undone, including his relationship with Morgiana.

The people from Alma Torran are unfamiliar with the white rukh and all, but they’re surprisingly motivated at the idea of some kind of revival magic, everyone pooling their efforts together.

Tess talks to Alibaba, remembering his own mother and how he wanted to meet her.

Everyone, with their combined work, has managed to not only make the magic ritual circles, but even construct a body for Alibaba out of the rocks.

As they’re readying things, Setta, Ithnan’s brother, says he can only use this magic once with his spiritual body, so Alibaba can’t utilize it again once he’s alive. And Wahid warns him that it’ll be like he’s feeling hundreds of years pass as he learns to use his new body, wondering if he can stand the tedium.

Before he leaves, Alibaba asks them about why people who die have to be separated into black or white rukh, wanting to bring them all together, which makes the Alma Torran people remember how they wanted to meet their loved ones.

The chapter ends as Alibaba goes into his new body with the resolve that he will live by his own will even if no one else has it, yet he still desires to aid others, unselfish in that respect.

Aladdin and Arba wonder about how David got out of Ill Illah, but ultimately failed in getting what he desired, subordinated to Sinbad, same as Ugo and the Seven Djinn.

Arba notes how in her pursuit to bring back Ill Illah, she ultimately lost her connection to it, just another pawn in Sinbad’s game.

Alibaba asks Arba if she’s Sinbad’s ally, Arba still apparently confused about her situation, almost in a trance.

Sinbad appears before them, explaining that Furfur was the dungeon he conquered after he founded the second Sindria Kingdom. The first was destroyed in the Parthevian invasion and Sinbad took in the black rukh of the many citizens who died, half falling into depravity.

That was when he first began to hear David’s voice, seemingly the moment when David broke free of Ill Illah.

Alibaba asks Sinbad if there really is no other option than returning everyone to the Rukh, Sinbad reiterating his position he told Aladdin. In his mind, he was chosen by Solomon and other higher gods to become a god and that wish to return everyone to the Rukh was imbedded in his mind by destiny, which he now seeks to fulfill.

Their impending fight will be a deciding factor in which destiny goes forward according to Sinbad.

But Arba doesn’t care either way, Alibaba insisting that things won’t just remain the same or become how Sinbad wants them, a deep feeling at the base of this confidence as Sinbad and Alibaba use Djinn Equip.

The chapter ends as they begin their fight, showing the strength of the two anomalies.

Seven Deadly Sins 215

 Diane recognizes Zeldris as one of the Ten Commandments that Meliodas fought before.

Zeldris demands that Gowther surrender or he’ll be forced to kill him for treason against the Demon King. Gowther notes he wants to preserve as much magic power as he can, not able to do so if he fights against someone like Zeldris

Diane tells Gowther to leave and stop the Holy War, confident she can fight effectively as the Giant King, the Gowther pair leaving.

She begins to generate a massive amount of earth magic, Zeldris impressed at this battle dance of Dolor.

But he decides not to fight her directly, striking her in the chest, to the shock of Diane, unscathed by another Ten Commandment’s attacks previously.

Diane tries to use her Gaia Form, but finds that Zeldris has temporarily sealed her magic.

Zeldris reveals that he has been granted the Demon King’s magic power and serves as his representative, offering Dolor a chance to survive by joining the Ten Commandments, saying they can give Dolor and Gloxinia even greater power, somewhat impressed by their courage in the battle.

In the present, Dolor explains that, since Giants regard fleeing battle as a worse fate than death, dishonoring themselves is out of the question. But King notes that even if Diane chose to be killed rather than join the Ten Commandments, she’d still be trapped.

The dichotomy in Dolor’s mind remains, dying as the Giant King or living as a Ten Commandment?

In the flashback, Zeldris explains that Dolor was isolated from Giants with his larger stature and hidden magic power from his eye, seen as an anomaly, a freak.

Diane realizes that her own reluctance to fight as a Giant makes her also seen as an abnormality in the Giant Clan.

Zeldris further emphasizes that even if Dolor is seen as a freak in some ways, he was still praised as their King, only alienated because of how powerful he is.

Diane still debates about her choice, King trying to tell her not to choose.

But she manages to come out of the trial, explaining that she decided to run instead of choose between the options given to her.

The chapter ends as Diane kisses King, admitting her feelings for him

One Piece 864

Big Mom pauses, the rest of the party in shock as well at Brook smashing Mother Carmel’s photo.

Brook reveals himself as not having a face to further distract everyone, Big Mom astonished that the Soul King is alive, thinking he was killed earlier today. She is so infuriated at what was done that the rest of the guests are trying to take out the Straw Hats to avoid a repeat of what happened in the past

Meanwhile, Pudding is shooting at Sanji, saying that he should be disillusioned at her deception, but Sanji thinks she’s managed to even deceive herself after all these years into thinking she’s heartless and evil.

Sanji pushes her out of the way as we see that Daifuku, the third son, who uses the Lamp Lamp Fruit, is trying to take out Sanji, his genie that is summoned from the lamp managing to push back Sanji’s kicks.

Caesar is still moving through the Mirror World with Brulee, his heart on the line.

Bege acts like he’s pinned down Luffy to maintain the ruse of loyalty to Big Mom

Pedro and Jinbe are still trying to push back the enemies, but Pedro is burned by Oven, the 4th son, who has the Heat Heat Fruit.  

Brook’s head, in spite of being knocked off, doesn’t kill him, to Luffy’s surprise.

The Germa 66 are all paralyzed by Perospero’s Candy coating, Judge begging for Big Mom to stop her betrayal. We see that he’s the only one who’s reacting with any emotion, his other children having no real fear at the prospect of their own deaths.

Big Mom doesn’t react, the consecutive shocks too much for her, Perospero saying that is a blessing in disguise for Judge.

Bege tells Luffy to show Big Mom the shattered photo to fully draw her attention, the others preparing to use their earplugs

Katakuri/Dogtooth is moving towards them, but Bege notes that he’s pale, meaning he’s seen a future he can’t fully fight against.

Bege refuses to shoot Luffy, telling Katakuri that even if they can’t see into the future, they can still change the future as the chapter ends on their fight beginning.

Fairy Tail 532-533

Zeref taunts Natsu, saying he’s still not strong enough, since he can’t transform into a dragon like Acnologia, though even if he can’t, Natsu’s status as END makes him not fully human anyway.

Before they clash, Mavis moves between them, pleading with Natsu to let her talk to Zeref. But he grabs her by the head. She says she knows a way to kill Zeref, relieving him of his immortality.

Zeref insists there’s no way, even END unable to kill him.

Mavis asks why he fears Acnologia, Zeref responding that he’s so strong, even his immortality pales in comparison, since the Apocalypse Dragon will wipe humanity from the earth, only he and Mavis remaining to be used as his playthings.

Before Mavis can reveal her plan, Zeref initiates the start of Neo Eclipse, draining her magic.

Meanwhile, Christina has taken damage from Acnologia’s attack, Anna saying that with her Stellar Spirit Mage abilities, she thinks she can open the Ravines of Time, but Acnologia is still chasing them, Jellal offering to buy some time for Anna to start her process.

Natsu tries to stop Zeref, but is knocked back as he explains to Mavis that with Neo Eclipse, he can start his life over again from 400 years ago, not suffering his immortality, but also not meeting Mavis, thinking she might have a better life without their interaction.

Zeref even says he and Natsu will defeat Acnologia before he gains his immense power in the past

He thinks it’s for the best that she never see this world again because their meeting was what cursed them both, but Mavis thinks this world is worth being in because it was the one where they met and sparked so many other things.

Mavis falls unconscious, her magic power completely drained.

Zeref unleashes Fairy Heart’s power, his form changing as he is able to utilize the infinite magic, surpassing even time itself as the chapter ends.

Everyone’s confused at what’s happened as the chapter begins, Freed telling Gildartz they can’t go to the guild now in spite of Laxus wanting to lay Makarov to rest.

Meanwhile, Lucy, Gray and Happy are still reeling from the shockwave as well, Lucy deducing something about the book: that it’s using high level magic that, if they could rewrite a particular part of it, they could sever the link between Natsu and the book.

Natsu asks for Makarov’s forgiveness, rushing at Zeref and using Blaze Dragon King’s Demolition Fist, seemingly vaporizing Zeref and taking out a part of the guild as well.

But to his shock, Zeref reforms himself, the power of Fairy Heart allowing him to dominate time and space itself, the Pinnacle of Magic

He stabs Natsu through the heart, saying that this will be the end, and that Natsu doesn’t need to ask for his guildmaster’s forgiveness, because he’s dead, thinking they might meet each other in the afterlife.

The chapter ends as he leaves Natsu in shock and slowly dying from his injury