Chapter 5 Page 57 (pg 358)

God that is like the best place to end it, where the villain has the heroes on the ropes, but they managed to pull out a plan and about to set it to motion.

But damn, what savagry.

First, all of the anime references, friendships, plans, weirdos, this is a great sports anime battle.

Then, damn what should I say about the characters? Not sure how Suzy’s blackmail will work. Muse’s advice was pretty sound looking back on it, but he is also such an ass that I can’t really take his words to heart. The Student Councils are like super weird secret service men. The VP is probably a witch/spectral of some kind, she is too weird not to be.

Then we get the main stars of the show. Puppet-Jeff is specifically targeting Johnny & maybe Max. Why? Is it Spectral powers? Does he know the spirits that possess them? Is there something more??

Cody is like so supportive of his friend, and Puppet-Jeff is using that to his advantage super well. Cody being all Matrix to help is just amazing. I love my son.

Then we have Max, Johnny, and Dimitri. Can I just say that this trio is absolutely amazing together? Like, I love them all separately, but as a whole they are so cool.

Dimitri is so smart and super badass. I think he is a Spectral, specifically one from the Cousinhood. Because if he was for the Consorts, then BL wouldn’t have needed to send in an agent in the first place. Either way, he is a genius.

Then we have Johnny, my weird brave boy. He put himself out there to protect his friends, and Forge was fucking ready to help him. You can say that great emotions can activate the spirit powers, but I would like to think that the protectiveness that Johnny felt at that moment is what summoned Forge specifically.

Then there is Max, who is just trying to live through it all, and almost gets killed. He is literally a normal child just thrown into this, you can’t expect him to be a hero over-night, even with missions and all of that. Ball at Mach 5 is scary

Damn, I can’t wait to see the conclusion of this.

I understood that reference.

Really Plan B Ball, because Plan A Ball sucked

oh my god, an anime turn for the heroes!

Cody is a protector, and he will protect his friends no matter what.

Look, at this point you need to work together to survive. Johnny helping Max is great, but look at Dimitri’s determination

Dimitri is a fucking Cousinhood badass and Max regrets his choice of school

This really is a fucking sports anime. Only with actual life-and-death threats

Look at this! Forge was about to release his power as Johnny became protective, but once the danger passed he grows cold and slumbers again.

This art is amazing

Dimitri moved so fast I have no idea what just happened

OH FUCK

I WAS RIGHT ON BOTH COUNTS

2 SECRET SPECTRALS!!!

you drew a murder is what you did

YO YO YO YO YO YO YOOOOOO

MANY THINGS

First, Max has a self-preservation streak. I respect that, he is 12, I get why he doesn’t want to throw himself in harms way, especially when he just got throw into this less than a week ago

Second Johnny’s FIRST instinct is that , while he was scared, he is trying to shield his friends. Mad Respect right there

Third, Dimitri is reaching there as well. I assume he is trying to catch the ball to that Jeff is “out” and he is out of the game.

Fourth, the lighting. I thought that this might be the moment that Johnny awakens his spectral powers, but there is light around Dimitri too. So either this means that they are BOTH secret/unknown Spectrals, or those two were Puppet-Jeff’s TRUE targets, and Max realized he made a mistake.

wait wait…is the ghost targeting the two spirits that are possessing them? Forge and Mystery-Snake?

I have no idea what this means, but I will assume it will go here

MURDER: Take Two

These kids are so stupid, but she should be in trouble for scarring children

What the fuck, is she really a hag??

Suzy is just feeding off of this mayhem.