Brutal reality check for Shuri and Jil, that's a good line.

Lloyd is gonna have to hustle if he really wants to save Chloe from the clutches of the evil villainess and her henchmen.

Cute little Alice with her widdy bitty handgun.
I like her better when she's packing real heat:

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@b-scot-morgan Thanks for reminding me who she was. When I saw her in the last panel I knew I had seen her before, but I couldn't remember when and where. (That happens when you get old and feeble like me - lol)

Kind of an off base question here, but has anyone heard if Cross Infinite Worlds is ever going to release the rest of the light novel associated with this series?

Please note that due to an internal scheduling issue, the release date for this book is before the remaining chapters were due to stream. To resolve this, the last four chapters of this book will stream with two chapters a week.

Thanks, and apologies for any confusion!

Quite a dramatic cliffhanger this chapter ends on.

Testa: "Hey! Give that here!!"

No one in this story has any manners at all.

Yay, we're back! And Takumi got called by his first name :O

Finally got to the ebook…

O_O to v6 Exclusive Chapter 2 and Exclusive Chapter 3!

Baaaaaag off!

And a new problem?

Cliffhanger! It's so unlike Ash to attempt to coordinate with Maika via telepathy and force of will instead of deciding on key/code words ahead of time. Admittedly it did work well earlier in this release, but that was under less fraught circumstances.

@Smoochie Ok, I get it now. The writer set up the conference to create a weakness that the evil CEO could target, and added the huge debt to raise the stakes even higher, but couldn't think of a better IT-conference related money drain than the augmented reality glasses.

I like the general idea of it, the evil CEO trying to destroy them only to end up as a laughing stock when he is defeated by hard work and community, but the execution was a little bit confusing at some points.

I can't believe the entire volume was nothing but setup and character introduction. The pacing isn't exactly stellar.

When I saw this, I thought for an instant that the next volume of the LN had finally been published!

But, no.

The manga is good also, though.