Did you forget your pasta, OP?

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>>286387425
i was lazy

>>286387515
tsk tsk

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Vol.8
>>286317602

>>286387392
I dropped this as soon as I realized what I was reading was an ambitiously disguised ErenMikasa fanfic. The protagonist and the heroine have no chemistry and are forced into a romance that warps the entire story solely because the author was mindbroken by SnK.

>>286387938
It could be any boy with any bugle. We saw with Akira that these predictions are largely up to interpretation and subject to bias.

>>286387961
Luca could try to see it as he'll be a war hero that occasionally plays his horn for audiences like the victory fanfare when they return. That ain't too bad.

>>286387549
>year 2036
Ten years til showtime, boys.

>>286388181
Poor Lucas

>>286388301
He made him a bike.

>>286388301
there's a 3D printer in there or what?

>>286388369
Coura!

>>286388392
Coura services old men!

>>286387619
>>286387647
This plan is insane. The past has changed; there's hardly a chance that the greatest minds of the past whom we've built our cultures, technology, philosophies, etc. from will be born and live the same lives. These "influential people" who stored their souls inside the tower will emerge into a completely alien world if they ever emerge. WTF??

>>286387938
>>286387961
Yeah nah that's what Akira said too.

>>286388451
That's the elite for you. Grand vision, terrible execution

>>286388451
You know the saying "you got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette"? They are trying to stop the omelette from being made entirely. They can't fix it but they can attempt to minimize the damage and hope things might kind of stabilize in the end. Its also possible they could try to manipulate certain events to occur and just pass on specific things too once this mess is been dealt with.

>>286388451
yeah their but their country (which is gonna be completely different from the country they left behind) will be bigger on a map or something so its cool i guess

>>286388181
felt bad for him here

>>286388604
Been exposed to Zoe set him down this path. There is not turning back

>>286387710
>england superior
>geographical location
really? Aren't there regions with way more and better resources up for grabs?

>>286388604
I don't understand why he didn't say "I already have someone I like" instead of doubling down and looking like a nonce

>>286388451
The papal state's(stated) goal is to use the tower's future prediction to restore history as close as possible, presumably the other countries have similar ideas

>>286388369
kek the guy in the box, i really like how the author is running with the fucked applications of couras powers

>>286387710
fucking Eleven shiting all over History

>>286388631
did the official TL soften her comment compared to the fan one?

>>286388579
>>286388604
Aaaaaand we have a break out from the pack! Zoe is leading the race for the Lucabowl!
>>286388631
>doesn't that... just make you a deviant?
hoes mad

>>286388604
>>286388631
Loose woman BTFO

>>286388646
Think of it like Crusader Kings. Once you unite the island, you've got a nice engine going, defensible boarders, and your enemy must cross a sea to attack you.

>>286388646
Eleven feel insecure when they're not on an island

>>286388837
I now have a Zoe fetish too

>>286388837
My heart

>>286388905
>that smile
Yeah, this is it. Best girl.

>>286389014
>>286389045
Thats sweet.

>>286360532
>>286387574
Ohhh. Garland isn't grabbing any random meteor. Or maybe she is, but Pope is double-checking? Demi said Garland's meteor changed course after their attack stopped her. Druid spaceship? It could mean that Garland's power isn't "controlling meteors" like Oscar's wasn't "regeneration."

>>286388301
would you change your future for a cool bike?

>>286388869
I guess her "mom" made some extra effort to secure Lucas. Ear piercings feel weird, considering how much she hates being hurt, unless she grew past that

>>286388369
Is that a goddess?

>>286389068
You know what I usually don't care for short boy/tall girl but I like these two

>>286388631
>Lucas is a deviant too
Corabros we won

>>286389223
This bicycle date is precious.

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end

>>286388656
Sounding like Akira here.

I think this might be my favourite chapter in the manga.

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>>286389263
well...

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Kneel

>>286388646
Wasn't the empire on the continent or am I getting the countries confused?

>>286389184
I'm glad Luca still has hope.

>>286389311
Made for headpats.

>>286389314
The empire is located on the British Isles.

>>286389014
Zoe a good girl

>>286389140
>>286389160
>>286389184
Clever and adaptable.

>>286388579
>>286388604
kek, she probably thinks he has a thing for retarded women

>>286388451
YOU GOTTA RISK IT
FOR THE BISCUIT

Definitely think the series kinda "ended" here or was at least told to start wrapping it up.

>>286388002
Don't you dare insult Zoe like that you FAGGOT

>>286388451
Fuck the butterfly effect, send magical nukes back to the middle ages NOW

>>286388649
He's 14 and the branch probably saps some nutrients from their brains, please be patient.

>>286389263
...kind of, but not exactly. Akira seemed genuinely frustrated with Lucas's defiance and dissatisfaction with the world and his place in it. The pope is directly telling Lucas, "the reason you can't be a musician is because of this time war", probably to guide Lucas to realizing the solution: "If I just conquer all the towers, as quickly as I can, there's no more war for me to fight!". Without even realizing this is what the Pope wants him to do.

>>286388398
So Coura can fix scars
I wonder if Lucas decided to keep the one on his head for sentimental reasons

>>286388002
Yeah i dont see Zoe and Luca working tvbh

>>286388451
Like the pope said, all it takes is one fucker with more ambition than sense to fuck everything up for everyone
It's why Faustian bargains can't exist IRL, there would be a jackass doing that shit every other day, hell every other hour, and fucking the world up

>>286388451
If somebody didn't have a tower then they would be completely annihilated if anyone else sent theirs back instead of having a tiny chance of preserving themselves and their culture.
Plus The Empire started this time war and doesn't care about the cost you're describing, everyone else is just responding to them.

>>286388604
I think this has to be my favorite manga page in years
How specific his explanation gets, the look of sheer bewilderment on the woman of loose moral character, just amazing

The Empire, holy shit
>only had a small head start before the others
>at least EIGHT other nations have been battling this ONE for over a THOUSAND years
>8 vs 1 and the rest are still struggling
>deploys OP players like Akira on the regular

>>286390042
That's not what a Faustian Bargain though. This is basically MAD (like with nukes in real life) except unlike real life someone actually pulled the trigger and wiped out humanity. The rich people who uploaded themselves into the towers are the equivalent of how jingoistic warmongers during the Cold War thought that they could wait it out in bunkers while the poors all got flash fried. The tower folk are essentially just the Enclave from Fallout.

>>286390171
I think it's more a free for all than 8v1, the gallia king said he's been rival with the pontiff for a thousand years

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>It Was Like She Was Looking At Walking Garbage

>>286389014
I can’t take this.

>>286390171
Presumably just like in real European history, whenever one power started to get too dominant the others would gang up on them. The empire stands alone currently probably because they had the samefag ramus to make hundreds of thousands of nearly free soldiers, and more recently, the strategic nuclear bomb ramus. Loading up their tower administrator with a bunch of Ramus powers and fielding him as a frontline combatent is very reckless and risky, but I guess they thought that the Garland needed the best possible protection.

>>286388720
"you should enjoy something more befitting of these times" says the Pope while he gives Lucas a trumpet and a bike

>>286390257
The calculus is a bit different when the bunker actually works, and makes you effectively ageless

>>286389162
Damn, never considered this but you're right.

>>286388301
I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like
It's got a basket, a bell that rings
And things to make it look good
I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it

From the FUTURE

>>286390572
The pope probably has pink floyd on vinyl

>>286388449
>>286388513
lucas is so pure
we need to correct that

>>286388680
Pope putting Total Futurist Death in motion.

>>286390510
Oh yeah definitely. The confidence that only the poors would die probably made it far easier for whatever sociopath pulled the trigger on the Time Towers to do so. Hell even today you get rich people openly discussing letting the end of the world happen from various causes because they think that they personally will be able to ride it out in New Zealand or however.

>>286389045
>>286389068
men only want one thing
and it's precious

>>286387574
so by sapling candidates they mean Ramus with powers related to time right? Lucas and Zoe are both candidates and Zoe has a time related power. Lucas fucked up Akiras future sight when he flowered and that was never explained so I think this is a clue that his power isn't empathy like it says later but to control people's future. An anon a couple threads ago said his power is to decide people's fate and I think he was right.

>>286387549
>>286317602(Cross-thread)
>timetravel
Yo WTF

>>286391068
>>286390944
Why are we spoiling discussion of chapters that have already been posted

>>286388002
Have you caught up? I don't think it's going for a Zoe route

>>286387574
>Ogdru-Jahad
Uoh, crossover potential!

>>286388649
Have you ever had to reject someone? Its so fucking embarrassing. Worse than confessing.

>>286388708
There's no official of this yet.

>>286389733
I think the series always had an end in sight and if you think about it it doesn't flow badly. This is clearly the middle point of it.

>>286389223
>>286389246
the skyline changes to modern day. Holy shit I didn't notice that before. What does this mean? Is it Zoe activating her powers or showing her and Lucas are riding into the future together as a metaphor?

>>286388680
>>286390746
You are completely right Anon.

>>286391174
Shut up delusional couratard

>>286391118
Because the topic of Lucas powers is spoilery

>>286391118
his power hasn't explicitly been stated as being able to compel empathy yet in these chapters. I was pondering if thats a red herring since I just realized the clue these last two threads.

>>286391392
His power being empathy also needs him to have always enjoyed the battlefield (like he confessed to Coura in a recept chapter) or the soldiers wouldn't have felt happy while fighting. But whatever happened at the Flowering looked like Lucas power going back in time

>>286388604
Lmao!

>>286390835
Retarded gorilla women?

>>286391658
Little sister big sister mom daughter wives!

>>286388098
Come to think of it, isn't it weird that he's using Zoe's Mom's face for this? I guess it would piss Luca off if he used Gerhart or the mirror's face, but he coulda just used someone random.

>>286389127
Ya know, he's doing really well for someone who's never ridden a bike before. I guess he had a week to practice, but still, that ground is not even.

>>286391118
Honestly, I'm starting to lose track of what new readers do and don't know.

>>286392338
>Come to think of it, isn't it weird that he's using Zoe's Mom's face for this? I guess it would piss Luca off if he used Gerhart or the mirror's face, but he coulda just used someone random.
I always loved how honest the Pontiff is. I honestly love his character. Really refreshing take on the whole "manipulative mastermind" trope.

>>286387515
Oh yeah, where did he get the electricity? The fucking spire?

>>286392617
It's mentioned at some point that these things are all basically magic replicas.

>>286387619
>1200s age
>Already can grasp grandfather's paradox & butterfly effect after being introduced to the concept of time travel minutes ago
>Probably no exposure to fiction the get introduced to the concept earlier to mull it over.
Kinda hard to believe that, though you can say that the presence of spires accelerated education, it's still a reach imo.

>>286392617
The room directly below is full of a half-dozen miniature Miura clones on a comically oversized treadmill.

>>286392762
People in the past are much smarter than you would think. The learned would have known about things like the water cycle and the moon's gravity causing the tides and had a decent estimate of the planet's diameter and circumference before the towers even arrived 1200 years ago. Plus, the existence of people with the power to manipulate time probably would have influenced culture and fiction within the altered ("branched", I suppose) timeline, resulting in such ideas being less novel.

>>286392762
I agree that it's a bit out of character, but for the sake of providing the audience with exposition, I don't mind it.

>>286392957
And honestly when COVID hit I could see the opposite in action, just how dumb and superstitious people still are even with infinite knowledge supercomputers in their pockets.

>>286392338
Never mind not riding a bike, he's literally never seen one in his life before. Between that and >>286392762 I almost wonder if there's more going on or if it's just to let the narrative flow better, especially with the moment where Poppy plays basketball later

>>286393240
A 14 year old could learn to ride a bike from nothing in a week easily. It's really not hard

>>286393240
Lucas is so similar to Akira's wife that something might have happened. It might be far-fetched but my theory is that Lucas will interact with one of the Spire time travel devices at some point and send his Flowering breakdown back in time. I say this because the Flowering ignored all predictions and before it arrives you can see Lucas' light showing up from offscreen.

>>286390478
Pope can't stop spoiling the kids.

>>286392762
Lucas is smart, creative, and fast. Under pressure too. He probably didn't give a shit about the tactics Gerhart told him about. But Lucas still comes out with "Udo, does your blood power work on farm animals?" or "Torch the forest" or "Use my lights to measure distance for the catapults."
The characters just don't spend time talking about it.

>>286394526
Yeah people go on about how the setting pulls from elden ring and the story is like a not-shit SnK, but people are missing the big old dollop of Ender's Game

>>286388646
You're competing against multiple towers though, and they're theoretically all against you for being the first to push the button. With a natural barrier and decent enough resources, they can fair much better.

Lucas in a wedding dress
Lucas in bridal lingerie

>>286390388
They only recently got the Facsimile ramus (at least relative to the time they've been active). For whatever reason, the 1000 years of war were weak and they probably didn't "plan" enough Ramus in the earlier days to make big swings (because Ramus don't exist pre-tower).

>>286395624
It could also be that powerful Rami being evenly distributed could standstill the war (a nation having Heavenfall, another having the Looking Glass, etc). If you don't have something to trump card the other faction, it might be better to stay put and work on improving your own standing without going into open war, otherwise you could lose and have your Spire conquered. Keep in mind the Spires and their rulers are at war, but not necessarily the countries the Spires are in, whose people have no idea of the true war.

>>286395624
>For whatever reason, the 1000 years of war were weak and they probably didn't "plan" enough Ramus in the earlier days to make big swings (because Ramus don't exist pre-tower).
First timer but now I'm thinking for the first few hundred years pontiffs would be focused on conquering and controlling their spire's territory, right? A spire and a pontiff just showing up out of the blue won't make people suddenly decide to listen to them. At the same time they'd have to find rami who would have started being born and change the culture so everyone worships the spire and won't kill branched babies at birth for being deformed. I can see this taking hundreds of years for pontiffs to do.

>>286388697
>Demi's eyes
>Miura's jaw

>>286388181

Lucas is starting his journey as succesor of Eren

>>286396520
Lucas will surpass Eren

>>286396840
the fucking south hampton chapter is so fucking good, the woman who her stabbed her dad while crying, fucking chef’s kiss

>>286396840
>Zoe finding another man? No, I don't want that! Even after I become a tower, for 10 years at least!

>>286397691
zoe currently doesn't even know that other men exist the only people she doesn't see as weird potato monsters are lucas and the pope

>>286397844
Demi is starting to come around. She sis the potato with the smiley face.

>>286397112
I can't wait, some of those recent chapters are my favorite in the series. This arc is way too good.

>>286391323
Probably
With hope and love riding on their backs---

>>286388002
snkucks are delusional

>>286399674
Which is funny as this is so similar to what SnK would be like if it's well written and has less shonenslop elements.

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I just keep moving foward


Until I destroy my enemies

>>286389246
loli Zoe is cute too

>>286387574
Fucking Stand meteor shenanigans.

>>286388254
He doesn't get it.

>>286388398
It's too bad Udo steeled himself to never talk to Coura again.

>>286388604
Fucking Christ Luca, and he is one of the better ones in socializing.

>>286400505
Yeah I feel like that's like a really tiny plothole that she never fixed anyone's scars. Makes sends narratively since it's part of his character, and they probably didn't think of it at the time.

>>286388837
My weakness, exposed shoulders!

>>286389184
Holy shit, he's going to burn down all the towers.

>>286389246
Thanks.

Shipfags (and shipfag wars) are annoying.

>>286388604
Everyone totally glossed over
>I'm 18, practically an old maid
line

>>286402992
I always found it kinda endearing.

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>all european countries are run by a secret cabal of (((futurists)))
What did the author mean by this?

i cant see Zoe and Luca ending together
liking a 9 year old is already weird but ending together is even weirder also it feels that Zoe will be the sacrifice bait of the series

>>286387938
heroism and musicianship aren't mutually exclusive

>>286405283
He specifically wants to be a musician to escape war.

>>286388513
poppy oppressed just for speaking the truth

>>286405349
why is demi such a bitch?

>>286405241
Zoe will be the "I took a difficult path and did dark things but I protected my imouto" character. I don't see her being a LI. Coura has better chances but she is the true sacrifice bait.

>>286389246
This is a good manga.

>>286392370
It's better to err on the side of safety.

>>286405340
Yeah, I made the post before reaching that page.

>>286405349
Demi should have snapped her arm

>>286405241
She's atleast 13 now

>>286403006
The Epstein class went back in time and made sure to NOT bring any newer concept of childhood and consent and whatnot.

>>286403006
I mean, marrying age back then was like, midteens, right? And she was playing into the "older woman" thing because she was so thirsty for him.

>>286406937
Marriage was more done for inheritance than love back in those days
You couldn't get much work out of 'em so you had to marry them off young to buy a flock of cows or something from farmer Tom up the road

>>286405241
Luca is 14, it's not weird. Also time bullshit could come into play

>>286407283
This manga has too little sol with Miura and Demi

>>286407751
would ya look at the titties on that tater

>>286407977
This man is pushing the wrong girl around.

>>286407824
I don't get the disentombing, is it graverobbing?
doesn't fit with all the other communal services

>>286408035
>>286408071
I don't think Zoe will be allowed to work again after this.

>>286408106
At least one guy is making the most of it.

>>286408024
Guy's not a government official, he just a middle man to hand out odd jobs for vagrants and the like to do

>>286408106
lmao the fucking reverse Shawshank

>>286408183
Awww Zoe made a friend on her own. Mission success i guess

>>286408399
She picked up some weird habits along with a new friend.

>>286408438
>>286408464
Nice to see Demi and Luca won't allow another friend to be killed.

>>286408464
Adorable psychopath

>>286408645
Oh no

>>286408106
I can't stop laughing at this page

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well something came out, i'll be back later

>>286408329
>Zoe learned the power of empathy
I bet the pope will not like this

>>286408887
Zoe's getting kind of cheeky.

>>286408807
"Oh no, my killing machine is developing... FEELINGS."

>>286408645
Well this is awkward

>>286408905
that — on the left makes the left page border look like the pope's helmet

>>286408106

>>286407283
Coura what?

>>286409365
Rival

>>286407777
getting used to Luca and Cora

finish the chapter

>>286409148
Can't unsee

I'm not dumpy but it's chapter 28 if someone wants to grab the rest of the chapter and finish us off

Don't blueball us OP

>>286409425
Based

>>286409669
>>286409741
That's the end. They all died to a garland strike.

>>286407395
Zoe's big girl!

>>286408858
did he just awkwardly dismiss the troops?

>>286408106
it's raining shit
hallelujah

>>286408295
>>286408329
Zoe learnt POTATO DISPELL.

pope got the dumpee

>>286410207
Good advice.

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im not back yet, i just fine a little spot to dump a little

>>286409956
Forget them, imagine being the boat guy here and nearly being witness to a political assassination. "...So am I rowing this guy or not? I'm not committing some sort of crime here, am I?"

>>286408807
>Killing people is wrong
And bad. There should be a new, stronger word for killing. Like badwrong, or badong. Yes, killing is badong. From this moment, Zoe will stand for the opposite of killing: gnodab.

>>286410249
>i just fine a little spot to dump a little
may I recommend a toilet?

Lucas/Luca/Ryuka is a sperg

>>286410575
He's 14, he's allowed to be a sperg.

>>286407471
She just like me

>>286407491
13th century Hello Works

>>286409845
>a garland
There's more than one?!

>>286410870
There will be when I'm done with her

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im back

>>286407283
>Poppy? Pitiable.
>Coura? .....
haha this is great

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Just for your knowledge, I was babysitting my neighbor's grandson.