Talk:Vol.2 Ch.130: 30F - Hell Train: Revolution Road (18)/@comment-16674955-20141221202757/@comment-3557616-20141222024626

We haven't done the preceding chapters yet, mosty because of us being busy, lack of activity, and the chapters being a bit boring, honestly.

HOWEVER, this chapter was definitely not worthless, which is why it merited a summary from me :)

True, Yura's flashback didn't show us much. However, we saw three very important things:

1. Yura was recruited through Emile. Now we have a better idea of how Rachel has used it... I bet she used it to recruit Daniel Hatchid as well.

2.  Ran struggling to beat his opponent, and Baam having to use the Thorn to beat Yura. One complaint that popped up a lot in the Workshop arc was that most of the Regulars, who had supposedly overcome loads of tests, were essentially cannon fodder. What SIU is emphasizing here is that from this point on, anyone who made it so far up the tower is going to be a capable fighter. Into the danger zone...

3. THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. I mean HOLY SHIT that was clever. For the whole tournament I was wondering if the arena was a trap or if Rachel was just going to rely on Hatchid to take everyone's tickets or what... but NOPE the whole thing was just a distraction, forcing everyone to fight each other while the whole damn train was taken! And by beating Yura Ha, Baam has essentially lost his chance to go after the train, unless he can drop out of the tournament somehow (deliberately losing the next match?). A very unexpected and awesome plot.

You're right in that some of the recent chapters have been crappy, at least by ToG standards. However, this one was definitely at lease a decent one in my book :)