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Part 2 · the process

Chapter 122 - “Start”

The talks have ended. The kiln has not. 始動 is the verb after 終.

Read it official: VIZ or MANGA Plus. Chapter 122 sits between END and Chiaki. The conference is over. The ore is still a political object. Hasumi’s lab is still powerless in the sense chapter 124 will print. Shiba’s certainty about Kunishige’s eyes is the start the Bureau has been refusing.

What starts

Not the first named blade. Not Enten. The walk from a negotiation table to a workshop that does not yet have a goldfish bowl. Subaru Urita will be in that shop when the steel finally comes up. Mashiro is still alive. Akemura is still a brother, not a cell. File: Part 2. Eyes and veins: veins in steel.