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Hey there! Today we will update you on One Punch Man Chapter 172 where we will tell you everything you need to know about the upcoming chapter such as its release date, spoilers, raw scans, and through where you can read the new chapter. One Punch Man is a very popular hard-core superhero action manga which is an adaptation of the original webcomic by ONE (also drew Mob Psycho 100) and is drawn by Yusuke Murata of EyeShield 21. It features some of the most spectacular-looking fight scenes with very detailed art and character writing. The previous chapter begins with Pig God looking for any monsters in Debris. The Hero association representative asks him to go back for recovery but Pig God ignores his orders. At that moment the monster Evil Natural Water appears amongst the rubble who has been reduced to the size of a puddle. Pig God immediately swallow it and several water beans springs out from his body. On the other Saitama and Genos are looking for their old apartment. There they find Rover who is now size of a hog. Saitama decides to take the monster as thier pet. [wpcc-iframe title="NEW S-CLASS RANKINGS POST MONSTER ASSOCIATION ARC | One Punch Man Prediction" width="800" height="450" data-ezsrc="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4HNhj_dPjVA?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen class="ezlazyload"] One Punch Chapter 172 Release Date, Time and Countdown The One Punch Man manga by ONE and Yusuke Murata is published in Shueisha’s Tonori no Young Magazine which is released on weekly basis every Wednesday. However, the OPM manga has a very unusual release schedule and the author is allowed to publish the chapter whenever he wishes. In most cases, the new chapters are released every other Wednesday Since the previous ch i.e. ch 171 was published on September 21st, the One Punch Man Chapter 172 will either release on Wednesday, 20th October 2022 at 12:00 AM(JST). The chapter title has not been announced yet. The chapter was originally supposed to release on October 5th but was delayed as Murata and his staff are currently busy finishing the latest volume, Author One Artist Yusuke Murata Media format Manga, Anime, Webcomic, Video Game, Live-action Initial Release 1. 2009 (Original) 2. June 14, 2012 (Adaptation by Murata) Volumes Released 26 English Release by Viz, ShonenJump, MangaPlus Genre Seinen, Martial Arts, Superhero Chapters available 171 One Punch Chapter 172 Release date 20th October 2022 Chapter Update dates on Bi-weekly every other Wednesday Series overview However do note that it will take some time before the English translations will come out as the whole translation process involves manga invisible complex steps such as redrawing, typesetting, proofreading, and of course translating the text. So you might need to for at least 3-5 days until the chapter is available to read in your preferred language. Release time As for our international audience, here is when chapter 172 of One Punch Man will be available to read on the online website. Pacific Time: 9 AM on Wednesday Central Time: 11 AM on Wednesday Eastern Time: 12 noon on Wednesday British Time: 5 PM on Wednesday Countdown for OPM Chapter (Japan Release Time) [wpcc-script type="text/ez-screx"]Countdown Is One Punch On on break this week? No, fortunately, the manga is not on break this month and chapter 172 will be released as per its schedule. So far no such delay has been announced from the author’s side. OPM 172 Raw Spoilers and Leaks from Reddit and Twitter COSMIC GAROU At the time of writing, the raw scans and spoilers for Chapter 172 haven’t come out yet. Such raw scans usually starts surfacing on the net 3-4 days before the official release date and can be found on online forums such as 4chan and Reddit. So we are expecting them to appear as early as October 19th. We will keep an eye out for them and report back to you as soon as are released. Meanwhile, for the latest updates and chapter discussions check out its official subreddit r/OnePunchMan. Previous Chapter Recap Saitama is happy he has found the remains of his destroyed apartment and hoists the entire building up. Black Sperm hides in sheer terror; as a monster of incredible speed and having witnessed it was indeed Saitama who defeated an Awakened Garou in a single punch, he realizes the bald hero is the last person he wants to encounter. Genos spots something, which worries Black Sperm; the cyborg picks up Overgrown Rover, now much smaller and more calm, to Saitama’s surprise, having forgotten he had fought Rover. Black Sperm is shocked again to see another of his fellow executive, though he notices the dog-like monster now so much smaller and weaker. As he reasons it would be wiser to run away, unwilling to face eithr Saitama and Genos, he notices Saitama treating Rover like an ordinary dog. Saitama reveals to Genos he had always had an affinity to dogs, as Rover licks his face. Before Genos can worry about the feeding costs of Rover, he receives a message from the Hero Association and leaves. Believing there is no safer place than under the protection of an extremely powerful being, Black Sperm makes up his mind and swallows his pride. He leaps out from hiding and jumps around while making funny noises, to Saitama’s confusion. Where to read OPM chapter 172? Chapter 171 [English] from OnePunchMan [wpcc-script async src="https://animenewsandfacts.com/ezossp/https/embed.redditmedia.com/widgets/platform.js?screx=1&sxcb=188a" type="text/ez-screx"] There are two ways you can read the latest chapter. The first is by reading the fan translations which will be available one or two days after the Japanese release. The second is reading the official translations by Viz on their official website. However, the Viz translations are quite behind by 3 chapters so you need to wait for 2-4 weeks’ for chapter 170 official translations. You can also purchase its previous volumes on that website and can read it in both online and offline mode. What is One Punch Man about? One Punch Man is a manga written by ONE and drawn by Yusuke Murata, published in Shueisha’s Tonari no Young Jump since 2012. The manga is based on the webcomic written by ONE. Viz Media is publishing the series in English. Manga inspired an anime series by Studio Madhouse in 2015 for 12 episodes. J.C. Staff then produced a second season in 2019 which also ran for 12 episodes. A live-action adaptation by Sony is in development. The story centres around Saitama who started out being a hero just for fun. After three years of “special” training, he became so powerful that he can defeat opponents with a single punch. Now, alongside Genos, his faithful cyborg disciple, Saitama is ready to begin his official duties as a professional hero working with the Hero Association. Well, that’s all for today. We will keep you updated on any news related to One Punch Man Chapter 172.Also, be sure to check out the Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 and Osamake Season 2.

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Fluffy Fridays—Chapter 164: Black Friday, pt. 2

Pairing: Captain Swan

Summary: A series of unrelated, fluffy one shots featuring Killian Jones and Emma Swan and the relationship that makes us all swoon. Will contain both canon and AU stories. My contribution to Operation Rainbow Kisses and Unicorn Stickers (aka, my attempt to drown out the season 4 finale angst with ridiculous levels of fluff.)

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“Um excuse me,” Emma said with a frown, “this book is mine.”

The person standing before her didn’t relinquish the book in question, and Emma glanced up at him…and then promptly wished she hadn’t. This guy was hot. Like middle-of-summer in Phoenix hot. Like compared-to-him-the-sun-was-kind-of-warm hot. No one had a right to look that damn good this early in the morning. She should just arrest him and haul him off to jail for that alone.

Very much against her will, her heart swooped and her breath caught at his very proximity. She saw the exact moment he noticed her reaction. A sly, maddening, delighted (sexy) grin came over his face. Emma frowned thunderously up at him, as angry with herself at her reaction as she was at him for his…well, his very existence.

“Much as I hate to contradict a lady,” he drawled (Oh gods, even his voice and accent were hot. She was in serious, serious trouble), “I believe this book, in fact belongs to me. I was here first.”

Her frown deepened. “I don’t think so. Give me my item before I punch you in the face.”

He chuckled, leaning forward and crowding her space. (Her stupid, traiterous heart picked up yet again.) “Oh Darling, I can think of some far, far more pleasant ways we can spar than a bout of fisticuffs.”

Was it suddenly hot in here?

“Look, I don’t have time for this,” she said with a sigh, her voice beginning to raise. “Just stop being a jackass and give me the book.”

Suddenly a small man with a brown beard, a grumpy look on his face, and a hat that read “security” stepped forward. “There a problem here folks?”

“None I can’t handle,” Emma gritted out. “Soon as this guy admits I got here first and gives me my merchandise I’ll get out of your hair.”

“On the contrary,” the man said. “I was the first one to claim this particular prize.”

The security guard, who wore the name tag “Leroy”, glanced back and forth between the two of them for a moment, and then shrugged. “Look, I won’t have any fighting in this store. Work it out among yourselves, or I’m kicking you both out. Then neither one of you gets the stupid book.”

For a moment Emma merely glared at the man, and he looked back at her, a look of steely determination on his face. Finally he sighed.

“Look, love, the security guard’s right,” he said. “While quite enjoyable, our standoff will get us nowhere.”

Was the (hot as hell) guy going to actually be reasonable and give in?

“So here’s what I propose,” he said. “We purchase the book and then adjourn elsewhere to discuss the particulars of whose prize it will be. Perhaps you’ll allow me to buy you a cup of coffee at Granny’s?”

She crossed her arms across her chest. “Are you seriously asking me out right now?”

He chuckled, and the sound did things to her, things that brought the color to her cheeks and stole her breath clean from her lungs. He leaned even closer, so close she could feel his minty-fresh breath against her cheek. “Sadly no. I was merely proposing a parlay of sorts, a chance for us to settle our differences like adults. However, if you’re hoping for a romantic evening out on another occasion, I could certainly accommodate you.”

“In your dreams!”

He wiggled his eyebrows. Actually wiggled them! “Perhaps.”

Emma growled. “Are you kidding me right now? It’s too early for this!”

He seemed to sense he’d pushed her as far as was prudent, and he sighed. “I vow to be the perfect gentleman. IIf we at least secure the item, we can then decide later who is the victor.”

She gave him a quick look and could see the sincerity in his eyes. She was good at spotting when someone was lying, after all. Finally she sighed. “Fine. But we both buy it–split the cost fifty-fifty. That way neither one of us can claim ownership of the book before we get everything ironed out.”

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“Here you are folks,” the perky brunette waitress said half an hour later. “One black coffee and one hot cocoa with cinnamon.

Killian heard the waitress lean whisper “Emma, he’s hot” to the woman on the other side of the booth.

She growled and whispered “Ruby, shut it!” back.

He chuckled. This was turning into one of the most delightful mornings he’d had in ages. When the waitress had flitted over to another set of customers, Killian leaned back and grinned at his companion. “She’s right, you know,” he said. ‘I have been called devilishly handsome.”

“I’ll give you the devilish part,” she said with a wry quirk of her brow. “Look…what did you say your name was?”

“Did I fail to introduce myself? How very rude of me. Killian Jones, at your service,” he said with a bow. Her cheeks colored alluringly at his formality, and Killian was delighted at her reaction to him.

She was utterly captivating, and the truth was, he hadn’t been so quickly, completely and charmingly smitten with anyone since Milah. Though he very much wanted to attain the fairy tale book for his Alice, he couldn’t say he regretted the complications this morning had brought.

He didn’t know what possessed him to ask this woman to coffee. All he knew as they stood facing off in the bookstore was that he did not want their time together to be at an end anytime soon.

“Emma Swan,” she muttered.

A fit of pure devilishness came over him, and he reached over, took her hand and brought it to her lips. “Enchanted.” he whispered.

Her quick, indrawn breath made his grin widen, and she quickly pulled her hand back and busied herself with taking a sip of her beverage.

“So, Killian Jones,” she said, her voice not quite steady, “what are we going to do about this book? I don’t mean to be a jerk about it, but I really need this book. My son…well, this is the only thing he’s asked for, and it’s been a rough year for him. I just…I just want to be able to give him this one thing so maybe I don’t feel like such a failure as a parent.”

His heart turned over. He could tell she’d said more than she’d intended. Emma Swan didn’t strike him as someone who let her walls down quickly or shared her feelings of inadequacy with strangers.

“As a single parent myself, I can relate to the feelings, love,” he said, “but I’ve no doubt book or no book, you’re hardly a failure as a parent.”

“Yeah, well,” she said, glancing uncomfortably aside. “I feel like it.”

Killian was silent for a long moment, taking a sip of his coffee. If it weren’t for Alice, he’d give up his claim on the book in a moment, but it was for Alice. Was there any way they could both get what they wanted?

“I don’t wish to be intransigent either,” he said finally, “and my behavior today is not a matter of mere stubbornness. My daughter also has her heart set on this particular book.”

Her eyes softened at his statement, acknowledging their dueling claims as parents wanting the best for their respective children. “Yeah, I get it, so that brings me back to my original question. How do we decide who gets the book?”

Suddenly an idea struck him. It was unorthodox to say the least, unorthodox to the point of being downright bizarre, but it did have it’s merits–namely the fact that, should she agree to it, they’d be forced to see each other again on a fairly regular basis.

“I do have an idea,” he said slowly, “but it may sound positively daft.”

She gave him an assessing look, taking another dainty sip of her cocoa. “Okay, I’m listening.”

“What if we share the book?” he blurted out.

“Share it? What do you mean?”

“I mean,” he said, “what if we trade off? Your lad gets the book one week, and then my Alice gets it the next, and so on.”

Her brow furrowed. “You mean like…joint custody…of a book.”

He shrugged with a grin. “I told you it would sound daft.”

Killian was encouraged by the fact that Emma didn’t outright shoot down his (odd) idea. She seemed to consider it, staring into space for several moments, before briefly nodding. “It is a weird solution, but I think it might be the best way we can both get what we want. Can’t believe I’m saying this, but you have a deal.”

Notes: Merry week before Christmas! Sorry it’s taken me several weeks to get back to this story, but as always, it’s a busy time of year. I was hoping to get this story finished in this installment, but these two just wouldn’t stop flirting and being all sexual tension-y long enough for me to finish the story, so surprise! You’ll get a part 3 next week! (I do promise to finish it in a week this time!)

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A Second Chance

For those who have been asking... this is my master list once more:

ASC Chapter Titles as If They Were Friends Episodes

Part One: Harry’s First Year With His Dads (Chapters 1-49)

1. The One Where They Were Dead 2. The One Where the Rat Is Out of the Bag 3. The One Where James and Lily Die 4. The One Where Moony and Padfoot Make Up 5. The One Where Harry Meets Padfoot 6. The One Where Sirius Kidnaps Harry 7. The One Where Sirius Punches Vernon Dursley 8. The One Where Harry Meets Remus 9. The One Where Sirius and Harry Make Grilled Cheese 10. The One With Thea 11. The One Where Harry Asks What a Kiss Is 12. The One With the Library Card 13. The One Where They Remember the Past 14. The One With the Tonkses’ 15. The One With Harry’s First Nightmare 16. The One With Professor Moony 17. The One With The Puppy 18. The One With the Second Best Day Ever 19. The One Where Harry Meets An Excellent Secret Keeper and Her Brother 20. The One Where Sirius Learns What He Missed in Azkaban 21. The One With the Brownies 22. The One With the Date 23. The One With the Weasleys 24. The One With the Bad Dreams 25. The One Where Sirius Learns the Key to Moony's Secret Pranking Success 26. The One With Operation Prank the Piss Out of Harry Potter 27. The One With the Wolfsbane Fight 28. The One Where the Marauders Discover A Wolf 29. The One With the Spanking 30. The One With the House Rules and Where Sirius and Ted Build a Treehouse 31. The One With the Wolf 32. The One Where Remus Tells Sirius To Deal with the Blacks 33. The One Where Harry Asks About Boobies 34. The One With the Locket 35. The One With Blackbird 36. The One With the Birthday Orgasms 37. The One With the Three Brothers 38. The One With Godric’s Hollow 39. The One Where Sirius Speaks French 40. The One With the First Christmas 41. The One With the Pensieve 42. The One With the Memories Part I 43. The One With the Memories Part II 44. The One When Padfoot and Prongs Become Blood Brothers 45. The One Where Harry Has A Sleepover 46. The One With the Tickle War 47. The One With the Viscount of Falmouth 48. The One With Roni 49. The One With the Birthday Planning

Part Two: Harry Growing Up With A Family, Ages 7-11 (Chapters 50-61)

50. The One With the Best Birthday Ever 51. The One Where Padfoot and Moony Know Nothing About Sick Kids 52. The One Where Remus Slaps Sirius 53. The One With the Giant Cheese Fort 54. The One With Operation Get Lily Evans to Fall in Love With Prongs 55. The One Where Remus Thinks He’s a Very Bad Man 56. The One Where Harry Asks About Sex 57. The One Where Tonks Turns 17 58. The One Where Remus Feels Like He’s Robbing the Cradle 59. The One Where Remus Learns He Has A Mate 60. The One Where Sirius Shags the Realtor 61. The One With the Letter

Part Three: First Year (Chapters 62-73)

62. The One Where Harry Gets Hedwig 63. The One Where Harry Understands the Fear of Voldemort 64. The One With The Sorting 65. The One Where Sirius Was Almost Bitten By a Panther… And Totally Didn’t Pee His Pants 66. The One With the Youngest Seeker In Over a Century 67. The One With the Three-Headed Dog 68. The One With Zee 69. The One With Sheer Dumb Luck 70. The One Where Sirius Lets Zee Drive His Bike 71. The One Where the Weasley Boys Come Over for Christmas 72. The One Where Minnie Tells Sirius To Get A Job 73. The One Where No One Listens So Harry Has to Do Everything and His Friends Follow Him So He Doesn't Die

Part Four: Second Year (Chapters 74-105)

74. The One Where the Whole School Knows 75. The One Where Harry is Jealous 76. The One Where Sirius Eats Crow 77. The One Where Zee Meets Minnie 78. The One With the Proud Enough to Cry Letter 79. The One Where They Realize Their New Professor is a Moron 80. The One Where Remus Gets His Shit Together 81. The One Where Harry Meets His Fanboy 82. The One Where Binns Doesn’t Put His Class to Sleep For Almost Ten Whole Minutes 83. The One Where Sirius Finds Out 84. The One When Remus Punches Lockhart 85. The One With the Mad House Elf 86. The One With the Great Shoebox Capture 87. The One Where Sirius Tells Zee About the Marauders 88. The One Where Harry is Homesick 89. The One Where Sirius Says I Love You 90. The One With the Sex Talk 91. The One With Ted Walking in on Remus Fingering Tonks… And Remus Adds Another Finger 92. The One Where Draco Comes to Christmas 93. The One Where Sirius Actually Gets a Job 94. The One Where Sirius Asks About Cursed Scars 95. The One Where Remus Tells Tonks and She says ‘Duh!’ 96. The One Where Fred Hears the Name Padfoot 97. The One With Peter’s Trial Part I 98. The One With Peter’s Trial Part II 99. The One Where Ginny Tells Harry She Has A Pen-Pal 100. The One With the Eyes As Green As a Fresh Pickled Toad 101. The One Where Tonks Is Under the Desk 102. The One Where Harry Writes in the Diary 103. The One Where It’s Not Follow the Butterflies 104. The One Where Sirius Is Sent Home Without An Explanation 105. The One Where Ginny is Scared Harry Will Never Speak To Her Again

Part Five: Third Year (Chapters 106-143)

106. The One Where Sirius and Remus Demand Answers 107. The One With Prophecies and Horcruxes 108. The One Where Harry Learns to Drive 109. The One Where Bill and Charlie Talk About the Importance of Being A Good Big Brother 110. The One Where Sirius Realizes He Wants Zee Forever But Is Too Chicken To Say It 111. The One With Operation Fuck Up Voldemort’s Plans 112. The One Where Cissy Tattles on Abraxas 113. The One Where Harry Sees More Than He Should Between His Roommates 114. The One Where Colin Tells Ginny To Get Over It 115. The One Where Theo Comes Out 116. The One Where Sirius Tells Lucius If He Fucks Up He Will Kill Him 117. The One With the FUVP Pow-Wow 118. The One Where They Return to the Chamber of Secrets 119. The One Where Harry Finds Out 120. The One Where the Marauders Prank Snape 121. The One Where Draco and Theo Make Bad Detectives 122. The One With Nyx 123. The One Where Harry Throws a Tantrum 124. The One Where They Skive Off Class Because Harry Talks 125. The One Where Harry Asks Out Cho 126. The One With Harry’s First Date 127. The One Where Sirius, Remus, and Dumbledore Fuck Up 128. The One With Moody 129. The One Where Harry Gets Slapped 130. The One Where Sirius and Tonks Decide To Fuck With Snape 131. The One With Lily’s Ghost 132. The One With the Gaunt Property 133. The One With the Defence Club 134. The One With the Wizengamot 135. The One Where Harry Meets the Americans 136. The One Where They Forget to Tell Sirius 137. The One With the Insomniacs Club 138. The One Where Bellatrix Shows Up 139. The One With the Time Turner 140. The One With Umbitch's Creepy Song 141. The One With the Wolf in the Cage 142. The One Where Harry Shouts at Sirius and He Just Shouts Right Back 143. The One Where Both of Them Feel Like Shit

Part Six: Fourth Year (Chapters 144-179)

144. The One With the Elder Wand 145. The One Where Sirius Tells Harry Not to Drink 146. The One Where Sirius Acts the Adult and Tells the Grangers 147. The One Where They Drink the Potion 148. The One Where Harry Can’t Change His Arm Back 149. The One Where Ginny Sees Harry Naked 150. The One When Harry Calls Remus a Bad Dog 151. The One Where Theo Goes to the Burrow 152. The One Where Harry Has a Fling 153. The One Where Sirius Panics Over Commitment 154. The One Where Zee Takes Harry Shopping 155. The One With the Quidditch World Cup 156. The One With Winky 157. The One With Babymort 158. The One Where Sirius Asks Zee to Move In 159. The One Where Snape Apologizes and Harry Thinks The World Ended 160. The One With the Pretty Boy, the Biggest Flirt, and the Flying House 161. The One Where Tonks Wants A Boob Job 162. The One Where Drama Queen Sirius Learns About Pens 163. The One Where Zee Just Wants A Damn Telephone But Sirius Can’t Stop Bitching 164. The One Where Girls Giggle and Ginny Looks Different 165. The One Where Harry Outflies a Dragon… Almost 166. The One Where Zee Tells The Paper to Back the Fuck Away from Her Son 167. The One Where Harry Thinks It’s the Formal Wear 168. The One Where Mr Weasley Thinks ‘Oh, Bloody Hell!' 169. The One Where Sirius Takes A Bath 170. The One Where Harry’s in Denial 171. The One Where Harry Thinks He Has Two Hostages 172. The One With the Love Potion 173. The One Where Zee Seduces Sirius in the Work Shed 174. The One With the Secret Swimming Pool 175. The One With the Bats From the Crotch 176. The One That Ends With ‘Oh Shit!’ 177. The One Where Everyone Dies 178. The One With the Lullabye 179. The One Where Tonks Marks Remus

Part Seven: Fifth Year (Chapters 180-222)

180. The One Where Remus Proposes 181. The One Where Lucius Gets Arrested 182. The One Where Remus Proposes Again and Harry Dies 183. The One With the Coconut Smell 184. The One Where Tonks Isn’t Pregnant 185. The One Where Dean Realizes He Fancies Seamus 186. The One With Baby, I Love You 187. The One Where Theo Meets Voldemort 188. The One Where Harry Calls Ginny His and Then Denies It 189. The One Where Everyone Breaks Out of Azkaban 190. The One With the War Council 191. The One Where Harry is Dumped 192. The One Where They Discuss The Size of Remus’ Package 193. The One Where Harry Learns About the Potters 194. The One Where Harry Finds the Tower Room 195. The One Where Zee’s in France 196. The One Where Harry Gets Constantly Interrupted 197. The One Where the Glacier Finally Melts 198. The One Where Harry Finally Asks 199. The One Where Sirius Cuddles and Zee Buys A Motorbike 200. The One Where Everyone Is Worried About Theo 201. The One With the Frying Pan 202. The One With the Fluke 203. The One Where Minnie Walks In 204. The One Where Remus Finds A Present Under the Tree 205. The One With Bellarosa and the Snake 206. The One Where Everyone Gets Motorbikes 207. The One Where Padfoot Suggests Pranking Umbitch to Fred and George 208. The One With the Great Escape from Umbitch 209. The One With Prince Finley and the Switching of Teacups 210. The One Where Theo is Courted and Dean Admits He's in Love 211. The One Where Hinny Says I Love You and the Fluke Continues 212. The One Where Sirius Picks Out A Star 213. The One With the Cathedral Star 214. The One Where Sirius Answers the Phone 215. The One Where George Gets the Girl 216. The One Where They Compare Proposals 217. The One Where Sirius Has the Man-Flu and Gives it to Zee 218. The One Where Ginny and Theo Are Kidnapped and Remus Hears Heartbeats 219. The One With the Thing After Learning the Thing 220. The One Where Everyone is in Shock 221. The One Where Zee Confirms 222. The One With the Will

Part Eight: Sixth Year (Chapters 223-Present)

223. The One Where Remus Finally Lets Go 224. The One Where Hermione is Blind But Her Mum Isn’t 225. The One Where the Dragon’s in Trouble and George Snogs the New Bat 226. The One Where Ginny Tames Ebony and Theo Goes to Tara 227. The One With the Sovereign Chalice and Zee’s Dream 228. The One With the Party 229. The One Where Ginny Claims Her Man 230. The One Where Harry Has a Really Great Birthday 231. The One Where Harry Asks Remus For Sex Advice 232. The One With the Surfing 233. The One Where Harry Buys a Pgymy Puff 234. The One With the Naughty Dream 235. The One Where Harry’s Afraid of Grandpa 236. The One With the Race 237. The One Where Ron and Hermione Almost Fluke 238. The One Where Bill Gets a Headache 239. The One With Compass and Bad Puns 240. The One Where Harry Uses Parseltongue For Something New 241. The One Where Slughorn Is An Armchair 242. The One Where Its All Fluff 243. The One Where Draco Calls Blaise A Stupid Son of a Bitch 244. The One With the Patronus and the Lingerie 245. The One With Advanced Potion Making and World War One 246. The One With Luna’s Question 247. The One With All the Smut and Where Ron and Hermione Fluke Again 248. The One Where Minnie Freaks Out on Walburga 249. The One With the Fruit Basket 250. The One Where Percy Gets a Date and Remus Skives Off Work 251. The One With the Iron Blade 252. The One Where the Fairytale Ends 253. The One With the Golden Dagger 254. The One With Charlie’s Surprise 255. The One With The Bet 256. The One Where They Celebrate Christmas Without Sirius 257. The One With the Tantrum About Heels 258. The One Where Lucius Fucks Up 259. The One Where Tonks Plays Bad Auror 260. The One With the Goblin Potato 261. The One Where Fred is Scarred for Life 262. The One Where We Hear From Althea 263. The One Where Harry Is Told He Owes Theo A Fruit Basket 264. The One Where Neville Plants A Tree

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Okay I know this is a lot but reading this guy’s thoughts gives you all the feels of reading the book all over again and it is amazing (x)

1. Okay first of all I am SO excited it’s starting back at Greavesdrake 2. Love this little poison bitch 3. “These are only a bit of fun.” I am living 4. I cannot wait for this reunion omg I can’t wait for ANYTHING

5. Book one Katharine vs. book two Katharine:

6. Fifty bucks says Thomas and Michael don’t make it to book three 7. Maybe it would be easier if Joseph didn’t make it to book three 8. Omg that’s right if Arsinoe wins as a poisoner then the poisoners will want to claim her as their own dang there is so much going on 9. I LOVE THIS BOOK 10. Wait did they never kiss in the first book 11. Are you kidding me Joseph and Mirabella shacked up in a seaside cavern and the real royal couple is out here willing to die for each other without ever having locked lips?? 12. Ew imagine someone spit on you I would scream 13. “Next time it won’t be spit. Next time it’ll be a knife!” LMAO WHAT 14. Can you IMAGINE 15. They’re already going to fight I can’t believe this 16. I love Bree 17. I’m screaming Kat just enjoys RUNNING PEOPLE DOWN in her free time 18. WHO IS THIS GIRL 19. Black marble and spitting gargoyles is such an aesthetic 20. I lied the GODDESS STONE is an aesthetic 21. Omg she’s referring to herself as “us” this is amazing 22. Luke/Hank 2020

23. THERE IS GOING TO BE A FIGHT 24. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME

25. I love that every single character is like “Well I don’t WANT to kill them, but also I myself do not want to die, so,”

26. Except for Jules she would absolutely kill a man

27. Do I love or hate Madrigal? I just don’t know 28. WHAT 29. Omggg I love this I love Jules 30. Wait DROWN HER these people are so DRAMATIC 31. I want to know more about every single gift 32. They’re gonna fight!! 33. They’re gonna fight!!!!!!! 34. Mirabella the bear isn’t there just KILL HER

35. Ok if these girls didn’t have such a flair for drama I guarantee this war would already be over

36. “Mirabella has found her nerve.” Yes she has 37. Lmao jokes she still won’t kill her 38. Like… just do it!!! Just kill her!!!!!!!!!! 39. WELP now you CAN’T because there’s a BEAR 40. Katharine is insane THAT’S FUN 41. You know I’ve always wanted to learn how to throw knives 42. Omg Pietyr?! 43. Jk 44. I don’t know Nicolas but I love him 45. Don’t you DARE throw my queen off a cliff 46. “He doesn’t smell like the last one.” Billy the last one was dead 47. BILLY’S GOING TO THE WESTWOODS 48. Honesty, the DRAMA 49. “Because I saw you first,” ugh I love them

50. I can’t believe I’m only a quarter of the way through this book I need a nap

51. Ugh why doesn’t anyone love Mirabella 52. Don’t worry I love you Mirabella

53. PREGNANT 54. SHE’S PREGNANT 55. Oh my god 56. Thomas and Michael are here someone get the death cannon ready 57. AHHH 58. What did I say 59. “At least they were cousins,” Katharine PLEASE 60. I want a buddy-cop spinoff where Natalia and Luca fight crime 61. Aw okay at least Mira has a friend Billy is nice

62. “Where is your bear?” “WELL HE’S NOT IN MY POCKET.”

63. I love Billy Chatworth, Worst Cook on Fennbirn Island ™

64. Nicolas lmao wtf 65. WHO IS THIS GUY 66. PIIIIIEEEETTTYYYYYRRRRR 67. “But you will never have me again.” Bye I just screamed 68. You know I think I’d want the war gift it’s so vague and powerful

69. “It only gives you powers over weapons,” you say 70. “ANYTHING CAN BE A WEAPON,” I scream in response

71. I love Katharineeeeeeee 72. Omg wait and Rho can’t publicly help Mirabella 73. So much is happening 74. Oh my god 75. Yeah curse the queens THIS SEEMS LIKE A GOOD IDEA 76. Can’t wait for this one to go wrong 77. “What’s this gonna do btw?” “Oh lmao idk” Super 78. Oh my god 79. Ohhhhh my god 80. Here we GO 81. Can I just say again that I love Nicolas the psychopath 82. Pietyr is going to slap him 83. “This is your life. Don’t tell me to stay out of it.” 84. Imagine this book from Braddock’s POV 85. Omg just KISS ALREADY

86. This is all VERY High School Musical 2

87. Imagine a plot twist that reveals Billy as the true naturalist queen 88. “I’ll love you for as long as I live.” Oh no 89. Everyone is ready for surprise murder but I’m watching Hairspray as I read this and it’s creating quite the interesting mood 90. Lmao I love Katharine and Nicolas!!! What little psychopaths!!!!!! 91. I love Katharine!!!!!!!!!!!! 92. This is amazing 93. I LOVE DRAMA 94. “But that is not fair!” Mira, buddy, pal, 95. SHE SLEPT THROUGH THE ENTIRE FESTIVAL LMAO NO!!! 96. JULLIENNE MILONE!!!!! 97. HOW IS THERE STILL MORE THAN HALF THE BOOK LEFT 98. This girl is literally being HUNTED 99. Omg please Braddock go go go follow her 100. Mirabella NO!!!! 101. Omg omg omg omgggggg 102. I’M SO STRESSED 103. Sidenote I love Mirabella and Arsinoe together 104. WHAT 105. WHAT!!!!!!! 106. JULES 107. JULES IS HERE 108. JULES!!!!! 109. LMAO THEY STOLE HER HORSE I’M SCREAMING 110. Oh my god Katharine no don’t SAY THAT

111. Honestly I don’t super remember Bree from the first book but would I die for her now? Absolutely

112. I’m so stressed 113. THEY WENT TO CARAGH 114. Lol TBH makes it sound like a jewelry commercial 115. “They went to Caragh!” Madrigal will cry, clutching her diamonds 116. “Until they were six, they were mine.” 117. Um @ the Young Queens WHERE ARE YOU 118. Mirabella/Billy 2020 119. Lmao yo I am so freaking excited for Arsinoe to make her dramatic return 120. I’m just thinking about it!! Ah!!!! 121. A DUEL 122. This is madness I need a break and a nap and a snack immediately 123. Katharine!!!!! You can’t just THROW BACK a cup of poison!! Honestly!!!

124. “You cannot kill,” she says, causing me to GASP, “what is already dead.”

125. SHE ALREADY KNEW

126. I can’t decide if I want Katharine, Pietyr, and Nicolas to all destroy each other or if they are the toxic, murderous OT3 of my dreams 127. The venn diagram of those two things may just be a circle

128. KAT JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE CHALLENGE 129. Omg she’s throwing a TANTRUM I’m living 130. “I will hold a ball the night before,” This is my ideal dark gothic aesthetic

131. “What if the Goddess is on her side?” “It does not matter. They are on mine.”

132. Why do I picture Madrigal exactly as Alice Cooper from Riverdale 133. She’s going to help Mirabella!!! She’s going to help Mirabella!!!!!!! 134. I’m serious can I vote for Mirabella and Billy on the ticket in 2020 135. Oh my god no 136. No no no I refuse to believe they have their hooks in him 137. THEY CANNOT HAVE THEIR HOOKS IN BILLY 138. He’s a horrible cook he would never fit in with the feast-loving Arrons 139. I love Mirabella

140. Oh my god Katharine 141. Oh my goddddd 142. LMAO WHAT THE F#&K 143. “We have not been your Katharine since you threw me down the Breccia Domain.” WHAT THE F#&KKK!!!!!!!! LMAO!!!?! 144. HE’S GOING BACK TO THE BRECCIA DOMAIN!!

145. Meanwhile, Arsinoe, on a mule, 146. Just looking at the names of the chapters left is stressing me out 147. NAT IS SLEEPING WITH BILLY’S DAD I just CHOKED

148. THERE’S SO MUCH DRAMA AROUND EVERY TURN

149. Oh thank god their hooks are not in Billy yet 150. Omg omg Jules is at the ball here we go here we GO it’s happening

151. “Before Katharine and her suitor take their place amid the Arrons, dazzling in their snakes and scorpions, Katharine cocks her head at Mirabella and winks. Nicolas smiles at Billy and discreetly spits onto the floor.” I’m just obsessed with this entire snippet

152. Oh Joseph honey no go home 153. ARSINOE!! 154. “Dancing with my sister,” Oh my god 155. This is what I LIVE FOR 156. “I am not afraid. I am angry.” 157. “I may be the weakest, but I am a queen, through and through.” 158. Oh my god

159. I NEED TO SEE THIS SCENE ON A BIG SCREEN

160. “They are tired of it.” I SCREAMED

161. Oh my godddd he’s going in 162. HE’S GOING IN THE BRECCIA DOMAIN 163. Oh my god 164. Oh my g o d d d 165. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH 166. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 167. Oh my GOD WHAT A SCENE I SHOULD NOT HAVE READ THIS AT NIGHT!!!

168. Pepper………… 169. Of all the characters I love… I would be ok with Rho dying at any time 170. @ Kendare just fyi 171. Oh my god they pulled it off HOW 172. Of course Arsinoe is thinking of food though 173. F#&k f#&k f#&k here we go 174. I am horrified for what Katharine’s reign of terror would mean 175. Tag yourself I’m the priestess weeping as she fastens Mirabella’s dress 176. Ugh Kat 177. Ok she’s horrifying but she’s also amazing this arena entrance is everything 178. THERE THEY ARE!!!!! 179. “Yes, me again.” JULES FOR QUEEN 180. SHE KNOWS THAT ARSINOE REMEMBERS HER 181. Omg I’m so emotional 182. JULES!!! “She punches the first in the eye and knocks back another three.”

183. “I’m sorry you thought I was dead.” “I’m sorry I agreed to marry your sister.”

184. Oh no Luca no don’t 185. A concept: Madrigal slapping Natalia Arron 186. “Or perhaps there were more sides to a woman than he had ever understood.” Lol oh Billy you simple boy 187. Ugh it was WILLIAM 188. Omg the throwbacks to the very first chapter of the first book I’m dying 189. A tattooed crown they are NOT f#&king around 190. NICOLAS MARTEL 191. “Arsinoe has been banging her head against the stone wall for what seems like hours. But there is no way to tell for sure.” Me in class

192. LMAO IS SHE GOING TO POISON ARSINOE 193. STOP I’M GOING TO SCREAM 194. This is EVERYTHING

195. AND THERE’S A WEDDING 196. Ew Nicolas I changed my mind I don’t love him not one bit 197. “Though perhaps this is what he truly is underneath. Angry, and ugly, and small.” Aren’t all men 198. Oh my god 199. THIS WAS NOT A FIGHT I WAS EXPECTING 200. Ohhhhhh my god 201. YES RHO 202. I lied Kendare thank you for this fierce and wonderful gift of a character 203. “Roll him up in a rug,” LMAO 204. “After all, Mirabella’s first tears were real, before she looked down and realized that Arsinoe was grinning.” I can’t I love them so much 205. Omg wait if Natalia… what does that mean for her deal with Luca?! 206. “Oh!” I LIED I WANT A MIRABELLA/ARSINOE BUDDY-COP SPINOFF 207. God bless Joseph taking responsibility for his actions 208. “How I love you, Jules.” I’m so emo 209. ARSINOE!!!!! 210. Ew someone please kill Nicolas already 211. “… So hard that she hears a crack. That must be good,” I’m dying 212. I LOVE MIRABELLA 213. I WANT HER TO BURN THE ENTIRE CITY DOWN 214. Oh god Joseph 215. THE WARRIORS 216. Oh my god 217. Oh my god oh my goddddd what 218. That is BRUTAL 219. What a way to go, my man

220. “I failed you once. I betrayed you once. But I will not again.”

221. “I’m fine,” Joseph says, CLEARLY LYING 222. Oh my god Genevieve 223. THIS IS SUCH A DYSFUNCTIONAL TRIO 224. AND NOW THEY KNOW EVERYONE HAS ESCAPED 225. Oh my god so much is happening 226. Pietyr is the one true king someone bring him the Iron Throne or whatever the f#&k they have on this cursed and twisted island 227. “It is just that she will be the last.” 228. Omg they’re gonna GOOOO 229. Third time’s the charm, maybe??

230. I’m telling you Jules and Pietyr are going to have to duel and that will decide who the true ruler of Fennbirn Island will be

231. Jules will obliterate him and I will be sad for approximately thirty seconds and then extremely happy for my new queen

232. Aw I loved Madrigal in this book 233. I LOVE THIS LIL’ MOTLEY CREW 234. Lmao I wonder how long Genevieve will last now. What will she do 235. “Then she looks back at the sea and the confrontation that is about to take place there.” I’m so scared for my lil’ motley crew!!! 236. FINALLY!!!! THE KISS!!! 237. Omg come on Mirabella come onnnnn

238. Oh no 239. Oh no Joseph 240. … Oh my god? 241. Oh my god did they do it??? 242. THEY DID IT 243. Oh n o

244. JULES NO!!!

245. WHAT THE F#&K, MAN 246. … I’m telling you she needs to be queen 247. Oh my god 248. I can’t believe they… made it 249. Oh my g o d

#three dark crowns #one dark throne #kendare blake #epicreads

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Odagiri/Tobisaki Hiroyuki’s character profile: Part 1 (Joker Game Universe)

(Very tentative version as no translation for 'XX Double Cross' novel or D no Maō version had been released)

Spy Surname: Odagiri - 小田切（おだぎり） Spy Name: Unknown Real name: Tobisaki Hiroyuki - 飛崎弘行（とびさきひろゆき） (Only according to the Anime) Rank: Army Second Lieutenant (陸軍少尉 - Rikugun-Shōi) [prior to joining D Agency], Army First Lieutenant (陸軍中尉 - Rikugun-Chūi) [After leaving it] Role at D Agency: Spy (スパイ - Spy) Direct superior officer: Lieutenant Colonel Yūki (結城中佐 - Yūki-Chūsa) Affiliation: D Agency (Ｄ機関 - D Kikan) Height: Unknown (172 cm according to the Anime) Age: Unknown Impersonates: Military Police Superior Private (上等兵- Kenpei Jōtōhei), Geisha (芸者- Geisha) (According to D no Maō), Tobisaki Hiroyuki (飛崎弘行) (According to the Novel and D no Maō) Appearances: Novel: Vol. 1 Chapter 1 “Joker Game” (ジョーカー・ゲーム - Joker Game) [mentioned], Vol. 1 Chapter 5 “XX Double Cross” (XX ダブル・クロス - XX Double Cross) [as the spy Tobisaki Hiroyuki] D no Maō manga: Vol. 3 chap 4-6 XX Double Cross” (XX ダブル・クロス - XX Double Cross) [as the spy Tobisaki Hiroyuki] Anime: Ep 1-2 “Joker Game” (ジョーカー・ゲーム - Joker Game), EP 12 “XX Double Cross” (XX ダブル・クロス - XX Double Cross), OAV “Adventure of Black Cat Yoru” (黒猫ヨルの冒険 - Kuroneko Yoru no Bōken) Joker Game The Animation Manga: Chap 1, 2, 3 “Joker Game” (ジョーカー・ゲーム - Joker Game), 5 “Miscalculation” (誤算 - Gosan), 10 “Asia Express” (アジア・エクスプレス - Asia Express) Drama cd: “Joker Game” Drama CD Metropolitan Police Department D Section Investigation Files (「ジョーカー・ゲーム」ドラマCD 警視庁D課捜査ファイル - “Joker Game” Drama CD Keishichō D-ka sōsa files), “Joker Game” Drama CD Go For It! Year 2 Class D Sakuma Sensei (「ジョーカー・ゲーム」ドラマCD それいけ！2年D組佐久間先生 - “Joker Game” Drama CD Sore ike! 2-Nen D-gumi Sakuma sensei ) Live Action Movie: Joker Game Voice Actor: Hosoya Yoshimasa - 細谷佳正（ほそやよしまさ） Live Action Movie actor: Yamamoto Hiroshi - 山本浩司（やまもとひろし） Stage project actor: Abe Kaisei - 阿部快征（あべかいせい）

Brief introduction

In the novel Odagiri is mentioned merely as one of the twelve (twelve, not eight as in the anime) D Agency students belonging to the first batch of trainees, and he probably took part to the search in Gordon’s house (though we’ve no confirmation about this). The D no Maō manga doesn’t mention him at all.

The anime though (and, as a consequence of this, the ‘Joker Game The Animation’ Manga) decided that Odagiri is also the spy who appears in the novel chapter ‘XX Double Cross’ (also transposed in the D no Maō manga) giving him his backstory, through slightly altered.

So, while in the novel Odagiri and Tobisaki Hiroyuki likely weren’t planned to be one and the same (and Tobisaki Hiroyuki is just the identity a D Agency spy takes during his mission) and the D no Maō manga makes clear the spy taking the alias of Tobisaki Hiroyuki couldn’t be involved in ‘Joker Game’ by placing his recruitment chronologically after ‘Joker Game’, in the anime they’re one and the same and Tobisaki Hiroyuki is Odagiri’s true name.

So, according to the Anime, Tobisaki Hiroyuki’s parents died, his grandparents didn’t really want to take care of him and first entrusts him to Nishiyama Chizuru, then inscribes him to the Military school. However when a soldier falls ill and Tobisaki’s superior officer still insisted he should keep on training, Tobisaki (who was a second lieutenant back then) argues with the officer and hits him. This causes him to be put under military trial. That’s when he meets Yūki who invites him to join D Agency.

Tobisaki agrees, passes the selection and takes the name of Odagiri. He takes part to the investigation of Gordon’s house, then, later, he is tasked with the duty to keep Karl Schneider under surveillance in what will become his graduation case. In fact Schneider dies but Odagiri continues to investigate and discovers who murdered him (Yasuhara Miyoko in the anime, Nogami Yuriko in the novel and in the D no Maō manga).

Odagiri realizes his judgement had been compromised because Nogami Yuriko reminded him of Nishiyama Chizuru and understood he couldn’t become a D Agency spy because he couldn’t completely detach himself from others. He therefore asked to quit D Agency and was reassigned by the Army with the grade of First Lieutenant (in Kwantung in Machuria in the anime, in north China in the novel and in the D no Maō manga).

In the Live Action Movie, which is only inspired to the novels, Odagiri is a spy tasked with supporting a spy named Katō in retrieving the Black Note by providing him equipment. He seems to die in an explosion but it turns out he survived and merely faked his death as he will meet up again with Katō. His spy tools though are stolen by a female spy named Rin. Later he will be assigned for a mission in Germany.

Personality

In D no Maō, Tobisaki cared for his Army companions to the point he attacked his superior officer to protect one of them and didn’t seem to get along well with the other spies. He’s also more prone to tears than his anime version.

According to the Anime, Odagiri still cared for his Army companions to the point he attacked his superior officer to protect one of them, though he only pushed away the man while in D no Maō he punched him. Anime Odagiri is silent and hardly smiles. Although he goes out with the others and take parts to their same activities and Fukumoto gets along well with him, Odagiri feels as if there was a wall between him and them.

Odagiri can still be considerate. After seeing that Sakuma didn’t realize he’d been tricked when playing poker he told him the truth and he also seemed to care for Yoru, who obeyed and trusted him and to whom he smiled.

He holds dear the memory of Nishiyama Chizuru, who raised him, to the point that when he sees Nogami Yuriko and realizes she resembles her, he loses his objectivity and his concentration. This helps him to realize he can’t cut tie with this memory.

Odagiri is strict with himself. When he realizes Schneider, his target, died, he labels the mission as an INEXCUSABLE failure, as if there was something he could have done to prevent it.

In the Live Action Movie Odagiri is shown always in a good mood and likes to make fun of the spy going by the name of Katō (whose back story is ironically based on the one of novel Tobisaki Hiroyuki) because he comes from the Army while Odagiri, as everyone else in D Agency, is a civilian.

Physical appearance

We can’t see how Odagiri looks in D no Maō, though we can see how the spy who goes under the alias of Tobisaki Hiroyuki looks like. He’s tall, slender, handsome and has a mole under his left eye.

In the Anime Shirō Miwa decided his character design would be quadrangle-like in attempt to bring out a seriousness that was different from Sakuma and to make him look like he doesn’t know how to swim with the tide. He’s therefore less slender and with broader shoulders compared to D no Maō, he has no mole and his face isn’t oval but more ‘quadrangle like.

In both version he has black hair, though they’re longer in D no Maō and cover his right eye while in the anime both his eyes and his forehead are clearly visible.

During his time as second lieutenant in the Army he wore an uniform, in D no Maō a Type 98 while in the anime it’s a Type 5. Since in the Anime we see him acting in cold weather though, we see that his uniform is covered by an Army coat.

After joining D Agency he starts to wear a suit. In D no Maō it’s a two piece suits, in the Anime it’s a three piece suit.

In D no Maō he also disguises himself as a geisha, wearing their typical kimono and wig while, when keeping Schneider under surveillance, he wore typical Japanese clothes.

After he left D Agency he returned wearing a Military uniform, a Type 98, with the ranking of First Lieutenant.

In the Live Action Movie Odagiri almost always wears glasses, he’s shorter than Katō and smokes.

In the Stage Project he still seems to wear a three piece suit, only much clearer compared to the one he has in the anime.

Relationships

Mutō

The two never interacted but we know that Mutō finds D Agency a thorn to his side and sent Sakuma there in the hope one of Yūki’s students would make a mistake that would allow him to close the place.

Yūki

In the novel and in the D no Maō manga we don’t see Yūki and Odagiri interact, just Yūki and the spy who took the name of Tobisaki.

In the anime Yūki is the one who seek out Odagiri and invited him to try and see if he could pass his exam to be admitted as a D Agency student. He also hands him the Schneider case and, after Schneider’s death, he’ll instruct him to investigate on the woman on the crime scene (in the novel and in D no D no Maō this happens to the spy who takes the name of Tobisaki Hiroyuki). In the Anime when Odagiri will resign Yūki will tell him he’s reassigned in Kwantung in Machuria (in north China in the novel and in the D no Maō manga). Odagiri will bow to him and he’ll be told not to bow while wearing a suit.

In the Live Action Movie Yūki, supported by Kaminaga, gives him the task to cooperate with Katō and Jitsui to retrieve the Black Note.

Sakuma

Sakuma’s interaction with Odagiri is extremely small.

In Novel Odagiri is merely listed as one of the D Agency students while Sakuma is being the liaison but we don’t know if they ever interacted. He’s never mentioned in D no Maō.

In the Anime, during the Joker Game, Odagiri is the one who peeks at Sakuma’s cards and give signs to everyone, but he’s also the one who confesses this, revealing to Sakuma how the other had defeated him at poker. When the others laugh at Sakuma Odagiri doesn’t.

Odagiri’s smile, if so can be called, was also the weakest among the spies when it looked like they couldn’t find the cipher and Sakuma would have to commit Harakiri.

In a strip from Miwa Shirō we see that, after deciding to leave D Agency, Odagiri and Sakuma went to drink together and discussed what Yūki told Odagiri when Odagiri was about to leave (who salutes while wearing a business suit?). During this moment Sakuma will confess to Odagiri he was also told the same and that Yūki made him pay fines for insisting on saluting.

Miyoshi

There’s no known interaction between Miyoshi and Odagiri in the novel beyond that they’re both D Agency students and Odagiri likely took also part to the raid at Gordon’s house in which Miyoshi played the role of interpreter.

A character named Odagiri doesn’t appear in the D no Maō manga and the spy taking the name of Tobisaki Hiroyuki, as far as we know, doesn’t interact with Miyoshi and, although they are both trained at D Agency, Miyoshi likely completed his training way before Tobisaki Hiroyuki joined D Agency.

In the anime in Ep 1 Odagiri, Miyoshi, Kaminaga Jitsui and Amari play poker (or the Joker Game) until Odagiri surrenders.

Miyoshi was also likely one of the spies who used Odagiri’s signals to beat Sakuma at poker. As it’s Miyoshi the one who invited Sakuma to play poker with them, it’s possible Miyoshi went so far as to stage up the whole thing, giving Odagiri the role of spying Sakuma by making it look like Odagiri was leaving the game because he lost one of too many times.

In the Joker Game The Animation Manga, when Miyoshi informed the others he had Sakuma agree to be the captain of their fake Military Police team when they would inspect Gordon’s house, Odagiri looked none too pleased.

In the Joker Game The Animation version of Ep 4, when Miyoshi and Hatano are talking about rats playing the antagonist in western fairy tales, Odagiri surprised them by mentioning Japanese fairy tales involving rats (which apparently aren’t evil). When Miyoshi asks him if he’s implying Japanese rats are different Odagiri says he’s fine with them widening their insight from books but dinner time is up and they should hurry and come because if their meal will get cold Fukumoto will make a fuss.

In Ep 12 Miyoshi demands Odagiri to explain Schneider’s suicide note, since it seems Odagiri is supporting the idea that Schneider was killed.

Miyoshi is later tasked to investigate the latest developments at the German and Soviet embassies and, reported the results of his investigation to Odagiri. In his report he says nothing unusual had happened at the German and Soviet embassies, but someone new might have taken over Schneider’s spy network. Odagiri, who had no idea he would report to him, was surprised by this and, being confused by this and by all the others who had reported to him, gripped Miyoshi’s shoulder, stopping him from leaving and forcefully turning him toward himself and demanded to know why he was reporting this to him.

Miyoshi is first confused by Odagiri’s question then irritated, pushes away the other’s arm and inform him this is his (graduation) case before leaving. Odagiri is very surprised by this.

Successively the two meet at the theatre, after Nogami Yuriko’s performance. Miyoshi comments (looking pleased) that she wasn’t the murderer in the Schneider case to which Odagiri agrees, claiming her tears couldn’t be faked before asking Miyoshi what he discovered about Schneider’s accomplices. Miyoshi will report Odagiri’s theory was right and that by tailing the man removing the flowers from the theatre he discovered the guy stopped to a florist that doubles as a secret post for Soviet spies to exchange intel who communicate among them using a flower called chamomile. Miyoshi also discovered that two Soviet spies contacted Schneider, one was the florist who collected the flowers the other was Yasuhara Miyoko.

Miyoshi then asks Odagiri what tipped him off and Odagiri replies it was simple as he connected the scent in Schneider’s apartment with the one of the flowers delivered to Yasuhara Miyoko, which, to him, hinted to another connection between the two of them. Odagiri then proceeded to explain Schneider likely planned to become a triple spy and pass information to the British so the Soviets set up his assassination as well as the whole plan for the assassination. Though his explanation Miyoshi smiles and asks up how Yasuhara Miyoko got the note written by Schneider and Odagiri explains this as well.

In the Live Action Movie Miyoshi and Odagiri (along with Jitsui and Katō) cooperate to retrieve the Black Note, though Miyoshi had a rather different task from Odagiri and the two meet up only at the end where Miyoshi will hand him his next assignment.

Kaminaga

There’s no known interaction between Kaminaga and Odagiri in the novel, beyond that they’re both D Agency students.

A character named Odagiri doesn’t appear in the D no Maō manga and the spy taking the name of Tobisaki Hiroyuki, as far as we know, doesn’t interact with Kaminaga (nor with Izawa Kazuo who, in the D no Maō manga, is clearly NOT Kaminaga) and, although they are both trained at D Agency, Kaminaga likely completed his training way before he joined D Agency.

In the Joker Game The Animation version of Ep 3, I might be mistaken as they’re both giving their back to the viewer, but the two who fought together seem to be Odagiri and Kaminaga, with Odagiri having successfully pushed on the ground Kaminaga.

In Ep 12 since it seems Odagiri is supporting the idea that Schneider was killed, Kaminaga asks him if he believed the note was forged. He’s later tasked to investigate whoever got inside Schneider’s house and reported the results of his investigation to Odagiri, telling him that there was no suspicious activity from the people who went into Schneider’s home. Odagiri, who had no idea he would report to him, was surprised by this.

In the Live Action Movie Kaminaga, along with Yūki gives him the task to cooperate with Katō and Jitsui to retrieve the Black Note.

Hatano

There’s no known interaction between Hatano and Odagiri in the novel beyond that they’re both D Agency students.

Characters named Odagiri or Hatano or Shimano Ryosuke don’t appear in the D no Maō manga.

In the preview for Ep 3 Hatano and Odagiri talk together. Hatano asks Odagiri if he can remember that incident, to which Odagiri answers he can’t. At this Hatano says memories aren’t important and he took the right choice. We don’t know which was the incident they’re talking about though.

In Ep 12 when Odagiri is supporting the idea that Schneider was killed, Hatano points out they should reject the idea considering the information Odagiri himself has given to them (the women screamed just after they entered inside the house and no one else got out from the door). He’s later tasked to double-check Schneider’s suicide note and reported the results of his investigation to Odagiri, informing him that no invisible ink was used and the paper was bought from a local store. Odagiri, who had no idea he would report to him, was surprised by this.

Amari

There’s no known interaction between Amari and Odagiri in the novel beyond that they’re both D Agency students.

Characters named Odagiri or Amari or Utsumi Osamu don’t appear in the D no Maō manga.

In Ep 1 Amari was one of the spies who used Odagiri’s signals to beat Sakuma at poker as Odagiri pulled out a cigarette pack and then acted as if it was empty and asked him a cigarette, to which he replied by handing him a full pack which seemed to hint at how Amari won Odagiri on his side (the manga seemed to imply how he was on Jitsui’s side before).

In the Joker Game The Animation version of Ep 3, Odagiri, seeing Amari and Jitsui together and Amari laughing, asked them what they were talking about, to which Amari replied they were saying it would have been good to have a mission in France where the charming ladies are.

In the preview for Ep 11 Odagiri and Amari talk together and we learn that Amari broke up again with his woman as he sees no point in remaining together with them for a long time.

In Ep 12 Amari was the one who, studying the photos of Shneider’s murder scene, observed that Schneider was fluent in English and that on a corner on his suicide note there were two XX. He’s later tasked to investigate the native English speakers living next to Schneider and, likely, reported the results of his investigation to Odagiri.

Jitsui

There’s no known interaction between Jitsui and Odagiri in the novel beyond that they’re both D Agency students.

Characters named Odagiri or Jitsui or Morishima Kunio don’t appear in the D no Maō manga.

In Ep 1 Jitsui was one of the spies who used Odagiri’s signals to beat Sakuma at poker. In the manga it’s implied Odagiri ‘betrayed him’ and made an allegiance with Amari when he asked Amari for a cigarette.

In Ep 12 Jitsui points out that Schneider’s suicide note was written by Schneider himself, since it seems Odagiri is supporting the idea that Schneider was killed.

In the Live Action Movie Odagiri and Jitsui support the investigations of Katō in order to retrieve the Black Note. They seem to get along well together.

Tazaki

There’s no character named Tazaki in the novel.

Characters named Odagiri or Tazaki or Seto Reiji don’t appear in the D no Maō manga.

In Ep 12 Tazaki is tasked to investigate into the wine import channels and reported the results of his investigation to Odagiri, telling him that no wine importing company was connected to an intelligence agency. Odagiri, who had no idea he would report to him, was surprised by this.

Fukumoto

There’s no character named Fukumoto in the novel.

Characters named Odagiri or Fukumoto don’t appear in the D no Maō manga and it’s never said if the spy going by the name of Tobisaki Hiroyuki and the spy going by the name of Shiozuka Hajime ever met, although they were both D Agency students.

In the Joker Game The Animation version of Ep 3, when Odagiri, sees Amari and Jitsui together Fukumoto is right behind Odagiri and Odagiri is saying ‘that’s all for today’ a hint that Fukumoto and Odagiri might have been working together till a moment before.

In the Joker Game The Animation version of Ep 4, when Odagiri tells Miyoshi and Hatano to hurry coming eating their dinner he reminds them that if their meal will get cold Fukumoto will make a fuss. Also, in one of the covers for the episode, Fukumoto and Odagiri are shown eating together at a restaurant, with Odagiri ordering something else to a maid.

In Ep 12 Fukumoto is the one that tells that two cross in English can be read also as ‘double cross’ or betray, and comments this could mean that Schneider either betray or was betrayed by someone.

In a set of cards we have Fukumoto and Odagiri ‘talking’ together. To be exact Fukumoto talks to Odagiri but Odagiri never replies.

It seems that in the ‘Joker Game talk show’ it was said that when Odagiri accompanies Fukumoto to get groceries… though we don’t see this happening in the OAV.

John Gordon

John Gordon is merely the target of D Agency’s investigation. The two don’t really interact, Odagiri was merely just one of the D Agency men who inspected his house (it’s unclear if he did the same in the novel and in D no Maō).

Karl Schneider

Karl Schneider is merely the target of D Agency’s investigation. Odagiri and Schneider don’t really interact, Odagiri was merely keeping him under surveillance (in the novel and in D no Maō this was done by the spy going by the name of Tobisaki Hiroyuki).

Nishiyama Chizuru

In the novel and in the D no Maō manga Nishiyama Chizuru is the girl who raised the spy going by the name of Tobisaki Hiroyuki, in the anime she’s the girl who raised Odagiri. Although she’s dead he can’t forget her and her memory still affects him to the point he understand he can’t get rid of him and that, therefore, he’s not fit for being a spy.

Nogami Yuriko

Due to her strong resemblance with Nishiyama Chizuru, in all the medias Tobisaki Hiroyuki/Odagiri loses his impartiality when she’s involved and ends up being distracted. In the Anime they won’t really meet although he watched her perform more than once, in the D no Maō manga she’ll confess him she murdered Schneider.

Yasuhara Miyoko

Odagiri/Tobisaki and Yasuhara Miyoko won’t really interact. In the anime he’ll figure out that she’s the culprit, in the other media, as she’s innocent, he only will understand that Nogami Yuriko decided to murder Karl Schneider because she caught Yasuhara Miyoko and Karl Schneider having sex together.

Gamo Jirō

In the preview for Ep 9 Gamo and Odagiri are playing chess. Gamo asks Odagiri what’s wrong to which Odagiri replies that in chess one has to destroy the adversary’s composure to win. Gamo replies that chess isn’t about winning or losing but about living or dying.

Yoru

When Yoru intrudes in D Agency’s kitchen Odagiri picks him up. The cat at first is not pleased by this development but, as soon as Odagiri tells him to calm down, Yoru does. Odagiri gently puts him outside D Agency, smiles at him and tells him next time he should hide himself better or the ‘demon king’ (Yūki’s nickname) will eat him.

Osanai

In the D no Maō manga Osanai is the one who will do what Miyoshi does in the anime during EP 12, demanding Tobisaki to explain Schneider’s suicide note, since it seems Tobisaki is supporting the idea that Schneider was killed. Osanai will also points out about the double cross on Schneider suicide note and will be tasked with investigating some aspects of the Schneider case and will report his findings to Tobisaki. Tobisaki, who had no idea he would report to him, was surprised by this and, being confused by this and by all the others who had reported to him, grips his arm, stopping him from leaving and demanding to know why he was reporting this to him.

Osanai will push away the other’s arm and inform him this is his (graduation) case before leaving.

Munakata, Higuchi and Akimoto

In the D no Maō manga Munakata, Higuchi and Akimoto get the roles Kaminaga, Jitsui, Hatano, Amari, Tazaki and Fukumoto have in the anime.

Katō Jirō

In the Live Action Movie Katō and Odagiri cooperate to retrieve the Black Note. Odagiri provides him spy tool and, occasionally, makes fun of him for having been an Army soldier or for his interest in Rin.

Rin

In the movie Odagiri has no interest for Rin’s survival and Rin manages to steal Odagiri’s spy tools.

Abilities

In the opening Odagiri is showed handling a communication system. It might be a coincidence as we know all the students were trained to use one but it can also hint he was particularly good with them (and a nod to how in the drama cd he’s using LINE to communicate).

In a preview Odagiri is shown playing chess with Gamo, a hint he evidently knows how to play this game.

When Odagiri picks up Yoru, the cat, and tells him not to be scared, Yoru immediately obey to him and calm down.

In the OAV Odagiri is shown as he’s about to drive a car.

Trivia

During the lessons Odagiri sits on the first row.

We never see Odagiri smoking though he asked for a cigarette to Amari during the Joker Game and received a full pack. As a result the I.G. store used Odagiri as ‘testimonial’ for the "GOLDEN KITE" cocoa cigarettes, chocolate shaped as cigarettes and sold in “Golden Kite” cigarette packs.

During the Joker Game Odagiri looked like he was reading a book. While this was probably a way to disguise the fact he was tattling out Sakuma’s cards to the others, likely Odagiri loves reading (as many others in the cast).

When inspecting Gordon’s house Odagiri was the one who confirmed that the garden was clear.

After the spies declared they couldn’t find the ciphers in Gordon’s house, which would mean Sakuma would have to commit Harakiri, they all smiled. Odagiri though is the one with the smile less pronounced and in the original draw for that scene one can speculate he’s not smiling at all. It ties nicely with how, in the manga, he didn’t seem happy at all with Miyoshi involving Sakuma in the mission.

In the Joker Game The Animation version of Ep 5, it seems that Odagiri was among the ones at whom the truth serum was injected and that he’s dealing with the effects of it by covering his face with his hands.

In EP 12 we hear the other spies using “Kisama” (貴様 “you”) when talking to Odagiri. In contemporary Japanese, “Kisama” is insulting and rude (it’s often translated as “you, bastard”) but it wasn’t always like that. "Kisama" was originally a respectful term for a higher ranking person, and had been used by the warrior classes mainly (you might have noticed how it ends with ‘-sama’ 様, which is usually a very respectful suffix) but, by the middle of the 18th century, the respect which this word expressed had considerably weakened and in the first half of the 19th century it was a formal expression used by officers of the Imperial Japanese Army to address to each other. It also often appeared in military songs and literature and was probably similar to today's お前. Outside of the army, it was considered a very rough but friendly expression. In short, while addressing to someone using ‘you’ in Japanese is always less polite than using that person’s name, the guys aren’t being jerk and calling Odagiri ‘you, bastard’.

Same as Sakuma, when Odagiri bowed and remained bowed to Yūki , he wasn’t just bowing at him in greeting like any ordinary Japanese man. That was the military salute, which prompted Yūki ’s question "Who bows while wearing a business suit?" (probably a better translation would have been "Who salutes while wearing a business suit?") which is probably meant to be a hint that, although Yūki had just called him First Lieutenant Tobisaki Hiroyuki, he still doesn’t consider him just a soldier but one of his men.

In the Joker Game the Animation manga Odagiri is familiar with Japanese folklore tales involving mice.

In a couple of chibi pictures Odagiri is shown being completely plastered which might be a hint to him having low alcohol tolerance.

Itazu Yoshimi, the author of the end cards, said that when instructed to draw the end cards he was told to “Draw the spies in their daily lives that aren’t seen in the main animation” and that Director Nomura gave him information on the character’s personality and whom they get along with. In his end cards we see Odagiri walking in the Asakusa district with Fukumoto, Hatano and Tazaki, at Ueno-Hirokuji with Fukumoto and Tazaki, in front of Shibuya station with Tazaki, Hatano and Jitsui and then him walking in Ichigaya with Fukumoto, Kaminaga and Amari. The last card he drew is a ‘group picture’ of some sort as all the spies, Yūki included, are in them. Although ultimately Odagiri is seen in the end cards with most of the cast, he’s definitely drawn more frequently with Fukumoto and Tazaki (4 times), second comes Hatano (3 times), third Jitsui, Kaminaga and Amari (2 times). It’s worth to note he’s drawn with Miyoshi only in the last end card (the one with the group picture). While this is no proof, we can speculate Odagiri, in addition to the canonically confirmed Fukumoto, was meant to better get along with Tazaki and Hatano and had the worst compatibility with Miyoshi.

In the Live Action Movie there’s a spy going by the name of Odagiri. Ironically the main character, a spy going by the name of Katō Jirō, received as a background story, a story pretty close to the one of Tobisaki Hiroyuki (he’s a soldier who, to protect another soldier from a superior officer, attacked his superior officer. The man died and he was condemned by a military trial to be executed when Yūki appeared and invited him to join D Agency).

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A Review of Spurgeon’s “Lectures to My Students”

Bibliography

Spurgeon, Charles. Lectures to My Students. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1979.

Summary

In the classic Lectures to My Students, Spurgeon addresses a plethora of important issues in pastoral ministry. Although many topics are covered, much of his content can be placed into one of two categories: the minister’s private life, and the minister’s public ministry. Both of these with be discussed in turn.

Spurgeon unpacks several crucial elements of the minister’s private life, the chief of which is prayer. The minister “is always praying” (Spurgeon, 43). Even though the minister is not always physically on his knees in prayer, his spiritual posture is one that expresses dependence on God. Spurgeon writes, “All our libraries and studies are mere emptiness compared with our closets” (Spurgeon, 44). Far from discounting the importance of Bible study, here he is highlighting both the importance and effectiveness of prayer. Our study of Scripture is intended to point us to Christ and drive us to our knees in prayer, and the minister who fails to pray regularly will see little fruit in his life and ministry.

Another crucial element of the minister’s life is his “self-watch” (Spurgeon, 9). Rather than relying on his own abilities, the minister is to seek strength from the Strong One (Spurgeon, 17). The minister must also reject the notion that he is “on the clock.” There is no timecard to punch at the end of the day; he is at all times an ambassador of Christ, seeking to honor God every moment of the day and serving the flock when needs arise. “A policeman or soldier may be off duty,” Spurgeon writes, “but a minister never is” (Spurgeon, 172).

Vigorous piety must characterize the minister’s life. Two quotes from Spurgeon drive this point home. First, “We had need live very close to God, if we would approve ourselves in our vocation” (Spurgeon, 15). Second, “We have need of very vigorous piety, because our danger is so much greater than that of other believers” (Spurgeon, 15). Indeed, the minister is not immune to temptation. In many ways, the minister faces temptations that arise with greater frequency and force. Thus, it is critical that he examine his life regularly to ensure that he is living a life pleasing to God.

Moving to the topic of public presence, Spurgeon highlights the critical nature of pulpit ministry. When preaching, the minister must be clear and unmistakable in his delivery of biblical content. Though he must be thorough, he must package the content in a way that the audience can digest. Citing a fellow minister, Spurgeon wrote, “Make your sermons like a loaf of bread, fit for eating, and in convenient form” (Spurgeon, 80). Regardless of the passage being preached, ministers must “be sure incessantly to bring forth the soul-saving truth of Christ and him crucified” (Spurgeon, 79). Indeed, “He (Christ) is the whole gospel” (Spurgeon, 82).

When he descends from the pulpit, the minister must take care in how he converses with his fellow man. In Spurgeon’s day, there seemed to have been a problem among the clergy in which they were “trying to be too much a minister” (Spurgeon, 171). In our day, the opposite error is prevalent, as ministers go to great lengths to “fit in.” Spurgeon’s assessment of the minister’s character serves as a remedy for both errors. Ministers are to be earnest in zeal for God’s Word and work; if the minister is not passionate about God’s kingdom, he cannot expect his congregation to be (Spurgeon, 326). They are to be sociable (even if they are introverts), and they more they come to love God and His people as a result of their private life, the more natural it will be to socialize. The minister is to have a face that says “welcome,” not “beware of the dog” (Spurgeon, 173). He is also to cheerful; assuming he is indeed spending the time in prayer, study, and self-examination that he should, his cheerful disposition will come naturally. Such a man will not have to adorn a fake smile because he wears heaven in his face (Spurgeon, 175).

Critique

This author only finds disagreement with Spurgeon only on one point, and that pertains to Spurgeon’s words on choosing a text to preach on. In reading the chapter On the Choice of a Text, it seems that Spurgeon was not keen on preaching straight through books of the Bible. In fact, he was actually critical some preachers who planned out a series of sermons. In recalling one sermon series on Hebrews preached by another preacher, Spurgeon writes, “Paul…exhorts us to suffer the word of exhortation, and we did so” (Spurgeon, 98). Granted, there is danger in preaching through a book in the Bible, in that the preacher can begin to lose focus and meander through passages at the expense of clarity. However, in such instances, the problem is with the messenger rather than the message. There are many Bible expositors in our age that have blessed the church beyond measure. Many have been captivated, for example, by Dr. John MacArthur as he spent over four decades preaching through the entire New Testament. Spurgeon, however, seemed to prefer topical preaching over expositional preaching. While the danger with expositional preaching is to lose focus and get lost in a fog, the danger with topical preaching is that the preacher runs the risk of taking a verse out of context and preaching a message that was not intended by the author. Further, when a preacher exclusively preaches topical sermons, there are certainly doctrines that fall to the wayside. Expositional preaching ensures that no doctrines are neglected. The preacher would do well to utilize both forms of preaching, as they both have their benefits.

To be fair, Spurgeon does mention that preaching through books is not always something the congregation “suffers” through. Still, to Spurgeon, “the exceptions are few, for it is even said of that wonderful expositor, Joseph Caryl, that he commenced his famous lectures upon Job with eight hundred hearers, and closed the book with only eight!” (Spurgeon, 98). His point is well-taken, but there is no denying that there are definite benefits in preaching through books of the Bible. Spurgeon no doubt believed this as well, as demonstrated by his magnum opus Treasury of David, but it unfortunately seems that he saw little use for an expositional series in the pulpit.

Beyond this one critique, this author finds no fault with Spurgeon’s lectures. More than that, this work is a delight to read, as Spurgeon is a master wordsmith, crafting illustrations to emphasize his points, and even injecting humor when discussing more lighthearted matters. On more than one occasion, this author laughed audibly when reading certain portions of Spurgeon’s lectures. To give but one example of Spurgeon’s beautiful use of the English language, consider Spurgeon’s advice to the minister concerning arguing with others: “Try to avoid debating with people. State your opinion and let them state theirs If you see a stick that is crooked, and you want people to see how crooked it is, lay a straight rod down beside it; that will be quite enough. But if you are drawn into controversy, use very hard arguments and very soft words” (Spurgeon, 178).

Evaluation

Spurgeon’s delivery of his content leads to the evaluation portion of this paper. This book makes some significant contributions to the field of pastoral ministry. One of the most important aspects of this book as a whole is Spurgeon’s delivery of his material. The lectures are extremely readable, theologically profound, and immensely practical. The structure of the book is well-organized, and his train of thought is easy to follow throughout each chapter. This is an important lesson for the minister as he prepares his own lesson plans. Many books in the academic world provide facts about the Bible but lack a certain pastoral warmth. Spurgeon’s lectures definitely challenge the mind, but not at the expense of nurturing the heart and calling the minister to action; indeed, he is well-balanced in his appeals to the whole man. In observing Spurgeon’s mode of teaching here, the reader can learn how to relay God’s Word in a way that will stir the affections of his hearers.

Another notable contribution to the field is Spurgeon’s teachings on the Holy Spirit. There are many “how-to” books available on ministry, teaching how to prepare sermons, study the Bible, grow a church, and other various topics. Unfortunately, many of these books miss the mark in a sense, as they fail to mention the Holy Spirit’s role in the life of the minister to ensure his success. Spurgeon does not allow us to make this mistake. He writes, “If we had not believed in the Holy Ghost we should have laid down our ministry long before this, for ‘who is sufficient for these things?’ Our hope of success, and our strength for continuing the service, lie in our belief that the Spirit of the Lord rests upon us” (Spurgeon, 196). This author wholeheartedly recommends Spurgeon’s Lectures to My Students to any Christian serious about their walk with the Lord.

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Fluffy Fridays—Chapter 129: Those Three Little Words

Pairing: Captain Swan

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CS Genre: 4b canon divergence from 4x23

There are some moments in life that stand out in such stark clarity everything else pales in comparison. Moments where it feels like everything hangs in the balance; whatever happens, life will never be the same. Moments where time seems to slow down and it suddenly becomes achingly clear what’s really most important. Moments where one feels the pain of regret over lost opportunities that can never again be reclaimed.

Emma lived one such nightmare moment in a cobblestone alleyway in the middle of Rumple’s and Isaac’s psycho alternate universe. She watched in horror, unable to move, almost unable to scream as she watched an evil version of her father plunge his sword into Killian’s back.

As she watched the shock wash over his face, and then the light slowly drain from his eyes as he reached out to her one last time, she could have sworn she felt a physical pain in her own heart.

No! He can’t be gone, not yet. Not when our life together had just begun! Not before I’ve had a chance to tell him how very much I love him.

Up until five minutes ago, it had been a fantastic day. She’d woken up in her tower, chained down, barely able to stand straight thanks to the shackles on her wrist. It was the same as every morning for as long as she could remember; she’d lost track of how long she’d been stuck in Rumple’s nightmare world (she totally owed him a punch in the face when they all got out of this).

But it hadn’t been half an hour later that Henry and Killian had arrived to save her. Two of the men she loved most in the world had done it; they’d found her and freed her.

Rumple had certainly done a number on the alternate universe version of her pirate, making him timid, easily frightened, unsure of himself. But no matter what Rumple had intended, he couldn’t change the fact that the man standing before her, the man slowly crumpling to the ground was Killian Jones, the brave, selfless hero who would literally do anything for the ones he loved.

Oh gods! He’d just sacrificed his life for her and Henry, two people he’d only just met. It couldn’t end this way. It couldn’t!

Emma swallowed back the sobs that threatened to tear from her throat. She had to get Henry to safety; that was what was most important. She’d be damned if Killian died for nothing.

“Mom, come on!” Henry urged, pulling at her hand. “We’ve got to go!”

Emma held her ground, crouching down (far less than she used to have to) until she was eye level with him. “Listen to me kid. Go find your other mom. Do whatever you have to to stop that wedding and get Regina and Robin to share True Love’s Kiss. We have to get back to reality.”

Henry hesitated for a second. “What about you?”

“I’ll be fine, especially if you and Regina get us home,” Emma said. “but I can’t leave him there, bleeding out on his own. Don’t worry. I can handle your evil grandparents.”

Emma’s heart pounded as she saw her parents advancing on them, ready to pounce, ready to kill. Henry still looked reluctant to leave her, but she gave him a nudge. “Please kid, you’ve got to go!”

Henry nodded, and then sprinted in the opposite direction.

Time for “Operation Distract the Evil Versions of My Parents So Henry Can Get Away.” Yeah, she really needed to leave the naming of the operations to Henry.

“You wanna pick on someone?” Emma said, looking around for something, anything she could use as a weapon. “Pick on me.”

“Brave,” Snow said in a cold, silky voice. “Foolish but brave. You do realize, don’t you that you will die just like your one handed lover back there? And then I will find your little brat, and I can assure you, since you’ve made this all so very difficult, his death will be long, drawn out, and exquisitely painful.”

Emma felt her mama bear protective instincts flare to life and with it, she felt a familiar buzzing energy just below her skin. Magic? How was that possible?

However she’d gotten it back, now was not the time to ponder it. Now was the time to act. Extending her hands in front of her, she focused on her fear for Henry’s safety, her desperation to protect him. The pure light of her magic shot forth, knocking both versions of her parents to the ground, both giving her looks of confusion.

“Yeah, slow painful death is not on the itinerary for my son. Ever.” she said.

Snow and Charming lay stunned on the ground for a moment, but all too soon, they got back to their feet, clearly ready to resume the battle. Emma set her feet, taking up a defensive posture, knowing she needed to stop them, but unwilling to truly hurt them. They were, after all, her parents.

Snow rushed her, and Emma let her instinct take over. She called up the strongest blast of magic she’d used yet, feeling satisfaction as it left her hands, collided with her parents, and suddenly they both disappeared in a poof of white smoke.

She wasn’t sure where she’d sent them, but it was far, far away from her and Henry. Hopefully she’d bought the kid enough time to save the day.

Immediate danger neutralized[DJ1] , Emma turned her attention to Hook. He lay still, so very still, crumpled on the ground, his hand still extended to her. Emma fell to the ground beside him, lifting his head and placing it gently on her lap.

“Come on Killian,” she whispered, “this can’t be it! You can’t be gone! Please. Wake up, Hook, open your eyes, come back to me!”

He remained still, not moving. Emma put her hand up to his nose, hoping against hope….

There it was! A tiny puff of breath, barely discernable but, it was there. Emma sighed in relief. It wasn’t too late; she hadn’t lost him yet.

Looking down at him, she gently carded her fingers through his hair, caressed his face, as the tears she’d been fighting back since seeing him stabbed finally welled over.

“Killian,” she said, her voice shaky, “I need you. I can’t make it through this adventure, any adventure without you. I don’t want to try. There’s something I have to tell you, something that’s long overdue. Something I should have said to you all the way back at the beginning, that night we came back to the future and you told me you gave up your ship for me. But I’ve been so afraid, and I couldn’t do it, but now…Killian, I don’t want to tell you like this. Not while you’re unconscious, not when you can’t hear me. You have to wake up, give me a chance to avoid making one of the biggest mistakes of my life.”

She looked down, half expecting to see his beautiful baby blues looking up at her. He’d always, always been there for her when she needed him. She could trust him, could count on him. Her heart was safe with him.

But as the moments passed, he remained still, silent, his eyes closed. If anything his breathing became weaker, his pulse threadier. He was slipping away.

He’d always been there for her. Maybe it was time…maybe it was way past time…she did the same for him.

The fact was, there was something she could do, something he’d tried to do for her back in New York. It was risky. If she tried it and it failed, her heart might shatter into a million pieces that could never be reunited.

But if she didn’t, she’d lose him and her heart would be destroyed anyway. She had nothing to lose.

Emma cupped his face in both hands. “Killian, I swear to you I’ll say this again when you’re awake, when you can hear me, but it looks like the first time is going to have to be like this.”

She leaned down, her heart racing, and then stopped when her lips were a whisper away from his. She closed her eyes, let her feelings for him fill her, suffuse her, radiate from her. Let herself believe this would work.

“I love you.”

And with that declaration, she closed the distance between them, capturing his lips with her own.

The effect was instantaneous, like electricity, like every bit of magic she’d ever used flowing through her at once. The rainbow shockwave that surrounded them tinted the world in light and color, the force of it all slamming Emma to the ground.

She heard one single word. “Swan?” before everything went black.

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Someone was calling her name, shaking her shoulder, tapping her face. Slowly Emma swam from the depths of sleep and broke the surface.

The first thing she saw was blue.

Killian leaned over her, looking terrified.

“What happened?” she asked, slowly sitting up, letting him support her shoulders and help her. “Where are we?”

“It’s over Swan!” Killian said with the broadest smile she’d ever seen. “We’re back in Storybrooke, or the outskirts of it at least. The Crockodile’s bloody nightmare world is destroyed.”

And suddenly it all came slamming back to her—being chained in the tower, her rescue, her parents confronting them, Killian…”

She gasped, looking up at him, reaching for his face. “You’re alive!”

He leaned down and kissed her gently. “That I am, and it would seem I have the most astonishingly amazing woman ever to walk the planet to thank for it.”

She remembered the kiss, the True Love shockwave, him calling her name.

“It worked,” she whispered in awe.

Looking around at her surroundings, she realized that for some unaccountable reason she and Killian had been brought back to the town line, and they currently sat in the soft grass just beside the Storybrooke sign. “And Henry must have succeeded as well. He must have found a way to destroy the alternate universe.”

Killian reached up and slowly stroked her face, shaking his head, a gentle smile on his face. “No, love, that was you. That was all you. When you kissed me, I woke, and then the world shimmered around us. When the shockwave cleared, here we were, back home, safe and sound. You are bloody brilliant.”

Emma’s heart swooped, stopping for a moment before racing. If the kiss had worked to this degree that meant…

She shook her head, smiling at him. “No, Killian. We’re bloody brilliant. That was a True Love’s Kiss we shared.”

Killian surged forward, his intent clear, but Emma stopped him before his lips could connect to hers. He gave her a puzzled look. “Swan?”

“Trust me babe there is some serious hot and heavy making out in our near future, but there’s a promise I have to keep first,” she said with a smirk, before suddenly becoming serious. Why was this so hard? Why, even now, after they’d shared a kiss proving their love was so strong it could destroy curses, did she want to run away from those three little words?

Emma took a deep breath, gathering up all her courage. She’d made him a promise and she damn well meant to keep it. Letting out her breath, she looked directly in his eyes, and then laced her fingers with his, needing him to anchor her through this.

“Killian, there’s something I’ve needed to say to you for a long, long time,” she said.

He smiled at her, his eyebrows raised as he gave her a tiny, encouraging nod. He knew what she was thinking, what she was feeling; he always had. It would be so easy to chicken out, but she was done hiding from him, hiding from her own feelings.

“I love you,” she said simply, but with a conviction that rang through the forest around them.

His eyes softened, and she would swear she saw the sheen of tears in their depths. He brought his hand to her cheek, his fingers slipping through her hair, as he slowly brought her to him. “And I love you. Always and forever.”

With that, he closed the distance between them, their kiss slow, gentle, unhurried, a declaration of a love far too deep to be expressed in mere words. Emma lay back in the gentle grass, bringing him with her as the kiss went on and on.

This was real, this was right. This was home.

Emma had no idea how long they lay there, languidly kissing, gently caressing, breathing each other in, healing each other’s deepest wounds, but finally he pulled back, and then gently laid his forehead against hers.

“You sacrificed yourself for Henry and me,” Emma whispered, feeling a tear slip from her eye. “Gold did his best to make you a coward, but you still were willing to die for us, two people you barely even knew.”

He kissed her softly once more and then caught her tear with his thumb. “My love, there’s no world, no version of reality, where I would hesitate to do anything for you. You are my world, my heart, and no bloody curse or warped storybook could make me forget that.”

She kissed him this time, her heart so full she was convinced it must have stretched to twice its normal size. Long moments passed in blissful silence, the only sound around them their lips pulling apart and seeking each other out again and again.

“Thank you,” she said, finally, breathlessly, after she pulled back. “But can we please make you almost dying a one-time thing?”

Killian laughed, getting to his feet and then offering her a hand up. “No promises, Swan,” he said. “If it comes to a choice between you and your lad or my own life, I’ll chose the two of you every time. But I will vow to wait another several months before finding myself in a position to need your True Love’s Kiss again.”

Emma huffed and then grinned as he laced his hand with hers. “Guess I’ll take what I can get. So now what?”

“Now,” he said, “we return to town to make sure everyone else fared as well as we did, but afterwards…”

She smirked at him, loving the devilish grin he was currently sending her way. “Afterwards?”

“Afterwards, perhaps we find a secluded corner where we can get to that ‘hot and heavy making out’ you promised.

Notes:

--Happy Friday everyone! I must apologize for this one. I knew there would be some inevitable angst, just given the moment in the show this story took place, but I had hoped to turn the corner into fluff sooner than I ended up doing. But hey I gave you a TLK (and several other kisses) as well as 3 ILYs—2 from Emma and 1 from Killian, so that counts for something, right?

--Up next: 5a deleted scene: After the Camelot ball and Emma healing Robin, Emma seeks Killian out for comfort. (This has the potential for angst as well, obviously. Just fair warning!

NEXT CHAPTER -->

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With just a one UFC party on the routine for the thirty day period in advance, we’re deviating from the norm this thirty day period in The 10 and wanting back on the greatest fights to strike the Octagon in the thirty day period of August.

Although the bouts that stand out in July and December constantly come to thoughts a little easier mainly because the UFC has traditionally shipped major occasions in the course of Worldwide Struggle Week and at the near of the year, one glimpse at the list that follows will clearly show you that there have been some amazing fights in August about the decades.

This is The 10: The Finest August Offerings of All-Time.

(Take note: as constantly, these are in chronological buy, not ranked)

UFC 87: GSP beats Jon Fitch (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

UFC 87 is a fairly large party for the record buffs, as it showcased the debut of Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar’s initial UFC victory, but it’s the welterweight championship main party that stands out the most.

Preventing for the initial time considering the fact that unifying the belts and avenging his loss to Matt Serra, numerous wondered how Georges St-Pierre would perform back in the role of undisputed champion and if Jon Fitch, who had won sixteen straight general heading into their showdown, would be equipped to outwrestle and outwork the French-Canadian titleholder.

About the study course of 25 minutes, St-Pierre turned in one of his most dominant initiatives, successful via scores of fifty-forty three, fifty-forty four and fifty-forty four, showing for the initial time that there was a sizable gap separating the champion from his closest challenger.

UFC a hundred and one: Anderson Silva channels Neo (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

A 10 years immediately after The Matrix grew to become a shock box business smash, Neo arrived in the Octagon in the kind of Anderson Silva.

Preventing at light-weight heavyweight for the next time in the UFC, the middleweight champion twisted his overall body out of the way of each and every punch Forrest Griffin threw, countering with precision, pace and power. Silva was basically functioning on a further stage and the former light-weight heavyweight titleholder Griffin had no prospect.

Slip. Bang! Bend. Bang! Twist. Bang!

A sharp jab at last put Griffin down for great and brought one of the most thoughts-blowing performances in UFC record to a merciful stop.

UFC 102: Nogueira and Couture go toe-to-toe (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

A few months immediately after Silva defeated Griffin (and BJ Penn submitted Kenny Florian), these two heavyweight luminaries stepped into the Octagon inside the Rose Yard and put on a clearly show.

Equally have been coming off losses – Minotauro Nogueira to Frank Mir, Randy Couture to Brock Lesnar – and the transference of power at the leading of the division had already commenced, but for fifteen minutes in Portland, “Big Nog” and “The Natural” reminded every person why they have been two of the most beloved and respected rivals of their time.

There have been stretches exactly where the veterans slugged it out in the middle of the cage and other moments exactly where their tactical, technological expertise on the ground have been on whole display. And each and every next of the struggle was amazing.

UFC 117: Anderson Silva submits Chael Sonnen (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

For several months, Chael Sonnen talked about how he was heading to be the man to halt Silva’s reign atop the middleweight division. Most men and women chalked it up to what we now would say is “Chael becoming Chael” – large talk from one of the most gifted orators in the record of overcome sporting activities.

Then the struggle started off and Sonnen dominated Silva on the mat in Spherical one. And in Spherical 2. And in Spherical three.

And he may possibly truly do this. Silva requires a finish. This is authentic.

And in Spherical four.

Chael’s heading to operate as a result of Anderson Silva, just like he mentioned he would. This is unbelievable.

Two minutes away from authoring one of the most impressive upsets of all-time, Sonnen had a mind cramp. Inside Silva’s guard, he allow “The Spider” management his appropriate wrist and in advance of he could react, Silva threw up a triangle choke and Sonnen was caught.

Sonnen tapped, Silva retained and the initial chapter in one of the greatest rivalries in UFC record was in the books.

UFC 118: Frankie Edgar erased any doubt (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

In April of 2010, Frankie Edgar scored a near, hotly debated unanimous final decision get about BJ Penn at UFC 112 in Abu Dhabi to get the UFC lightweight title. Specified Penn’s lengthy reign and elite standing, he was granted an instant rematch.

Four months later in Boston, Edgar left no area for debate.

Edgar crafted on the blueprint that labored 4 months earlier, doing work his adhere-and-shift regime even though mixing in timely takedowns and leaving Penn frazzled on the toes. He was swift and fluid, dancing close to the Hawaiian legend, sticking clean jabs and sharp crosses in his experience the entire night time en route to sweeping all five rounds on all 3 scorecards to eradicate all doubt about who was the leading lightweight in UFC.

UFC Stay Hardy vs. Lytle: “Lights Out” Goes Out on a Win (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

Chris Lytle was by no means a contender, but he was one of the most constantly entertaining fighters to ever grace the Octagon.

Tougher than a $2 steak and bent on providing the enthusiasts their money’s value whenever his title was on the struggle card, Lytle racked up eight post-struggle bonuses in fourteen fights immediately after appearing on Season four of The Supreme Fighter and designed a cult adhering to.

Prior to his headlining bout with Dan Hardy in Milwaukee, the Indianapolis indigenous declared his retirement, turning in a letter stating his intentions to Dana White at weigh-ins. He allow Hardy know far too, and the pair agreed to put on a clearly show the adhering to night and that’s just what they did.

The welterweights traded leather-based into the last minute of the third round, both locating good results at different factors and both comprehensively taking pleasure in them selves. With just under a minute remaining, Hardy ducked in for a takedown, leaving his neck uncovered and Lytle capitalized, locking in a deep guillotine and drawing a faucet from “The Outlaw.”

As he had during his vocation, Lytle left it all in the cage that night and wrapped matters up in style. He also took dwelling two extra bonuses as effectively.

UFC on FOX Shogun vs. Vera: Joe Lauzon and Jamie Varner incorporate for a classic (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

The lightweight veterans met in the center of the fourth UFC on FOX party and shipped one of the quite greatest fights of 2012.

This was one of individuals fights whole of swings and shifts – Varner beginning rapidly, Lauzon proclaiming management only to get dropped. Ebb and movement. Attack and protect. Back and forth. Your convert. My convert.

Midway as a result of the last frame, both gentlemen operating on fumes, but not letting off the gasoline one little bit, Varner strike a completely timed takedown, only to have Lauzon strike a sweep and lock up a triangle choke in the ensuing scramble. It does not get as much enjoy as Lauzon’s upcoming struggle – a bloody, epic clash with Jim Miller – but this was an excellent struggle involving two fantastic, veteran lightweights.

UFC Struggle Night time Shogun vs. Sonnen: Travis Browne Rallies (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

Positioned as the penultimate bout on the inaugural UFC struggle card on Fox Athletics one, this heavyweight clash carried explosive possible and surely shipped.

Alistair Overeem started off rapidly, urgent Travis Browne into the fence and doing work the midsection with knees. A minute and change in, Overeem buried a knee into Browne’s stomach that despatched the Hawaiian to the canvas, putting the Dutch superstar in pursuit of the finish. Browne covered up effectively, but ate a few extra knees as he tried using to get to his toes and fend off the onslaught.

When Overeem paused to catch his breath immediately after unleashing non-halt offense for virtually a minute, Browne responded, slinging large punches, making an attempt to get some separation together the fence. But Overeem was unrelenting, continuing to push ahead, showing little worry for the plethora of kicks up the center Browne had been presenting.

With just under a minute left in the round, Browne connected, putting toes to jaw with a entrance kick that despatched Overeem falling to the mat and despatched the group at TD Yard into hysterics.

UFC 190: Rousey rolls as a result of Correia (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

Immediately after beating Jessamyn Duke at UFC 172, Bethe Correia extended 4 fingers in the air, the gesture produced famed by the legendary pro wrestling faction The Four Horsemen that had considering the fact that been co-opted by women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and her instruction partners/roommates/fellow wrestling enthusiasts Duke, Shayna Baszler and Marina Shafir.

As the final decision was declared, Correia dropped a finger, leaving only 3 standing. She recurring the gesture 4 months later immediately after defeating Baszler, throwing up her 4 and using down two in advance of contacting out the chief of the team.

It was a great system, in principle, for the gritty Brazilian, as it caught everyone’s awareness, which include that of Rousey, who agreed to protect her title towards Correia at UFC 190 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That is exactly where the approach strike a snag.

Rousey rolled into Rio and rolled as a result of Correia, sending her somersaulting backwards into the cage out of a clinch try exactly where she proceeded to blast the challenger with a series of large pictures in advance of ultimately felling her with a clean appropriate hand driving the ear.

UFC 202: The Rematch (Check out on UFC Struggle Pass)

On March 5, 2016, Nate Diaz stunned every person but himself by choking out Conor McGregor in the next of the UFC 196 main party.

Immediately after using the bout on limited recognize and finding bombed on with large power pictures in the initial, Diaz rallied, stinging the Irish standout on the toes, prompting McGregor to shoot for a desperation takedown, opening the doorway for the Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt Diaz to consider his back, lock in the choke and shock the globe.

McGregor started campaigning for a rematch practically promptly and the two strike the cage yet again at UFC 202 and the sequel managed to surpass the original.

“The Notorious” one was extra economical with his output and additional leg kicks to his assault, but Diaz confirmed his trademark toughness and the bout appeared to be using on a very similar trajectory as the initial struggle, with McGregor beginning scorching and the resilient veteran from Stockton needing time to locate his rhythm in advance of seizing momentum.

But contrary to the initial struggle, McGregor didn’t wilt. As an alternative, he steeled himself towards the press back and countered, successful the struggle in the championship rounds to draw stage with Diaz in their personal series.

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