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[dcst] Chapter 176
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OKAY I HAVE THOUGHTS
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(shocking, I know)
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So this whole chapter takes place over a tiny minute period of time, so that's interesting considering how fast we've been jumping through time, presumably.
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Yeah I'm not sure you want Senku and Stanley near each other
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Because one will die
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And it probably won't be Stanley /snort/
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Francois and Carlos are the other drivers.
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Carlos has Luna and what's his name
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expendable bike
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Looking at their map of South America
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I'm gonna go with they don't understand the scale again
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That looks awfully short
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IT WON'T BE
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This is not Japan
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Nobody stopped Hyoga from tying Xeno to the bumper
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Which is interesting and a bit more of an underhanded tactic than I would've thought Senku would allow
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Because if Xeno did get shot, he'd feel bad
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Aside from them trying to mitigate that
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Senku can be underhanded, but not typically in a way that risks lives
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At least they had a good idea of his tactics, which was to go for headshots
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Hyoga had some armor, he looks fine, Tsukasa took a hit
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They're probably gonna have to deal with that at some point
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Oh wait, they got Hyoga's arm
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And here's the mistake they made of course
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Xeno is sending messages anyway
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Now I don't know why they didn't consider that
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They were using the cipher because the enemy understood morse code
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remember??
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So it's not shocking that Xeno would do that
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Sloppy work Jr. Science Club.
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Unless Senku doesn't care if he knows where they're going, but they gagged him so I can't imagine that's true
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Prepping the plane makes sense to me
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BUT WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THAT DIDN'T
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AND THANK YOU FOR ALLUDING TO THE END OF THE ARC THAT I WAS NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT ANYMORE
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So I get to talk about it again
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I'm gonna need like 15 more flashbacks so you explain how the fuck you got out of that
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Like here it implies
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That Ryusui had the drop on her. Charlotte is it?
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Like...
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Okay?
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How????
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She was armed, they weren't
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And they had time to sabotage the plane apparently, while she was what
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Staring into Ryusui's eyes?
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I mean, he's cute but he's a bit young for her ;-)
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This flashback only leaves me with more questions than I had in the first place
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Plane goes down
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Do love his expression here though
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Senku, I love you being smug, I do
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JUST SHOW ME HOW YOU EARNED THAT
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Also lol, there is still a mountain in the way you guys
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REMEMER
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Mountains.
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Are you going to drive over them?
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I'm with them on the desert spreading
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But after the desert theres the Andes
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And I don't think they've magically disappeared
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They're gonna get a few days on Stanley again, I don't know what their plan will be, but without a doubt they're going to follow
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/reading the TN again of course/
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He's gone over the general route which I mean, I guess
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8/ Implication: Senku probably knew at that point that the Perseus was lost? He was assuming that the KoS wouldn't have immediate access to the plane(s) and a takeoff/landing strip.
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That's probably true, I mean, they had lost the Perseus
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9/ I think we can also assume that he dumped sugar water into Charlotte's downed plane as well. No reason to sabotage one but not the other.
(Although...that one was already screwed up by acetylene gas, so the bad guys would have to fix it up anyway...)
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Okay but stay with me here
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How did he get to do that
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She had them at gunpoint
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Inagaki said that the sugar only worked because it's a primitive engine, I suppose to heed off those comments XD
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13/ How will Stan pursue?
-boating around the continent would take forever
-only other vehicle on the Perseus is the motor boat, AFAIK
-Dr. Brody isn't on this trip; can't craft complex things
-do they have another plane? could Stan fly after them solo?
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Good questions - I'm guessing the last bit
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Stan will have another plane and chase them solo
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And thanks, I forgot they brought the motor boat
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Overall exciting chapter and all that, just we're alluding to things that didn't get shown now.
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/eyes narrow/
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Don't think I don't know what you're doing
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You wrote yourself into a corner
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magicked yourself out of it
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And now you're retconning an explanation
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I SEE IT
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Maybe.
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We may not actually get a full explanation.
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Like okay Charlotte was hurt
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I get that
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But she had them at gun point
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Why would she stop that?
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Did Ryusui overpower her?
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We all know Senku didn't.
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Ryu's not much of a fighter either
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I'd presume he'd fare better than Senku
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But that's not saying much
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Thanks guys you reopned the old wounds (LOL)
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