>>Nemuro Memorial Hall went from Mikage's secret lair of
>>mindfuckery to a burned-out shell, and it's implied that Akio managed
>>to make it so that it always had been a burned-out shell.
>Or it actually had always been one - Nemuro and his students
>had, after all, died in a fire - and the illusion was that it had been
>there at all.

That was the interpretation that I took away from the end of the Black Rose Arc -- that it all had been one bizarre ghost story.

>Regardless, all of that stuff pretty well unraveled when the Lost
>Tournament was finally resolved properly.

Well, that's good to hear. At least we won't have to worry (much) about landmines in anyone's head.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.