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> "Well, I don't want to carry a piano down there," he said wryly.

I love that he said "I don't want to" rather than "I can't".

> He wondered how she would do against a Neuroi, which led him to picture
> her one-handing a pair of MG 42s like Trude Barkhorn. Truly an image to
> savor.

I think the only gun she needs is Gungnir. ^{Sorry, that was terrible.}

> /* "Weird Al" Yankovic "Classical Gas" (2020) */

<Governor Lepetomane> What the hell are you worried about? This is 1946. You'll be able to sue him!

Side note: I hadn't heard that song before, and wow. Al is a legend even beyond his parodic abilities.

> And she stayed with me longer than anyone else... nearly 80 years. She
> said she was human, but she never aged, and she would never explain.
<...>
> "But then one night she just... disappeared,"

Sounds like a thing a Time Lord would do.

> still open to the last page its owner had consulted before her death
> in 1794.

So we have a Sakuya, but no sign of Patchy just yet; her love of alchemy is well-known, and I think Remi would have trusted her enough to be let in here.

> "Because if you kill me, you'll never know."

He learned this one from Sherazade.

> A crimson blush shone on her face, and a light sweat broke on her
> forehead, reminding him of a person who has just eaten a mouthful of
> MegaZone's chili. Her expression was similar, too, the look of
> someone who cannot decide whether she is in pain, or ecstasy, or both.

Damn you, now I'm hungry for chili.

> No more humans. No more humans with their tiny attention spans and
> their short little shooting-star lives. Either way they always leave
> you.

Gryph, you're going to have to tell her you're immortal at some point. It's probably better that you didn't do so before now, but there's like a zillion other weird things about you, and she already knows at least one unaging "human", so she'll probably believe you.

Ending thoughts:

Honestly, it feels like the break before an all-out sprint to the finish line. Even if I didn't know the next chapter is the last one, it's only a couple days before the next full moon, at which point the fireworks (both literal and metaphorical) will begin.

The fact that Remilia gave him a plan on how he's going to return without anyone noticing he was gone for a month makes me believe that plan will go awry, because that's how it always goes when you say it out loud. The most obvious thing is Neuroi attacking the SDM, Gryph's wingmates finding him rooming with a vampire, Flandre getting out when her power and madness are both at their peaks, and you bring it home somehow in inimitable EPU style. The only thing I know for sure about the ending is that Remi and Flan won't be joining the witches, unless you do a giant retcon of everything from chapter 9 onward.

I look forward to what's next.