Excuse me, my imagination just went all the ways that Akio could use Annabelle and Garnet. I needed a moment.

It seems to me that Oriphos may be in for an interesting experience. After all, it isn't part of Muspelheim so invading Oriphos doesn't invalidate all those nuisancy treaties that kept Corwin from gutting Akio when he visited Sheol.

Now Akio may realise this and return to Sheol but he's got a lot invested in Oriphos and I'm not sure how much will be left. (Man, if that's his plan and he wants to reshape a wrathful Trinity into blood-soaked conquerers he really might think it'll just take one more little push).

But either way, things are getting ugly.

I have to wonder why Leyna was at Ohtori Academy in the first place. Where does he recruit all these students from.

Also the glimpse of Summer '06 leaves me intrigued. It's not much more than a decade since Kei and Gryphon put down a military coup there and there actually seemed to be prospects of peace with Kaneka at that point. Either things went markedly south after that or the warlords really didn't like the idea of peace. I'd love to see more of that.