Minatsuki and Masaru vs. Sumeragi. A slap to the face or bucket of cold water may have sufficed, but we all know Minatsuki loves to bust balls. Summary: Summeragi releases her Branch of Sin and engulfs Masaru and Minatsuki with a swarm of butterflies, and these butterflies cause the two Deadmen to hallucinate. Masaru remembers his past and how his boyfriend cheated on him with a woman. In the emotion of the moment, Masaru released his Branch of Sin and killed the woman. However, in his hallucination Masaru sees that the woman has suddenly come back to life and the Deadmen starts attacking madly. Meanwhile, Minatsuki is also trapped in an illusion of her past where her mother tries to stab her to death, and Minatsuki is forced to fight for her life. In reality, Minatsuki and Masaru are actually fighting each other and Sumeragi plans for the two Deadmen to kill each other in combat. However, Minatsuki manages to break out of the hallucination due to her own twisted personality. Masaru is still trapped in his own hallucination and continues to attack Minatsuki, but Minatsuki snaps him out of it by kicking him in the balls. Now that her illusions have been broken, Sumeragi changes tactic and attacks sending out butterfly-shaped spinning blades. Masaru and Minatsuki are injured by the attack, but the wounds aren't enough to keep them down. Inspired by Ganta's attitude, Masaru and Minatsuki refuse to give up and instead joins their powers together into a spiked whip. The two Deadmen then proceed to punish Sumeragi with the whip before moving on. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Minatsuki... gotta love that crazy bitch sometimes. It seems being somewhat twisted and insane has its benefits, at least when it comes to fighting in DW. Despite being a girl, Minatsuki definitely has more "balls" than Masaru, especially after she kicked him between the legs. Anyways, this was a standard but decent fighting chapter for the side characters. Sumeragi's abilities are probably quite useful against most opponent, but unfortunately she ran into Minatsuki. The hallucinations revealed a bit about the pasts of the two Deadmen. We learn that Masaru probably went to prison because he killed his boyfriend's lover. We don't know how he picked up the Branch of Sin, but I wouldn't be surprised if Tamaki had something to do with it. The past of Minatsuki is not as clear. If I remember correctly, supposedly Minatsuki's mother abandoned her after a devastating earthquake, so the stuff in this chapter is mostly just effects of Sumeragi's hallucinogen... or is it? Did Minatsuki become so twisted because her mother abandoned her or was there more to it? We can't really tell at this point, but hopefully the story will reveal her complete past in the future. So side fight number 1 is over. There are still Senji vs. Akatsuki and Hitara vs. Hajime. I'm looking forward to Senji's fight more since Hitara really didn't do much until this point of the story, but it'll be interesting to see what the old man's abilities are. Hopefully we'll check on what Ganta is doing as well. He'll probably be facing Madoka given the silhouettes of the completed Forgeries shown in the previous chapter.
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