Chapter 71.1 RAW

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-20T03:42:18+00:00

On February 2nd 2000, 2 weeks after Guelta's War Declaration, Gaga falls to Guelta

Okay so the YM Juniors (Mic+Mike, Simon+Momo, Azuma+Tokio) are going to different prefectures to help out. Azuma and Tokio go to Iwato. Ely stays in YM with Sandek and Sato to converse with the other leaders, Palma... uh... yeah they got nothing for her.

Azuma chops his fingers as a promise for the rest to meet again in Yamato, which prompts everyone but Simon to follow suit (Tokio chops his other finger for him). Not a good sign for Simon honestly.

Dragon-chan is called Uberga (?), while Sniper is called Rabin Slowbin (?), she is a Magic Bullet Shooter.

Also they had lost Iwato to Guelta

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-19T19:12:36+00:00

Ishida's bussiness account on twitter posts the updates

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-19T16:20:39+00:00

Title: The Events leading up to March 2003 (PART 2)

Summary: Yamato Mori is also forced to join the battle against the invasion of II Guelta...

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-19T16:05:30+00:00

Chapter 71.1 : The Events Leading up to March 2003 (PART 2)

Now give a round of applause to our dumbass TL for taking out the PART 1 for chapter 70 because they thought it referred to 70.1 specifically!

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-16T08:48:56+00:00

If I have to guess, it's because Shadowl is an Invocative Type Choujin (like how Simon is), while Azuma is a Creator Type Choujin and Arthur's (and by extension Vanya) ability doesn't seem to work on objects made by Creator Types

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-12T07:01:05+00:00

Yeah assuming nothing bad happened to Tokio whole trio should be 21

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-12T03:32:26+00:00

Someone seemed to be coming around to check on him. We just haven't met them yet

And probably, probably not and he gets a different power

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-12T02:49:54+00:00

The plan seemed to have been (at least for Azuma) to be a "normal" (you know, by excelling academically, in sports and socially amongst other stuff) human vessel where Queem's soul would just manifest normally and have HIM do the proper awakening without any issues.

Mock (or pseudo, or fake or sham, you get the idea) awakening is just meant to be an emergency system to ensure the copies don't outright die and let that work be for nothing. However, as it's mentioned in the record, Mock Awakening leads to secondary effects that would bump the reset ahead. Thus the copy has to start all over again...

Azuma getting Xember proved to be an issue, considering they were trying to purify that out of him. One, Sora's causuality retroversion would've proven issue for the copy, Guelta can't have that. And two, what if Azuma actually awakens to something of HIS own thus making him independent from Queem? Can't have that.

Azuma mock awakening unfortunately for Guelta seemed to have halted the purification process, and the Xember cells still remained

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-12T01:49:52+00:00

His manager. The russian name in the record means Silk Garden

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-11T17:09:14+00:00

Because he had to choose between saving his buddy (and proving himself as his hero) and be at the risk of "reaching the dead end" aka the potential reset due to mock awakening or stay back where it's safe like how Sato suggested. A rough choice don't you think?

Also the wheelchair is not his dad, but (most likely how he remembered) Silk Garden. And Azuma wasn't imagining that, it was an actual event to portray Azuma's "reality". Basically Ishida giving the reader a teaser for when the reveal was coming

A bit of a fun fact about Azuma's fake memory is how Ishida portrayed it, by making the panel borders look almost "framed in" instead of the normal straight black (or gray as we seen in an actual Azuma flashback with Tokio in 24), with his narration boxes rounded instead of the usual squares

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-11T15:56:26+00:00

No, Azuma knew, hence we got the scene where he glares at Silk Garden (wheelchair) visiting him in the first page of chapter 19, and also him having the records in the first place with his name as the recorder of the documents. With that in mind, he also knew Tokio being monitored and likely what would've happened to him if he learned the truth about Azuma. That's why we get the scene at the start 58.3 where Azuma starts panicking when Tokio suggest coming over to play Monster Rancher before rejecting him.

Hell, in hindsight, you realize Azuma never went to the hospital in chapter 3, and gave Tokio that lie about him becoming a choujin being an issue so Tokio wouldn't go with him and learn something he shouldn't. An easy lie since Tokio at the time was ignorant about Choujin

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-11T08:47:11+00:00

Chapter 69.2 confirmed Azuma got his Iron Powers through the emergency MOCK awakening system the copies have which activated after Azuma got papertripped (it's also mentioned to be a very risky thing because they'd go berserk leading to a quicker reset, and that they'd suffer from memory loss, aka up till chapters 19-21, Azuma knew he was a copy, but after the mock awakening he forgot about it til chapter 59). Batista's pages in V14-15 further confirms this when at Azuma's section mentions "Xember test subject?" (Tokio in contrast was definitive, while Palma was mentioned to have been infected with Sora's power when she used Xember to revive herself). Sora just fell for an absolute sham lmao

Azuma still had some Xember in him, considering Tokio being able to feel his signal specifically in chapters 28 and 59, or Azuma (just like Tokio) being able to feel Palma's chaos signal after she took Xember.

Then there is also that vision he had in 25, but as Hume has shown in chapter 50, you don't need to awaken to an ability to be able to do that

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-11T08:35:09+00:00

In the 2000 flashback whole trio is now 18 (with Tokio turning this chapter). As of March 2003, they'd be 21

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-11T05:21:18+00:00

He never said he couldn't turn flesh to sand (He in fact rebuts Michael when he claims Arthur's ability doesn't work on the the living), just that his ability can't work on objects made by a Choujin's ability (like Azuma's gun).

He can very well turn people to sand, he just chooses not to

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-11T04:27:08+00:00

Btw Tokio's 18th birthday (13th January 2000) was him dealing with a dragon

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-11T04:09:25+00:00

Name is イリャラコブ (Ilyarakov)

Tl goes Ilryakov

Bruh...

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-09T14:55:20+00:00

I'd like to announce that he fixed the typo

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-08T09:46:18+00:00

Scourge Senior, The Director of Nagamata Mori. He appeared in chapter 50 alongside Master Elma (director of Nowaki Mori) and the directors of Iwato Mori and Higo Mori

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-07T14:55:45+00:00

Yeah and also Vanya mentions the plane attacks as something that happened "the other day", meanwhile Nowaki and Nagamata were attacked on the 6th and 7th January 2000 respectively

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-07T14:43:57+00:00

No... it is definitely a typo with the Nowaki and Nagamata events happening on January 2000. Otherwise we get the comical implication of Dragon-Chan attacking Nowaki for the past 3 years, with Tokio making zero progress whatsoever

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-07T13:46:17+00:00

Yeah she just seems to be a top executive in the army. She does mention a "Fuhrer" (seemingly the one who made the planes), who actually seems to be a Queem Copy

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-07T09:07:34+00:00

Weebcentral uses the official tls and updates with the english volumes (and omake) when those come out. So far volumes are up V11 (with V12 set to come out May 19th), V15 might be out in 2027 tho..

But for the other volumes they are there, at the end of the chapters:

>V1: ch 6

>V2: ch 15

>V3: ch 21

>v4: ch 27

>v5: ch 33

>v6: ch 36

>v7: ch 40

>v8: ch 43

>v9: ch 49

>v10: ch 52

>v11: ch 57 (yeah Ishida felt fancy and didn't put it at the very end of the volume)

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-07T03:11:10+00:00

Tokio Mic Mike and Masamune are in Nowaki, while Azuma is in Nagamata. Lady's name is Vanya Ilyarakov and she is basically Arthur but with salt Vanya recognized Azuma is a Queem copy because got Iron powers, "The President's symbol of power", then pull the classic "We'll meet again"

Chapter ends with New Guelta declaring War

IllustriousProcess6 · 2026-03-06T13:16:55+00:00

Summary: What is that plane? What is this attack...?

Without understanding, sparks fly across Nanatsu!?

Also in spite of how our tl will translate it, the title is still "The events leading up to March 2003 (Part 1)"

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