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[BlackWaltzTheThird]

Agreed. The first thing that came into my head when "Sae" was mentioned was Black Waltz's "Greater than the sum".

You know I'm quite curious as to the connection you made here. Care to elaborate? PM is probably best, to avoid cluttering the topic. Speaking of which, on-topic business; hmm, yes, Iwanako = Hanako, bloodier avatar, Kenji and feminists, Angel of Death. There, that oughta do it.
Cheers, BlackWaltz.

[Doomish]

Forget it.

[The O.H.L.]

This chapter works strangely well with jazz. I like how Death/Iwanako is communicating with Rin, and I'm assuming that 'something' she gave to Rin was the letter. In the actual game didn't Hisao call it the death letter?
And now I can go to sleep. Thanks for another chapter.

[Doomish]

Forget it.

[The O.H.L.]

So you returned your avatar to it's original, unedited form huh? I'm too tired to think of a deeper reason for this
What I am awake enough for it to contemplate how Death/Iwanako will deal with the inability to talk to anyone whenever that happens.

[Roamin12]

Oh god, your avatar, it's back to normal, that's not good. Someone's gonna die.
I am actually not too surprised that Rin would be the person Iwanako/Death talks to the most. It makes sense, for some reason...

[Doomish]

Forget it.

[BlackWaltzTheThird]

Hmm. Potential Rin x Death/Iwanako Yuri? Not sure if want. It seems like this chapter doesn't do a lot to add to the story. It gives out a few little details about Iwanako's past, makes the connection between the previous Death's actions with Rin and the current one's need for companionship, and tells us about this impending doom. Putting it like that, it looks like a lot more than I thought. I'm probably just ignorant. Also,

Death only avoided direct contact out of curteousy... courtesy
Emi like chasing me down... likes

Other than that, I can't really fault this chapter. I'm anticipating some big event soon; the last few chapters seem to be building the tension and whatever else you call it to make it seem that way. Whenver it comes, I'm looking forward to reading it.
Cheers, BlackWaltz.

[Doomish]

Hmm. Potential Rin x Death/Iwanako Yuri? Not sure if want. It seems like this chapter doesn't do a lot to add to the story.

As I said at the end of the previous chapter, this serves as more of a bridge between Nine and Eleven, and it's more of a Nine-And-A-Half than its own chapter, hence its length.

Also,

Death only avoided direct contact out of curteousy... courtesy
Emi like chasing me down... likes

Never fails, something wrong every chapter or your money back.

EDIT: You may notice some more changes in my avatar. Speculate at your own risk, I suppose.

[Roamin12]

I see the scars on your avatar, they look suspiciously similar to Hanako's, too suspicious...

[Doomish]

Forget it.

[lolawesome]

Very interesting, looking forward to how this pans out

[BlackWaltzTheThird]

Oh goody, back to working on this I see. I like how you've made Rin Death's friend of sorts. It seems so like her to go on these strange adventures with a person who doesn't truly exist. Though I'm a little confused as to how this soul thing works; it seems that Death is continually rotting, as it were, and that collecting souls stop or even reverses this process. Thus, the more souls Death collects, the more human she appears? That's what I'm getting out of it anyway. Great writing as usual, Doomish.
Cheers, BlackWaltz.

[Roamin12]

Glad to see you back to this, I need some kind of depressing story that actually fit my reading music. And I'm going to predict that saving Rin is going to bite Iwanako in the ass later on, but we'll see.

[The O.H.L.]

Yay, I need something to counter the boring-ness of To Kill a Mockingbird. God I hate English classes.