Well, of course the good news from the last strip couldn’t possible come without any bad news attached, so here Mori-senpai delivers the stinger.
To stress the seriousness of the threat, Mori makes his announcement while looking out of the window over the cityscape. You know shit is going to get serious when leading characters start looking out over the city like it might disappear any moment. And, I mean, it’s not like it’s not justified. Everyone dying is a pretty serious thing. Even more serious than most people dying, or just some people dying. And getting hit by rocks really f***ing hurts.
So, yeah – the team went from having crashed out of tournament that didn’t really matter to getting a second chance in a tournament which now has the fate of all humanity staked on it. Congrats, guys! Try not to stress out.
More on Monday.
P.S.: And, yeah, Gregory is fully dressed again, and has removed all of the bandages. Not sure how he did that without getting naked in front of everyone, but I guess he just stepped out for a moment before he removed the most critical bandages. Or not. That’s what off-screen is for, to remove the need to care for such pesky details. XD
P.P.S.: Yeah, I know that it actually makes no sense that the economy is now entangled with how well the team is doing in the tournament. The way Mori describes it, at most the fate of the global economy would rest on how much profit the tournament makes, which isn’t really connected to how one specific (and mostly unknown) team is doing in it. But, come on. By B-movie standards, just getting that close to real causality is already way under par.