Yeah, Gregory is all healed up again, two strips after being burned to the bone. Quite a long time to recover from something like that, in cartoon terms. If the BMC wasn’t so devoted to realism and a serious, somber tone, he’d have bounced back from it in the first panel after it happened.
Of course his recovery was likely helped by the fact that he also suffered a massive psychological blow, which took his mind of the physical damage and the excruciating pain, and thus helped along the process of healing. Well, at least that’s how some people imagine that that works.
And that blow was Mori-senpai’s revelation that the Yuri Shinkai Gakuen team hasn’t been eliminated from the tournament after all! In a completely unexpected turn of events, a sudden influx of funds has convinced the tournament organizers to alter the set-up of the tournament – the first stage is no longer elimination, it’s round robin now. All of the matches already played count toward the new format, so the team is still down one defeat – but in this new format, that doesn’t immediately eliminate them from the tournament.
Gregory is a very veteran webcomic character by now, so he knows he can save himself the trouble of having to recount his whole conversation with Mori-senpai by simply turning on the TV. A webcomic character wouldn’t turn on a TV unless there was some kind of plot-relevant broadcast…so by turning on the TV on their own accord, a character can force a plot-relevant broadcast to happen. And since there was nothing more plot-relevant to show than this shocking development concerning the tournament mode, the plot-relevant broadcast necessarily covered everything Gregory could have explained himself.
And, yeah, that’s what a round robin looks like. ._. What did you expect? Batman would never allow his sidekick to become obese, so a round robin can only happen if a robin bird turns into a borb, possibly after having been a birb in between. It’s still one of the most popular modes to use for a tournament…especially since models like shivering crane or face-planting boobie never really caught on.
More on Thursday.