Annotated 39-27
Love E-Merl using his own wine jug as a bludgeoning tool. For all his problems, he’s still an asset against a serious threat, as he’ll get to prove next chapter.
Also interesting that WAV can detect the demon’s Cyberian origin, though we will later learn that he doesn’t have a lot of experience with that species of Cyberian.
Note, too, that HR is a bit unsteady on his feet in panel 2! Disrupting Frigg’s construct took more out of him than he expected it to, if only for a moment.
“Ah, another successful experiment, the kind where everything goes just the way I expected it to. I sure have had a lot of those. There was how I got my homunculus into this world, and how I got myself into this world and…um…a bunch of other flawless wins I had that you Cultists wouldn’t understand, you’ll just have to take my word for it.”
Well, I’m not sure how HR and the cultists feel about Lumberton, but the Peacemakers sure don’t consider it a win.
I’m starting to wonder how those cultists managed to capture a berserker spirit without it capturing them first, and without HR being involved in person. HR might have methods to control them (he kind of made them, after all) but the cultists have so far seemed remarkably content with *not* being able to control them at all. Which was kinda the point of having them in the first place.