Nice character growth from Izumi, shafting her hatred of secrets a little. Also I'm interested in seeing more and knowing more about the 4 methods and such.

Holy hell, she killed her mom. Seems a tad bit of an overreaction but it's in character.

That was a pretty good end to the Anya/Adolph fight and a good introduction for Margareta. The Void Drifter attack was pretty cool too. It reminded me of H.P. Lovecraft. Plus it was cool to see Mai finally in action. Good chapter.

The battle was very nice. I like the way Hiroto fights. It's very inventive. Also, I like Anya and Adolph's characters. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them and learning what type of past they have with Hiroto. Also the title finally makes sense to me now lol.

And damn, end of the first arc and the last chapter did not disappoint. :)

Action is neat and the outcome of all of it really gave the chapter some hefty "Dayum!" moments which are pretty amazing to read.

Keep up the great work!

I have to agree with c'est. Your depiction of a teenage girl (in the manga, anime sense at least) is very realistic and doesn't veer on parody (or does it?). In any case, the prologue is very nicely written and easy to read.

I'm betting a few dollars that this dream is going to transpire later in reality.

Haha, Izumi's so cute x3
I'm actually quite shocked at how well you managed to get into her head. (O.o) The speech patterns, the thought process—it all says, "I'm a teenaged girl with a crush." (instant shoujo manga girl creation in my mind XD)
It's short, but extremely well-written; I have a feeling I'm going to really enjoy this :D

YUSH!
Finally got motivated to read this chapter, and once again I got hooked until there was nothing left for me to read.
You're really good at making interesting characters, and since I read the tie-in it was just so much better.
you mind giving me a heads up when you update?

Well this was an interesting chapter. The plot's actually moving along now. I'm interested in finding out what's going on between the creatures or whatever and Izumi. She's some sort of chosen one prophet thing or something. Also, I'm psyched to read Hiroto fight Adolphus and Anya (at least I'm pretty sure that's who it is).

Cool chapter. Really enjoyed the dream sequence. That was well-written.

I guess this chapter can only be fully appreciated if I had read your previous works.
I felt kind of overwhelmed by the introduction, instead of going, wahhh, these are the people I've read about, yay.
That's more my problem than yours though.

I accidentally read chapter 8 first, but this chapter actually seems like the arc closer to be.
It ties the Normalcy arc up in a nice little package.

Hmmmm, this chapter really makes me wonder what the connection between the Veil and the magic systems are.

Well that was awkward.
But no, it didn't feel expository, it flowed quite well.

So your magic has different systems, like houjutsu and gelman alchemy?
I wonder if they all come from the same original form.