Makeste: Don't update journal for like a month.

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Due to a combination of work/family/holidays/what-have-you keeping you busy and you also being kind of a LAZY ASS in general, and also that one insanely addictive webcomic you went and got yourself addicted to in the spare time you do have, you masterfully put off updating your LJ for several weeks like a winner! GOOD JOB, CHAMP. (But at least you finally got that promotion at work so that was kind of cool.)
REGARDLESS! It occurs to you in a moment of holy-shit-what that you have not made a post in your journal since fucking April. Fucking April SEVENTEENTH. Seriously, did you just forget the Internet even existed?? That is twenty-four fucking days that passed where you did not even log in to your journal. If you weren't so busy now furiously rushing to post stupid meta-updates, you would take a moment to go hang your head in shame somewhere.
Sadly, there is no time for that. KHR 336 is already on the horizon, and unless you really want to cross that unspoken invisible line and post a triple-chapter recap (MADNESS), you know what it is that you must do.
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Really sorry guys, but even after three weeks I am still lacking the energy to do anything other than just laze it away. Compiling all of my thoughts into a series of decently organized paragraphs would take halves of hours that I just don't have, so you'll all just have to ROUGH IT with raw, uncensored bullet points. THE WAY OUR FOREFATHERS DID IT. I APOLOGIZE.
KHR 334

• Daemon are you fighting with tarot cards. <3
• I'm calling it now: this battle is going to consist entirely of Mukuro and D just endlessly mocking each other back and forth. Like really pompous schoolyard bullies but with more inexplicable flower petals floating all around.
• I don't see how Mist + Desert = UNBEATABLE!!! but whatever.
• OF COURSE, THAT'S WHY MUKURO HAS THIS... SPIKED BALL. TAKE THAT DAEMON! HAHA OH MAN YOU JUST GOT PLAYED.
• How did these two assclowns ever develop the capacity to take themselves seriously? I'm just so curious.
• MUKURO YOUR HAND JUST EXPLODED. Do you want like. A bandaid.
• FUCKING YES EARRRRINGS MOTHERFUCKERRRRRRR 8D 8D 8D MUKURO YOU RIDICULOUS DANDY, HAVE ALL MY BABIES. RIGHT THE FUCK NOW.
• ahem.
• lol that is the most ridiculous anything I have ever seen anyone carry.
• how would you EVER EVEN HOLD THAT without poking your own eye out! SERIOUSLY.
• I WILL ATTACK YOU WITH ALL THE EYES! ALL OF THEM.
• Incidentally, I will try to refrain but going overboard, but unexplained Homestuck references are going to intermittently pop up hither and thither for a little while. I just can't really help them at all. From brain to fingers to keypad, and then I'm too lazy to go back and edit, so. XD LET'S JUST ALL MAKE THE BEST OF IT.
• I think if I had enough time and was willing to put enough effort into essaying, there's a comment to be made about how this attack kinda seemingly reflects Mukuro's GIANT NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER in some way. Actually, it didn't take much time or effort to point that out at all. "EVERYONE! COME AND WATCH ME BE FANCY." Basically.
• well hello there, crazy guy.
• HI EVERYONE! THIS IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS! WEIRD HUH? HAHA, THIS MANGA.
• I am so sure Daemon Spade has really manipulated people for like sixty chapters only to reach this page and be strangled by Mukuro's giant illusionary web-spinning hand. That is totally what really will happen here.
• lol no! I was being sarcastic when I said all of that! Did you catch it?
• oh whoa. That actually really did throw me off. Well played, D, well played. And that is why you are the new king of dicks and Byakuran is off being a sad santa somewhere.
• Gosh darn it Mukuro, you just knew having friends and minions and actually caring about people was going to come back and bite you in the ass at some point, didn't you.
• Serious note time! It really excites me, this development, because Mukuro character development is still such a rare thing, especially when it's this blatant. This is pretty excellent actually.
• Huh, he actually came right out and said "friends." Was it really like that in the original Japanese? CLARIFICATIONS ARE WELCOMED.
• Well Mukuro, you can still try for M.M. at least!
• I love how D's one clear weakness is that even his illusions still have to monologue at length about exactly how they will defeat their opponent. OH YOU TALKY, TALKY MIST TYPES.
• Mukuro... made a... Gokudera face??! CHUCKLES? WAS THAT REALLY YOU? IS THIS SOME KIND OF PSYCHE, LET'S FOOL THE READER REAL GOOD AND HAVE HIM TURN OUT TO BE AN ILLUSION TOO, DOUBLE FAKE-OUT! THING, OR DID HE REALLY JUST MAKE THAT FACE??!
• ??!??!?!
• oh. nevermind.
• All right, he kept his cool. Damn. Well, good for him, I guess, had to go spoil my fun and all but whatever. XD
• That was fun while it lasted...??

KHR 335: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

seriously guys. the earrings are marvelous.

JULIE???

IS THIS THE PART WHERE I WOULD SO BE DEAD NOW BECAUSE AT THE SIGHT OF HIM LYING THERE I WOULD BE LIKE, "OH POOR BABY" AND JUST COME RUNNING BACK UP TO HIM EVEN THOUGH IT IS CLEARLY A TRAP?? I THINK MAYBE IT IS?

"MUKURO! WE'RE JUST IN TIME TO BE TOO LATE!" Either that or they actually got there a while ago but they took one look at all of the eyes and said, "FUCK. NO," and waited till they were DAMN GOOD AND CERTAIN that that fight was fucking done because shit just got way too fucking real and this is coming from a group of people who just got finished having a black hole party with a lot of black holes black holing around. Yeah. It's that real.

Mukuro, shut up, not all of us figured that out right away, okay. XD

"MUKURO WON? THAT'S SHOCKING!" These guys! I'm telling you, they never cease to be completely adorable!

It's like they know they're in a manga and the final boss just does not go down that easily. Good on you, guys. Yes, you look like idiots right now, but in truth you are absolutely right to be skeptical and never let anyone tell you otherwise.

On the other hand, "As I've always thought, you're incredibly powerful!" Hee. They really do just keep on getting hit with the Obvious Brick.

KISMESING IT UP, EH, HIBARI? KEEP AT IT, BRO. NEVER STOP CLIMBING THAT MOUNTAIN.

I translated Hibari's line, "Your reaction time is down. If we fought now, it wouldn't be any fun," as, "You just defeated the guy that had all of us trapped helplessly in a circle of fire two hours ago. If we fought now, there is a very good chance I might conceivably lose in front of all these people and it would be really embarrassing."

Seriously, watching these two go at it is making me finally start to get a feel for why 6918 has always been so popular.

"Bye Tsuna don't forget I'm taking your body someday lol see ya." Ladies and gentlemen, our Mist Guardian.

SUDDENLY, HET?? IN OUR KHR? WOW, IT'S REALLY BEEN A WHILE.

Tsuna, stop belatedly fanboying over Mukuro and take a second or two to make sure Chrome is all right after being taken prisoner by Sadist McVillainpants for like the last canon-week or however long it's been. I mean, really.

Gokudera seems more concerned/relieved to see her, for Pete's sake!

Seriously, Yama steps in to emergency cockblock JUST IN CASE not two seconds after Gokudera makes that "Tsk Chrome you sure are weird" face of fondness at her. It was that fond. I love teensy little character moments like this to death.

"OWLS SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SPEAK!" Smack goes the brick again!

Oh. I was wondering what the hell Spade's plan to possess Mukuro really was. Tempt Mukuro's soul out of his body and then reset the password so he can't log back in and the hollow little shell is floating there ripe for the possessing, eh? And then prance off to go possess him and... start his new career as an occupant of a human fishtank? It seems like I am still missing some crucial detail before "STEP 3: PROFIT", actually.

DEPOSSESSED JULIE! YOU LOVABLE BASTARD, YOU CAN SIT BY ME. |D

Let's give them all a minute or five to slowly piece together what the meaning of Mukuro not being able to return to his body + Spade having suddenly disappeared entirely from Julie's body could possibly be.

Oh of course he doesn't remember anything. BECAUSE WE CAN NEVER HAVE ANY ANGST, I GUESS, AMANO. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? :/

Okay, they finally got there.

Aaaaaand...

FACE! Really, at this point there is nothing left to say but, "lol." XD

Sob I have to go to bed but I'm glad this manga continues to be as KHRy as ever. <3 NIGHT, ALL.