Hello there. So, in the end, I decided to split TEotB into its four arcs. I know some of you thought it was a good idea, and some thought it was a stupid idea. As my pen name suggests, I can be pretty stupid: but if you've put up with that for +120 chapters already, I think you've learnt to live with me and my quirks.

What settled things was my own need for some sort of organisation. ^_^' I plan all this, you know. Might as well make it a little bit easier on my brain to do it.

Because stats are lost when fics are butchered like this, and for me to be able to do that to my baby, I had to make a commemoration, of sorts. (Sorry for being such a sappy nitwit) I'd just like to say that I saved the four-hundred-something reviews that were for arc 2. My Word crashed 12 times in the process, but the 185 pages (!) of thoughts you guys left for my story are safe, and reading them all through in the copying process just... Thank you. Thank you so much, guys. You're all the payment I need to spend a few years of my life on writing this.

Stats of TEotB at the time of splitting:
Reviews: 600 (oh, the reviews stay? how neat!)
Views: 67 706 (viewed every single day since it was created - you're insane, guys!)
Favourited by: 89
Followed by: 88

I never have, and never will, own Blue Exorcist.

"...why do I have to summarize? You're the one who likes playing with words."

"Yes, why indeed? Dimwit thought that would be appropriate, since this is your story; despite there being far more capable individuals in the cast."

"Why summarize at all? Do you really think anybody would be dumb enough to read this without reading the first arc first?"

"You would be surprised at the things humans have done throughout history. Your own blunders in the past arc can't even compare."

"...you're trying to taunt me into summarizing just to contradict that statement. You forget I got to know you pretty well in the previous arc."

"And if you would elaborate on that...?"

"Come on! Having the characters do the introductions is just lame! You do it if you want it so badly!"

"Haah, how mediocre the human mind, that does not recognise the world for the stage it is: you're the lead role, Shiro. The protagonist whose deeds will be written in the stars for generations to read with awe and inspiration. In every age and place has mankind sought ways to divine the future, not realising that the future changes its capricious path with every action taken; such was the case, too, when a daring young man took the first steps onto the path of a future known to you as the beginning, and to him as the end. It was in the early days of August, when fancy brought it to his mind that he should play a prank on the new students, by preparing the vents of their dorm with an odorous food called chou doufu. As fate would have it, this became-"

"Jesus Christ, this is an introduction, not another fic! Wards got sabotaged around the school and I was a little too curious for my own good, signed a contract for that weirdo over there, one thing led to another: I covered his ass when things heated up, and in the last chapter I woke up in his bed feeling like I'd been run over by the Shinkansen."

"You forgot to mention how good you are with Freudian slips and unintentional innuendos."

"I don't need to remind anybody of that."

"Indeed: and now we have a summary~"

"...ah, crap."