Wow. Just wow. I've got tears. Poor Ruby. Well. On to the crusade.

I think I found a sort of reference. The children of Artemis. Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt. Ruby tells her Grimm "Now, hunt." Ruby has become a child of Artemis. A child of the hunt.

well that was stupid. still, my hopes for the story as a whole are undaunted. let's hope that lasts.

That's it? Nooooooo!

I think checkmate would have made a better Jabberwak...

man im reading this while listening to the untold full album and DAMN does it fit

wHoA

Was that a M:TG reference at the end there?

Nope. Done. It got worse. Dont bother reading.

Sometimes I feel like the chapters are getting better, then you do this

I'll summarize ch18 so you dont need to read it; Ruby saves a village and gives a kid named Alec aura.

I take it back

Definitely getting better, but still kinda cringey.

For some odd reason at the end of the page the song “in the name of god by sabaton” popped up in my head lol

The story has had a rather protagonist-centered sense of morality for a good while now, but it gets especially bad in this chapter where Ruby is suddenly OK with killing four random people for no reason other than that they *maybe* could be suspicious about her being the Red Queen. Apparently *that’s* OK but using human blood to preserve Grimm parts isn’t? Is Ruby just exempt from the whole “I won’t be having anyone who can avoid it commit a murder” thing? Weird.

Also if you really wanted to have Grimm producing usable raw materials (which really seems more appropriate for a Minecraft mod or something and doesn’t contribute all that much to the story as is) just *don’t* have them dissolve or have some material be left behind or whatever. This is already a fast and loose approach to canon so there’s no point in bending over backwards to produce an explanation that doesn’t even really work.