This is my shrine to ANYTHING D.Gray-man related. It could be pics I see online(I am a HORRIBLE artist), fanwords, something that happened in the manga, ect. Yes, I am obssessed. And DAMN PROUD OF IT!

HOLY COW!

Alright, I'll continue this.

Now then, we last left off with a mention of a tragedy, and a screenshot of Kanda. Are these two related? Probably. Let's find out! ^.^

We pick up at the Asian Branch HQ, where Bak is struggling to get through the Ark's Gate to complain about Leverrier having Renee turn humans into half-akuma to Central. Unfortunately for him, everyone else there doesn't want him to, and they have Fou (remember her?) restrain him. She yells at him to, "Calm down already, you stupid moron!" He rebuts that he s not a moron. Fou rationalizes that the experiments have succeeded already and are a proven fighting force, making it hard to get rid of them. Plus Komui's not making a fuss, so why should he? Fou starts dragging him to get work done, which he has been pushing off ever since the Ark door was opened. Right before they leave the room Kanda walks through the Gate into Asia Branch HQ.

In the cafeteria, a man, called "Old Man Zhu" is told by Fou, with a megaphone, that Kanda is here to see him. Zhu starts talking about the vegetables he's examining. Bak realizes that is why Kanda's there, and Kanda comments he's not one to visit other places for no reason, unlike a certain branch chief. >.> Bak comments that Mugen is the best thing Zhu ever made, so he'd guess Zhu would want to check up on its owner. From there, silence sets in.

Kanda breaks it by saying, "They're starting it again, huh. This time they're turning people into half-akuma so they can feed on other akuma? Brilliant, just brilliant." Bak realizes Kanda's talking about the third exorcists, and apologizes, saying "We haven't hurt you have we?" and "We failed to keep the promise we made to you!" Bak says Kanda should hit him for that, but Kanda hits Bak for the insinuation that he's "hurt".

Kanda also says, "Stop coming up with weird ideas. You don't have anything to apologize for. I don't give a crap what happens to the Order." Bak says that Kanda may feel that way, but the feeling is not mutual. He says, "It was our clan that created you in the synthetic disciple project that Central forced upon us...nine years ago... Caught up in our dreams of a group of 'second exorcists', ...It was my clan, the Chan family, and the Epstein family that made that huge mistake."

Kanda gets a flashback of a younger him and an old man. The man is saying, "Kanda, do you still see the flower? I see...let's keep this a secret, just between you and me. You mustn't dwell on it. It's just an illusion. That flower is an illusion."

Meanwhile, the scientists spend all of their lunch break to find Zhu's hearing aid...in his underwear. Zhu comments he must be getting old, with Fou saying "Ya damn well are, you stupid old fart." Zhu is the manufacturer of anti-akuma weapons and also head chef, Zhu Mei Chan.

Lou Fa is happy, because she sees Allen coming out of the gate, along with Lenalee, making Rikei happy. Allen thanks Lou Fa for the mitarashi dango, and Lenalee explains to Rikei that she's on a mission. Link buts in, and says that they must find Kanda at once. The half-akuma tell them that they will stay near the Ark. Kanda's apparently needed for a mission to Istanbul.

Lou Fa says that the third-exorcists are creepy, and she can sympathize with Bak. She's not even sure if it's a good idea. Rikei says they are a boost to their forces. As the two start arguing, Lou Fa starts tearing up, saying that if they won that way, it wouldn't feel right. Rikei is bullied into apologizing, and Lenalee tells Lou Fa not to cry. Allen says "Whatever may happen to the Order, we'll still be us. As long as we keep moving forward for what we believe in, it will be all right!" Allen thinks he recited those words like they were a charm.

Zhu watches, and says that they make him consider his own sins. Then it moves to Kanda, surrounded by lotuses and Zhu thinking, "Do you still see the flower?

Theory time!
This was a long explanation, with even more quotes than usual. *sigh* Now then...
*GASP!* Kanda was synthesized? Holy cow! This is sad. And there was a second group? it makes sense now, thinking about it. Why else would they call the half-akuma "third-exorcists"? I wonder what happened to the other "second-exorcists". The lotus makes sense now too, kinda. At least it explains why Kanda'll die when the last lotus petal falls. Renee seems like an idiot at the moment. I wonder how this will affect the rest of the story.

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Renee, acompanied by two CROWs, has a shocking truth, that leaves Komui and Bak uneasy. What it is? We don't know...yet.

Meanwhile, Kanda & Bookman are sparring, with Bookman holding Kanda's hair tie, and a giant pile of bodies that were Kanda's previous opponents. Poor them. Marie is also sparring with allen, and talking about the CROW who absorbed akuma. Allen hopes the soul of the akuma was okay, since without Innocence, the soul of an akuma is not purified. Marie wonders why Allen's worrying about the akuma. Allen apollogizes, since Marie lost a finger, but Marie says he's worried because most of the Order hates akuma, Central deems the souls as unimportant, nobody will sympathize with him, and it will be harder for Allen to carry on if he stays the way he is.

Allen thanks Marie, but he can't do that, because that would mean forgetting about Mana. Marie comments that Kanda and Allen are similar. As Allen starts yelling that he's nothing like Kanda, Marie explains that he said that because they're both idiots, and that the darkness surrounding them is so deep, he can't find a way to pull them out. While Allen's shocked, Marie attacks him, saying Allen's wide open. Allen is caught by a strange man, and as the man says innocence, he throws Allen into a pillar.

Kanda notices that the man is in crimson too, and Allen asks what the heck is wrong with that guy. Marie tries to stop Allen's bleeding left side as Allen wonders when his innocence activated, and the man, Goushi says his arm reacted to Allen's innocence in reaction to one of companions asking what happened.

Allen's left eye reacted. The man is not an akuma, but he has a dark aura around him. Allen wonders who that man is. Meanwhile, Link reprimands Goushi, saying Allen is his responsibility, and Crows should not touch him. (Is Link worried, nya?)

Goushi's companions tell him to reverse the activation, and that Madarao will reprimand him if he comtinues. Allen's friends come up to him, asking what's wrong, as Allen eyes stops reacting once Goushi "reversed the activation".

One of Goushi's companions apologizes, and introduces them "as beings who have been converted int half-akuma through biological generation", and they do not react well to innocence, and begs forgiveness. The person who explained that is called Tokusa. His smaller friend who first asks Goushi what happened when he threw Allen against the wall is called Kiredori. The two CROWs with Renee are Tevak and Madarao. Renee explains that those 5 are stationed at the Order serving as "third exorcists" under the order of the Pope.

Bak says that this was Leverrier's doing. Komui realizes that during the invasion, Leverrier sent Link to collect egg fragments. Bak says that it was them who "sealed away the Order's dark legacy as taboo", has she "forgotten the tragedy nine years ago?" Renee says that the attack on HQ helped them realize it was a mistake. Meanwhile, Link wonders, "Half-akuma?" while thinking, 'that egg!' Renee says that, "For humans to prevail over the akuma...some sacrifices are necessary." The chapter ends with Kanda alone on the bottom panel.

What does he have to do with this tragedy?

I bet Kanda was the survivor or cause of said tragedy. ;P

.............What?

Ooooooooookay. I think Hoshino is REALLY drawing fillers at the moment. Please read 172 to get the idea of what I'm saying.

Alright, so there is a thief named Mysterious Thief G. Once he gets caught by policemen, he says, "You'll never catch me.

Then, a policeman named Inspector Galmar and his daughter are fighting over how the Galmar is always working, how he won't go to parties with her, and that one day she will leave her father just like her mother did. As she's leaving, she bumps into our dark, Allen-hating, Mugen-happy exorcist.

While she thinks to herself and I quote: " He's so handsome", Kanda tells her to quote: "Get outta my way."

She get's a crush on him, and he asks if the man is Inspector Galmar. Inspector believes Kanda is his daughter's boyfriend. I died laughing there.

When Inspector Galmar finds out Kanda, along with Allen, Link, and Marie are exorcists, he boots his daughter out of the building. As his daughter wonders who Kanda, Allen, Marie, and Link are, a boy comes up behind her, gropes her breasts, and yells, "I found Emilia!"

After the boy get's punched (thank god!), Emilia finds out he along with two girls are alerting her that the party she wanted her father to attend with her was starting.

As the exorcists, and Inspector head into the jail cells, they see the cells are crowded wiith people wearing Mysterious Thief G's costume.

Apparently, they are all inocent bystanders who G tricked, but Galmar isn't believing it. He believes that everyone there DID steal things. Allen and co. watch in apathy until they find out Didi(a man from the sci. division from Asia who transfered to HQ) and a group of Finders were tricked tpo.

Kanda tries to kick them, but the finders tell the exorcists that innocence is involved with Mysterious Thief G, which they found out from another person in jail dressed like the thief name Miss Bonnaire, who looks like a guy. For God's sake, she has a beard!

Bonnaire says only three things are known about G: 1)The G stands for Ghost, 2)he sends out announcements of when and where he will appear next, and he has no body. The man(I think) uses someone else's body to do the crimes, which is why there were so many people wearing Mysterious Thief G costumes.

Galmar doesn't believe her, and while they argue over what to do with the finders and Didi, a police man tells them that another announcement has been reiceved.

OH MY GOD! This is freaky. And so far, kinda like filler. How sad. Creepy too.

I wonder, since the current month is December, will Hoshino do something about Allen's birthday? I hope so!