Frederica's rare blood would've been a problem? Glad I read Golden Siblings recently as that may have some relevance here since that focused on her rare blood a bit.

I wonder who is being referred to with the 'After all, she's no longer among us" could it be Echidna? Satella? I'm unsure.

Was interesting to see how many attempts it took to deceive each member of the Emilia camp. And oh damn, Al has a suicide pill too. Guess that's how he managed to do all those attempts.

Man, seeing how Al fights, just resetting once one thing goes wrong and countering that for next time. I really hope we see more of this.

And wow that ending. I almost want to read chapter 13 now but it's 3am so it'll have to be done tomorrow. Man this arc is starting out fantastically