The mention of Akatsuki's job being directly from a noble + them disappearing, and now a noble showing up with knights who apparently have enough of a connection to Shiori to take her away, makes me think the knights are gonna turn out to be Akatsuki and they're about to get their asses beat.
Interesting to see this pop up after so long (I think chap 6 is the actual final chapter of this version that was made?). It'll probably bum me out a bit to see the original(better) art again only to know it's just for one chapter, though.
I'm honestly surprised Org spilled this beans this quickly. I thought his story arc was just going to be him getting into weirder and weirder situations as fake accomplishments kept sticking to him.
It's kind of funny to see a story like this where HP acts in a game-like manner where you can take a headshot/heart-stab and not necessarily die from it, vs just being an easy way to show how much danger someone's in.
You know, I'd feel a lot better about this resolution of "oh he just kind of closed himself off because his dad died, he just didn't know how to express himself properly" had we not seen his creepy sketch where he X'd over the faces of the whole crew.
Isn't Mira one of the male capture targets (listed in the first chapter)? Did translators just forget about him and accidentally say "she" in this appearance, or is this an actual change?