Jean basically felt something special about this girl, and then when talking to his old comrades he put two and two together that Maria is Albright reincarnated. We will learn in the next chapter
@Takonar, I don't disagree with your there. It's our fault for reading it (and even worse, buying the JP manga) when we know it is the same song and dance.
Main Couple --> add other girls --> other girl gets more popular --> sales start to sink --> focus on other girl --> it survives for...
Doing a terrible translation so it gets picked up by the scummy agreggators who automatically download using python or other scripts and it lives there forever is genius.
I think it is fascinating how Maria bring ups that she is still a kid after her traumatic incident, a fact that most of us forget since she acts much older than her age since she is 16 years old + ~20 something years as Albright.
Oh yeah, and this chapter does confirm that Lloyd sucks and all...
The ending wasn't good, it wasn't bad.
It sucks when an artist gets told "wrap up your work in xx chapters or x volumes" and there are a ton of aborted arcs and loose threads *cough*Okusama *cough*