We are now at the stage where three things can happen:

1. Sukia somehow manages to save Sakuya
2. Sakuya pulls out s B.S. save
3. The sponsors/Koa cheat.

Either Sakuya gets help from Koakuma or she is just going to lose it, though that is almost impossible~

Rope break is her only hope

Just waiting to see what her thought bubbles are. Dines to dollars that will give us the answer.

Scarlet200% said:
We are now at the stage where three things can happen:

1. Sukia somehow manages to save Sakuya
2. Sakuya pulls out s B.S. save
3. The sponsors/Koa cheat.

Given the nature of this doujin and the manga the tournament is based on? 2. No doubt about it.

Someone said on the previous strip that Orin had tripped a death flag by gloating? I think she tripped a victory flag by saying she's fighting for her friends.

randomness said:
I think she tripped a victory flag by saying she's fighting for her friends.

So Sakuya has become Ike and now fights for her friends? Yeah, There's no way Orin's winning this now. >>

Until translated we don't know if Orin is really mentioning her friends or giving a "hypocritical" denounce of their cheats while completely forgetting that having a mind reader telling you what their next move will be through codes isn't any more legal or honorable.

Truth be told, considering the ammount of pages this very moves is taking place, i doubt it will be a finishing one, as we had seen ,those the define the outcome of the match tend to take 1 or 2 pages only and be 100% sure victory, the author seems to be stretching it to the point on which it will backfire in Orin somehow, though i could always be wrong and the author could be just wanting to make it more melodramatic and build up.

A mind reader isn't cheating. It's the same thing as having an awesome coach.

It's the famous Robin Mask syndrome. Which is a good sign for the Lost Servant team, if you asked me.

By learning how she has been selfish, she will start to fight for the team...

Ooh boy, Hannibal lecture time~

Now that it has been translated the odds of team underground winning are between slim and none. Team Lost servants still might lose in the end but I kinda doubt it now.

Oh well, at least lets get it over with and just see how this Oni thing works out.

Thanks for the translation

Now because of Orin's words plot demands Sakuya mount some type of heart felt come back, but I think she will lose in the end but go out like a champ

this series can't possibly end without a showdown between sakuya and Remi

DHYohko said:
this series can't possibly end without a showdown between sakuya and Remi

There's not much you can get out of that while having the readers get into it without the matchup being "Loyal servant tries to go against her loyalty with her boss so she can fight her to the best of her ability," which really wouldn't be that interesting if you ask me. At this point in the comic and looking at past matches, it's fairly obvious that the finals is gonna consist of some form of Reimu vs Marisa vs Sanae.

Speaking of which, does this comic have actual antagonists in the sense of just looking at them we know that they're a dangerous (read: not a team that lucks out) group?

Team Underground are the antagonists, which is why I think they'll win.

DHYohko said:
this series can't possibly end without a showdown between sakuya and Remi

Look what happened to Flandre,Meiling,Yuuka, and Cirno. They had dreams, but it didn't stop Sanae Yamato from stomping such dreams into the ground.

Dangerous group? Hard to say since so far some of the most dangerous groups have been Sanae'ed.

Steak said:
A mind reader isn't cheating. It's the same thing as having an awesome coach.

Not really, an awesome coach has it's limits, a Mind Reader? only some sort of anti psychic barrier, some weirdass method or finding away for it's fighter to not be able to listen to him or her.

So yeah, mind reading in a competitive match, specially when you aren't the one fighting, IS cheating.

StriderTuna said:
Look what happened to Flandre,Meiling,Yuuka, and Cirno. They had dreams, but it didn't stop Sanae Yamato from stomping such dreams into the ground.

Dangerous group? Hard to say since so far some of the most dangerous groups have been Sanae'ed.

Sanae wants to represent her shrine, Suwako wanted revenge for her frog buddies, Yuuka wanted a rematch with Suwako, Cirno is the strongest, Flandre wanted to do violence, Meiling was helping her young misstress. I'm not really seeing much dream stomping here.

Frankly, there's nothing special about Sakuya in this tournament. Other servants have fought and lost. Failed to live up their master's exceptations. Ran, Chen, Udon, Youmu, they all lost. That Sakuya was tried to be made into a weapon against Yuugi and company, does that really make her any different?

I want Team Underground to go on. The longer they're in it, the more likely the two top spots, Kanako and Yukari, are going to fight.

DHYohko said:
this series can't possibly end without a showdown between sakuya and Remi

That really is just a pure fan service type fight as it has no actual relevance. Meiling vs Sakuya would have been more relevant simply because of how Sakuya looked down on Meiling at the start of the tournament.

dpsiko said:

Speaking of which, does this comic have actual antagonists in the sense of just looking at them we know that they're a dangerous (read: not a team that lucks out) group?

At first it would have been I think Suwako/Sanae but with the fight against Flan/Meiling that changed. The same can be said for team underground. Current fight is changing that.

Right now I would say it is Yukari.

Mettaur said:
Not really, an awesome coach has it's limits, a Mind Reader? only some sort of anti psychic barrier, some weirdass method or finding away for it's fighter to not be able to listen to him or her.

So yeah, mind reading in a competitive match, specially when you aren't the one fighting, IS cheating.

That regular coaching has it's limits does not change the fact that Satori's role is identical to a coach's. Her insights being more precise and fast-paced does not change the fact that basically all she's doing is reading an opponent and conveying strategy and tactics to her champion.

Steak, there is something fundamentally unfair about having the advantage of knowing your opponent's entire strategy in advance, without having to lift a finger to do so, not to mention being able to know every single move the opponent will make before they actually do it, flawlessly. That is, effectively, cheating, since it's damn near impossible to counter. It's not just what Satori did, it's how she did it.

It's cheating on the level of what Yukari did in the first matchup. After all, Ran was effectivly silently giving Chen orders, and Yukari was effectively giving Ran orders. Granted, it's nowhere near as bad as Aya "2.999999999999999" Shameimaru was.

StriderTuna said:

Dangerous group? Hard to say since so far some of the most dangerous groups have been Sanae'ed.

"Sanae'd"
That's a nice term. I will use it everytime someone gets owned by BS which authors pull out of their ass.

Steak said:
That regular coaching has it's limits does not change the fact that Satori's role is identical to a coach's. Her insights being more precise and fast-paced does not change the fact that basically all she's doing is reading an opponent and conveying strategy and tactics to her champion.

Again this is a competitive match, reading a opponent through skill and experience is understable, but reading it in a way that looks like you got the whole script before hand or has a big ass sign telling you what he or she will do and only you can read it, it's still cheating.

This is a competitive match, not a pragmatic battle, but seems that Gensokyo gives too much importance too pragmatismn in this tournament, and not necesarilly the kind of pragmatismn that is acceptable.

Seriously, this series was so full of cheating that it long ago stopped being like Kinnikuman and it's "plot devices" and few cheats for the sake of argument, this is becoming a carnival of cheats...

Darkness1852 said:
So Sakuya has become Ike and now fights for her friends? Yeah, There's no way Orin's winning this now. >>

No no no. Orin was the one who said she was fighting for her friends. Sakuya is the one who doesn't repay her partners and only focuses on her battle with Remi. The bubbles make it look a bit confusing, but it is Orin lecturing Sakuya, not Sakuya lecturing Orin.