freakman012 said:
No, I bet that the earl has something to do with this. It would be weird for someone to write so much about the earl being the bad guy and then suddenly after 170 chapters to say that the earl is the good guy and the organization is the bad one.
The problem is that Earl was portrayed anything BUT a badguy. If anything all the development made him look NOT like a bad guy
blopa said:
I couldn't get half of what was said at the end of the chapter. Anyway, now the manga is giving a sudden turn by portraying the good guys as part of a nefarious organization, while the Earl might have a good reason to do what he does... I kinda feel like it's both too sudden and too late to do something like this.
Oh its not that sudden, considering all the developments - start with shady figures, "fallen" accidents, Lenalee background. It was never a goodie organization.
crazy_eights said:
as to marian, i think he got shot but i wonder why he left behind his innocence. what reason, i mean he would lose alot of his power now because he did that.
My bet is that Cross IS really dead and we are still seeing a flashback - since we still did NOT see Allen finding the video-message in Tim.
Now whoever did that removed the body for some reason. Maybe to try to make it look like he escaped. Maybe to use it somehow. Maybe to hide the actual way on how Cross was killed. Many options.