Wow, finally some semblance of world building has begun. We finally move out from the scrapyard, but not quite far yet. I thought we'd be stuck there the entire manga and we wouldn't see anymore of the world that Alita lives in.
Alita begins her next journey as she travels on one of the factory trains to help protect its cargo from bandits as part of her mission. Due to the raids conducted by the bandits, Vector is struggling to find mercenaries to protect the cargo he transports.
I thought it was funny that the guy who signed up got tossed by the cyborg, but dude managed to redeem himself. I can't believe he went and took the harmonica from Alita tho while she was playing it. That was ballsy. I thought she going to throw him off the train or something worse, but he ended up embarrassing himself in the end, so I guess that's his karma.
Alita did well dealing with the bandit raid. She was able to handle business and take out the leader of this raid so that she can now go after his boss. Alita is badass as always.