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Monthly Shonen Ace Update (continued)
by Takada Shinichirou Overview: Dog-Fight is an illegal cult which gambles on fighting robots that have human brains. Tachibana Sayoko won 30 straight fights and was awarded the rank of "Sirius," but when her own free will returned to her, she escaped from the cult. The cult chases her to keep their existence a secret, although they know that she will die in a matter of days without their proper care. Sayoko wishes to spend her last days as a human with her brother Takeru (who had acted as her manager during her Dog-Fight days). This Issue: A girl named Oto chooses Takeru as her
first target of prostitution...and gets suckered into helping him clean
Sayoko's cyborg body. Oto says she remembers seeing something like Sayoko's
body during childhood, which catches the attention of the siblings. She
takes the siblings back to her place, where Takeru hears from Oto's sister
Miyako that her parents might have been assassinated. The Dog-Fight cultists
try to find Sayoko by talking to Oto, and their report was overheard by
Miyako. When Oto brings Sayoko to her place with a potential clue, they
find Miyako's corpse. Sayoko is disgusted with the trap that the Dog-Fight
men have put her in.
by Otsuka Eiji and Tajima Sho-u Overview: The culprits of a series of crimes with no particular target turn out to be a group of children who claim to be the true children of Lucy Monostone. The children performed these terrorist-esque acts when they heard that Toguchi told Kazuhiko on his deathbed that they were the children of Lucy Monostone, and they felt they needed to prove otherwise to the older generation around them... This Issue: Kazuhiko and Miwa watch as Sasayama
"profiles" a simple case on TV—and they find
out that a veteran American profiler is going to come to Japan. Someone
else watching this TV show is not pleased...
Meanwhile, Kazuhiko decides to help Sasayama in the "battle of the
profilers" to get down to the bottom of a 10-year-old unsolved mystery;
and Machi goes out to get information about Tetra from Kitou. What
about Tetra? He's in a laboratory where they are trying to find his
"hidden" personality...and much to the surprise of the adults around
Tetra, the personality that surfaced was Shinji! And at the site of
the profiling duel, a lone decomposed body awaits.
by Tomino Yoshiyuki and Sugisaki Yukiru Overview: Yuu is trying his best to save his elder sister Iiko from Orphan, but Iiko cannot hear Yuu's words because she believes that she is Quincy. Yuu wonders if there is no way to stop Orphan now. This Issue: As Orphan surfaces, Yuu tries to calm
down his anxious Brainpowerd, then three Brains and a Grancher
arrive—with one pilot. The pilot introduces himself as Nacky Guys,
who joined forces to help them. Meanwhile, Iiko is told that the Governor
is losing his patience with her because she cannot kill Yuu. Eileen, who
was with the group, gets a call that a ship has been wrecked near Orphan
and needs help. As Yuu and Hime try to find a way to save the ship, Nacky
goes off alone in the Grancher to seek revenge on Orphan.
by Mizuno Ryo and Natsumoto Masato Overview: Many of the battles were entering their toughest times by the time Spark was reunited with Parn. Eto and Casheu are forced to make a difficult decision regarding the future of Lodoss. Garack's group was floating along the ocean on a crude hand-made raft, but Ald-Nova was not to be seen... This Issue: So what had happened to Ald-Nova? When Djinn
hit their ship, he thought of what he could do for Neese, and swam over to
the assailants' ship and pleaded with them to take him to where Neese was.
The attackers tell him that if he can withstand 10 daggers from them, they
will take him. After the ninth dagger, he was asked if he could die for
Neese. He answers that he could gladly die, at which point the tenth dagger
lands on his throat. However, the one who threw that fatal dagger
revitalized Ald-Nova with the Staff of Life. While Ald-Nova feels that he
has betrayed Spark and Parn, the ship reaches Marmo. Meanwhile, Parn tells
Spark that a messenger from Casheu came to say that the Flame army has
surrounded the capital of Alania. Spark tells Parn that he wants to go to
Marmo to save Neese, but Parn is reluctant. Parn tells Spark that right now,
as Marmo is invading Valis, is the best time for them to head to free Ludo.
Back in Alan, Casheu captures Luster and decides to go down into Canon to
fight the Marmo army. Meanwhile, Slain visits the magic academy that had
fallen to the black wizard Bagnard, and he believes that they won't win
over Marmo until they figure out Bagnard's background.
by Mikimoto Haruhiko Overview: Shiva is devastated that Marvin let him win the match. Enica tries to comfort him, but instead she rubs him the wrong way and they have an argument. But then, something goes wrong with Enica's voice. Shiva goes to the hospital to be at Enica's side... This Issue: Shiva trains for the final match, remembering
that Enica will completely heal if she does not overexert her vocal cords
during her treatment, and that she wanted him to do well for her sake as
well. Word comes in that Jevil won without a fight because he was on the
same side as his opponent, and they decide that Jevil would be good enough
to win the finals. Also, the system that Shiva will be using in the finals
will be slightly different from other systems—not only will his blade
be more pressurized, but there are other changes made to it as 
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