hepar wrote:Twitchywrote wrote:It also just occurred to me that those spines are indeed part of Homme's ambush...they're coming from the Toji-plasm!
I think it was Ygrek from the wery beginning. He pretended to be Toji and than owned the lobster-guy

Yeah, he must've jumped out of the flesh of the huge monstrosity and then just waited for an opportunity. I think he knows that he's not game enough to fight high-powered karate cyborgs one-on-one, so he's using what he learned from Olympe to systematically eliminate them. Toji's buried in slime, Rakan's being crushed in mammary-goo (and he's probably all the happier for it) and now Taraba has been skewered.
I doubt the Karate Alliance is done for just yet, though. No matter what, Zekka has yet to appear, and he might just, for the sake of showing up, humiliating and destroying his wolf-clone.
But I could be wrong! Igrec might have the strength to put them in their place...and if not the strength, then certainly the cunning and ability.