Board Thread:FBOF Discussions/@comment-4726368-20160724123818

So if I got this correctly, at the last page of chapter 40, Akitaru said something like "We'll transform more humans into Flame Humans".

This had me like "what the f*ck" when I first read it, but after some thinking, I have a couple theories.

Either, he's actually telling the truth and he and Takehisa are secretly on the Preacher's side, which I doubt, but this is a manga so who knows.

OR, they took into account that Benimaru doesn't believe people are actually creating artificial Flame Humans, and so are baiting him into thinking it is actually a thing, and therefore intriguing him enough to get him to collaborate (even though he was on his way to agree to collaborating, lel). The only thing about this theory, is that they would actually have to create an artificial Flame Human in front of Benimaru to get him to truly believe it, I think. However, they could be using Kantaro as an excuse to creating one, although they were in the room with Benimaru when it happened, so I'm not sure that'll work..

My other theory which is kind of irrelevant to the other one, is that the White Hood of Mystery group will attack Asakusa, and the 8th and 7th will form an alliance to fight them (the chapter title backs this up: "Alliance of Hatred"; hatred toward the white hoods). I'd love to see this, and for Sho to be there.. that'd be cool.

Nonetheless, we're definitely going to get some confrontation between the 8th and 7th or the 8th and 7th against the White Hoods. 