Alright lets try this! One chapter everyday until we die.>The Social Welfare agency, a government sponsored corporation is in the business for saving orphaned or abandoned children who are terminally ill or injured beyond the point of saving.>Using cybernetic implants, the Agency uses a process called 'conditioning' to turn orphaned children into emotionless killing machines with hardly any memories, no human comfort and no free will.>Follow the life of Henrietta, a girl who barely survived a brutal attack that killed her family and who was saved and repaired by the Social Welfare Agency. Despite her conditioning and programming, Henrietta still has the heart of a young girl. She has not completely forgotten how to love, yet the very emotion is contrary to her training and programming. Can the Gunslinger Girl survive?Chapter 24 to 30https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/289998808/Chapter 31 to 32https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/290159804Chapter 33 to 35>>290213817 Chapter 36>>290283851 Chapter 37 to 39>>290311377 Chapter 40 to 42>>290369678
Did she join Padania?
What is he doing?
>>290429277Shouldn't her tongue be out?
unusually inspired typesetting for this manga.
So the gist of it seems to be that she got sick of the spy life and he thinks its a waste or like he wasn't good enough to keep her focused.
And so they meet! Past and futureAnd they sure look alike
Chapter 43 end!
>>290429746>Shouldn't her tongue be out?I think she doesn't know how its done, or that's how they do in Russia?
>>290430679;_;
>>290431186kek good point. Poor guy got traumatized for life
Petra manga
>sandro is hated and envied by his green eyed male coworkers because he gets all the women>rossana is too pretty, smart and hardworking to have friends>petra is to pretty and graceful to be a spyhahah wat a bunch of losers.
>>290431659They sure live different from the plebeian masses
>>290431186Not again!!!
>>290430783that's a bit of a déjà vu, she sees through him, he gets upset and her eyes glass over.
>>290433967Love the author's eye for details like that. Didn't catch it on first read
So just competent is machina compared to the cyborg spies?
>>290435367As a spy, far more. Sandro does most of the fieldcraft in their duo anyway, Petra is the muscle when things go pear-shaped. Notice how Petra tends to be an accessory to Sandro. Good enough to be disarming in the moment, but her back-up plan is always shoot, where Sandro and Machina have other options.
>>290436420What do we need the cyborg girls for, again?
>>290436890the cyborgs can't say no. they cannot even wrongthink. their presence is very important and relevant to the plot.
>>290436890They're testbeds for actual cybernetic prosthetics and PTSD treatments being deployed to the public. That they can be deployed as semi-autonomous humanoid murder drones is more of a side-benefit.
>>290438423I would think the government would rather have killer cyborgs than implants
>>290436358Where's Petra?
>>290439527Don't you mean Henrietta?
>>290439303The killer cyborgs are more of a liability. The medical staff are doing some Hague-level crimes against humanity in the course of their research. It's the sort of thing that would sink any government.On the other hand, if the government has the medical technology to provide advanced, low-cost prosthetics to replace the limbs terrorists blew off of children, you're in a much better place with public opinion.Murderbots just aren't good policy for a liberal democratic state. If they had it their way, they wouldn't have to fight domestic extremists in the first place.
>>290441025I wonder if it was ever discovered in story but still haven't read that far
>>290431012It was probably a big kick to Sandro's ego when this hyper-competent spy chick who sees something worthwhile in you suddenly drops you like a hot rock.
>>290443320That must hurt, particularly since they seemed to understand each other. Or at least Sandro thought he understood her better.
>>290443481He was too attached to a fiction
So nice of Jean to lend Sandro to section 1 for the explicit purpose of humiliating him
>>290446022Jean is the best pal one can ask for
