The previous chapters ended with a stunning cliffhanger: The Demon Lord’s vanguard unleashing a corrupting miasma that could turn the kingdom’s own soldiers into ink-blotted monstrosities. Chapter 116 picks up in the chaos, and it does not slow down.
If Chapter 116 was the battle to reclaim the present, Chapter 117, titled "The Sequel Begins," promises to be about the struggle to create a future. Sensei must draw a sequel to a story that the universe tried to cancel. The previous chapters ended with a stunning cliffhanger: