Dec 20, 2025
Author's Commentary #21:
Time to talk about Chapter 21: Reaper vs Bongcloud.
With a title like that, you know the game for the chapter is going to be good. And it most certainly was. Okisato absolutely humiliated Red Reaper, and made him rage.
Now technically speaking, this isn't a pure Bongcloud Attack game, in fact, this opening doesn't have an official name yet. We'll call it the Bongcloud Gambit. Now in terms of comparisons to the original, the game itself is unaltered, but the events surrounding it are.
In the original, Iori had long-since left London, while Okisato didn't have any DESPER keys at all during Season 5. Red Reaper also challenged him outright, with them both taking to the skies, though Okisato still ended up warping to China as his prize for winning, while Red Reaper was banished to the depths of the ocean.
Here, I wanted Iori present mainly so that she'd be aware of Red Reaper's powers, as in the original, she only learns of them via Streamer Royale, a crossover novel for all my series. Obviously for the volume releases, I'll be reducing Streamer Royale's role to just an offhand mention.
Getting back to Okisato, I felt having him use the DESPER key to warp to China made more sense as in the original, it kind of felt like he just randomly decided to go there. Now the angle is that he wanted to drag Red Reaper as far away from London as he could.
That's all for this commentary. I hope you enjoyed it.