There's no wrong way to drink wine, except through the shoulders. If you're wondering how today's Dynazenon went, aside from the animation taking another huge plunge, everybody refused to fight because Gauma was hiding why he was not just letting the enemy destroy the world. The reason that had to be dragged out of […]
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