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112-2 releases 6/13

You threaten us for saying it in the Semi-Finals? we’ll write it then.

Let’s gooo SPAIIIN

(In terms of Elias's most mysterious human face)

This is the first time we see this face, and it is not referred to as a glamour. Here's the relevant dialogue with my more literal translation that makes the distinction more clear:

Seth: Is that Ainsworth? I thought magic or sorcery or anything of that nature didn't work in the auction house... Elias: That's what I had heard too, so I didn't use either. I just entirely rearranged my shape.

We'll call this "shapeshifting" for simplicity. However, this appearance is not always accessed through shapeshifting, because there are two instances where Elias explicitly refers to it as a glamour:

This brings up so many questions for me. We've seen Elias transform into various beastial forms- I would assume all of those qualify as shapeshifting. Can he access any of his other human appearances through shapeshifting, or is the Simon-face always a glamour?

Besides shapeshifting not being magic and glamour being magic, what are the other differences? Is glamour faster to put on and take off? Is shapeshifting easier to hold for longer periods of time without strain? Is there the risk of "getting stuck" in a certain form while shapeshifting improperly, like we see at the beginning of the series when Elias gets stuck as a giant beastie for a while?

I think the thing about staying focused a lot and being fully aware that you're wearing it is also relevant, it seems that if you're wearing one it's as if you weren't really wearing anything, one can even speculate that maybe he still looks the same, it's just your perception that is altered, not his, hence when people ask him who he is he would have forgotten that he was wearing it, normally people get scared when they see him, and they weren’t scared, so he remembered again that he was wearing it, which also makes sense considering the neutrality of the original language

As for shapeshifting, I do believe he can reorganize his body into any person. In the end, Elias is a shadow and everything has a shadow, as if your shadow copied you, only it comes with consequences. In this case, this form is shorter than normal, it has to be compressed and packed more. In addition, he could possibly spend mana on putting on a different color palette, other than a white head, dark purple body, and red eyes, but that would possibly weaken him even more.

So far we have this little info from the Supplement 1, but nothing has been confirmed yet. We still have a long way to see the end of Chise's journey.

Machine translation of the section on the right:

As I have mentioned many times in various places, the 4-page spread for the first story did not exist when the rest of the first story set was completed. It seems impossible in retrospect, but the spread had become unsustainable. We had to do something to fill in the gaps! Yamazaki-san came up with the spur-of-the-moment idea of the page "Behind a thick veil, behind a tacky cement wall, behind trees in a rain haze, the world breathes close to us". In retrospect, I feel as if this page had been done from the very beginning, as it beautifully presented Yamazaki's greatest strengths: the power of words, the beauty of rhythm, and her ability to draw. In fact, as an editor, I am ashamed of myself, so I try to tell everyone about it every time so that I don't forget.