Terraformars volume 13 - Yu Sasuga and Ken-Ichi Tachibana

 Akari has awakened to his full potential as Michelle is gravely injured by the chinese "rescue" vessel Kuzuryu.

That was how volume 12 ended, and he seemed to be changing more into a moth as these powers manifested.  But what does it entail?  Let's find out in this next volume of the fantastic Terraformars series.

Akari wreaks havoc amongst the chinese soldiers, but just as he is about to be captured, lightning literally strikes like Adolf's attack used to do.  It turns out he is saved by a mysterious, naked girl.  It turns out to be Eva Frost from the Germany division, who held Adolf when he died and who is with her MARS rank 100 normally the weakest of the whole expedition.

But as a result of her MO, a special sort of asian Flatworm, she can regenerate herself, and obtained Adolf's electric eel powers as well as she fed on his remains during the regenerating cycle, making her one of the four targets for the chinese to improve the procedure even further when they get back.

Shokichi, who was buying the others time, is reaching his limit only to be saved by the two gravely injured, but blast survived, Joseph and Liu.  But while they reconsider their alliances, Akari and Eva try to bring Michelle back from the verge of death, only to be interrupted by two other chinese division members.  They prove harder opponents then expected, as Akari is pushed to his limit while Eva is overcome.  He manages to beat his opponent, but with his MO now exhausted he must face the other one only with his sword.  yaeko steps in, and together the three of them disable him.

But using an MO based on a zombiotic fungi, the crew of the chinese vessel has enslaved a troupe of Terraformars, who take the battered warriors aboard the ship.  Captain Shokichi discovers however that BUGS 1, the vessel of the ill-fated first mission, has gone from where it had landed.

The book ends with the arrival of Terraformars on Earth, seemingly having travelled there with the vessel...

Okay, now I need to grab issue 14 as soon as possible, as things are starting to heat up Earth side now as well...