[Mangaka-chan]

Chapter 44 is out.

Spoiler for spoilers:

Nice to see just about everyone converge to come rescue Chise. Interesting that Alice apparently has an affinity for fire, which the snappy little Will-o-Wisp likes. Chise is also rightfully still unhappy with Elias and Ruth but is rational enough to ask them for help when she knows she'll need it. She says she will destroy Cartaphilus for everything he's done and it looks like Chise is gonna use her dragon arm/dragon power to do it. But how is she going to be able to kill someone who literately can't die? Is she gonna blast apart Cartaphilus and convince the Will-O-Wisp to take his soul to the other side?

The next chapter comes out April 5th, so it looks like the anime will definitely have to end on an original ending somehow, as I doubt they're gonna spoil the events of an unpublished chapter.