THE MARK IS LOST! Choujin X Chapter 61.2 Spoilers!!

In the previous Choujin X chapter, Tokio asks Zora the Yamato Mori questions and concludes that he shall take the Mark of the Beast.

Choujin X Chapter 61.2 is still titled, “Go to the Future”.

Released on March 11, 2025, this chapter has 25 pages.

The chapter begins with everyone, including Zora, in shock over what Tokio had suggested.

Tokio explains his process as this:

Mado’s prediction is that Zora’s calamity will not happen but for Zora, it will and the one with the Mark will stop it.

So, if Yamato Mori believes in Mado, the Calamity will not happen, which means taking Zora’s Mark will cause no issues but in the event the Calamity does happen, taking the Mark is a necessity.

This is Blaise Pascal’s Wager: since it is impossible for human reason to prove the existence of God, then belief in God is necessary because the potential reward in belief (Heaven) outweighs potential losses (religious life’s inconveniences), since to choose disbelief and gain nothing is unreasonable.

The belief in God in Choujin X is tied to Zora, whose cult saw Choujin madness as Nirvana or reaching apotheosis. But for Zora personally, the central belief is that the Mark is a sacred obligation to prevent eternal damnation.

The secular age is represented by Mado

Arthur One angrily dissents, saying that this just sullies those who died in this fight and worries if Tokio will become similar to Zora, a crazy lost old bag.

Tokio says that it is a better option than fighting to the death.

Note Ely’s reaction as Ishida draws her left half being faded, which may or may not be an indicator of her future in the Calamity, given her desire to save both her precious friends from their fate if Zora dies.

Tokio says calmly that Zora should have brought up that her death will mean the death of those with her blood, like himself, Azuma, Ely, and the Tower of Mourning cult.

As the Keepers argue, Sandek ruminates through his options, noting that Tokio negotiated because Yamato Mori now has the advantage.

This is Pascal’s Wager again: To negotiate or to fight.

There is no certainty of gaining a favorable outcome but fighting means more losses, even if killing Zora is made certain by doing so.

Right now the ball is in Yamato Mori’s court and they decide the creation of values or morals with this negotiation: their way or a compromise with Zora.

Sandek laments the choice of disbelief, the choice with the most losses, instead of the leap of faith, as he initially believed in Mado the same way the Tower of Mourning believed in Zora.

While both paths resulted in mutual bloodshed, they were different convictions: the path of belief in a defined future with a solution and the path of disbelief in a defined future.

He thinks about the deaths of those who fought before, thinking of the regrets that held him and Yamato Mori back.

Regarding regret, he looks back to Batista, who clearly regretted the loss of his original powers, the way he had to be made powerless for the sake of a vision.

When one foreboding prophecy took away Sandek’s brother from him, it seems he has also surrendered to the inevitability of fate.

He already knew that when Batista surrendered his powers, his voice sounded so weak, as he was being crushed by the imposed will of his environment.

The thing is: both Zora and Mado follow their fatalism to toxic degrees.

Zora, in embodying the Pascal’s Wager risk, forces the outcome in a desperate attempt to become right.

She cannot see that future coming true without a Beast that takes the Mark yet she is obsessed with being the one to write the narrative, thus trapping her on the road to a self-fulfilled prophecy, which was the initial interpretation we and the Yamato Mori had, that Zora would become her own Calamity.

Through Tokio, we see a totally new path: if someone else takes the Mark, without bias but with the willingness to take Pascal’s Wager, the past generation can no longer be burdened to impose their decisions and their regrets.

Sandek felt afraid of the consequences of abandoning his brother as Batista was not choosing what he wanted but what fate imposed upon him.

In the present, Sandek decides that he cannot give permission for Tokio to give the Mark.

At least not in her territory.

Instead, if Zora agrees to come with them, the Keepers can ask for Mado’s opinion.

Zora recalls her confrontation with Queem, who is angered by her usage of the latter’s Choujin X powers.

It seems that Zora took the Mark from Queem at some point and this weakened him somewhat, even when Guelta says they have a chance to take over Yamato.

This appears to be a vision Mado has seen.

While they watch the outside together, a young Mado worries about the future, asking her master what they could do if a big threat comes and there are no heroes like her.

Sora Siruha says since she will become an old lady in the far future, they will have to figure things out for themselves.

Since unchecked evil has never been allowed to run amok, Sora is confident that a hero will always rise when evil does.

The world, she says, has a curious way with cycles.

To everyone’s surprise, we see Zora’s gigantic hand-form transform, revealing her true body within.

This shows an elderly Zora, whose eyes were covered by fingers and her legs were replaced by gigantic fingers.

While Zora doubts if Tokio has what it takes to be her successor, the future Tokio offers sounds worth trying.

Sora stretches out her left hand, asking Tokio to take her to Yamato Mori,

Suddenly, the hand is chopped off by a mysterious force.

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