Spring Arc

The **Spring Arc** is the ninth arc of the *Undead Unluck* manga series. Following Summer's neutralization, Fuuko is forced to go to Under to keep the world safe from Winter. With only one Season UMA remaining, Spring, the war between The Union and Under reaches its climax.

## Synopsis

After the defeat of Feng and Winter, the world is suddenly placed under a global blizzard without Summer around. Just then, Tella appears and reveals to the Union members Juiz's severed arm to negotiate with the Union on killing Winter. He makes clear Under won't kill the UMA even for Apocalypse. As such, Fuuko willingly goes to Under to keep the world safe, despite Juiz's protests. Before she leaves, Andy gives her UMA Clothes to watch over her as the Union vow to rescue Fuuko back.

Now a part of Under, Billy keeps a close eye on Fuuko so that he can finally copy her Unluck while Fuuko meets the rest of Under. When Under tries to launch a nuke at the remaining Seasonal UMA, Spring, the UMA reveals an Artifact that banks on luck to "steal away what the target cherish the most". As such, Billy tasks Fuuko with using her Unluck to kill Spring, and is given until the 24th of December to evolve her power.

While alone inside Under's base (which is inside of Kain, the giant orca UMA), Fuuko realizes she truly loves Andy before noticing Clothy, working with the UMA to alert the Union of Under's plans. She eventually manages to get a message out to Andy, and the latter asks everyone to help him rescue Fuuko from Under. The Union uses this knowledge to prepare for the eventually fight, while Andy and Juiz share a heart-to-heart while planning for the upcoming operation.

Eventually, the day comes, and the Union and Under finally throw down before Spring, and due the effects of Spring's cherry blossoms, have only 30 minutes before turning into cherry blossom trees themselves. Top and Chikara face Creed, who is defeated after Top kicks him at his top speed. Rip and Latla try to stop Andy, but Andy works with Tatiana to throw his head to the top of the tower where Billy and Fuuko are at. As Billy and Andy fight, the Under leader reveals that he isn't just limited to the Union's Negators when he uses a completely new Negations to try and take on Andy as Fuuko reaches Spring and tries to talk to him. Eventually, Andy and Billy's fight is interrupted by Spring suddenly challenging her to a match of three games, with the countless Union's lives on the line against the souls Spring had turned into trees.

As the game begins, Cloth reveals that God brainwashes Spring due to the UMA's interest in humans, bringing out his cruelty and lack of control over his own powers. Fuuko then braves three rounds, with the two players using Negators as the game pieces. The first round has Andy against Isshin as tops, with Spring winning the match. The second has all the negators as cards in a "Thirteen-man Karuta" game, with Fuuko's Unluck reaching the UMA and touching his heart when he remembers his first friend, the one he was forced to kill by God's order. Spring is then forced into a "Phase 3" by God, but before being completely consumed, he challenges Fuuko to a game of dice with the Kofusai. With Spring now berserk trying to turn the world into cherry blossoms, Under and Union are forced to work together to open the way for Fuuko to finish the game.

Spring's Phase 3 is eventually sliced open thanks to Billy and Andy working together, and Fuuko pulls Spring's core out of the body so that together, they can all enjoy the cherry blossoms and sake one last time before playing a game of Evens-Odds. Fuuko wins the match thanks to her Unluck negating Spring's luck one last time, and as the UMA fades away, Isshin reveals that she holds no malice to Spring for killing her ancestor, and that her other name is Haruka- "The Song of Spring". Realizing that he is loved, Spring lets out one last recital before fading away for good, ending the Quest of the four seasons.

## Characters Introduced

* Sadako Kurusu *(Debut)*
* Unbalance *(Mentioned)*