Mostly I wonder what Dark Mist is up to, specifically what it did to Shinoko.
The ultimate goal of what's going on? That Dark Mist is really after? It wants to broadcast its information into the Warp, where it senses its master, or what it believes is its master.

The specifics of what happened to Shinoko are honestly a Schroedinger's box to me. I'm not sure whether to go for the silly answer or the dramatic answer.

The silly answer is Dark Mist asked/put a thought in Shinoko's head to transmit said information. The rest of Shinoko's reaction is she had a narcissistic lesbian swooning at essentially herself.

The dramatic answer is Shinoko had that information dumped into her head along with a shell personality designed to protect that information at all costs.

Which it is is beyond my grasp as I generally haven't been pushed on the matter and I dunno and I get conflicting signals of what people want.

On that note, I wonder what Mist plans to do about Erland, since he seems to have turned on it, somewhat.
What can Mist even do? I have basically zero clue and I feel Erland's basically got a death thumb grip on the situation. Unless I'm maximum retard.

What is Yamimaru up to, these days?
Black Ops work and dirty jobs for Noriko. He is a Ninja.