RIP Carter. He's either dead or brainwashed. Can't say I've enjoyed the Carter/Alex side of the story. It's mostly the girls doing all the drugs and brainwashing after he sent Mia to Rin to be more seriously brainwashed by the machine (let's be honest, there's no actual hypnosis in the story). That's when the story got absurd. But the art and sex scenes are good, so it's not much to keep reading. Bad ends are still bitter even when you know they're coming, though.