>>55824096no, both of them were literally disintegrating but Sird offered a suit that stops the process to whoever won a battle, and Archie won
Then after Archie failed in the Battle Frontier, his body broke down too
Then Maxie and Archie’s conciousnesses ended up in the Distortion World and at one point merged together and split apart again
Then their bodies reform when they return to the normal world which explains their redesign, and it turns out they recruited new chumps with the code names Tabitha, Courtney, Matt and Shelly, which explains THEIR redesigns
There actually aren’t a lot of confirmed human kills despite how tryhard the manga is
