KING OF SWORDS 10-152
Chapter: 10
“This hand is not my hand. This sword is not my sword. This self is not myself.. I will lock it in a place far away when I am done with it, and I will examine it when I am ready.”
-Ya’at battle prayer
“This hand is not my hand. This sword is not my sword. This self is not myself.. I will lock it in a place far away when I am done with it, and I will examine it when I am ready.”
-Ya’at battle prayer
Wombo Combo
I’ve seen but a handful of those brave or fool-hardy enough to try to the legendary wombo combo
That ain’t Falco!
one drop of blood is all it takes …
The Lord Marshal tried this against Riddick.
…it didn’t work.
There exist at least two types of wombo combos but I guess it’s the one that doesn’t include using an actual wombat.
The Wombat Combat art is not very effective but incredibly creative.
Poor Zhu
GET YO ASS WHUPPED!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, White Chain had learned a new trick.
But sadly Solomon had watched her learn it.
The raised eyebrow of solemn(on) judgement. He is not amused by the same act twice.
Salami look too calmsome and knowin fer us likin. Even if’n thum’s halo does seems to’ve been blownoff.
I think that raised eyebrow might be Old Man Pokerface’s equivalent to “Nani? But I am immortal!?”
“Not amused by the same act twice”? He’s been copying her every move stance-for-stance!
I think that’s his schtick. He does not have strength. He has his enemy’s strength. He matches the threat… not for style points, but because he lacks choice.
White Chain, weakened… may be the worst fight he could ever face, because she’s been fighting herself for eons, without the strength to win… and she’s developing the power to be honest with herself about her nature.
His every act has been about making people capitulate to him. To coerce surrender. Submission. With the massacre, he rewarded cowardice. There’s a reason to all of this.
I think we’ve been reading different comics if that’s what you took away from this.
I mean I don’t know about you, but I don’t see anything stopping Dave from just switching to Ki Rata and just pulvering White Chain’s body in an instant. He most certainly has his own “strength”, the literal definition of it, I mean.
Nah he just playing with his food
What about when he red misted the entire crowd of people while moving so fast time was stopped for them? I’d call that strength…
That’s speed.
I love that little raised eyebrow. He looks to me like he’s only now paying attention to the fight, having finally seen an Angel do something new and interesting for the first time in… ever.
I do so believe it is not the apparent trick. White Chain is no fool. I believe she is making him *think* she is using the same trick, only to turn things around at the last moment…
Such as say, tempt Solomon into attacking her real body, and then pull it back inside her shell at the last moment, to attack him when his back is turned and attention broken.
I never would’ve though that White Chain could win this, but bringing out her stand was an excellent choice. The rules of stands dictate that solo Davy can’t see or touch it, so WC has this fight in the bag now.
Ah, but purple hamon isn’t all Salami can use.
We’ve seen him use ZA WARUDO a few pages ago, so he must be a stand user.
Anyone got an arrow? White Chain’s gonna need a Requiem stand to pull this off.
Solomon: “You have genuinely angered me!”
WC is dead as hell, she has to actually fight normal people, whereas Solomon just liquidates them practically instantly. WC is going to lose, if she doesn’t die.
The last trick White Chain has up her sleeve (so to speak) is that the presumption that she must win in order for David to lose – a presumption that David very much presumes – is false. She doesn’t have to beat him in the fight. She doesn’t even have to survive. She just has to draw blood. And angels, as we have read, deal massive AoE damage on death.
Solomon is playing this for the spectacle. He’s matching WC – not vaporizing her instantly.
All WC has to do is escalate faster than Solomon expects – make his “I’ll match you style for style” slow him down enough for WC to land a blow.
Remember this fight is to first blood.
White Chain doesn’t need to be alive to win, all she needs is a drop of Solomon David’s blood.
Is that a JoJo reference?
That ain’t Falco!
As is written in the Book of Saint Isayle;
‘Behold! The Titan’s Tower, lashed to ancient tyrant-pounded earth by chains of angel-wings,its shining splendor reflected by the crashing churning tempest of the first waters! See how it stands tall! Look upon its foundation, o mighty Arch-Judge! Look upon it, and see the cracks that grow with each storm!”
Stand Rush!!!
Salami Dave’s sidelong look doesn’t bode well for White Chain.
A
SINGLE
DROP
OF
BLOOOOOOODDDDDD
We Thirst!
I confess I have been looking forward to this one.
Like a finely aged wine.
A pity this seems to only be delayin’ an inevitable outcome. She ain’t half bad for un angel.
Noble peacekeeper and stadium attendant, I beg you to halt your methodical breaking of my fingers until the match concludes. I have sixty silver dinar riding on the angel, and I must check with my knifesibling and bookie as to whether the bet changes when she splits in two. Additionally, could you lean your purse hip closer to my off hand?
This is great
Is that what registration gets you?
They only break one hand?
Interesting. The Celestial has improvised before, maybe she intends to do so again. It seems we shall be getting a medley instead of a single tune.
How fun!
But white chain knows the temporal fugue now too. And appears at the moment to be running ahead of Dave. One doubts that will last, but o my friends and o my foes, what a lovely light.
Oh how I wish sweet Juggernaut was here to watch this.
Seriousness
“Seriousness always has to do with an established script, an ordering of affairs completed somewhere outside the range of our influence. We are playful when we engage others at the level of choice, when there is no telling in advance where our relationship with them will come out, — when in fact, no one has an outcome to be imposed on the relationship, apart from the decision to continue it.
To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with each other, we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence. It is in fact, seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself.”
~ Finite and Infinite Games, A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility.
by James P. Carse
『W H I T E C H A I N』
Ah, the famous Astral Vision. I see White Chain is versed in the martial arts of the Night Warriors as well.
Oh wow this is certainly new I’ve never seen a double team quite like this not from an angel at least. Of course even though this is a momentous moment for our sister-brother Solomon-david will shatter not only her shell but will probably majorly damage her soul flame body.
The Moment.
All those that seek heaven through violence know of it.
THE Moment.
The instant where everything states “Yes.”
Where motion and will unite to create song,
Song that creates the future.
And in the half-beat of a heart,
Too fast for the blink of an eye,
The Moment shears the distance from Is to Was
And leaves us to ponder what remains.
The suns are gone.
it took a reread to realize it, but White Chain has her proper color back!
F
I can see over a hundred and one ways that this could go, and I don’t believe that sister White Chain will succeed against this warrior that has yet fought for millenia.
It appears to me that Solomon is now stuck between an anvil and a hammer, something known all to well to shatter diamonds with ease.
Friday’s page is going to be very interesting then to see which way the arc of this fight bends.
That side-eye in panel 5.
He knows exactly what’s happening.
The question is, what will he do about it? He cannot copy THIS style, for not only is it White Chain’s own, but he has no armor of ash to flex at his opponent.
What then, shall he do?
Are we about to witness his gi and fancy skirt take on her armor while he goes after her bare sole to soul?
I don’t think we’d want to see Solomon buck naked, fortunately Abbadon removes or otherwise hides the genital area.
I dunno, I’d expect it to be as perfectly styled as the rest of him.
Decorated like his beard perhaps?
Oooh, I could get in front of that 😉
Now that you say it, Solomon David IS absolutely the type to have his attendants braid gold into his pubic hair while he reclines, naked, and gazes into the middle distance in what he considers to be a sufficiently regal manner.
Why is there a problem with the naked human form. Why fortunately. Why should Solomon’s or anyone’s simple nakedness be more shameful or anathema to you than blood and gore and murder and violence and tyranny, inflicted on other sentient beings. For example. Pragmatism, more than fortunately or unfortunately, likely has it.
He’s got a magus gate. We don’t know what’s possible. Maybe he projects his own spirit to mock white chain.
Solomon David will not try to mimic White Chain. Look at the actions he has taken in the last panel. The dust getting kicked up shows his stance has widened. Also his arms are stretched out and down with his palms facing downwards very similar to his stance on page 133 when he used Ki Data.
Well that last panel has the sort of epic badassery one might find when perusing art in a museum with descriptions like “…when the god soandso faced off with the great foe someoneorother” and dated to some awesome period of time or another.