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King of Swords 10-163

by Abbadon
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  1. Lucifuge
    Lucifuge
    August 8, 2020, 3:05 am | # | Reply

    Oh man, I don’t know if that was a drop of blood.

    • Steel-Whirler
      Steel-Whirler
      August 8, 2020, 3:08 am | # | Reply

      Fire, friend. It cauterizes as it cuts–it would seem our heroes have lost by a technicality.

      • Eksyn
        Eksyn
        August 8, 2020, 3:31 am | # | Reply

        What are you talking about? There was no fire. He’s not bleeding because she just wasn’t strong enough.

        • Wankyr
          Wankyr
          August 8, 2020, 3:48 am | # | Reply

          I believe they are referring to the literal fire angels are constructed of.

          • Owlrageous
            Owlrageous
            August 8, 2020, 4:59 am | # | Reply

            Which is definitely what hit him. It’d be just like Solomon to deny the result he clearly wants because it didn’t fit the rules.

            • Khepri, The One Who Turns The Sun And Ends The Morning
              Khepri, The One Who Turns The Sun And Ends The Morning
              August 8, 2020, 6:05 am | # | Reply

              Does he want the results, though? His sin is pride. Could he ever accept that he had lost, unless circumstances undeniably prove it to him?

              • 1 Chungus Lords Over All
                1 Chungus Lords Over All
                August 8, 2020, 6:30 am | # | Reply

                That’s a bruise, not a cauterized cut.

                • The Sleeping Oracle
                  The Sleeping Oracle
                  August 10, 2020, 7:55 pm | # | Reply

                  I wonder if that still counts. Internal bleeding is still bleeding.

              • Gift Fastidious
                Gift Fastidious
                August 8, 2020, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

                See, that’s what White Chain is telling him, but angels can be mistaken. What if Solomon’s flaw isn’t a refusal to accept that he can be bested, but his refusal to accept that the the system he set up is itself failing?

                He holds this tournament every year to find a successor so he can devote even more time to training, so as to finally rise above the other six demiurges as the new conquering king. But as it stands, the pattern of tournaments will continue until Jagganoth, the one person Solomon absolutely knows can beat him, is ready to come knocking, and Jagganoth has no intention of preserving what Solomon has built.

                • Ocean
                  Ocean
                  August 8, 2020, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

                  I think angels are allowed to be mistaken, they just can’t Lie without breaking themselves. Though even that only seems to crack the armor, as I don’t think White Chain’s true body bears a scar over her eye.

                  • Someone
                    Someone
                    August 9, 2020, 8:11 pm | # | Reply

                    Wait, there is a better question. Did Solomon broke Whitechain’s old “body” or did she somehow tell a lie which was so great that her whole “body” crumbled?

                    • Eireman
                      Eireman
                      August 11, 2020, 9:05 am | #

                      I think her stone shell was just pulverized by Solomon. What we saw was will of spirit that transcended her stone form, and why she went from Divine Fire to flesh.

                • Spoon
                  Spoon
                  August 9, 2020, 7:04 pm | # | Reply

                  Not every year, but every thousand Turns, which is a little more than three years.

                  I’m even surprised it’s that often, given the size of the stadium and the need to rebuilt it every time. And for an apparently immortal demiurge like Salami, three years is nothing. He must be quite eager to give up that crown.

        • 42 Ineffable Answer To The Sacred Question
          42 Ineffable Answer To The Sacred Question
          August 8, 2020, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

          She was strong enough to bruise him. She did not make him bleed purposefully, so she wouldn’t participate in his system

          • He who wonders what could have been
            He who wonders what could have been
            August 10, 2020, 11:32 am | # | Reply

            I don’t think she could have anyway. The ghost form taken during the pass before becoming flesh shouldn’t have been able to even interact with him. And it was very clear white chain had given up any hope of actually winning, even as she threw that last .

        • Evonix
          Evonix
          August 9, 2020, 2:54 am | # | Reply

          Also blunt vs edged damage.

    • Un-Fel
      Un-Fel
      August 8, 2020, 3:50 am | # | Reply

      Doesn’t matter.

      She wasn’t playing to win his game, and she’s certainly won hers.

      • Unperfectable
        Unperfectable
        August 8, 2020, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

        This.

      • Message-Song
        Message-Song
        August 8, 2020, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

        Let old Timotheus yield the prize,
        Or both divide the crown;
        He raised a mortal to the skies,
        She drew an angel down!

        — “Alexander’s Feast” by John Dryden

      • 818 Serpent Saunters Vaguely Downwards
        818 Serpent Saunters Vaguely Downwards
        August 10, 2020, 12:59 am | # | Reply

        This one sees what is there.

      • Tashimojo
        Tashimojo
        August 10, 2020, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

        Winner winner chicken dinner

    • RADIANT LIGHT BURNS UNWORTHY 69
      RADIANT LIGHT BURNS UNWORTHY 69
      August 8, 2020, 5:31 am | # | Reply

      Absolutely it was.

      His Key is no longer glowing. Highlighted with Allison’s glowing in that last panel. White Chain has it, with a new body forming upon it. No doubt that forehead marking is gonna have a key soon.

      • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
        August 8, 2020, 8:39 am | # | Reply

        I concur. The light of his key is gone. We have always seen him display it. His pride must be wounded…

        … if not his power itself.

        But he still seems disappointed.

        • VGer47
          VGer47
          August 8, 2020, 4:39 pm | # | Reply

          I don’t think so. Look at the last page, before he and WC collided. His Key looked exactly hte same it does now. I think it reacts to his mood. Normally he’s extremely proud and confident, with a glowint Key and huge atum. But now he looks… sad, deflated, even lost. No proud glow or atum.

          • 2 Thralls of the Great Machine
            2 Thralls of the Great Machine
            August 9, 2020, 2:27 am | # | Reply

            I dunno. In the previous pages, they are glowing outwards from the center. This one has a highlight – it is still glossy! – but does not appear to be casting its *own* light, as it has previously.

            Not sure of the meaning, but I see what Radiant is saying.

        • AntMac
          AntMac
          August 10, 2020, 9:17 am | # | Reply

          He hasn’t looked around at her, yet he seems “aware” of her . . . like he is aware of her present condition.
          If he DOESN’T know what has happened, why isn’t he looking to see what happened?

      • Ocean
        Ocean
        August 8, 2020, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

        Zoss had the key and gave it up, and that’s represented by him having a *hole* in his head. We can clearly still see something inside of Solomon’s head, so I believe he still has his. Though Maya presumably used to have a key and doesn’t have the head-hole so I dunno lol
        All the characters who have keys seem to be in an ever-changing state of glow, with max glow being represented by a halo. Probably something to do with Will and manifesting power.

        • Zach
          Zach
          August 8, 2020, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

          Her master had a key but maya failed to kill the cruel boy who was her friend. Remember the lesson with the rat?

    • NelC
      NelC
      August 8, 2020, 1:29 pm | # | Reply

      A bruise is a bleed under the kin.

      • NelC
        NelC
        August 8, 2020, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

        ^skin, dammit!

      • 19 Graceful Butterfly
        19 Graceful Butterfly
        August 9, 2020, 2:41 am | # | Reply

        Given by our skin and blister.

    • Glucose
      Glucose
      August 8, 2020, 3:39 pm | # | Reply

      She struck him in his right cheek. The obvious bruise is a clear sign of a strike.

      She has already gained more than he could have given her. Elevation. Promotion from mere angel incarnated into fused ash – into a human, capable of achiving god-level status – a god herself, instead of a servant/vassal thereof.

      I’m glad she didn’t kill him. He simply needed a touch of humility. He will be the better leader now because of it.

      • Torn
        Torn
        August 8, 2020, 4:58 pm | # | Reply

        Or a worse one. His pride has been wounded. That could make him more dangerous.

        • He who wonders what could have been
          He who wonders what could have been
          August 10, 2020, 11:35 am | # | Reply

          Nah, he clearly wants someone to beat him. Hence the drop of blood. He needs someone on his level to take his place.

    • Morph
      Morph
      August 10, 2020, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

      She clearly hurt him. Three words. Sonic the Hedgehog.

    • Aranaya
      Aranaya
      August 10, 2020, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      The look on Dave’s face is profound disappointment apparently. I guess that by bruising him, White Chain came closer than anyone has in centuries, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

    • Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      Prost-Phet, Grand Priestrix of Parties
      August 10, 2020, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

      Pictured above this comment: a lot of lovely nerds. ♡

    • Taz
      Taz
      August 10, 2020, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

      It wasn’t, which makes for the far better story.

      If she’d spilled his blood, she’d have “won,” Solomon would’ve been honor-bound to stay true to his word, or at the very least he’d have an excuse to do so.

      As it stands, the point of White Chain’s battle isn’t cheapened. It wasn’t about winning, and it wasn’t about Solomon, it was about her.

      Meanwhile Solomon now has to actually face some reality and make a decision. He’s not bound by his word since no drop of blood was spilled, but it’s abundantly clear someone actually got through and landed a solid hit on him, possibly the first one since his ascension.

      So now what? What does that mean to him when it doesn’t follow his neatly outlaid plan and he has to actually decide what to do next?

      We’ll see

  2. DOGFRIEND_68
    DOGFRIEND_68
    August 8, 2020, 3:05 am | # | Reply

    Another good Cio face for the Cio face pile.

    • Avgvst
      Avgvst
      August 8, 2020, 4:10 am | # | Reply

      EVERY Cio face is a good face!

      • Shunka Warakin
        Shunka Warakin
        August 8, 2020, 6:55 am | # | Reply

        So you’re saying Dogfriend’s not wrong…

        • Un-Fel
          Un-Fel
          August 8, 2020, 11:03 am | # | Reply

          I’m saying that I want to collect the 36 best Cio faces and make a Tarocchi deck out of them.

    • Barfgag the Unforgiven
      Barfgag the Unforgiven
      August 8, 2020, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

      Plus Cio is back wearing her usual clothing, not the servant’s costume forced on her earlier.

      • Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
        Amoeboid Fist-Of-Goo
        August 9, 2020, 8:00 pm | # | Reply

        And she’s got her flying paper servants at the ready! I would NOT mess with the trio in the last panel!

        But I think the fight is over.

  3. Merely pretending to be human
    Merely pretending to be human
    August 8, 2020, 3:05 am | # | Reply

    For a single second
    The king had fallen

    • Informed Perjurist
      Informed Perjurist
      August 8, 2020, 9:31 am | # | Reply

      Falling and free at at last.

      Woe to him, who cannot fall.

      • Doomroar
        Doomroar
        August 8, 2020, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

        So now he can die and retire from the story?

    • Laedric
      Laedric
      August 10, 2020, 4:09 am | # | Reply

      “People think goodness comes after the fall
      But they do not realize
      That goodness is only achieved
      through the fall.”

  4. Dialan
    Dialan
    August 8, 2020, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    He almost seems disappointed that there was no blood…

    • Merely pretending to be human
      Merely pretending to be human
      August 8, 2020, 3:08 am | # | Reply

      his cage was almost broken
      alas,maybe in a better age

  5. 12 Malignant Nocebo Effect Elicits Somatic Response
    12 Malignant Nocebo Effect Elicits Somatic Response
    August 8, 2020, 3:07 am | # | Reply

    nary a drop…

  6. Surebaet, King of Noodles
    Surebaet, King of Noodles
    August 8, 2020, 3:08 am | # | Reply

    There is no blood in this broth, but the finest of marrow. Get your bowl today!

    -It’s a “sure bet” you’ll love your bowl!

  7. 2 Tranquil River
    2 Tranquil River
    August 8, 2020, 3:12 am | # | Reply

    If Solomon said he bled, he bled. His word is law. Presumably now her flesh is stronger than stone.

    Also, Nobody noticed White Chain? And I really wanna see White Cio.

    • 2 Tranquil River
      2 Tranquil River
      August 8, 2020, 3:16 am | # | Reply

      Hold on! Has he even seen!?

    • Fabhar
      Fabhar
      August 8, 2020, 3:16 am | # | Reply

      The collapsed structure shields her, and their fight occurred in the space between seconds.

    • Ash Lays On Ground
      Ash Lays On Ground
      August 8, 2020, 3:38 am | # | Reply

      White Chain just transcended across the arena in a fraction of a second. Alison and the others are understandably confused.

      • VGer47
        VGer47
        August 8, 2020, 4:47 pm | # | Reply

        From their perspective it must be confusing. One moment they see White Chain laying on the ground and Solomon David throwng his bracelets in the air like he did before killing all those other contestants. The next moment, he’s standing in a different place, White Chain is nowhere to be seen and there’s an unknown woman in the ring. Confusing. Not to mention that Solomon David’s pose isn’t the expected ‘I won!’ but rather a confused ‘WTF?’

    • 96 Ascending Fire Burns Hate
      96 Ascending Fire Burns Hate
      August 8, 2020, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      Or perhaps, Rather than Transcending stone, she has taken on the finest of stones, From the one who Bears the Concept of DIAMOND. Even the smallest piece cut off by the Jeweler’s chisel, is still a diamond.

  8. Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
    Supreme Femme Crushes the Throne
    August 8, 2020, 3:17 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm. A bruise isn’t quite drawn blood, not out of the skin anyway.

  9. Maxâ„¢
    Maxâ„¢
    August 8, 2020, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    Well I was wrong about him missing an arm and bleeding.

  10. Seat of Chance, Throne of Fate
    Seat of Chance, Throne of Fate
    August 8, 2020, 3:27 am | # | Reply

    Even if not blood, it’s certainly the closest anyone has come to it. He will want to explore fruther.

  11. Wandering Sweeper
    Wandering Sweeper
    August 8, 2020, 3:32 am | # | Reply

    She’s till in the ring! Match isn’t over yet! Also angels can’t wield the stones, but humans can, Alison needs to share that bling.

    • Un-Fel, of the True Gods
      Un-Fel, of the True Gods
      August 8, 2020, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      Aeons can’t normally use the keys, but nothing about what WC has become is normal.

      • Pedantic Peanut
        Pedantic Peanut
        August 8, 2020, 4:13 am | # | Reply

        Indeed. Given Vigilant Gaze’s commentary before hand, and the hope he was expressing for change, I don’t think what White Chain has become is JUST human. She’s become something new.

        • Thrawcheld
          Thrawcheld
          August 8, 2020, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

          She presumably still has an angel’s cold white atum, rather than the usual hot black human atum. That, I would think, is a large difference. This is 83 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil; if her soul and body are now one, as for a human, I doubt she will have an 84th incarnation.

      • smjjames
        smjjames
        August 8, 2020, 6:45 am | # | Reply

        It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they’re unwilling to even try, though 2 Michael appeared to entertain the idea at one point. One particular ambitious devil stole a piece of a key once, and servants are plenty capable of using them (Mammon, several individuals from past scenes including a goblin). There’s no in-universe reason why angels can’t use one of those keys if they wanted to.

        • Bearer of the Word CATS
          Bearer of the Word CATS
          August 8, 2020, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

          I hesitate to mention this, because I’ve long since lost the reference. Regardless…

          I recall reading at one point that angels can bear keys, but they cannot activate (“mantle”) them. Furthermore, the rationale given for this, as I recall, was that their origin in the white fire of the Void prevents them from mustering the ambition (the “Want”) that the keys respond to.

          Take this with a grain of salt. I’d rate this as a theory than Word-of-God hard-fact. Consider:

          Koss forged humans and devils from black flame, which makes ambition a simple task for them. Servants are, like angels, also creatures forged from white flame, but we do have examples of Servant key-wielders*. Ergo, an angel might theoretically be able to mantle a key, but the passion required is antithetical to the mindsets of most angels we’ve seen thus far.

          So yes, it’s not impossible for an angel to Want to use a key, but it is exceedingly unlikely for an angel to Want in the first place. Then again, transfiguration and superluminal combat are also pretty unlikely, so it’s anyone’s game at this point.

          * Mammon is noted to have been an aberration among his family.

        • 8888996 dies to trash mobs
          8888996 dies to trash mobs
          August 9, 2020, 12:59 am | # | Reply

          it isn’t a direct comment on the matter, but angels cannot fully accept the mantle of Royalty primarily because they believe that they cannot, which amounts to being unable to. it may be thus with the keys.

    • Domini
      Domini
      August 8, 2020, 6:24 am | # | Reply

      “Also angels can’t wield the stones”

      Well…the entire theme of this comic is about “change”. I think the only reason an angel has never wielded a key is because they THOUGHT they could not and thought the rules said they couldn’t.

      I wonder why angels crack up upon lying. Is it because, for someone made of the cold white flame, lying is creating a division in one’s self? Which manifests as a crack–a division in their shell?

      Whereas for someone of the hot black flame, lying (the red art) is making something new/different outside of them? So it doesn’t crack them up, merely changes the nature of something that exists?

      What happens when an angel says something they THINK is true–but maybe is “false” to everyone around them? Or, what happens when an angel is insane? Won’t they believe every thing they utter is completely true, no matter how bonkers to others it is? And thus be able to talk/act as if it is true, because they think it is?

      Won’t them proclaiming their truth shape the universe, too? Like White Chain proclaiming her truth has shaped a new body for herself?

      Anyway, my point here is that if an angel fully believed they could wield a key, I bet they could. An angel’s belief that this is true–that they could wield a key–would basically make it true. They would not be consciously lying.

      Especially since the keys were made out of something from an angel, from Metatron. It seems logical another angel could wield such a thing.

      The danger, I think, is that the angel wearing the key might end up in some sort of mental fight with Metatron for the domination of their individual “truth”. Perhaps a non-angel has a better time grappling with that, due to their non-angellic nature…

      • Black Duke of Metal Death
        Black Duke of Metal Death
        August 9, 2020, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

        Well, angels are well known to be born of the White Flame, essence of That Which is Not. Yet as all know, a Lie is the telling of That Which is Not, and is one of the most holy actions. Perhaps the cracking from the telling of a lie is from the breaking through of an angel’s true nature, a painful thing but necessary for actual growth.

  12. Griff
    Griff
    August 8, 2020, 3:34 am | # | Reply

    what’s that bigass stone what’s been dropped in panel 2?

    • Tenthyr
      Tenthyr
      August 8, 2020, 4:31 am | # | Reply

      There was a frame hanging over the arena, Solomon knocked it off when throwing white Chain out into the sky.

  13. Basit Al-Sha'ir
    Basit Al-Sha'ir
    August 8, 2020, 3:36 am | # | Reply

    No “Perfect Kill” award for the Emperor this time….

    Also, Cio ditched the outfit she obviously hated. Good for her! Never let the patriarchy force you to wear outfits.

    • Ash Lays On Ground
      Ash Lays On Ground
      August 8, 2020, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      I like to think she used the awesome power of the Red Art of Lying to the Face of God to turn that ugly thing into her paper soldiers.

  14. Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
    Un-Fel, Ominous Quoter
    August 8, 2020, 3:37 am | # | Reply

    Since the comments on the previous page were broken by the sheer awesome on display, this one is late.

    “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it up in […] ONE PUNCH!”

  15. Pontifex of Locusts
    Pontifex of Locusts
    August 8, 2020, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    The Diamond is bruised but not bloodied.

    And yet his hopes appear to have been shattered nonetheless.

    • VGer47
      VGer47
      August 8, 2020, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

      He felt pain on his cheek, he put his hand up to touch it, and it came back empty. His expression when he saw White Chain get up in spite of his Time Stop was actually one of joy, which changed to great seriousness in the next second. I wonder if, for a moment, he wasn’t hoping White Chain WOULD succeed in drawing a drop of blood. Perhaps he’s more aware of his own cage than we thought?

      • He who wonders what could have been
        He who wonders what could have been
        August 10, 2020, 11:42 am | # | Reply

        He is. Its the whole point of this tournament after all. He wants to leave, to go on a journey, but his pride won’t allow him to abandon his empire, not without someone that is his equal(or very close at least) to take his place.

        I’m surprised at how many people seem utterly unable to grasp this concept.

        • AntMac
          AntMac
          August 15, 2020, 3:06 am | # | Reply

          Never accord to malevolence, that which could stem from stupidity.

          They are not “unable” to grasp it, they are DETERMINED not to grasp it.

  16. TafKat
    TafKat
    August 8, 2020, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    It’s raining. Blood very well could have been washed off.

  17. Ash Lays On Ground
    Ash Lays On Ground
    August 8, 2020, 3:45 am | # | Reply

    I like that Solomon turned his back to his soldiers when he checked if he was bleeding. Prideful to the end.

  18. 67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
    67 Hot Stone Perceives the Unfortunate
    August 8, 2020, 3:52 am | # | Reply

    The look on his face, was it fear? Or merely disbelief? But when he sees no blood it is clear that he feels dismay. While she may not have won his battle, she has won her war.

    • MrSing
      MrSing
      August 8, 2020, 5:54 am | # | Reply

      It doesn’t matter if she struck blood here or not. That was only what David wanted and it is not White Chain has lost the fight or anything. I think everyone except David at this point can say that the fight doesn’t matter anymore.
      The fact that there is no blood is actually worse for him, since he is now completely irrelevant.

    • 16 Truth Burns Unworthy Eyes
      16 Truth Burns Unworthy Eyes
      August 8, 2020, 11:06 am | # | Reply

      Disappointment. She came so close.

      • 32 Red Right Hand Crushes the Iniquitous
        32 Red Right Hand Crushes the Iniquitous
        August 8, 2020, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

        That was round one. There is always another round – if, that is, White Chain wishes to continue. She may well believe she has made her point in a manner quite sufficient.

      • Fruit Monkey
        Fruit Monkey
        August 9, 2020, 1:08 am | # | Reply

        She’s still in the ring. It’s not over yet.

        The question is whether David has realised this or not, and whether his arrogance will cause him to forfeit by simply walking out the ring.

        • 19 Graceful Butterfly
          19 Graceful Butterfly
          August 9, 2020, 3:26 am | # | Reply

          He’ll surely notice the strange new naked girl kneeling next to his bracelets, the only other person on the dais. Seeing she has an angel’s atum flame may then also help his realisation.

  19. Wandering Devil
    Wandering Devil
    August 8, 2020, 3:54 am | # | Reply

    Wow the message of complex emotions shown on Salami’s face in just 3 panels is astounding man I LOVE this

    • Deepbluediver
      Deepbluediver
      August 8, 2020, 7:50 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, I don’t know exactly how much of what Solomon says is honest and how much is self-serving BS, but he looks actually disappointed here.

      • theidiotroadscumisverysoftindeed
        theidiotroadscumisverysoftindeed
        August 8, 2020, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

        Mr Diamond appears to me to be a man who has strived to do what he believes is for the best for those under his rule. His achievements from what little of them I have seen, seem to have provided greater benefit and less suffering for his subjects than those of other worlds, my own included. No doubt this has involved some… firmness of hand and equally doubtless things are not perfect but his intentions appear to be for the good and he has not made a bad job of things under the circumstances.
        Let us hope that he does not now succumb to baser instincts but takes this opportunity to shine magnanimously. It would be nice to see some good to come from all of this.

  20. Not Incubus
    Not Incubus
    August 8, 2020, 4:02 am | # | Reply

    How to utterly defeat someone: cause their violence to be induced by them-self.

  21. Pirate Cheese
    Pirate Cheese
    August 8, 2020, 4:18 am | # | Reply

    all that for a little blood?

  22. tronn
    tronn
    August 8, 2020, 4:24 am | # | Reply

    Interesting situation! WC landed a blow but didn’t draw blood: Dave can weasel out of giving up his crown on a technicality, but it’ll undermine his cult of personality of an untouchable god king. Will sitting on the throne feel sweet to him anymore, when he can see even a sliver of doubt in the eyes of his subjects?

    • Un-Fel, Reaper of All Blood
      Un-Fel, Reaper of All Blood
      August 8, 2020, 11:09 am | # | Reply

      More than that, he knows he was disappointed to find no blood. He can no longer tell himself that his philosophy is not a prison to him.

      He’s become so bound up in his ideal of what a man should be that he’s lost sight of who he wants to be.

      Without Want, Royalty is beyond his grasp.

  23. Kori
    Kori
    August 8, 2020, 4:28 am | # | Reply

    It looks like it was cauterized. Like you can see a line ‘gash’, and it looks distinctly different than a bruise. Feels purposefully drawn like that, as if White Chain’s angelic fire sealed the wound shut the moment it was made.

    • 47 Trigram Star, by Cosmic Fire, Sunders the Wheel of Doubt
      47 Trigram Star, by Cosmic Fire, Sunders the Wheel of Doubt
      August 8, 2020, 4:37 am | # | Reply

      That may even be intentional on WC’s part, as nothing I’ve seen so far would indicate that she even wants his throne. If it is indeed a gash that was cauterized, she will have proven that she can defeat Solomon, all the while denying him the fruits of his defeat.

      • Shunka Warakin
        Shunka Warakin
        August 8, 2020, 6:57 am | # | Reply

        This. This interpretation pleases me and I hope to see it borne out.

      • Thrawcheld
        Thrawcheld
        August 8, 2020, 7:00 pm | # | Reply

        The reward for drawing blood is for the winner to “have whatever he so wishes”. That never necessarily meant his throne, though that is an obvious choice and that, or even his key, is perhaps what he wanted them to demand.

  24. Yes
    Yes
    August 8, 2020, 4:29 am | # | Reply

    Get ready for a SUURRPRISE!!!

  25. 14 Good Knower of Rules Law
    14 Good Knower of Rules Law
    August 8, 2020, 4:30 am | # | Reply

    Gotta know the etiquette of the golden bracelets. Do they get disposed of once they hit the ground? Does he break the hands of the servant that picks them up as punishment for acknowledging they fell in the first place?

    Since everything he does is perfect, that must mean the law of gold armbands changed as soon as they hit the ground.

    • 3 Would You Like a Nice Cup of Tea?
      3 Would You Like a Nice Cup of Tea?
      August 8, 2020, 2:26 pm | # | Reply

      Sister White Chain may not have drawn blood, but my did she still knock the stuffing out of him. Befuddled enough that he could not even think to collect his bracelets in ki-rata time.

      • VGer47
        VGer47
        August 8, 2020, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

        That may be because it wasn’t him that ended the timestop but White Chain?

        • ValTheDrake
          ValTheDrake
          August 9, 2020, 4:02 am | # | Reply

          Nobody “ended the time stop”, Ki Rata is a breathing technique that lets him move so fast everything else was motionless in comparison. The reason why things are moving now is because he no longer maintains it, likely due to his loss of concentration.

          Between the two of them it’s unclear if Solomon is not too shaken to re-enter Ki Rata and if what mastery White chain has over her new body would allow her to use, or counter, the style effectively.

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