Might I suggest training with various weapons and armor? Perhaps the Manual of Hands and Feet could address styles which incorporate the environment into their combat styles? For example, while White Chain’s foot-to-jaw entrance here was impressive, they could have just as easily subdued the devil by detonating the wall they were standing on.
Then again, that might have also risked Allison Ruth. Fair enough, but I still prefer combat styles which afford the capacity to use tools beyond the practitioner’s own body. I personally practice a defensive style which implicitly incorporates shield-parries, but could just as easily respond with a length of rebar, or a hardened forearm. I’ve heard quite a few belittle me for bringing a buckler shield to battle, calling me a coward. With few exceptions, those lot tend toward recklessness and death.
But enough about that, we’re talking about Allison Ruth.
Her technique is only “inexcusably sloppy” in that she’s practicing a combat style that implicitly expects you to be a practitioner from conception, and she’s been practitioner for only a year. “Inexcusably sloppy” can be saved for the three year mark.
IN ORDER TO MASTER A WEAPON YOU MUST FIRST MASTER YOUR OWN SELF. ONLY THEN WILL USING A TOOL BECOME USING A WEAPON.
BUT WHILE YOU ARE CORRECT THAT INEXCUSABLY SLOPPY MAY BE A STRONG CHASTISEMENT, SHE IS ALSO ONE WITH THE KEY, AND MUST LEARN TO BE BETTER IF SHE IS TO SURVIVE.
It can be also interpreted as a vertically inverted “I” (itself a reference to the leader of the demonkind), which is not unlike his own physical position in the final panel.
She prepped for one fight and ended up being unprepared for the one she got.
Also, I still think she’d have beaten Killboss in time, she’s got the durability to tank and she just needed to figure out how to put on the hurt.
Why is Alison the only one allowed to improve? The world is dynamic. White Chain is probably loads stronger as well – after all, it has rightly been said that you learn the most while teaching.
Also, I don’t think we have any evidence that KILLBOSS flattened Delicious. Delicious could’ve just been fired.
Do children no longer learn the elementary game of strategy which teaches that those that you trample upon may in turn be able cut those that can smother you?
I would ask what the world is coming to, but one need only look around Throne to know.
So wait, does that mean we were watching the training montage all along?
Does that mean White Chain’s name translated to “Dynamic Entry!” this whole time????
Exactly. And that’s brilliant.
The demon got Schwarzenegger’d
Mind. Blown.
It’s not a noun! It’s an imperative!
THY SLOPPY TECHNIQUE MAY ONLY BE CURED BY TRAINING. WE BEGIN AGAIN FROM THE BASICS.
Might I suggest training with various weapons and armor? Perhaps the Manual of Hands and Feet could address styles which incorporate the environment into their combat styles? For example, while White Chain’s foot-to-jaw entrance here was impressive, they could have just as easily subdued the devil by detonating the wall they were standing on.
Then again, that might have also risked Allison Ruth. Fair enough, but I still prefer combat styles which afford the capacity to use tools beyond the practitioner’s own body. I personally practice a defensive style which implicitly incorporates shield-parries, but could just as easily respond with a length of rebar, or a hardened forearm. I’ve heard quite a few belittle me for bringing a buckler shield to battle, calling me a coward. With few exceptions, those lot tend toward recklessness and death.
But enough about that, we’re talking about Allison Ruth.
Her technique is only “inexcusably sloppy” in that she’s practicing a combat style that implicitly expects you to be a practitioner from conception, and she’s been practitioner for only a year. “Inexcusably sloppy” can be saved for the three year mark.
IN ORDER TO MASTER A WEAPON YOU MUST FIRST MASTER YOUR OWN SELF. ONLY THEN WILL USING A TOOL BECOME USING A WEAPON.
BUT WHILE YOU ARE CORRECT THAT INEXCUSABLY SLOPPY MAY BE A STRONG CHASTISEMENT, SHE IS ALSO ONE WITH THE KEY, AND MUST LEARN TO BE BETTER IF SHE IS TO SURVIVE.
Guess Alison’s going to be sitting in horse stance for the next eight hours then.
*mariachi noises*
82 has their helmet back yay
At last, we see the King afraid of something.
…Reprisal.
Empty Sole Disregards the Gilded Butcher
Holy Angel Wholly Chastises Hole-y Hero.
Holy Hermit Wholly Harangues Hole-y Hero.
Holy Moley Subdues Heated Argument Involving The Exalted Act of Violenece.
No, not my new husband! Don’t kill him- I only just met him but I love him so much!
Today, in Matches Made In Heaven…(*)
(* Contents of Heaven may vary from those depicted in popular belief.)
WHITE CHAIN RETURNING
I love Kill Boss’s reaction to the sudden appearance of White Chain: a white exclamation mark on a black background
It can be also interpreted as a vertically inverted “I” (itself a reference to the leader of the demonkind), which is not unlike his own physical position in the final panel.
Kill Boss has a nice ass! All those squats have paid off.
I was just thinking the same thing. Damn!
Please tell me this isn’t the end for KILL BOSS, he deserves better than being instantly bitch slapped to death.
That was more of an offhanded (offfooted?) curb stomp than a bitch slap.
O R B I T A L D R O P K I C K
and the last few pages were in:
T H E
L A I R
O F
T H E
P E R F E C T
G O B L I N
More like the kitty’s DEATH FROM ABOVE.
Follow up orbital drops of 1Kton Anvils provided by Acme Anvil and Acme Space Transport, subsidiaries of Acme Interstellar – we make it, you break it.
I wonder how much better White Chain is after training with Al-YISUN.
MAMAS HERE!
82 White Chain Leaps From A Building To Kick Evil’s Smarmy Ass
Look ma, no palms!
This page made me laugh out loud, especially the bit about training montage.
I’m sorta expecting Allison to yell at 82 Whie Chain in the next one.
I’m reading this in Garnet’s voice.
Thank you. Now I’ll always hear 82WC in Garnet’s voice.
Yaaasss, same! Such a Garnet move.
Normally, I think of White Chain as the Monk from Monkey
Personally, I read it in the Earl of Lemongrab’s voice.
“Your technique is in an UNACCEPTABLE CONDITION! UNACCEPTABLE!
Oh NO D:
I, too, lament the impending loss of Kill Boss. It really is the best Devil name, hands down.
Ha ha, I guessed this was the training montage a few pages ago.
Fight crime, 20 reps, makes absolute sense as an angel’s method of training.
hey whitechain has a cool dress now, thats cool.
damn, beat me to it
A cloak or coat from city (sin)
will catch and billow in the wind.
The collar whips beneath the chin.
So Alison thought she was going to be fighting Delicious, who could fight White Chain evenly, but got flattened by KILLBOSS.
And now White Chain can apparently take out KILLBOSS effortlessly.
Power levels are bullshit!
She prepped for one fight and ended up being unprepared for the one she got.
Also, I still think she’d have beaten Killboss in time, she’s got the durability to tank and she just needed to figure out how to put on the hurt.
Why is Alison the only one allowed to improve? The world is dynamic. White Chain is probably loads stronger as well – after all, it has rightly been said that you learn the most while teaching.
Also, I don’t think we have any evidence that KILLBOSS flattened Delicious. Delicious could’ve just been fired.
Delicious was killed by 6 Juggernaut.
*shifty eyes*
… I did not forget that.
Do children no longer learn the elementary game of strategy which teaches that those that you trample upon may in turn be able cut those that can smother you?
I would ask what the world is coming to, but one need only look around Throne to know.
The Rising King’s sloppy technique means that she would probably have been stompflattened by Delicious, as she was by the Boss Of Killing.
Expectations are oft different from reality.
FUCK YES, WHITE CHAIN!!
Kicking ass while frowning at your student. Awesome.