How do you think that devil feels at the moment? Not only is White Chain kicking his ass, but they’re schooling their student while it’s happening. Although I suppose any fight with an angel has to feel like that, for anyone who isn’t of roughly the demiurges’ level.
Which is clearly not true, because Zoss defeated all the PRIME angels before he even got his Key. He only got that Key when he ripped it from Metatron, the greatest angel of all.
Having often been a teacher, and more often a student, of many an art, I can say this – the teacher who cares enough to rebuke kindly is a rare and precious one indeed. Not only on others is the violence by which heaven can be reached directed.
I think this is an awesome reminder of how just how badass White Chain can be. They’ve faced off against so many uber-powerful enemies (other angels, demiurges, etc) that it can be easy to forget that in their first appearance White Chain wiped the floor with an entire roomful of enemies and hardly broke a sweat (metaphorically speaking).
Roughly eight seconds into the embarrassingly one sided fight with the angel Kill Boss was struck with the horrible thought that metaphorically speaking he might be nothing more than a glorified miniboss for an optional side quest. Perhaps even worse he feared that at least part of the motivation for the accepting of the proverbial side quest was only the opportunity to give the human woman experience points.
You call it “the wrong side”, I call it “superior legwork that transcends mundane limitations of time, space and reality itself”. Eh, a matter of preference, I guess.
Nah, follow the artwork. After the smack, white chain drags her around to in front of her for further discussion. Then someone attempts to interrupt, rudely.
Whether or not there was such a word before, it most certainly exists now.
Stand up proud, O belovéd coiner of words! You bear within you the power to bring proud princes low, to lay waste to the many worlds of the multiverse, and to crack the very vault of heav’n itself! Waste not that power on mere discussion; go forth and wield it against those who would sin in your sight!
I’ve never understood how demons, traditionally an untrustworthy and callow lot, don’t decide to cut their losses and leave when they’re obviously outclassed. I am not much of a fighter, but if I were in Signore Killboss’s shoes, I’d be beating a hasty retreat after shouting my resignation to Preem Vash.
If you are a demon, you stand and fight, even in the face of overwhelming opposition and certain destruction. It’s the nature of demons, and they can’t any more decide to flee than a fish could decide to breath out of water.
I’m glad White Chain showed up! I’m getting the idea that Alison can soak up huge, immense amounts of damage, but that’s still not enough to win a fight. Her going off on her own wasn’t a good idea, but I’m still kind of pleased she had the confidence to do it!
I wonder if that’s the sequence of the ways in which White Chain is disappointed in Allison.
By doing this without permission, Allison has blown any plans that White Chain had to deal with Preem Vash for good.
Because by making a move and failing, then Vash will disappear again, and White Chain will have to track them down yet again.
By her sloppy form, it brings shame on Allison as a student, and White Chain as a teacher.
By disrespecting the holy empty palms, Allison disrespects the Law which the palms are meant to uphold, and the gods who made those laws. This is, to an angel, the most abhorrent offence.
By going in alone, Allison risks her own life for the sake of pride. Whether she wants it or not, she has a duty to keep herself alive so she may eventually kill the beast and restore the law to creation. Risking her life so foolishly is an abandonment of duty, which is bad, but not as bad as reviling against the Law.
Not asking for permission is simply an offense against White Chain, a single angel. While such things would still be enough to expel (or kill) most students of angels, it is a relatively small offense in comparison to the others.
“Lead your flock to water, and bleed them dry while they thank you. Build power this way, and no one will call your conqueror. You will be called saint.”
Her regular head folds out into that, but it hasn’t done it for quite a while. I don’t think she’s even been wearing the top half of her head for a while; I wonder where she keeps it?
If that’s how White Chain has been acting all through their training, I can imagine Alison got fed up with it and decided to try something for herself.
99 Little Children Raise Their Open Filthy Palms, Like Tiny Daggers Up to Heaven
This is why we’re not missing anything in the time warp, Allison has apparently been a slow learner (or not amazingly fast enough of a learner to get somewhere in a year) so we skipped ahead to where the training is still happening but we’re just shy of a breakthrough.
To be fair, she started off with no combat training and practically no experience. One doesn’t become a master or even an expert in anything but the most trivial tasks in a year. Angelic martial arts and wielding the power of God are hardly trivial tasks. Also, while I’m sure White Chain has done their best teaching its self is a skill, one I doubt they had a good grip on to start with.
I’ve studied martial arts for 41 years and in that time, I’ve had teachers like this. I don’t like them, and I don’t think it’s a particularly effective way of learning (unless one is a masochist, I suppose…). My current teacher *has* pushed me to the point of mindless rage, but he was trying to make that happen, to make me see something I was missing. Mostly, one trains in the vague hope of being able to “beat the sifu”.. hasn’t happened yet, but I’m making him work harder to keep me off!
With that out of the way, may I say I’m adoring the descriptions of the myriad styles? I read a *LOT* of webcomics, I patreon very few. You make me wish I could afford to give more. You rarely phone in a page.
now kick this demon in the pretzels!
and then do 100 pushups on your left pinky finger.
that should give me time to think up a suitable punishment.
The problem with the Demon Pretzel Kick is that no one, not even demons, have quite figured out where a demon keeps their pretzels.
The dread sifus of the forbidden martial art of Inverse Capoeira claim to know, but finding their hidden dojos to confirm it is another matter.
Master teach and Master scold
Master smacks the Student bold
Master keeps the Law of Old
Master’s power is White Flame Cold
Pupil smiles
Pupil balws
Pupil cries
Please, no more!
That was fun
Student strikes, unpracticed hand
Student receives reprimand
Student placed in Devil’s grasp
Student needs to kick more ass
Master enters,
Student’s pause,
Master scolds,
Student bawls,
Master shows the correct pose,
Student beats the Kill-Boss crawl!
Angels make for kinder weapons than Sifus
the smelt must sometimes be beaten to alignment
the ensuing strike will be effective
this is axiomatic
How do you think that devil feels at the moment? Not only is White Chain kicking his ass, but they’re schooling their student while it’s happening. Although I suppose any fight with an angel has to feel like that, for anyone who isn’t of roughly the demiurges’ level.
“the only thing that beats ‘un angel is ‘un other angel”
Which is clearly not true, because Zoss defeated all the PRIME angels before he even got his Key. He only got that Key when he ripped it from Metatron, the greatest angel of all.
Maybe, but METATRON LIVES!!!
HE LIVES IN DEATH! PEACE THROUGH POWER!
If you can dodge an Angel,
You can dodge a Devil!
Bitch-slapped by White Chain! With a master like that, Alison doesn’t need enemies.
That last panel:
“When abuelita tosses the chancleta and you feel it coming”
Honestly, #3 should have been #1.
Heheheh, training while Demon tries to take them both down. Perfect…
Teach ’bout to lay down some hard lessons on the both of them
Having often been a teacher, and more often a student, of many an art, I can say this – the teacher who cares enough to rebuke kindly is a rare and precious one indeed. Not only on others is the violence by which heaven can be reached directed.
“Unlikely”
Ooof! What a burn.
Killboss: “Hey uh, this is a great moment and all but… I am on the clock so…”
This.
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Dang sorry that was supposed to be a crop of panel #7.
Can you post images on this comments feed?
If not please feel free to delete these 3 posts.
I think this is an awesome reminder of how just how badass White Chain can be. They’ve faced off against so many uber-powerful enemies (other angels, demiurges, etc) that it can be easy to forget that in their first appearance White Chain wiped the floor with an entire roomful of enemies and hardly broke a sweat (metaphorically speaking).
Agreed!
I’m so happy
Don’t backsass me, girl. I don’t care if you’ve got a key to all the universes I will whup you.
Roughly eight seconds into the embarrassingly one sided fight with the angel Kill Boss was struck with the horrible thought that metaphorically speaking he might be nothing more than a glorified miniboss for an optional side quest. Perhaps even worse he feared that at least part of the motivation for the accepting of the proverbial side quest was only the opportunity to give the human woman experience points.
Existential dread is the real killer
I just realized White Chain uses her right leg to correct Allyson’s posture… while her left leg still stands on the demon’s arm.
Fucking badass.
Shhhh, let’s not draw attention to White Chain being on the wrong side of Allison in the last three panels.
You call it “the wrong side”, I call it “superior legwork that transcends mundane limitations of time, space and reality itself”. Eh, a matter of preference, I guess.
Nah, follow the artwork. After the smack, white chain drags her around to in front of her for further discussion. Then someone attempts to interrupt, rudely.
Well, this is embarrassing. This being a god thing is harder than it looks.
TOTAL HEAVENLY BADASSRY
Don’t even care if there is such a word. Ought to be just for this page, for certain.
Whether or not there was such a word before, it most certainly exists now.
Stand up proud, O belovéd coiner of words! You bear within you the power to bring proud princes low, to lay waste to the many worlds of the multiverse, and to crack the very vault of heav’n itself! Waste not that power on mere discussion; go forth and wield it against those who would sin in your sight!
Amen.
White Chain delivers two types of schooling at once.
Swing a head in china shop
I have a faint idea that stops
with horns and doesn’t call the cops
What other secrets could you tell us Wax Head?
keep looking, and you’ll see more
this is axiomatic
I’ve never understood how demons, traditionally an untrustworthy and callow lot, don’t decide to cut their losses and leave when they’re obviously outclassed. I am not much of a fighter, but if I were in Signore Killboss’s shoes, I’d be beating a hasty retreat after shouting my resignation to Preem Vash.
Flame, once kindled, has a tragic tendency to not grasp the concept of ‘leave some for later.”
If you are a demon, you stand and fight, even in the face of overwhelming opposition and certain destruction. It’s the nature of demons, and they can’t any more decide to flee than a fish could decide to breath out of water.
Maybe.
I believe Kill Boss is starting to see why Allison is, as he put it, “Really tough”.
I’m glad White Chain showed up! I’m getting the idea that Alison can soak up huge, immense amounts of damage, but that’s still not enough to win a fight. Her going off on her own wasn’t a good idea, but I’m still kind of pleased she had the confidence to do it!
Maybe she can’t win a fight with a rogue angel quite yet, but she can certainly win a fight with a wall!
Allison
I know this world is killing you
Oh Allison
My aim is true
[boot to the head]
“From the way you look I understand that you are not impressed,” says Alison to White Chain.
…that is so perfect. This is exactly why I come to the comment section.
God will people stop bitching about allison being overpowered now, in this literal city of gods
You gotta break before you get broken (power-wise)
Also she’s the protagonist
I wonder if that’s the sequence of the ways in which White Chain is disappointed in Allison.
By doing this without permission, Allison has blown any plans that White Chain had to deal with Preem Vash for good.
Because by making a move and failing, then Vash will disappear again, and White Chain will have to track them down yet again.
By her sloppy form, it brings shame on Allison as a student, and White Chain as a teacher.
I’d argue the opposite:
By disrespecting the holy empty palms, Allison disrespects the Law which the palms are meant to uphold, and the gods who made those laws. This is, to an angel, the most abhorrent offence.
By going in alone, Allison risks her own life for the sake of pride. Whether she wants it or not, she has a duty to keep herself alive so she may eventually kill the beast and restore the law to creation. Risking her life so foolishly is an abandonment of duty, which is bad, but not as bad as reviling against the Law.
Not asking for permission is simply an offense against White Chain, a single angel. While such things would still be enough to expel (or kill) most students of angels, it is a relatively small offense in comparison to the others.
Interesting. Thanks !
As a man who already feels like a complete buffoon every second, it feels like a fair trade to train under an angel.
“Lead your flock to water, and bleed them dry while they thank you. Build power this way, and no one will call your conqueror. You will be called saint.”
Fourteenth student of Bagoret – FBC, 70
I really, really like White Chain’s new hat.
It’s the hat they were wearing when they first appeared, isn’t it ?
So, not new, just, they haven’t worn it for a long time. Maybe putting on the hat again has some significance ?
You’re right! Just for those first four pages, looks like. Maybe it’s her criminal-bashing hat? Or even a Preem Vash-bashing hat?
If you want to get ahead, get a hat !
Her regular head folds out into that, but it hasn’t done it for quite a while. I don’t think she’s even been wearing the top half of her head for a while; I wonder where she keeps it?
I prefer the hatless “behive full of eyes” hairdo, myself. But she rocks it whatever she wears!
If that’s how White Chain has been acting all through their training, I can imagine Alison got fed up with it and decided to try something for herself.
Come on White Chain, at least mention the absolutely horrendous legwork she’s been displaying for the past few pages!
Hmm. Student has not surpassed Master at all, it seems…
Allison should’ve paid for a nicer teacher. Instead of a teacher who hands out lessons, she needs a teacher who gives out gold stars.
And I mean actual golden stars.
Hands out lessons? Pretty sure White Chain is legging it here
Pretty sure this teacher is footing out the lessons here.
Ain’t nothing like getting an ass kicking from Sensei. Boot to the head. 😀
White Chain’s little eyeroll is my favorite part of this.
This is why we’re not missing anything in the time warp, Allison has apparently been a slow learner (or not amazingly fast enough of a learner to get somewhere in a year) so we skipped ahead to where the training is still happening but we’re just shy of a breakthrough.
To be fair, she started off with no combat training and practically no experience. One doesn’t become a master or even an expert in anything but the most trivial tasks in a year. Angelic martial arts and wielding the power of God are hardly trivial tasks. Also, while I’m sure White Chain has done their best teaching its self is a skill, one I doubt they had a good grip on to start with.
tbh i reaaaaally need someone like white chain as a teacher
If training with an Angel makes one feel like a complete buffoon all of the time, then it shouldn’t feel much different than training with a human.
Should one wish to train with someone for fun, I can only recommend training under a devil.
Devil masters that are willing to teach are hard to find, sure, but goddamn, they know how to have a good time while teaching.
I’ve studied martial arts for 41 years and in that time, I’ve had teachers like this. I don’t like them, and I don’t think it’s a particularly effective way of learning (unless one is a masochist, I suppose…). My current teacher *has* pushed me to the point of mindless rage, but he was trying to make that happen, to make me see something I was missing. Mostly, one trains in the vague hope of being able to “beat the sifu”.. hasn’t happened yet, but I’m making him work harder to keep me off!
With that out of the way, may I say I’m adoring the descriptions of the myriad styles? I read a *LOT* of webcomics, I patreon very few. You make me wish I could afford to give more. You rarely phone in a page.
I have to be honest, this brings back all the joy of watching badly dubbed Kung Fu flix on deep UHF stations as a kid.
they protecc
they attacc
but most importantly
they give feedbacc
Without a good polish, the Sword of Want is merely a bunt force instrument. Still useful, but not for the intended purpose.