Summertime, and the livin’s easy
Solomon’s on the microphone with the Agogs you see
All the people in the ring will agree
That we’re well-qualified to represent divinity
And me and Cioelle, we gon’ run to the party
Dance to the rhythm, it gets harder
Me and my girl, we got this relationship
I love her so bad, but she treats me like sh…
On lockdown, like a penitentiary
She spreads her lovin’ all over
And when she gets home, there’s none left for me
Summertime, and the livin’s easy
Solomon’s on the microphone with the Agogs you see
All the people in the ring will agree
That we’re well-qualified to represent divinity
And me and Cioelle, we gon’ run to the party
Dance to the rhythm, it gets harder
Gog-Agog must be listening in on this. She may also be broadcasting. And syndicating. She will certainly be rubbing her hands and squeeing. The consequences of this are uncertain…
Blessed be the Genre-Savvy, blessed be their comings and goings. Blessed be their sacrifices, their wit, their acceptance of the Lie of YISUN while seeing through it. Blessed be they who advance the plot, who break the fourth wall, who walk onto the Hero’s blade without so much as a murmur. Blessed be they.
It’s my headcanon that everyone else who saw Allison’s Beacon of Kings is currently duking it out just off-panel for the right to be the one person to duel her. These two schmucks are just sneaky opportunists who managed to slip past the melee and attack whoever they thought was the most distracted.
The nice thing about a “Battle Royale” in this context is that people have actual motivation to attack you one by one and not in teams.
CIO calls them “paper warriors”, little paper cutouts that are sort of very abstractly figure-like, which she keeps in (or creates from) her book. Not what most people would consider a weapon. Ha.
EXCUSE me, but this is just patently incorrect! It offends my very soul!
“Death by a thousand paper cuts” is the worst nightmare of everyone EXCEPT the bureaucrat. Out training in the Art of Bureaucracy means that we are well-equipped to handle armies of (metaphorical or literal) “paper soldiers”, while even the greatest of swordsmen have absolutely no defense against such an attack.
Yes, yes, mistakes were made all around. I feel that the fact they can have this conversation in the middle of *The Battle Royale* says good things about their overall competence however.
So is this Cio wanting to start again with Allison and actually properly date her first before marrying? I really expect something really bad to happen to Cio now done either by Solomon or Gog-Agog to bring more drama to this. Or her ex-bf dealing Cio some fatal blow.
Well, the prophesy image thingy from some time back mentioned that Kill Six Billion Demons will arrive with a white and a black flame at their side. And somehow I doubt it’s going to be princess.
Plus this could also go in the direction of the two ending their romantic relationship.
Sword Bird’s thoughts in panel 6: “Heh, it’s just a blue mask demon. This will be easy.”
Sword Bird’s thoughts in panel 8: “Power levels are BULLSHIT!”
I recall observing this, well behind the very-well-built Himosh’s back, and wondering to my self what precisely was I observing.
Never have I seen a battle alike this – one legendary fighter and one soon-to-be, in a conversation of heat, all the while fighting off any who got between them.
In earnest, I was confilcted, whether to get closer and hear the exchange, or distance myself to save my own skin.
In the end Hirosh was slain, for he, too, wasn’t enough of wit to see he ought not to barge in.
I ran away almost unharmed, but if I knew I would get the whole transcript thus I wouldn’t have put myself in danger in the first place!
There are laws even Solomon David dares not break.
One of them is that attempting to interrupt a discussion like this ends very badly for the interrupter.
this conversation and their expressions make me so happy but….what is UP with allisons outfit. obi wan kenobi lookin ass. last of the jedi lookin ass. cio leaves for five minutes and comes back to allisons tatooine lookin ass
Bad girlfriend! But also extremely hot blue devil girlfriend. That’s guaranteed heartbreak. And…breakage of everything else in the vicinity. Adding in bad but super hot warrior in training girlfriend basically doubles it. Love and Mayhem!
However, if they reconcile and get all super lovey-dovey whilst clobbering their foes, there is the possibility that Solomon David could suffer death by wanking.
Can I say that? Death by wanking? Probably shouldn’t, this is a strip for the whole family.
Besides Solomon Dave doesn’t seem passionate about anything but himself, so doubtful that he’d get amped up over these crazy kung-fu lovebirds.
Oh for the love of Mammon! Clearly she is not leaving the arena, which I could tolerate, but now she is distracting my (second) meal ticket with pointless prattle about matters of the heart! That insipid meat organ that cannot pump molten gold! One thousand divine fuckwords upon you!
If only I were a figure of more significant authority, I could use the legendary art of the Pimp Hand to subjugate every fool in this stadium!
Gotta say, Cio. Your Howl-esque sense of fashion on these recent pages really speaks to me! But emulating a pretty and selfish man who swallowed a star won’t save you here.
The other contestants should be smarter than that – when, in the midst of bloody carnage, two people take time out to sort out personal issues, it is just best to let it happen.
some people really don’t want to see any kind of blatant romance in a particular kind of story. The way you turned it into some kind of prejudice is sickening.
Well this story started with a girl almost fucking her fixed bf who she decided to go for cause everyone from her friends were doing it reasoning so she should too.
So the story had such themes from start, not mentioning Cio backstory of having a husband and countless lovers.
So now dissing things cause Cio x Allison gets some moment while also fightning sound plain stupid.
Plus the guy I posted reply to wrote”Especially not for this kind of romance.” so no there’s clearly prejudice in it, either for devil x human union or more possibly a girl x girl one. I can’t honestly understand what else you could read from such particular wording here.
Well, that is unfortunate. We know that Garuda’s master – a most friendly avian witch – and we met this Garuda at their mountaintop dojo. Nice boy, to our understanding he entered the tournament in order to raise charity funds for his dojo, which has fallen on hard times. We do hope his death inspires potential donors. Only the good die young, it seems.
This tale has now passed a threshold I longed fear would come.
This story started out as a spiritual successor to morrowind and gradually descended into a woke lesbian lovequest between an unlikable human with massive plot armor and a demon.
One of my favorite scenes from the first chapter was Cio saving Allison in Hell 71. I assumed the reason she was throwing everything away was out of some sort of devotion to maintaining the status quo of throne and preventing multiversal war, but now we know for sure it is because Cio, the demon sorcerer, wanted to have lesbian sex.
And what about White Chain’s quote, that the terrible gods of throne would “descend from their towers and rip the key from allison’s pretty skull” if they ever realized what she was hiding? It can’t be the pact of the seven part world, Mottom already horribly violated it with zero consequence from the other lords of infinity.
What are they waiting for? Is it because the script says they aren’t supposed to do anything until it’s too late?
Allison didn’t last a day in throne during the first chapter without half of its inhabitants trying to kill her over the key, but she has apparently lived in throne for a year while fighting various factions and nobody (except gog aggog) seems to have a clue the MASTER KEY is right there for the taking.
Yeah I’m sure I’ll be relentlessly attacked for what I’ve said, but I loved this story. I loved everything about the first chapter, and even parts of the second. You did not have to make this comic about fan service. You chose this fate willingly.
Eh, devils are kind of weird and impulsive. Their racial motto is “Do what ever the fuck you want”, so them acting what one would consider irrationally is par for the course.
Mottoms violation of the pact seem to have really ruffled feathers, but considering the lofty egos of the demiurges seems it’s regarded as more of a faux pas than a serious offense. She wasn’t really gunning to take down Mammon, she just sort of kicked over his sand castle and smashed some of his toys while having a tantrum. It then escalated to a nasty catfight but they don’t really seem intent on killing each other so much as ruining each other’s day.
It is explicitly stated though that trying to claim her Key would be a major violation of the pact that would instantly turn all the other demiurges against the one who did it. Most of the demiurges probably knew she was gallivanting around Throne, but none of them wanted to make the move that would kick off a serious business demiurge killing demiurge conflict, atleast before they were ready for it.
It is an old concept, don’t upset the balance of power.
If it is only two parties with power balanced between them, then an advantage to one may mean victory. But if it is several parties with power balanced between them, one gaining a significant advantage may only make them a target for the others to destroy before that advantage can be exploited. That could lead to a war that destroys everything. Or with the one party destroyed the others may divide the spoils roughly equally between them, and a create a new balance.
In this case a relatively minor power holding that key means that none of the major powers is holding it. Balance is maintained. Which isn’t to say that no one wants that key, they all do, but they can’t just take it because they know the others will attack if one power ever gets it. So instead they play games, try to control Allison – covertly – or take the key in such a way that it is not apparent that one party has taken it for themselves and thus upset the power balance. If they can manage that they can then work to seize complete power for themselves, but its not like just having the key will make them Number One, its not that easy, otherwise Allison would be Top Dog already.
Also, just because a character says something – in this case White Chain – doesn’t mean it is true.
None except Gog-Agog? Strange thing to say, considering Allison’s nightly lessons with Incubus who is plotting something insidious with Jagganoth. Mottom’s position we know, and she is probably, as commenters above pointed, restricted by others; Mammon is quarreling with Mottom, Solomon’s smugly observes all this childish crap, and Jadis, I guess, just doesn’t give a crap and patientely wants to die.
So, mass combat is the perfect place for couples therapy?
Nothing like the threat of messy death to cause you to focus on what is important, and you can work out your frustrations by killing some random opponent? Interesting. Not sure how widely applicable it is though.
How can you find so many facts? I enjoy the way that you
arrange everything, because it’s really easy to read.
Overall, I can recommend this guide to everybody who is interested in that topic.
Oh hell yeah.
gwothe and devewopment…. awww yeah..
Oh, this angel. I do not like this angel.
I find this angel immensely amusing. Partially because i know that they will drive others crazy.
Kindly consider,
My siblings and I thought this angel banished from Throne long, long ago. Their return means the beginning of a reign of madness.
Kindly Consider: Fortnite Funny Moments Cringe Compilation. You Just Got A Spot On It.
Then you know what you must do. Grab a knife & fork and start eating!
If it’s any consolation, at least 420 people share your opinion of them.
I thought he was a verdant devil.
Well Cio, You specifically said, You don’t date. Is this You saying, You want to be more than friends with Allison?
Either more than friends or just friends. It is possible the romantic part is over.
Summertime, and the livin’s easy
Solomon’s on the microphone with the Agogs you see
All the people in the ring will agree
That we’re well-qualified to represent divinity
And me and Cioelle, we gon’ run to the party
Dance to the rhythm, it gets harder
Me and my girl, we got this relationship
I love her so bad, but she treats me like sh…
On lockdown, like a penitentiary
She spreads her lovin’ all over
And when she gets home, there’s none left for me
Summertime, and the livin’s easy
Solomon’s on the microphone with the Agogs you see
All the people in the ring will agree
That we’re well-qualified to represent divinity
And me and Cioelle, we gon’ run to the party
Dance to the rhythm, it gets harder
Gog-Agog must be listening in on this. She may also be broadcasting. And syndicating. She will certainly be rubbing her hands and squeeing. The consequences of this are uncertain…
No they’re not.
(Joker voice) RRRRATINGS.
Solomon (from off screen): Get a room, you too!
Two. Not too. Too would be silly.
I like to imagine it’s Solomon. “Get a room!” At Alison and Cio. “You too” to Gog-Agog after noticing how hard she is currently fan-girl-ing right now
Or maybe “Get a room! You too…hot to do this in my arena!”
Cio’s come a long way from her multi-armed spider bitch days.
Ahh… good times.
I was going to say that this would be a terrible time to talk about your relationship but honestly if not when they could die then when?
“Too thick, and too pretty.”
Come now Cio, that’s a little redundant, don’t you think?
Cio, already taking off clothes: “Allison you’re so fucking stupid”
Allison: “We need help for this fight. What’s the number for 911?”
Allison is dummy thicc AND a thick dummy
THE G WORD
Gerstman?
Cioelle is in fact, the best girlfriend, by admission of her faults- a rare thing for such a prolifically vicious violet devil such as her.
I swear, if this is the first half of a dramatic breakup arc, I am going to glass someone.
I love it when people have conversations while fighting.
These two deserve each other, and I mean that simultaneously in the best and worst of ways ^^
Hell is other dumbasses.
I’m gonna take this comment and frame it and hang it on my wall.
Animating hair must be fun.
The thief-queen will steal your heart
Its awfully polite for the other contestants to charge at them one by one and give them time and space to work out their domestic issues.
Would you want to get in the middle of that? I think not…
They realize that things are currently operating under Shoujou Manga rules.
Blessed be the Genre-Savvy, blessed be their comings and goings. Blessed be their sacrifices, their wit, their acceptance of the Lie of YISUN while seeing through it. Blessed be they who advance the plot, who break the fourth wall, who walk onto the Hero’s blade without so much as a murmur. Blessed be they.
It’s my headcanon that everyone else who saw Allison’s Beacon of Kings is currently duking it out just off-panel for the right to be the one person to duel her. These two schmucks are just sneaky opportunists who managed to slip past the melee and attack whoever they thought was the most distracted.
The nice thing about a “Battle Royale” in this context is that people have actual motivation to attack you one by one and not in teams.
You beat me to it. These opponents are not on the same team, and therefore aren’t exactly motivated to coordinate with each other.
I’m curious what the rules say about Cio’s entrance though; even if she were registered this seems like a late arrival.
Cio makes me so HAPPY! Also I like most of the characters and am terrified someone is going to get eaten by Gog-Agog.. if its Cio I will legit cry.
That thing was too hot to be called a girlfriend. Too thick, too pretty, too sassy and too tough. It was more like a large hunk of a Waifu.
…this. This hurts me, on so many levels.
Oh Cio, don’t beat yourself up too hard.
You do fine. As long as you don’t cling. Allison will probably sail more than one ship, eventually. White Chain, Zaid, Tsundere Juggernaut Star…
inject the gay DIRECTLY into my veins
“lesbian couple resolving relationship issues in the middle of a big fight scene” is just too awesome for words
I don’t know, Aran, you found some good words for it right there.
So I guess she’s a girlfriend now?
Well, look at that.
This is possibly the Best Thing Ever.
Ha ! I called it! Cio’s been there the whole time. She’s a sweet demon, as such things go.
She is the baddest of the bad girlfriends.
Long live the Queens
Oh boy, more sappy romance, that’s what I’ve been waiting for.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but I don’t care because I’m honestly on board for ALL THE SAPPY ROMANCE.
Center Panel: BEGONE, THE RAINBOW LIGHT OF LESBIAN LOVE COMPELS YOU.
I read it more as “Excuse me, we are having a moment here!”
With the last panel being “The moment is not over yet!”
Alice looking low-key giddy at her girlfriend kicking ass is adorable.
I can just imagine the one in that last panel going “wark” as he’s stabbed by Cio’s magic knives (or whatever those are).
I will now be unable to witness this panel without hearing “wark” in my minds ear.
Excellent.
CIO calls them “paper warriors”, little paper cutouts that are sort of very abstractly figure-like, which she keeps in (or creates from) her book. Not what most people would consider a weapon. Ha.
It’s the bureaucrat’s nightmare of death by a thousand (paper) cuts.
Oh, I rather imagine it’s more like getting between a very intense little kid and their paper dolls.
EXCUSE me, but this is just patently incorrect! It offends my very soul!
“Death by a thousand paper cuts” is the worst nightmare of everyone EXCEPT the bureaucrat. Out training in the Art of Bureaucracy means that we are well-equipped to handle armies of (metaphorical or literal) “paper soldiers”, while even the greatest of swordsmen have absolutely no defense against such an attack.
That said, Cio still scares the crap out of me.
Those are her bookmarks. She kills her enemies with quotes.
Yes, yes, mistakes were made all around. I feel that the fact they can have this conversation in the middle of *The Battle Royale* says good things about their overall competence however.
my gay heart,,,
A lesser secret, kept from you
regardless if it’s even true
can wear a hole that goes right through.
Cio is such an easy-to-like character.
So is this Cio wanting to start again with Allison and actually properly date her first before marrying? I really expect something really bad to happen to Cio now done either by Solomon or Gog-Agog to bring more drama to this. Or her ex-bf dealing Cio some fatal blow.
Well, the prophesy image thingy from some time back mentioned that Kill Six Billion Demons will arrive with a white and a black flame at their side. And somehow I doubt it’s going to be princess.
Plus this could also go in the direction of the two ending their romantic relationship.
Yaaasssss!
YAAASSSSSSSSS!
best gorlfren
Breaker of Vaults? More like Breaker of Hearts!
As bearer of a godly key your heart is kept in a vault of solitude.
Y’all are being distracted! You forget that Battle Royale has been called and these are the last minutes in the lives of Ingsvld and the big fat baby!
As I recall, this is not the final battle. Didn’t Gog say that the survivors advance to the next level?
Yeah, they just need to survive for ten minutes, to advance to the next round.
What that means is yet to be seen.
I imagine the shockwave in panel 4 making the same sound as a Royal Release from Devil May Cry
“wielder of the fell arts”
aye, fanfiction is such a thing, i remember fanfiction.net, that black crux of 2008 spawned much filth and decay.
Sword Bird’s thoughts in panel 6: “Heh, it’s just a blue mask demon. This will be easy.”
Sword Bird’s thoughts in panel 8: “Power levels are BULLSHIT!”
I like Cio better with long hair. Call me old fashioned.
You’re old fashioned.
After all the feels I could use an old fashioned about now.
I recall observing this, well behind the very-well-built Himosh’s back, and wondering to my self what precisely was I observing.
Never have I seen a battle alike this – one legendary fighter and one soon-to-be, in a conversation of heat, all the while fighting off any who got between them.
In earnest, I was confilcted, whether to get closer and hear the exchange, or distance myself to save my own skin.
In the end Hirosh was slain, for he, too, wasn’t enough of wit to see he ought not to barge in.
I ran away almost unharmed, but if I knew I would get the whole transcript thus I wouldn’t have put myself in danger in the first place!
Oh, I rather imagine it’s more like getting between a very intense little kid and their paper dolls.
DTR = Define The Relationship? or Doom The Rifraff?
Ah look at Allison being all tender
There are laws even Solomon David dares not break.
One of them is that attempting to interrupt a discussion like this ends very badly for the interrupter.
this conversation and their expressions make me so happy but….what is UP with allisons outfit. obi wan kenobi lookin ass. last of the jedi lookin ass. cio leaves for five minutes and comes back to allisons tatooine lookin ass
It’s better to be a bad girlfriend than a bad grill fiend.
Bad girlfriend! But also extremely hot blue devil girlfriend. That’s guaranteed heartbreak. And…breakage of everything else in the vicinity. Adding in bad but super hot warrior in training girlfriend basically doubles it. Love and Mayhem!
However, if they reconcile and get all super lovey-dovey whilst clobbering their foes, there is the possibility that Solomon David could suffer death by wanking.
Can I say that? Death by wanking? Probably shouldn’t, this is a strip for the whole family.
Besides Solomon Dave doesn’t seem passionate about anything but himself, so doubtful that he’d get amped up over these crazy kung-fu lovebirds.
“to thicc and pretty”
paper magic time
so ready for this
Oh for the love of Mammon! Clearly she is not leaving the arena, which I could tolerate, but now she is distracting my (second) meal ticket with pointless prattle about matters of the heart! That insipid meat organ that cannot pump molten gold! One thousand divine fuckwords upon you!
If only I were a figure of more significant authority, I could use the legendary art of the Pimp Hand to subjugate every fool in this stadium!
“Divine fuckwords”? Preem Draco, tha’ made my day.
Gotta say, Cio. Your Howl-esque sense of fashion on these recent pages really speaks to me! But emulating a pretty and selfish man who swallowed a star won’t save you here.
This is a wonderful moment of romantic drama. The fact it was inserted at a hilariously inappropriate moment makes it that much better.
“You’re not a bad girlfriend, Cio! Well, it would be nice if you occasionally shaved the hooked barbs off your legs, but that’s a minor issue.”
The other contestants should be smarter than that – when, in the midst of bloody carnage, two people take time out to sort out personal issues, it is just best to let it happen.
Let’s refrain from going this way, okay? I’m here for epicness, not romance. Especially not for this kind of romance.
Are you against devil x human union? Or girl x girl one? Just curious.
some people really don’t want to see any kind of blatant romance in a particular kind of story. The way you turned it into some kind of prejudice is sickening.
Well this story started with a girl almost fucking her fixed bf who she decided to go for cause everyone from her friends were doing it reasoning so she should too.
So the story had such themes from start, not mentioning Cio backstory of having a husband and countless lovers.
So now dissing things cause Cio x Allison gets some moment while also fightning sound plain stupid.
Plus the guy I posted reply to wrote”Especially not for this kind of romance.” so no there’s clearly prejudice in it, either for devil x human union or more possibly a girl x girl one. I can’t honestly understand what else you could read from such particular wording here.
Well, that is unfortunate. We know that Garuda’s master – a most friendly avian witch – and we met this Garuda at their mountaintop dojo. Nice boy, to our understanding he entered the tournament in order to raise charity funds for his dojo, which has fallen on hard times. We do hope his death inspires potential donors. Only the good die young, it seems.
This tale has now passed a threshold I longed fear would come.
This story started out as a spiritual successor to morrowind and gradually descended into a woke lesbian lovequest between an unlikable human with massive plot armor and a demon.
One of my favorite scenes from the first chapter was Cio saving Allison in Hell 71. I assumed the reason she was throwing everything away was out of some sort of devotion to maintaining the status quo of throne and preventing multiversal war, but now we know for sure it is because Cio, the demon sorcerer, wanted to have lesbian sex.
And what about White Chain’s quote, that the terrible gods of throne would “descend from their towers and rip the key from allison’s pretty skull” if they ever realized what she was hiding? It can’t be the pact of the seven part world, Mottom already horribly violated it with zero consequence from the other lords of infinity.
What are they waiting for? Is it because the script says they aren’t supposed to do anything until it’s too late?
Allison didn’t last a day in throne during the first chapter without half of its inhabitants trying to kill her over the key, but she has apparently lived in throne for a year while fighting various factions and nobody (except gog aggog) seems to have a clue the MASTER KEY is right there for the taking.
Yeah I’m sure I’ll be relentlessly attacked for what I’ve said, but I loved this story. I loved everything about the first chapter, and even parts of the second. You did not have to make this comic about fan service. You chose this fate willingly.
Metatron Lives.
Eh, devils are kind of weird and impulsive. Their racial motto is “Do what ever the fuck you want”, so them acting what one would consider irrationally is par for the course.
Mottoms violation of the pact seem to have really ruffled feathers, but considering the lofty egos of the demiurges seems it’s regarded as more of a faux pas than a serious offense. She wasn’t really gunning to take down Mammon, she just sort of kicked over his sand castle and smashed some of his toys while having a tantrum. It then escalated to a nasty catfight but they don’t really seem intent on killing each other so much as ruining each other’s day.
It is explicitly stated though that trying to claim her Key would be a major violation of the pact that would instantly turn all the other demiurges against the one who did it. Most of the demiurges probably knew she was gallivanting around Throne, but none of them wanted to make the move that would kick off a serious business demiurge killing demiurge conflict, atleast before they were ready for it.
It is an old concept, don’t upset the balance of power.
If it is only two parties with power balanced between them, then an advantage to one may mean victory. But if it is several parties with power balanced between them, one gaining a significant advantage may only make them a target for the others to destroy before that advantage can be exploited. That could lead to a war that destroys everything. Or with the one party destroyed the others may divide the spoils roughly equally between them, and a create a new balance.
In this case a relatively minor power holding that key means that none of the major powers is holding it. Balance is maintained. Which isn’t to say that no one wants that key, they all do, but they can’t just take it because they know the others will attack if one power ever gets it. So instead they play games, try to control Allison – covertly – or take the key in such a way that it is not apparent that one party has taken it for themselves and thus upset the power balance. If they can manage that they can then work to seize complete power for themselves, but its not like just having the key will make them Number One, its not that easy, otherwise Allison would be Top Dog already.
Also, just because a character says something – in this case White Chain – doesn’t mean it is true.
You know, when I heard there was such a thing as a “Game Theory”, I thought it wouldn’t be so dreadfully boring to study,
and so terrific to put into play. >:)
None except Gog-Agog? Strange thing to say, considering Allison’s nightly lessons with Incubus who is plotting something insidious with Jagganoth. Mottom’s position we know, and she is probably, as commenters above pointed, restricted by others; Mammon is quarreling with Mottom, Solomon’s smugly observes all this childish crap, and Jadis, I guess, just doesn’t give a crap and patientely wants to die.
So, mass combat is the perfect place for couples therapy?
Nothing like the threat of messy death to cause you to focus on what is important, and you can work out your frustrations by killing some random opponent? Interesting. Not sure how widely applicable it is though.
And now to search all the recent pages in this chapter for Cio in the crowd…
Even demons have a soft spot, at least after a while
How can you find so many facts? I enjoy the way that you
arrange everything, because it’s really easy to read.
Overall, I can recommend this guide to everybody who is interested in that topic.