King of Swords 9-124
Chapter: 9
“It is often speculated upon why Concordant Knights start their pre-combat prayer for forgiveness of violence with an attempt to propitiate Aesma, by far the most violent, rampant, and willful of the gods. The answer, as I was told by one particularly old angel who held watch over a decaying section of the king’s road, is extremely simple: if anything was horrendous enough to offend Aesma, it was enough to offend all the other multitudes of gods, thus the prayer is started by opening the largest flood gate of them all, so to speak.”
– Musko Reeve, Manual of Hands and Feet
Name your acts for full effect
and win chance to get swiftly decked.
The connoisseur cannot correct.
Friggin’ love this guy.
Also, White Chain said trans rights.
Ha! Bold of White Chain to go off at Allison for being ‘reckless’, then proceed to fight everyone stark naked and vulnerable (which she seems to make a habit of). Yes I’m judging you, little miss 82nd reincarnation. I don’t know of any other angel who has died that many times. Even Liminal Blossom, a criminal whose entire job is violence, is only on 23.
She died lots of times, but all in the service of justice. Being an angel, surely each of her deaths were to very powerful beings, that is, dangerous ones. Is it not admirable for an immortal being to be willing to lose a few incarnations to save the innocent? It is a sign that she doesn’t back down to save her own skin.
Of course it’s admirable. The point is if you’re going to chastise your student for being reckless, you might want to practice what you preach.
What is loose in Throne nowadays that could possibly bother an Angel? She is powerful and cunning enough to defeat a baby demiurge. I suspect that White Chain’s many deaths were during the Universal War, and I ascribe them to desperation, not recklessness.
(If this is right, WC’s current incarnation may be a long one, having started before the rise of the Seven and the end of the War.)
Ha! There are things loose in Throne that could topple gods. Desperation is just recklessness with a little extra spice.
…Woe be he who mistakes the rider for the steed.
We don’t even know where the wheel body is though, and there was speculation on the previous page that Juggernaut Star might not be using it.
Neither of those are her bodies either.
It’s time to return from emptiness to subdue some evil!
Born in Emptiness an Returns *there* fer Evil Subduin little flame, thinken us. Lookit Birdyarse Michael’s towersome tempest o angels gathered, fer the uttersome extirpatin o life on Throne! He’s not aw sweetness an light that un.
I hope Cio is safe and scrambled her way to her book of paper magics… might need it for retreat from the arena once Salomon decides to join the fun
I’m wondering if Cio is going to be a little peeved that Allison ignored her and ran to help White Chain. In any case, Cio may have joined up with Zaid and the Intruders to form a punk band.
To quote a popular song of the ’90s/early 2000s, “Somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight.”
White Chain’s about to square up, get em
Well… of course he got wiped in the next page…
He’s just defending while he says the Prayer. I don’t think he’s actually taken damage yet.
Zhangar speaks true. There is much “violence [Vigilant Gaze] is about to do” once he completes his prayer.
His shell may be old, but it is of exquisite make. I’ve seen them take undefended blows that would smash a tree to splinters with nary a mark upon them. I would not expect these buffets from Juggernaut Star to have done much more than scratch the finish.
In the wreckage of the early spasms of the universal war many aeons had their shells destroyed and returned to the void. I became something of a collector of their remnants-ash armors are one of the only containers strong enough to pot snakeiron root while it is growing. Perhaps if White Chain loses her head I could acquire it. It would be a lovely vessel for lily.
Yes, madam, I have no doubts that discarded angel shells are particularly rare and lovely vessels. The only problem is any items placed therein tend to be utterly annihilated when said angel decides to reclaim what is theirs.
Eh, the Throne City Transit Association makes buses out of the big ones.
The trick is to stuff the mobile joints full of unbound black flame.
One wonders if the buses and war tanks shall e’er be refilled with white flame. One sees no reason why not, they are functional vessels, with a devil drive. It would be a shame for the passengers, tho one would not feel the same for those little unbound devils doing the driving.
Nay, Pulcherinna, I am no fool. My collection has but the broken remnants of armor; a greave, forearm, or at least partially-intact head make for striking vessels. Broken pieces of the shells of thorn knights can be used-sparingly-for visual puns in a well-planned garden.
But the unbroken shell of an aeon…that is no decoration. They almost always return eventually, and I dare not presume even the most restrained concordant knight would take kindly to its shell being stuffed full of verdure.
Better verdure than ordure.
I hope you do not speak from experience.
Armor is not always for the protection of the wearer. I recall a duel when I was a mediocre warrior who thought I was great, where I battled a foe who wore his armor instead to seal his reckless and overflowing power. I hope that White Chain is wiser than that fool, who assumed that because he couldn’t control his power none could.
I believe White Chain is about to open her very own pressure-sealed little ‘ol can of whup-ass for her little ol’ friend Juggy Star.
Care for a taste, o thorny one?
White Chain body upgrade time so she can get some tiddies!!!
The tiddies were inside her all along.
Or inside her clothes.
Where most people keep em, really.
Well, our beloved sister might prove to her appretience once more, her new found abillity to change, to learn, by following the Allicio fusion. The armor of Vigilant Gaze seems roomy enough for two, especially if Krayu Mat is applied. 10 limbs and two wings strong, should give even the Speaker for Thorns a thought to reconsider his situation
Oooh I can tell the upcoming pages of this comic are going to make me cry AGAIN and I’m not ready for it.
well there goes the stadium.
Hope Cio is alright…
Thank god SOMEONE fighting Juggernaut Star knows about his bitchy Wheel Trick
Raliegh doing the damn thing
Blessed breakfast of the tropical afro-samurai, please enlighten us
Welp, time for White Chain to step in and fight
Of Course, she’s on a “liquid” state! Her form has not yet reached the solidity to safely use Karyu Mat! Shes Melting!
Vigilant Gaze invokes different gods than White Chain (“Ys-Prama, Hansa, and Prat Payam” vs Het and Prim). I wonder which variants of the prayer there are, and how angels choose between them.
Would it be of significance that both Het and Prim are female?
Hansa is one of the most iconic UN gods, and Het and Prim are some of the most iconic YIS gods.
It might actually be the lineage of masters that developed their specific school of martial arts.
In that regard it makes sense that they all begin with Aesma, as she would be the Kung-Fu-Tse Grand Master of the Arts of Wreaking Shit Up.
Alternatively, it might reflect the values or original duties of the specific angel.
Prim first taught the angels to think about how to preserve the world, instead of merely beating the peasants into submission, leading to the creation of the Root and Petal orders.
Hansa is
Fell asleep there. Not sure where I was going with that, or how I managed to post that.
I guess I’m just more sublimated than usual.
no one is going to mention that white chain’s angel face bears scars very similar to allison’s?
I hadn’t noticed and now I am astonished!
One notices with much dismay the inferior quality of Solomon Davi’s grand arena. Surely one of the Seven should be ashamed of how easily broken is a temple to the bloodletting arts in which construction he had a personal part!
Ah, what a lovely alt-text. “(…)A grace period in which you may safely believe you can actually do something to an Angel in close combat.” Believe being the operative word.
Nothing in that saying mentions succeeding.
The sort of thing one learns to notice if one wishes to follow the path of wisdom. Which is to say, living long enough to have the opportunity to become wise.
It’s Never Sunny In Throneadelphia, Season 66,542,021, episode 10: White Chain Finds her Pride