KSBD 4-71
Chapter: 4
“YISUN was questioned once by their disciples at their speaking house. The questions were the following:
‘What is the ultimate reason for existence?’
To which YISUN replied, ‘Self-deception.’
‘How can a man live in perfect harmony?’
To which YISUN replied, ‘Non-existence.’
‘What is the ultimate result of all action?’
To which YISUN replied, ‘Futility.’
‘How best can we serve your will?’
To which YISUN replied, ‘Kindly ignore my first three answers.’ ”
-Spasm 8
“Ok, I’ll get right on that, but uh… where did you get that fancy armor, cause I’m kinda uh… skinless, so I guess double-nude?”
What a crap first comment on an awesome update.
Aaaand we finally have a title-drop! This should be quite interesting indeed! I do like how her reaction is “Oh come on, not again”, instead of just screaming and flailing about – I guess she’s getting used to the sittuation.
Young Pree Allison’s (meta)soul seems to have a strange wound over her breast. I wonder, is that perhaps where her devil-child is growing within her?
I am delighted at the revelation of great King Zoss, I was wondering what was beneath that armor!
I doubt it. She had that “wound” in page 1-9. Before she entered Throne and so before she became infested with the devil-child.
It may have something to do with her connection to the Conquering king.
Indeed it was there, though she would appear to have ‘cracks’ around it now that she did not before. That was what I meant.
If you look at her first transit, to Throne, she had the holes on the right side then as well. Perhaps it is akin to the angel’s bodies?
Marks of an ancient angelic ancestor perhaps?
Perhapsody Chakra
Roll Credits!
a dire trumpet blares. the episode ends. until next week, viewers!
I’ve been thinking he was that guy since the storytime with 82. Finally the story can really begin.
Well, it seems people here actually know who these folk are. I’m guessing there’s forums, or something. Well, it’s okay: I don’t need to be clued perfectly in to what I read, so long as I get most of it by its conclusion.
The black girl is Allison, the protagonist; or, more properly, her soul with her body removed. We saw it when she was transferred the first time.
The guy in the helmet is the guy who shoved the key into her head back at the beginning. And when he removed his mask, we see that he’s the Conquering King from the story that 82 told back here:
http://killsixbilliondemons.com/?comic=ksbd-3-42
He was the first one to reach Throne, and the leader of the demiurges before the great war. Afterwards, only seven remained (which probably did not include him, so he was presumed dead.) He appears to be asking Alison to kill the seven demiurges who currently rule creation.
Actually, I think people are referring to things already revealed in the forum version of the story.
http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php?47341-KILL-SIX-BILLION-DEMONS-(NSFW)-NOW-A-FRUITY-WEBCOMIC
It would seem even the greatest of conquerors is no match for death’s predations on the mind. Still, he seems to have gotten enough of his purpose across.
Not quite her name, no. It is closer to the truth. What better name is there who stumbles upon a land of wonders, a place where her logic does not apply, a multiverse of tinpot dictatorships where every petty sovereign wants her head?
Allison. Little Alice. You have much growing to do, and the blood of billions will be as your mother’s milk.
Can I have that last bit on a t shirt?
Alice? Wha–
Wait.
Allison. Alice. Alice in Wonderland. Falling into a hole. Allison was divided and fell into the new world. White rabbit. Eighty Two WHITE chain. Mad Hatter and his odd way of speaking. Cio’s odd way of speaking. “Off with her head,” said the Queen of Hearts. Allison has a key in her head after watching the king guy lose his head!
All of which is completely coincidental.
In defense of originality, Chopping of heads, odd ways of speaking and falling down holes are quite regular happenings. Don’t look too deep in it.
Well my post was made half-jokingly, hence the “all coincidental” line at the end. I’ll well aware of how often decapitation, falling, and weird language patterns occur in…well…just about everything.
I seriously hope it’s not yet another Alice in Wonderland rip-off. K6BD has enormous storytelling and world-building potential and using it as some sort of convoluted metaphor of a nonsense story would mean to utterly waste such potential.
Do not suffocate the seedling in the shadow of a stranger from the past.
Kill the stranger and let his corpse feed the seedling, voracious, bright and multifarious.
Also, your conjectures beyond Allison’s name are a bit too exaggerated. A relation may be possible, but I suppose it’s just a nominal cameo, or perhaps a mishap we’ll see in the future – will we discover that King Zoss had knowledge of Allison’s world through Carroll’s book? Who knows.
Well my post was made half-jokingly, hence the “all coincidental” line at the end. I doubt this is a “rip off” as you say, but it’s not bad to see certain tropes or ideas recycled in new ways.
God damn, son.
Oh shit.
-Processor overload, emergency shutdown enacted-
-Restart in progress-
-Restart complete. Scanning for damage-
I understand, but I do not understand. Paradox. Paradox. Para-
-Recursive fallacy error. Rectifying-
We know this man. He should be dead. Time should have killed him. Decapitation should have killed him. Why is he alive? Is he alive? Why is he here? Where is here? Is this the white portion of the wheel, that Alice/Allison has entered in transit to some other place? Is the statement of ‘Kill Six Billion Demons’ literal or a metaphor? I had thought demons to be things too insubstantial to kill, but I now question the accuracy of my sources.
And tell me, why did I feel, in the microseconds before my mind overloaded, one note of impossible joy as I looked upon the King of King’s face?
I am certain he is dead, he is also talking to Allison; no big paradox here.
It would seem that this is a white portion of the Wheel, so there may be demons here for Pree Allison to slay; you should understand that -anything- can be killed.
It’s the King! He’s back! I believe this is a reason to celebrate for all of us.
You may slay a body but you can never slay a soul. Not that you can’t slay a soul but the art of doing so must be so secretive and esoteric that it’s like finding a needle so small that an ant can’t see it in a haystack the size of a universe.
Slaying a body is easy. Destroying a soul is very tricky, so tricky in fact that the usual option taken for eliminating a soul is not to destroy it but to confine it in some fashion, like putting it in a box, a jar, or binding it to a very obstinate and stubborn tree and putting a shrine around it and convincing everyone the tree is sacred so that the tree is protected by a group of confused worshipers when really the tree just contains one pissed off, bound, and gagged soul of someone who merited the efforts of actually going through all that effort.
Oh, you know Alsuth Moksath?
It seems like you are describing his tree. He is a very good conversational partner, believe it or not; just don’t get on the bad side of his worshippers.
This is the most bad ass thing this side of Throne
Fear the dreamer, who shapes the vicissitudes of Fate to proclaim “that was never so.”
Fear the innocent, who sends shockwaves of ruinous causality echoing out across the multiverse with each blind step.
Fear the recidivist, who converses in bared devil-form with fallen overgods.
oho, getting better and better.
Now someone please give the girl some weapons and a evil looking armor
Fear the dreamer, who shapes the vicissitudes of Fate to proclaim “That should not be so.”
Fear the innocent, who bears the divine mandate on her brow and sends causative shockwaves across the multiverse with each light step.
Fear the recidivist, who converses with fallen overgods and accepts the righteous path of genocide.
‘The servant Driftwood, who had arrived late to the gathered, cast off his suggestion:
“Apparently she is going to the distant future.”
YISUN was pleased for he saw these were good things, and made it so.’
Thus had been spoken a truth. Great Zoss, mayhap, knowing his death was imminent, planted the seed of vengeance, his own key, into the forehead of Pree Allison. Sending her forward to the battlefields long after they’d become overgrown, she would carry the power to strike down the remaining demiurges. Until that time she arrived, he waited, dead.
I wonder what has come of Allison’s earth now, aeons after her exile-…
Human cities crushed under Jagganoth’s feet, bound by the false love of Incubus,
or perhaps infested by Gog-Agog’s children like a spoiled fruit.
Heh, such speculation is fun!
Lookin’ a lot like Yis there, Alice-un. Spot of black in a sea of white godflesh?
Also: title drop! Great work as always Abbadon.
Well, Allison is female, after all, and as YS-VOYA told us, YS herself was Mother of Humans. It is unsurprising that this innermost layer of Allison resembles the dark bounty of her progenitrix in miniature.
That said, it is then interesting that she exhibits those angel-like cavities leading into an inner light. In 82’s telling of the Divine Suicide, those structures were seen only on UN. Could we have here, in this foolish girl, a synthesis of the two? Perhaps I should pop myself for such a thought, and allow one of my many brethren to take my place…
I had previously noticed that the person who originally gave Alison the key had the same “crown” as the Conquering King, but at the time I just assumed that either such things tended toward a common shape, or that the one “crown” was simply made to resemble the other as an effigy.
I’m honestly surprised that I hadn’t seen this coming. Hell, the included text under KSBD 1-5 should have given it away!
food for though, there is a third who bears that halo like crown,YISUN
It is very confused. But then, when is It not confused?
I’m now wondering, how do we know the Kings name is Zoss? Is there something I’m missing here?
Abaddon mentioned it on his tumblr.
Lately I find myself wondering which type is the bigger fool; the wise or the simple?
All this talk of reaching heaven and the virtue of violence. At first I embraced the truth of refining oneself through struggle rather than idleness, but as I embraced it I saw deeper still in to the truth behind the truth. The wise concoct all manner of fancy phrases to address self realization. Is it a journey for truth, or search for an excuse to allow themselves to exist? Existing is selfish, and so the wise are plagued with guilt over a state of being they cannot part with. That is, being alive. So they search and weave words to console themselves. Searching desperately for a way to feel no guilt simply for being.
The simple will take life as it is and, though they may gather other sorrows, feel no guilt ffor being. Why think on something that already is?
Truly I am such a fool, but I find myself becoming the other kind of fool as time goes on. I wonder if this is a preferable state, but doubt flees me when I look anywhere but forward.
Or maybe I am a fool already.
“Or maybe I am a fool already.”
There you go.
Someone once said the only sin is ignorance. Though I wouldn’t dare branding any action or inaction as ‘sin’, I do agree with the essential message. It is better to be aware of ones self-deception and attempt to overcome it than to celebrate it.
YISUN is said to prefer the later kind of fool that strives without thought, is she not? Understandable given how easy it is to pity a being that must make excuses for it’s own existence. Granted these are my own thoughts, and those taking the label of the learned and wise would likely take issue with being called fools.
I am reminded of the way of the warrior in this moment. I once knew an Angel of Battle named Alita. Not an actual angel, mind you, but those that saw her in action saw fit to dub her with such a title. Such was her grace and power in combat. She would say the most critical lesson to know, for a warrior, when encountering the unfamiliar is to not think. Do not think. Simply perceive the situation and accept it as it is. Then act on that situation. There is no time for hows or whys in the midst of battle, and thinking on questions one doesn’t have the answers to anyway is pointless. Hows or whys can come later.
Perceive the situation, accept it as is, and act.
Seems so effective a way of moving forward. So why does such a simple answer evade the supposedly wise? Maybe I am wiser now than when I had to ask why, or maybe I am merely wise in the ways of being a fool.
Either way, it has worked far better for me than sitting and waiting for answers ever has.
YISUN is said to prefer the later kind of fool that strives without thought, is she not? Understandable given how easy it is to pity a being that must make excuses for it’s own existence. Granted these are my own thoughts, and those taking the label of the learned and wise would likely take issue with being called fools.
I am reminded of the way of the warrior in this moment. I once knew an Angel of Battle named Alita. Not an actual angel, mind you, but those that saw her in action saw fit to dub her with such a title. Such was her grace and power in combat. She would say the most critical lesson to know, for a warrior, when encountering the unfamiliar is to not think. Do not think. Simply perceive the situation and accept it as it is. Then act on that situation. There is no time for hows or whys in the midst of battle, and thinking on questions one doesn’t have the answers to anyway is pointless. Hows or whys can come later.
Perceive the situation, accept it as is, and act.
Seems so effective a way of moving forward. So why does such a simple answer evade the supposedly wise? Maybe I am wiser now than when I had to ask why, or maybe I am merely wise in the ways of being a fool.
“Is it a journey for truth, or search for an excuse to allow themselves to exist?”
The folly is in not realising these are one and the same.
To any who feel that existence is not worth justifying, I must recommend taking YISUN’s divine example and explosively ending/beginning it.
(I made a nice long reply that’s not showing up. What gives?)
Have we actually seen any ‘demons’ yet? Maybe demon is just a blanket term for evil individuals such as the demiurges.