WHEEL SMASHING LORD 1-15 to 1-17
Chapter: 1
“Listen well, peasant girl. The time is long past I teach you the ultimate technique, as I have promised.
The only thing you must understand about this technique is it is purely for killing. This is the cut of no cuts, the form of no form. It doesn’t have a name. There is no school it belongs to. There is no master it belongs to, not even you. There is no purpose it belongs to. It is a poisonous technique, the product of a thousand venoms distilled from one master to the next, back to the line of the Gods. All my master used it for is stacking corpses, and his master before him, and his master before that, and that is all you shall use it for as well.”
-Ryo, to his student Meti.
When Maya goes to talk to their teacher, Incubus does not have the forehead studs of the head of john but they are present in when he is later attempting to decapitate Maya. So we have a timeline there
Maya still has the scars from spinning around like a top 3 months ago. Have they just not healed? Has she chosen not to heal them?
Seems the implied answer is that the question had something to do with death, but why would that shake her to her core, having killed so many? If conquest is her motivation, one cannot conquer death so easily I suppose, but then why the existential breakdown?
Family is of no concern to her? Love? This character is intriguing but I worry that she’ll never be as deep as we’d like her to be.
It was a question about love and family. Hence the panels which follow, and Incubus’s disgust. He likely saw it as a mercy killing.
stardew six billion valleys
This is incredible and great.
“Can I get uhhhhh… noodles?”
Do you really think you can save them?
This is late as hell to the game but I really like Maya’s master’s laugh on this page. It doesn’t look like she’s doing it out of genuine joy or ironic anger. Her mouth’s smiling but her eyes are completely expressionless. It looks like she’s laughing at Maya because it’s a job to do. There’s no genuine joy or anger or emotional attachment, she’s mocking her because it’s her obligation to do so.