WHEEL SMASHING LORD 1-23 to 1-24
Chapter: 1
THE DEATH CUT
YISUN held audience one in their fifth anti-spiral clockwise palace. White faced Pravi, who was a wise disciple, said:
“Lord, bestow upon us the armor that will resist ending. The days grow short and the nights cold. The quavering strands of our life grow thin and worn in these final days since we have come to know death. I bid thee Lord make us to know a companion of this feeling.”
And YISUN smiled in the fifth way and said in reply:
“As the stone is in the fruit, your death is already in you. There is no armor that will resist the contents of your own heart. You were cut down the moment you existed.”
-Spasms
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Maya just killed Kill Six Billion Demons.
I have nothing further to add to the discussion.
Maya is teaching Alison many things here if only she’d wise up! Remember that only a few pages ago, Alison escaped the trap set by Jadis by:
1) Refusing to go into shock and possible death upon ripping out her cybernetic eye, leg and arm.
2) Willing her lost arm and leg back into existence in some spooky ectoplasmic way
3) despite missing said arm, leg and eye, was able to plow through Jadis flunkies like they were less than nothing.
It’s true that Alison spends many months training in all sort of new combat arts but at the same time she seems so forgetful of the superhuman things she’s done. It’s good that Maya came along to set her straight or she’d still be moping around Throne months and months later.
Maya certainly know’s that’s she’s being a brutally whimsical and obtuse sensei, but Maya knows–in a Zen sense–that sometimes the only way for enlightenment to really sink home is to be brutal and shocking.
Hello Alison?! Wake up! You’re a god.
You’re only dead if you wish to be. Choose to live. “There is no wound.”
The Maybe Sword.
When Alison fully and viscerally realizes her godhood, she won’t even need any sword.
serious but holy even so, I admire those who engage in more pleasant pictures may be those whose adverse aspects appreciate increasingly intelligent people as a whole,
Voilence can only be ended by violence, oppression will never yield without force or the threat of it, anything else is foolishness and utopianism
thanks lenin
I feel like this comment section may be over-focusing on Maya’s words and on the quandary she’s putting forth, and forgetting that to present that quandary she just killed Allison, and that on-screen she once cut an entire castle in half.
Wherever she’s leading Allison to, it’s not going to be giving up, or not fighting, or trying to give Jaggonoth flowers for Yisun’s sake. She’s not a pacifist, and she’s *explicitly* not trying to turn Allison into one either, the purpose of this training is to teach Allison how to actually use a sword.
No one has ever needed a weapon. You just need to cut.
I just have to say, Alison turn her back when sliced in two and on the next case she face her master. The fact she managed to turn around while sliced in two is astonishing x)
Oh, no. Is Allison going to pieces, again?!
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That probably explains why Maya has no student.
Maybe Maya skipped the “don’t kill your student” part during her formation to be a teacher. 😀
Ooh, that one’s gonna leave a mark. C’mon Maya, that was a sucker’s hit!
That moment when you’re expecting wax-on, wax-off, but instead experience acute bisection
I love the fundamental thematic tension of this comic so much. In no small part because I don’t have a good answer for it at all.
The obvious answer is ‘no; violence is universal.’ The brutal and the cruel do not hold a monopoly on violence. Violence can be wielded as easily by the just and the merciful, the humble and the devout, the peace-loving and the amicable. I have seen a great warrior strike down their foe, while holding only love for their enemy in their heart. They cried as they dealt the deadly blow, but their violence was as pure as any royalty I have ever seen. Perhaps more so. For they saw that violence is fundamentally self-harm; the downfall of their opponent indistinguishable from suicide.
The world does not only reward violence, neither does it solely punish the merciful or benevolent.
The Wheel turns like the flowers at the bottom of a garden. Alison who realizes this truth… “a golden haired lion.”
The adept should always be ready to abide by the flip of a coin toss, and remain absolutely indifferent regardless of whether the silver falls heads or tails.
So thorfin and his dad were onto something after all huh?
(That’s a Vinland Saga joke for those who don’t get it.)
This is why I just stick to the good ol’ mace or club no need to learn no fancy moves of cutting without cutting you just smash your enemy, granted there is some skill to be learned but nothing too complicated
Will the end be Allison letting Jag kill her SIX BILLION times and standing in his way quite stubbornly, until he concedes that violence is futile? Does she earn her name by dying, not by killing? That would be a twist.
hooooo, the power of will and the power of Will
That’s awesome. You know, I like comics so much. And this one is great.
The work on this is great