WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-103
Chapter: 3
“It is said Ki Rata has a forty sixth strike. This is reserved only for the apprentice who is able to perform only three or less, and causes instant death.”
-Musko Reeve
Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
poor WC has it ROUGH huh.
HAAAAANK DON’T ABREVIATE WHITE CHAIN
Wash Closet
HDAWC
WCBIERTSE
While WC is gender-coded, usually of their kind aren’t
The path of royalty will always hurt your heart,either the one of flesh or the one of mind
Grilled hearts are tasty.
You got this, girl!
Royalty is only for those who swallow pills they do not know.
Reach Heaven Through Floor Detritus
Partaking of the floor pills is a sacred ritual.
Attain divinity by eating things which are bad for you.
As long as it’s not red.
Given what the Red Pill actually *was*, and White Chain’s identity, its actually especially true if the pill is red.
“Floor icecream gives you health!” – Pit, Kid Icarus Uprising
I too recall fondly the manifold joys of being strongly physicked
One gal gets a worm that eats her self
Another gets a pill that explodes her heart
What will the third gal get?
Well a if the end of the previous pages is anything to go by, they’ll get a girl
I’d say the third gal gets a machine powered by eating her soul, but we’ve already met Jadis.
If we’re talking about gals who go on quests to convince ex-demiurges to battle, the third gal must be Princess.
Third girl gets cigarettes, i guess. Yum!
Do you think Dave swore the same back then?
its confirmed on the old k6bd tumblr that that’s how ki rata works, yes. its a nuclear disarmament, mutually assured destruction type thing– the purpose of learning it is to kill all others with any knowledge of it
Isn’t there a gardener on Throne that also knows it?
Yeah, the purpose of the Ki Rata Monks was to be pacifists until somebody tried to figure it out and do Demiurge with it. Then they’d kill the guy. Dave swore the oaths and then betrayed them.
Yeah, he maintains what one could call a public park on Crown. It can be assumed the area has stayed undeveloped by the guilds specifically because they’d have to go through him to do so. I personally theorize he’s an ex-demiurge who gave up his power early in the war, since I’m not sure how else to explain his existence.
Considering a Ki Rata master can fully go toe-to-toe with a demiurge, it makes sense that the 7 didn’t consider challenging him worth the hassle, especially in a neutral area like Crown.
Since he didn’t try to kill Solomon, I assume he’ll leave White Chain be, too. The real question is if she’ll return that favour…
I’m thinking he could be like mob psicho reigen where he claims to be a ki rata master and everyone knows him for being one. Imagine Solomon going to check un on him and then “ahhh shit, he’s a scammer” and he’s the only one that knows it so he just lets him be coming back every other time to see if he doesn’t learn real ki rata fr out of a sudden. This is my head canon now.
I’m thinking he’s the reserves. When Salami Dave dies, and apprentice White Chain can’t manage a final strike.
OBI-Wan – “That girl was our last hope.”
Yoda – “No. There is another.”
There can be only one?
The DIAMOND is passed on
I think of it more as a disease. Ki rata can never be completely eradicated, but the order of masters is there as a vaccine to keep it from spreading wherever it breaks out. They’d have to prefer to pick students who are motivated by hate for violence, who’ll be committed to fighting against Ki rata. Like a certain sword master I remember whose teachings revolved around how bad swords are. . .
That, or every Ki Rata master would prefer to be the only one. (So the knowledge would die with them). But people keep spontaneously figuring it out, and there’s still so many masters running around. So every so often, when a master feels themselves getting too old to reliably murder other Ki Rata users on sight, they reluctantly seek apprentices who either know a little of it, or have the potential. Because they can’t risk dying while other users out there are alive.
In the end, there can be only one.
Bit late to uphold the monks’ tenets huh Solomon?
His plan was to be the only one who knew it for the rest of eternity, and that plan had to be updated suddenly. So why not fall back on what works, right?
We know of one other though, right? There’s one marked in a park on the map of Throne.
It’s never too late to realize you were mistaken, and he has time to try and correct some harm.
In the grand scheme of things… is five days such a sacrifice?
Perhaps, perhaps not. I imagine the once-pillar, with his immortality from bearing the Word and the art of Ki-Rata dispelled, now keeps a keen eye on how much time he has left. Perhaps this is simply a bleed of that habit.
Depends on which five days of your lifespan you are burning. No one ever seems to think it important to specify.
Take particular care that the days in question don’t include your birth or conception
Shrek Forever After
I interpreted it as the immediate next five days, based on “Five (days) to recover,” she’s going to be laying in agony for the next five days.
I kind of assume the 5 days thing was a lie. A way to make it seemed like there was a cause but to make that cost paltry. Perhaps also a way to make sure White Chain didn’t immediately spit it out when it started to hurt. If it has a chance to blow up someone’s heart, that’s risking a lot more than 5 days of life span.
Let us not discard literal phrasing. “It will burn inside you for five days” is a possible reading on Solomon’s part.
Bro really said “let’s go gambling!” when he gave her that pill, huh
Well, if there was ever a “do or die” situation…
‘Here, eat this’
*nom*
“What is it?”
‘Stuff I found in my pocket, does it taste like poison?’
bite this onions
The passing down of Ki Rata seems to have some exceptions? When Salami Dave first learned it, there were multiple older masters (whom he destroyed). And even now, another master yet lives in Throne. So uhh… I guess it’s a case by case sort of thing?
Where is this said? I don’t remember it.
Which bit? The other living master? As I recall there was a map of Throne, which listed it as a location.
I don’t think this is necessarily the exact same oath HE would have sworn when he learned it. I think he might be specifically requesting for this to be the last time the art is ever taught.
This seems foolish. Arts can’t only be taught, they can also be independently invented. That’s why the monks took new students, and why they learned ALL of the strikes, so that there would always be someone who can destroy someone who’s just starting to understand Ki Rata.
One who learns from a master is an acknowledged and accepted student. Those who figure it out on their own are a problem and must be destroyed.
Perhaps, though his wording doesn’t seem to allow for disciples.
All of the old masters were dedicated to basically making sure no one but them learned Ki-Rata; that was in one of the supplemental bits, too.
Basically you had to have their permission to learn it and learn it only from them, or they’d hunt you down and kill you. And because they were probably better at ki-rata than you, they’d probably succeed.
Solomon here is basically passing on the same general principle. He’s saying “make sure you’re the only one who knows this art” instead of “make sure only you and a small number of people specifically chosen by you know this art” because the first is more dramatic, and the demi-urges are nothing if drama-queens of the highest order.
So now she must kill him so she’s the only one left that knows it.
he specifically said after he has passed on
He would die soon anyway
Not only does one person knowing Ki Rata create the potential for great harm, but each additional Ki Rata user raises the chances two of them will fight. An occurrence that typically rocks the foundation of the Wheel itself.
Such a thing must never be allowed to happen. To prevent this, only those sufficiently wise enough to understand the gravity of their Art can be permitted to wield it. Anyone else MUST be destroyed, while they’re still weak.
A Ki Rata master only takes an apprentice when they feel themselves growing too old or feeble to properly kill the “wild seeds”. And only with the full knowledge that they aren’t training an additional practitioner, but their own *replacement*.
With the Sith, there must always be Master and Student. With Ki Rata, there can only ever be Master.
Killing a disciple? Can be done. But a master?
Live too long. Grow too strong. Let them know.
They can’t win. They will learn. You earn peace.
Even now the old fool is imprisoned by his pride and cannot trust the people with the power he has hoarded.
Imagine if everyone knew Ki-Rata. There would be no more demiurges in the worlds at all.
There was a time when innumerable beings wielded terrible power, and they slaughtered each other until only Seven were left. His masters shared their power with him, and he used it to subjugate billions. To defend oneself you must have power, yet this power corrupts so easily. Is a sword not a terrible poison? Or perhaps the poison is born in the heart of its wielder. Maybe both he and his masters were foolish.
Ah yes, if everyone had the time stopping turbo murder martial art that can punch between dimensions, that definitely wouldn’t make wars even bloodier or anything right?
Look, fist arts that can turn an entire stadium’s worth of challengers into gory milkshakes in the blink of an eye don’t kill people. People kill people.
That sounded SO pro guns
All of this arguments sound too much like pro guns arguments
Guns are merely Power. Just like Swords. Or Money. Or Nuclear Bombs. Or Armies of the Living Dead.
Every society asks the question “Who deserves to wield power?” and most people instinctively answer “people like me.” Many societies are run by men like the Ki Rata monks, who wield power and are very invested in preventing anyone from becoming as powerful as them. The type of power matters less. Always fearing challenges to their strength they wield their power to hobble those who would learn the same Kung Fu as them. Or grow as rich as them. Or as well-armed as them. Or as popular as them, or as skilled with magic, or as empowered by a stone bearing the names of God. They justify maintaining their monopoly on power by saying their potential competition cannot be trusted to wield it safely.
Whether or not you exert it, to have power beyond all others is to be one of the rulers of the world. If the monks did not exert their power to change the world it was only because they were content with the world as it was.
Would a world where everyone had a nuclear bomb in their pocket be safe? No! People would be setting off nuclear bombs all the time!
But no longer would a handful of men with nukes decide each day whether the world lives or dies. And also if everyone had an explosive device to carry with them trenchcoats would come back into fashion for hiding and dramatically revealing such weapons, and I think we can all agree that increased trenchcoat adoption is worth hastening the apocalypse.
Pretty sure that’s the joke. “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people” is the most classic pro-gun (or rather, anti-regulation) line there is.
If they were just a little bloodier, there would be no combatants left to be Demiurge. This is a sound idea as it was already developed by Pree Yaun ten Jantris: kill everyone and leave (this mortal coil).
I’m not sure if everyone could even learn Ki Rata. Like, White Chain is an accomplished martial artist and struggled immensely. Most people are suited more to noodle-vending.
O what a wonder – to be suited only for noodle vending
Maybe if everyone knew that everyone else knew a turbo murder martial art that let them punch between dimensions they’d be less willing to pick fights with them.
Imagine if everyone had a nuclear bomb in their pocket…
First panel … a divine abatis!
The second panel has some divine Swiss cheese
*gesturing to the giant blood-explosion stain*: “we taught him wrong… as a joke! :)”
Wow! That reference… Has a lotta nuts!
Ah yes, the pain bolus. Instantly cures the comfort debuff.
How is Alison getting Gog´ed the one who suffers the least of the two?!
Will.
From what we have seen of White Chain, she always chooses the path of most resistance. This, too is Will.
A true initiation never ends.
“Take your Tiger and Wolf Killing Medicine”
“I’m not either of those things, should be fine.”
Legendary Item: -4 Anti Ibuprofen
Effects: ouch
NOW a warning?
Crouching Solomon gives me Totoro vibes.
Brotoro
Where is the Cat Bus?
That would be princess
if it had killed her, she would have had but five days to live.
Does this in that Sammy Davis doesn;t know about the Ki Rata master that lives in Throne?
It’s been stated that he knows, but neither of them wants to risk a battle since the collateral damage would be massive.
I’m getting really excited for the WC/NeoCio/Allison/Agog megazord
That feels like it would run counter to their teaching, then. You have to kill all other practitioners… unless they’re like _really_ good?