52F - King of the Dogs (2): This is the twenty-fifth chapter of Volume 3 of Tower of God.
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Khun and Berdych continue to flee with the Fang, with Venti in hot pursuit, and find a place to stop and strategize. Khun giveth and Khun taketh, but the Healing Flames tells him an ominous prediction.
Khel and Soo-oh arrive at Madoraco's ship. They feel White sleeping below, but forgo waking him up so they can catch Baam and Yama.
Soo-oh gets sick when searching for Baam, so she stays behind while Khel takes off.
Doom tries to get Baam on side, but he won't fall for his trickery. This matters none to Doom, so he attacks anyway. Rak cries out as Baam is enveloped. Paul stops Karaka's attempt to aid Baam, telling him that it's their turn to fight.
Unexpectedly, Doom falls to his knees, his power draining, and cryptically exclaims that he'll never forgive those bastard leaders of the Ten Families, specifically Lo Bo Pia Yasratcha.
Khel arrives on scene. He's the one stopping Doom's attack on Baam. Informing Karaka that he is there to take Yama's Slayer title and give it to Doom, so long as Doom complies with the Council of Elders' wishes. Doom excitedly agrees to the terms.
Karaka questions Khel's and the Council of Elders' right to steal a Slayer title from someone. Yama arrives on scene.
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Hello, this is SIU. The afterword image this week is the Mr. Doggo King, how befitting (...) [TN: SIU puns here, I am not translating that] hehe
Anyway, we have more lore about the Houndborn. From a certain perspective, this feels a side step from the narrative to come, but having Yama and the Houndborn appear, and the other characters tagging alone gives the story a lot of volume, deceivingly so. When the narrative has less volume, it's easier to take these side steps, but it get's harder to manage at this size.
Khun's fight I went through pretty quickly. It's less so that Khun got the ability of the Firefish, but more like he has to bear it now. I definitely wanted to give the impression that this could be an issue later on this chapter, but since this arc doesn't revolve around Khun, so the story ended up being more about this ability instead.
Going back over to Baam and Doom, we have Baam sneak a peak into Doom's past. Looking at the narrative right now, the Lo Po Bia family looks like it will become enemies to Baam ^^;; But you don't know what will happen in the future until you get there, you know?
In the last scene, we finally see the Elder and Yama stand in one spot. We don't know what will happen, but who wins here most likely will hold the keys to the fate of the cage. That fate shall play out more next week.
The weather is getting cooler at night again. It's not too cold, but I am sensitive whenever the seasons are changing, so I already shiver sometimes ^^;
On a side note: I am now reaching the age of 35, I'm already thinking about how maybe I'm only putting up an image of understanding those younger than me these days. I do have a lot of student readers, you know. I must have improved more from experience from me of the past, but in the process I think I may have become more conservative-minded. Am I gonna become the grumpy old guy like this, I wonder sometimes ^^; I guess because of this, whenever I see those who stand in the heat these days, I feel like cheering them on. A moment to not worry about anything but self-expression... that's something a human life needs. I cheer you all on too.
Well then, I will come back next week with our angry Dog King Yama!
Everyone stay happy and have a healthy week
Thank you!!
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