Dark Gathering - Ch. 80 - Going To War
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-Legendary swordsman with white hair
-Attacks too fast to see
-Tears out an enemy's spine and heart
-Fighting to create a world of peace
-Attacks too fast to see
-Tears out an enemy's spine and heart
-Fighting to create a world of peace
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your substitutes will keep you safe?
who decided that?
who decided that?
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This is so messed up. That her first graduate is capable of this...and he has gotten stronger AFTER being sealed. What kind of countermeasures would Yayoi even have to keep him in check? I know she has some stuff we still don't know about, since I'm still puzzled how she was able to catch those shadow guardians a few chapters ago with no fighting strength, but I can't think of anything that would let her release this guy and they don't all die right away.
I hate and love how gruesome and dark this manga goes, I might be wrong but the woman besides having her heart cut out and being burned, something else might have happened cuz it looks like she is naked beyond her outerwear and the position isn't helping. And it's been shown that this manga has no problems going there.
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So the process of making a graduate is just EV training, then?
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"oh shit, that's my heart...oh well just heal and deal with it later"
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She really just left the heart on the ground there
It's unnecessarily excessive. Almost always happened to female characters.
This manga was always very graphic in showing horrors of war though.
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the blacksmith's corpse being sliced up and their heart on the ground is so weird. i wonder if there's some hidden secret going there or if the raiders just felt like ripping someone's heart out for fun. the fact that the samurai ghost can rip a heart out feels like theres a connection between whatever happened at his village.
then again it might be a theory and the heart is just there for shock factor
then again it might be a theory and the heart is just there for shock factor
Honestly, it feels like some form of ritual mutilation to me too.
I'm personally pretty interested in the way the samurai ghost can slash even through the substitute. Maybe he can somehow form a physical blade for that? That would explain the substitute bypass.
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Dr. Heart Gilgamesh surely love to take this ghost as his assistant
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Bruh. If he make it painless, it won't stop him because the reflect damage will be painless. With that down, he cut through all the substitutes and cut Yayoi at last.
Goodbye heart. It helped Yayoi throughout the manga and it got cut out and replaced.
I understand why oiran and sergeant is the only ones that can fight alongside him. They can recover damage and have energy draining abilities that keep him sane.
Goodbye heart. It helped Yayoi throughout the manga and it got cut out and replaced.
I understand why oiran and sergeant is the only ones that can fight alongside him. They can recover damage and have energy draining abilities that keep him sane.
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Maybe whoever Ooboss sent to keep watch on Yayoi would collect her heart back, since it's very careless if not straight up dumb for her to leave her fresh heart in an open like that.
Also since the author avoids direct reference to historical figure like Masakado, but that helmet style, although with a bit of alteration, seems to imply that the samurai was a kagemusha for Takeda Shingen.
Also since the author avoids direct reference to historical figure like Masakado, but that helmet style, although with a bit of alteration, seems to imply that the samurai was a kagemusha for Takeda Shingen.
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Chapter 80
LET'S GHOOOSSTTTTT!!!! It's been too long, and we even got 40 pages again~
But man, what happened Kredim!? This translation feels even rougher than usual.
Yayoi really hates Oboss I see
Custom Designs
In case pages 6 to 8 are hard to understand, allow me to explain.
(1) With the wild Graduate-equivalents, it's not "they fail to develop", but rather it's "I cannot direct their development". That is to say, with wild spirits, Yayoi cannot deliberately direct their development in such a way that their characteristics/traits/specs suits their specialty. So if they still turn out to be a good capture, it's the blessing of good RNG.
(2) The Stat charts: in Chart 1, the spirit has curses that're powered by its Special Attack and Special Defense stats, but its stat parameters lean into (Physical) Defense. This is of course not ideal: this could mean the spirit has good Defense but its curses are ill-suited for taking advantage of it, or vice versa.
With Chart 2, the spirit has curses that're powered by its Special Attack stat, and its stat parameters lean into Special Attack. This is ideal, since it can now take full advantage of its curses and stats.
(3) With the Graduates Yayoi personally made, she custom designed them in such a way that they'd hit the ideal polished scenario like with Chart 2. Or at least, that's what she tries to do.
That was how she produced Class One, when she went overboard with trying to realise her theory and polished it so well with all its specs going into all the right stats. While 完成形 can mean "final form", it's more so to describe Class 1 as the "complete", perfect, quintessential Graduate that brought her ideal to life.
Yayoi is truly a competitive Pokemon player, fussy about getting the exact builds, nature and IV/EV she wants. Heck, those stat charts are straight out of the games, except it's a pentagon instead of a hexagon without HP being factored in!
The Warrior
Back in Volume 11 extras, Class One was already referred to as a "Musha"/武者 . Though translating this as merely "Samurai" would've been tempting, that wouldn't be right.
See, while "samurai"/侍, "bushi"/武士 and "musha"/武者 are often treated as interchangeable "warrior" terms, in reality each of them have their own nuances.
All in all, I do prefer "Warrior" as it emphasises that this guy isn't just a samurai, he's a swordfighting maniac who obsessively honed his martial technique on the Sengoku Period battlefield in life and undeath.
(Keep in mind that depending on how "Musha"/武者 gets incorporated into Yayoi's full true name for Class One, Kredim might switch out "Warrior" for something else)
On a related note, on Page 8, while 妄執/"moushuu" can be translated to "deep rooted delusion", the full phrase 強さへの妄執 is more to state that the Warrior is driven by "a delusional attachment/conviction towards strength". I mean, you can tell from his backstory, but better understanding never hurts.
Faster and Stronger
"If I was swifter and stronger", what is this, Albus Changes the World?
Some Chinese readers have compared the Warrior to Akaza from Kimetsu no Yaiba, and apart from being in a wartime setting the similarities are certainly there. Orphaned, master and love interest murdered, lost all he had to protect, obsession with becoming strong (and fast) that extends past their human life, etc.
One reader there even posited that Warrior struck Yayoi because he wanted to see if she's still "worthy", and I think that that's a good theory. After all, if he's quick enough to outspeed the Substitute system's detection then he could've easily struck her down again after she healed herself. Plus, that wood carving he made called for deliberate, disciplined knifework, not blind slaughter.
I say that he's similar to Masakado in that going with Yayoi has been beneficial since he also thrives on all the battles she provides. So if she remains too weak then she wouldn't be of much help to him anymore. But this could just be my blind wishes...
Defiant
At any rate, it makes sense that with Sergeant and Oiran being the debuffers, then Warrior would be the main offensive powerhouse for taking on Yayoi's first God-class conquest.
So when he's under Sergeant's curse he's as strong as regular Masakado, then without it would he be as strong as Asura?
No curses, just pure violence, pure high stats huh? And yet if handicaps only make him stronger... is he just a Ghost/Normal-type Kingambit, set with Defiant as its Ability? (Effect: every time the Pokemon suffers a stat down, its Attack stat goes up 2 stages). Even cosplayed as a Supreme Overlord too.
Well then, based on Yayoi's last words, Warrior has gotten so dangerous that he's even less manageable than Oiran. Whose going to help our squad ensure he won't kill them via indiscriminate attacks?
Last Remarks
Let's see: the Warrior was made to be the main offense via Attack and Speed; Oiran was all about recovery and stat downs and wearing down enemy defences; and High Priest has hisPerish Song chant that forces a time limit on enemies and is especially useful when they're numerous, scattered and hidden.
Then how might Yayoi have designed Class Three? Are they going to be like a Trick Room-setting speed controller with high Special Attack stat? High Evasion paired with illusion powers? Maybe something speed or defense-oriented who was to fulfil the role that Sergeant winded up being a better fit for.
LET'S GHOOOSSTTTTT!!!! It's been too long, and we even got 40 pages again~
But man, what happened Kredim!? This translation feels even rougher than usual.
Yayoi really hates Oboss I see
Custom Designs
In case pages 6 to 8 are hard to understand, allow me to explain.
(1) With the wild Graduate-equivalents, it's not "they fail to develop", but rather it's "I cannot direct their development". That is to say, with wild spirits, Yayoi cannot deliberately direct their development in such a way that their characteristics/traits/specs suits their specialty. So if they still turn out to be a good capture, it's the blessing of good RNG.
(2) The Stat charts: in Chart 1, the spirit has curses that're powered by its Special Attack and Special Defense stats, but its stat parameters lean into (Physical) Defense. This is of course not ideal: this could mean the spirit has good Defense but its curses are ill-suited for taking advantage of it, or vice versa.
With Chart 2, the spirit has curses that're powered by its Special Attack stat, and its stat parameters lean into Special Attack. This is ideal, since it can now take full advantage of its curses and stats.
(3) With the Graduates Yayoi personally made, she custom designed them in such a way that they'd hit the ideal polished scenario like with Chart 2. Or at least, that's what she tries to do.
That was how she produced Class One, when she went overboard with trying to realise her theory and polished it so well with all its specs going into all the right stats. While 完成形 can mean "final form", it's more so to describe Class 1 as the "complete", perfect, quintessential Graduate that brought her ideal to life.
Yayoi is truly a competitive Pokemon player, fussy about getting the exact builds, nature and IV/EV she wants. Heck, those stat charts are straight out of the games, except it's a pentagon instead of a hexagon without HP being factored in!
The Warrior
Back in Volume 11 extras, Class One was already referred to as a "Musha"/武者 . Though translating this as merely "Samurai" would've been tempting, that wouldn't be right.
See, while "samurai"/侍, "bushi"/武士 and "musha"/武者 are often treated as interchangeable "warrior" terms, in reality each of them have their own nuances.
- "Samurai"/侍 distinguishes itself as a kind of warrior "class" who serves under a lord, and an idealism of sorts;
- "Bushi"/武士 is a matter of "profession", armed soldiers who fight on the battlefield by sword, bow or otherwise;
- "Musha"/武者 concerns the warrior as a "practitioner" of the warrior arts, a Bushi who distinguished themself on the battlefield so much and so strongly as to gain status or even legendary status.
All in all, I do prefer "Warrior" as it emphasises that this guy isn't just a samurai, he's a swordfighting maniac who obsessively honed his martial technique on the Sengoku Period battlefield in life and undeath.
(Keep in mind that depending on how "Musha"/武者 gets incorporated into Yayoi's full true name for Class One, Kredim might switch out "Warrior" for something else)
On a related note, on Page 8, while 妄執/"moushuu" can be translated to "deep rooted delusion", the full phrase 強さへの妄執 is more to state that the Warrior is driven by "a delusional attachment/conviction towards strength". I mean, you can tell from his backstory, but better understanding never hurts.
Faster and Stronger
"If I was swifter and stronger", what is this, Albus Changes the World?
Some Chinese readers have compared the Warrior to Akaza from Kimetsu no Yaiba, and apart from being in a wartime setting the similarities are certainly there. Orphaned, master and love interest murdered, lost all he had to protect, obsession with becoming strong (and fast) that extends past their human life, etc.
One reader there even posited that Warrior struck Yayoi because he wanted to see if she's still "worthy", and I think that that's a good theory. After all, if he's quick enough to outspeed the Substitute system's detection then he could've easily struck her down again after she healed herself. Plus, that wood carving he made called for deliberate, disciplined knifework, not blind slaughter.
I say that he's similar to Masakado in that going with Yayoi has been beneficial since he also thrives on all the battles she provides. So if she remains too weak then she wouldn't be of much help to him anymore. But this could just be my blind wishes...
Defiant
At any rate, it makes sense that with Sergeant and Oiran being the debuffers, then Warrior would be the main offensive powerhouse for taking on Yayoi's first God-class conquest.
So when he's under Sergeant's curse he's as strong as regular Masakado, then without it would he be as strong as Asura?
No curses, just pure violence, pure high stats huh? And yet if handicaps only make him stronger... is he just a Ghost/Normal-type Kingambit, set with Defiant as its Ability? (Effect: every time the Pokemon suffers a stat down, its Attack stat goes up 2 stages). Even cosplayed as a Supreme Overlord too.
Well then, based on Yayoi's last words, Warrior has gotten so dangerous that he's even less manageable than Oiran. Whose going to help our squad ensure he won't kill them via indiscriminate attacks?
Last Remarks
Let's see: the Warrior was made to be the main offense via Attack and Speed; Oiran was all about recovery and stat downs and wearing down enemy defences; and High Priest has his
Then how might Yayoi have designed Class Three? Are they going to be like a Trick Room-setting speed controller with high Special Attack stat? High Evasion paired with illusion powers? Maybe something speed or defense-oriented who was to fulfil the role that Sergeant winded up being a better fit for.
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