Assassin's Pride - Vol. 6 Ch. 29 - The Place She Wants To Go

[firosahoge]

hey, dont touch my ojou!!!!

 

[sirflimflam]

One of the better chapters by far.

 

[pip25]

Great chapter and an interesting twist. I still get the feeling that the relationship between Melida and Elisa is not the healthiest dynamic ever, but we don't have to solve everything at once.

 

[Lomeno]

Ooh fuck oh fuck what's going to happen

 

[Neji_Hyuga_II]

MMMMMMMMMM, hell yes.

Alright, LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

 

[Glomoro]

@Ira_Acedia I mean, that's pretty much what Melida trained to do here, though. She is a sword user at the end of the day just as much as her cousin was, but now she's trained to fight unarmed as well and generates even cutting style attacks with her hands because special powers are in play. All of this is more or less just shining a spotlight on the normal training methods being kind of sloppy for these kids. They should be able to at least defend themselves a bit better than that unarmed. Are they supposed to just lay down and die if they lose their weapon out in the field? Just give up if they're ambushed in a location they can't bring their weapon? No, that's ridiculous.

 

[Ira_Acedia]

@Glomoro T'was a joke.

And I said "strongest martial artist", not that she shouldn't be taught the basics of unarmed combat. Maybe they'll get taught that later at school.

 

[Glomoro]

@Ira_Acedia Yeah, I respond to jokes online too seriously all the time. They're hard to pick up on sometimes in plain text to begin with, but perhaps I'm particularly bad at it as well. I also kind of ended up omitting the part of my comment that was about how in martial arts manga the swordsmen so often seem to only be true masters of the sword once they can use some sort of swordless style. It's at the level where their hand is basically a blade instead. So the strongest swordsman is pretty much the strongest unarmed person too at that point, which is definitely too much but man that's fairly common. Edited myself to be more concise and lost the thread on part of the subject a bit.

As for the school teaching them to fight like this later, do you mean that more like they might already have it in the curriculum for later on, or that witnessing the fight here might cause them to add it later on? I feel like the latter is fairly probable, the reaction people had to it seemed to imply they thought she was fighting dirty, so it might take a little doing to make the nobles swallow their pride.

 

[Ira_Acedia]

@Glomoro

I originally assumed it would be a part of the curriculum, which doesn't seem to be the case, but they might add it later, as you said. I had a look at the chapter again, rather than that she's fighting dirty, they're more surprised at her using her whole body and whether they taught unarmed combat at their school. I'm not aware of the setting in regards to how they treat different sexes, but it could be related to it being an all-girl's school. Anyways, the confusion from the other characters doesn't seem to be based off people being able to fight unarmed, but rather the female MC being able to fight unarmed - for whatever cultural reason.

I haven't read any martial arts mangas, so it's interesting that swordsmen aren't considered masters until they can treat their body as a weapon - though I can see where it comes from (e.g. to be a master of the sword, you have to master your body first since the sword is treated as an extension of the body).

 

[Glomoro]

@Ira_Acedia It's a pretty common trope for martial arts stuff, but I think most of them go the other route which is more what you'd probably expect. They're masters of the sword, so without one they can still sort of defend themselves but they probably aren't beating an unarmed specialist at their own game. There's some other odd examples out there like Shigure from History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi. She's a general weapons master to such a bizarre degree that she can defeat other armed people, even blocking their attacks with edged weapons, using like, a wooden spoon or something. Things can get pretty weird in the martial arts genre, might be what I appreciate about it since the realistic ones are basically just sports manga.

 

[Phoenix_VII]

If only the anime could be this good. Sucks that so many anime adaptations like to just rush, rush through the story cutting all sorts of important stuff out.

And I love the part where Ellie's tutor freaks out and says, "How could she lose to that talentless girl!" Bitch, weren't you paying attention? Ellie lost because you never taught her how to catch hands! :-D

 

[Kaarme]

Does the La Mor ducal family hate their daughter, naming her Mule?

 

[AsuraRaza]

The trash-talking was impressive.