Burning Effect - Ch. 97

[MangaDex]

 

[GayOpsCommander]

Good evening fellow zoomers.

 

[YaboiMarco]

Bro, thank you once more for the translation.


So far everything has been like a rollercoaster with all of these twists and turns

 

[Scrabbleman]

I'm a millennial, Gay. We exist and in crippling debt.

Master should've just accepted the offer. What's the loss of one district going to do? So what if Graymark 5 doesn't want to work with him anymore?

Also, I like that Great isn't just a psychopath. He follows the law to the tee and knows the full details, unlike so many people. The only problem is the death sentence but all those who were accused actually did commit the crime and knew it. He has the entire picture, just that his actions can be horrifying.

In truth, living under Great wouldn't be so bad for most people.

 

[Chabry3]

hail gay life decisions

 

[Mizumachi]

@Scrabbleman
I agree, he is a Great character, well written even. His only flaw is that theft doesn't, at least from my point of view and according to our law, it doesn't warrant execution.
Although laws nowadays are just poppycock, money can sway them easily.

 

[kyrex]

It's just a tad contrived that both of the thefts happened to be against crippled, frail, helpless people on the the verge of ruin who were somehow more pitiful than actual children. In his own way, he's not wrong, but all the same.. Just return the bear. Just have the child work to repay the old man. It's not a flawless, high-minded philosophy to say "these people were suffering, so the children who made their lives fractionally worse deserved death" as if that solves their problems of being poor and ruined.

 

[Asta]

Yup, seems more like something that was decided recently, rather than something that was planned from the very beginning.
Either way, I like the characterization it gives to Great.

 

[Wabi-Sabi_san]

Thanks for the chapter Dad. I need more Mr. Robert with his murde-... happy face.

 

[Oured]

All this time they've been discussing who gets to die for breaking the law, but little has been said about how to prevent people from falling so far they need to commit crime to survive. Since it's a post-apocalyptic world with incredible advances in medicine there should be a population control method in place to prevent overcrowding, and by extension the amount of people falling to crime due to poverty.

Spoiler

But then the hook of the story might not have been as intense.

 

[swordmaster2551]

I guess the administrator can destroy block 5 on a whim

 

[swordmaster2551]

Also man Great is either a centrist or libertarian hmm

 

[codetaku]

I guess the administrator can destroy block 5 on a whim

I suspect you're misunderstanding. You seem to think that the elder is saying that "block 5" is Great's weakness that Master is referring to. On the contrary, from my perspective, his weakness is "the law itself".

He feels obligated to follow the law to the letter. We can't know the cause yet (presumably it has some relation to Bear), but he doesn't hide when he has strong disagreements with others on his side. Yet, he never uses his absolute "violence" on them no matter what? When he has such a crazy temper? If he could kill the elders, he already would have. But he seems physically bound by the law. Even his acquisition of the crown was engineered as "recovering it from a criminal who stole it first". He'll use any available technicality to exert his own will. But there has to be a technicality available.

 

[dontpickonme]

lmao Great needs to chill thanks for this chapter

 

[Shinobu]

Where's my boy Robert though

 

[Shangus]

Administrator’s talking mad shit rn, but he probably does have something to use against great

 

[TheOneWhoSighs]

@swordmaster2551

Also man Great is either a centrist or libertarian hmm

Uhm, what??? Great is clearly Authoritarian.

Far be it from me to make this political, but that's one of the craziest things I've ever read. That killing anyone who breaks the law is "centrist" or "libertarian".

If anything, libertarian is the exact opposite of Great's world with an all powerful law that must be followed or you die. If anything, depending on how anarchist an individual libertarian gets, it could be interpreted as closer to vigilante justice. As a police force (such as Greats) may or may not be seen as a necessary role of government by some of the more... kinda dumb crowd.

And "centrist" I don't even know how to respond. I mean, maybe as far as the left/right axis. But on the libertarian/authoritarian axis he's well into the extreme.

 

[Doomroar]

What!? just give him Block 5, it is a free deal, that tree is useless without someone to make a new crown.

Or maybe that's what he meant by there not being negotiation, since it is such a good deal.

 

[marksman12]

... aaaand this is the part when Master reveals how he found a way to kill Great (as he swore he'd do some time ago), most likely with the help of Doctor, and now Xevoltz and Great gotta team up.

Or maybe I'm just wrong.

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.