Front Mission - Dog Life & Dog Style - Vol. 8 Ch. 65 - STYLE:7 - Return of the Shepherd (27)

[MangaDex]

 

[CommieJohnTeh]

The artist really likes to abuse the "fish-eye" perspective this chapter around.

 

[tailor31415]

those bugged out eyes 😱

 

[cryum]

I can actually believe some of those predictions. There are quite a few ways to sabotage a "non-violent" village pillage.

 

[Indomiegoreng]

@cryum please tell me tje scenario to make a innocent civilians into the perpetrators?

 

[cryum]

@Indomiegoreng
what? I don't think the enemy would want to make the civilians the perpetrators, but it'd be pretty easy to hand one of the village kids a gun and teach him to shoot.

 

[Renan_Walheim]

So the Sheperd sacrificed the gay guy to make the other sheep not even flinch killing all those civilians?

 

[blood_falcon]

So Tamira is also a part of the plan. She has also become a sheep. I think this is a bit similar to Vietnam war, please correct me if I'm wrong and please do not insult me either if I'm wrong. Where US soldiers preparing for ambush by decimating a village.

 

[Doomroar]

I tell you one of these days Match of freedom's eyes will pop out of her skull.

@blood_falcon you are probably thinking about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

It is different, in the massacres that happened in Vietnam the problem was a poor command chain, out dated and out right wrong intel, and just very bad broken people at the wrong place, in short US soldier went and killed a bunch of farmers under the premise that they were attacking an insurgent base, but it turns out, it was just a farmer village, no men, no weapons, no provisions, just women and children, some food and farming equipment, and the problem is that once the soldiers involved found out that "oh shit, these are just civilians" rather than stopping it, they turned it to 100 and killed everyone, raped who they could, and just engaged in the worst human behaviour.

This manga is a incompletely different, in here the plan from the start was to burn the village down and use that as a lure to trap in Match of freedom, now whether the massacre part was planned or not is up for debate.

I think it wasn't planned, Shepherd is known to pride himself on having all of his flock survive, so sacrificing one of his members just to have his team eager to kill everyone and be on edge for the upcoming battle doesn't seems like him, plus that would be really a 10D chess move.

And also, it makes sense for the villages to try and retaliate, some random guys that are not part of any army come out of nowhere and tell you to give them all your resources, and leave your home within 30 minutes or they will shoot you, and on top of that they tell you they will burn your village, it makes sense if someone would try and do something, but... since it makes so much sense, the question pops out, "maybe Kai knew this was gonna happen, he didn't do any effort to pacify the village before breaking the news of how they would lose their home and all their food".

If Kai did plan the massacre as part of the village being burned, then they guy is not just an strategic monster, but just a plain monster, and him trying to hunt his brother is kind of hypocritical on his part.

 

[ReadingBac0n]

@Renan_Walheim If you actually fully read the 2 previous questions you would know that the gay guy was sniped by one of the civilian while helping out laying down the trap to draw out the enemy as well as evacuating the civilians. Everyone retaliated at the civilians for killing one of their closest comrade.

 

[Renan_Walheim]

I never read comment section lol

 

[otakubouzu]

@Doomroar
Honestly, my only beef with your statement is how you claimed that The Shepherd openly said he will burn that village.

He only said "this place would be a battlefield" and no more. And last time i check, combatant evacuating civilians from a soon-be combat area is not that big problem.

Admittedly it was an unlawful combatant that ordering the villagers and even -if- The Shepherd originally didn't plan to burn down the village, ensuing combat would still levels it. So in that regard the Villagers might rightly assume nothing good will happen in the end. And probably they more loyal to USN too, so more incentive for them to fight back.

 

[Doomroar]

@otakubouzu my bad my bad, he indeed din't say outright out that he was gonna burn the village.

 

[Ceildric]

I seem to remember Inudsuka who was acting as narrator at the time making some comment that heavily implied that burning the village was meant to get USN attention. Indeed, one might wonder how the Shepherd was so sure it would be a combat zone (rather than might be one) if he didn't plan to set it as a trap.

Either way, demanding the village hand over their food and supplies, ordering them into the jungle, and making their village a combat zone makes the mercenaries a hostile intruder. If they wanted to really be "good guys" then that means self-sacrifice. They could have opted to stay in the jungle themselves, either avoiding the village completely, or only sending a couple of their people in, on foot, to ask the doctor to come visit them in the jungle.

If they wanted to be innocent, there were ways (possibly with greater risks to themselves) that they could have gone. Instead, they chose to put the villagers at risk, and ultimately massacred them.