Jimi na Kensei wa Sore Demo Saikyou desu - Ch. 107

[MangaDex]

 

[Gold_Scale]

Is this a monthly manga or weekly the schedule is so weird.

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[vermillion]

I wonder how many more times they're gonna get jumped before Sansui actually leaves this country...

 

[Neutralside]

I wish this author dedicated 50 chapters with his wife and child. The aside plot are honestly eh

 

[Alton93]

Another pay to win challenger beat

 

[Dust_pile]

Thanks for the chapter!

I guess Sansui's master isn't dying any time soon, so let's hope for Sansui that he gets to go home for now.

 

[DaoFox]

I like the idea the damage is only realised once it returns to the sheath. lets us enjoy these cool moments you don't often get to see aha.

 

[shrike]

Surely this is the final LN volume right?

Kinda hard to imagine anything else after this apart from slice of life.

 

[NeverAnother]

Yo this arc has been kinda ass. Like it makes me not like the foundations of the whole story due to being JUST troublesome. Not even philosophically or anything.

 

[vandalbear]

getting kindabored with this.... also his arm not being fixed up is kinda pissing me off. Thanks for TL

 

[Thor]

This whole "sage" thing is really dumb if you stop and think about it for half a second. You do nothing but train yourself for hundreds or thousands of years with no other goal than beating each other up.

You're not doing the good thing of making the world a better place for everyone, or doing the neutral thing of seeking enlightenment through the focus on a single task, or the evil thing of taking over the world. No, you're just training every day for centuries at a time, just so you can either beat someone up or get beaten up yourself.

As we've just seen, it's not even to determine who have the achieved the finest technique, since you can lard yourself up with magic items and other ridiculous force multipliers. And if anyone ever dares to tell you that the whole thing is kinda stupid, you have a big ol' temper tantrum and destroy the nearby continent.

Are the sages supposed to be a metaphor for something? Because if that is what the author is going for, they have failed to even hint at it.

 

[Med1um]

This whole "sage" thing is really dumb if you stop and think about it for half a second. You do nothing but train yourself for hundreds or thousands of years with no other goal than beating each other up.

You're not doing the good thing of making the world a better place for everyone, or doing the neutral thing of seeking enlightenment through the focus on a single task, or the evil thing of taking over the world. No, you're just training every day for centuries at a time, just so you can either beat someone up or get beaten up yourself.

As we've just seen, it's not even to determine who have the achieved the finest technique, since you can lard yourself up with magic items and other ridiculous force multipliers. And if anyone ever dares to tell you that the whole thing is kinda stupid, you have a big ol' temper tantrum and destroy the nearby continent.

Are the sages supposed to be a metaphor for something? Because if that is what the author is going for, they have failed to even hint at it.

I think sages are just forces of nature. You become one with nature, lose your feelings and mortal possessions, and just... exist alongside the nature.

It's not "dumb", it just doesn't need to have a purpose, for the same reason why nature doesn't have a purpose as well.

Yes, sometimes sages are menace, but same goes with nature and "natural disasters". Personification of "planet will", that might ascend to the seat of "administrator", aka god.

 

[mutsutakashi]

This whole "sage" thing is really dumb if you stop and think about it for half a second. You do nothing but train yourself for hundreds or thousands of years with no other goal than beating each other up.

You're not doing the good thing of making the world a better place for everyone, or doing the neutral thing of seeking enlightenment through the focus on a single task, or the evil thing of taking over the world. No, you're just training every day for centuries at a time, just so you can either beat someone up or get beaten up yourself.

As we've just seen, it's not even to determine who have the achieved the finest technique, since you can lard yourself up with magic items and other ridiculous force multipliers. And if anyone ever dares to tell you that the whole thing is kinda stupid, you have a big ol' temper tantrum and destroy the nearby continent.

Are the sages supposed to be a metaphor for something? Because if that is what the author is going for, they have failed to even hint at it.

They train to become stronger, learn more knowledges, live longer.
If you say the sage is dumb then the athlete must be beyond hope. They train day and night just to become a little healthy, a bit strong and live a bit longer. Why train, they will die eventually, right ?

 

[Vemon]

They train to become stronger, learn more knowledges, live longer.
If you say the sage is dumb then the athlete must be beyond hope. They train day and night just to become a little healthy, a bit strong and live a bit longer. Why train, they will die eventually, right ?

No I think he is right, in this manga we have seen multiple times that Sages don't train to be stronger until they are beaten by someone else or have a vendetta against someone

 

[AquilaSilvestris]

This whole "sage" thing is really dumb if you stop and think about it for half a second. You do nothing but train yourself for hundreds or thousands of years with no other goal than beating each other up.

You're not doing the good thing of making the world a better place for everyone, or doing the neutral thing of seeking enlightenment through the focus on a single task, or the evil thing of taking over the world. No, you're just training every day for centuries at a time, just so you can either beat someone up or get beaten up yourself.

As we've just seen, it's not even to determine who have the achieved the finest technique, since you can lard yourself up with magic items and other ridiculous force multipliers. And if anyone ever dares to tell you that the whole thing is kinda stupid, you have a big ol' temper tantrum and destroy the nearby continent.

Are the sages supposed to be a metaphor for something? Because if that is what the author is going for, they have failed to even hint at it.

Sounds like professional sports, to me.

 

[captain_crunch]

Rocket punch

 

[Thor]

They train to become stronger, learn more knowledges, live longer.
If you say the sage is dumb then the athlete must be beyond hope. They train day and night just to become a little healthy, a bit strong and live a bit longer. Why train, they will die eventually, right ?

Let's take a look at athletes, both amateur and professional.

Amateur athletes train to be more healthy, or look more attractive to the members of the preferred gender, or so they can beat the others at the country club, or to relieve stress, or as an excuse to get out of the house, or etc. Lots of reason. Probably as many reasons as there are people. However, when they are done training, they re-enter normal interaction with the world. Family, work, pets, chores, social obligations, studying, hooking up, whatever. They train, occasionally, but most of their lives are spend as part of their social and economic framework. Normal amateur athletes don't have the time, inclination, or even ability to do push-ups for nine weeks straight until they no longer need to eat, breath, sleep, or poop. It doesn't happen, period.

Pro athletes are like amateur athletes with one difference. They get paid to train (or at least try to get paid to train). All the additional training can come at the expense of some of the stuff amateur athletes do because it is their job. They get compensated for their efforts. It's like wondering why scientists spend all that time reading journals and doing experiments. And even paid professionals don't work 24/7/365.

Sages, however are preposterous. They spend all their time training, for centuries at a time, without doing anything else, as so that they can have a big fight every 500 years or so, in which they have a good chance dying, because the other sage brought special Sage Bazookas. And they spend nearly zero time interacting with the world they live in. Really, they would do the world a massive favor by creating a Sage Continent on the other side of the world where they could train constantly, and every 200 years they cold have a Sage Olympics where about a third of the contestants would die horrible deaths. After about 1000 years, there would only be one left, training to split himself in two so that he would have someone to beat to death.

This is why sages are stupid. It's not good for anything, and they occasionally wipe out a nation of innocent bystanders. The only reason our protagonist isn't irredeemable is because his master told him to go be less of a moron until the child grows up. And now that has gone off the rails because he's started a new child and hell have to take a couple of extra decades throttling back to only be a part-time moron.

To be fair, most fiction falls apart if you examine it too closely, but this is something that completely collapses when you ask a sensible question or two.