Kingdom - Vol. 69 Ch. 752 - To The Sanctuary

[flxsemi]

Damn, what a way to go out

 

[chabermaca]

i'm sure but there's no one in Qin as evil as Kanki, anything they pull won't be as bad as slaughter civilians and surrendered soldiers in the hundreds of thousands.

that was just a prank bro
classic chinese joke, a real kneeslapper

 

[TheGodGeminis]

In the legend of Jing Ke, Huan Yi (Kanki) survived his encounter with Li Mu (Riboku) but couldn't rejoin the main Qin army to his west because he had to flee east. The Qin government perceived this as desertion and exterminated his family as punishment, leading to Huan Yi either returning to banditry or defecting to Yan (depends on which version of the story you read). When Jing Ke was preparing to go assassinate Qin Shihuang, he met up with Huan Yi and requested his head (either by fighting/weaseling his way into Huan Yi's bandit camp or simply walking up to his estate in Yan), which Huan Yi heartily gave by beheading himself. This story, however, is a knight-errant/hero (youxia) fantasy.

While Jing Ke was a historical figure who really was a youxia receiving the hospitality of Prince Dan of Yan and while it is written in some sources that he did bring Huan Yi's head, what probably happened was some grave-robbing on the way. In the Warring States era, it was common for defeated enemy generals' heads to be brought to the capital as a trophy, where it would be displayed to the public before being interred in a temple or a tomb outside the walls of the capital (or some place far away) to prevent spirit vengeance. There's a very famous Japanese example of this with Taira no Masakado's head being buried in Edo (Tokyo) after being displayed in Heian-kyo (Kyoto). In real history Huan Yi was a hero of Qin whose head was lost deep in Zhao territory, so Jing Ke probably went to where it was interred and took it out so it could be presented to the Qin state to be given a proper state burial, not because Huan Yi was a traitor.

The problem with that historical record is that it was not Huan Yi the one who kills himself to help Prince Dan of Yan, it was Han O Ki (who was already introduced in the manga).

 

[Amariithynar]

Oh good, he died. Now if only Riboku dies soon after because of that head.. what even is that? A feather graze? Well, whatever. I guess he still had HP and I bet he'd be full-healed once he gets to a city like an MMO.

Scalp wounds are actually well known to bleed very aggressively and look much worse than they actually are.

 

[Amariithynar]

The problem with that historical record is that it was not Huan Yi the one who kills himself to help Prince Dan of Yan, it was Han O Ki (who was already introduced in the manga).

The historian Yang Kuan, who wrote the book "History of the Warring State" ("Zhan Guo Shi"), theorized that Kanki and Hanoki were the same person on the weak basis that the name pronunciations sounded similar and their individual historical records don't overlap. No historical records confirms that they are the same person explicitly. Many people just popularize this theory as fact without fact checking.

 

[viloas484]

At this point Riboku is the true main character of Kingdom. His plot armor is thicker than Luffy.

Lamo

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[ArmandoR998]

When does the new chapter come out

 

[tave49]

I love how kanki roasted riboku before dying. He's right. Riboku may be a genius, but he is subject to a fickle state that just lets people suffer. Kanki and sei may have their own issues, but at least theyre trying to do meaningful change in the world that transcends their own selves. Riboku is too busy worrying about having the moral high ground to do anything.

Also... Riboku! You made a coalition army to decimate qin before they invaded you! You goddamn hypocrite!

 

[sipham]

Riboku is such a coward, shame he survived yet again but only by using meatshields as per usual.

 

[FKW_ll]

Pretty cool death

 

[soccerstar403]

F

 

[Orio]

F

 

[Vergil]

Gotta be Shin that does him in, riboku killed ouki, hyou and now kanki all men that in someway shin respects and have impacted his life. Shin killing riboku will be such a cathartic moment

I wish that was true but history has plans for reebok

 

[Hpaz1]

Rest in Power King

 

[TaserSal]

FINALLY THIS HYPOCRITE ASSHOLE DIED LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO