Silver Mountain - Ch. 22 - Saidda's Lie - Part 10: Aid in Battle

[MangaDex]

 

[UnderworldBlues]

Thanks for the chapters!!!

 

[friendly]

god DAMN. excited to see how this plays out. Maybe leading the shots of fire....?

Also I appreciate that even if the fortune teller tried to tell him again and again. Those people were no good. They meant to sell her. He says to her. Do you want to avenge your father.

Maybe those people changed. Maybe they just had a little pity in their hearts. Maybe (knowing the author) they really did come to love her. But he respects her feelings about it.

Thank you for the incredible uploads o7

 

[GetterRin]

Given that so many chapters were uploaded at the same time and there's no actual info from the upload I gotta ask, is this MTL?

 

[emeraldwolf34]

So Ginbei speaks to Saidda here using the air magic that she used to tell them when Hyoudou was fighting Joffried. It has the same quotes and hexagonal speech bubble as when the air spirit spoke. Makes me think this thing Ginbei never thought he’d do is going to be incorporating magic into his style to defeat Joffried, as we saw air magic is how they’ve been fighting back against the carbon monoxide poison and such so far.

 

[emeraldwolf34]

god DAMN. excited to see how this plays out. Maybe leading the shots of fire....?

Also I appreciate that even if the fortune teller tried to tell him again and again. Those people were no good. They meant to sell her. He says to her. Do you want to avenge your father.

Maybe those people changed. Maybe they just had a little pity in their hearts. Maybe (knowing the author) they really did come to love her. But he respects her feelings about it.

Thank you for the incredible uploads o7

I definitely think Stek and Aty came to love her, especially with the framing we’re given from an outsider. The old woman cannot comprehend why Stek did what he did, and assumed his smile in his final moments had to be him going insane.

However, with how many excuses they told themselves to keep her, the fact that we know Saidda was allowed to play with other kids and have friends and other things which would be “unnecessary” for a cash cow (which the old woman never mentions her friends, but we see the effects of in the present), and that Saidda still wants to stay with them despite hearing what they say about her implies she can see past it, I really do think Stek’s last stand was entirely out of love for Saidda, even if he would never admit it.

Especially since Silver Mountain as a whole so far has been about the uses of strength and force, even from the early chapters of Ginbei hating soldiers and stopping needless violence, I think Stek’s last stand being out of his love for Saidda and trying to protect her just emphasizes that narrative perfectly.

 

[friendly]

I definitely think Stek and Aty came to love her, especially with the framing we’re given from an outsider. The old woman cannot comprehend why Stek did what he did, and assumed his smile in his final moments had to be him going insane.

However, with how many excuses they told themselves to keep her, the fact that we know Saidda was allowed to play with other kids and have friends and other things which would be “unnecessary” for a cash cow (which the old woman never mentions her friends, but we see the effects of in the present), and that Saidda still wants to stay with them despite hearing what they say about her implies she can see past it, I really do think Stek’s last stand was entirely out of love for Saidda, even if he would never admit it.

Especially since Silver Mountain as a whole so far has been about the uses of strength and force, even from the early chapters of Ginbei hating soldiers and stopping needless violence, I think Stek’s last stand being out of his love for Saidda and trying to protect her just emphasizes that narrative perfectly.

Huge agree, especially since we have the focus on force used for massage instead of just fighting. Literally aiding a dragon and healing it's pain with that very force.....

I think being given a chance to care for someone, even if the original reason was selfish, can change people. That moment in the flashback where Aty sung the bar song to try and soothe her back to sleep... If nobody had ever come looking for her, I think they would have kept telling each other "well she's getting a growth spurt, might as well keep waiting" until the very end.

 

[Hevymin]

So Ginbei speaks to Saidda here using the air magic that she used to tell them when Hyoudou was fighting Joffried. It has the same quotes and hexagonal speech bubble as when the air spirit spoke. Makes me think this thing Ginbei never thought he’d do is going to be incorporating magic into his style to defeat Joffried, as we saw air magic is how they’ve been fighting back against the carbon monoxide poison and such so far.

I think he's just whispering or projecting his voice here, there's no indication of magic being used and I highly doubt he suddenly just picked up on the arcane arts after a single explanation.