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The Holy Grail of Eris - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - It's Almost As If...
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Whew... I felt chills down my spine while reading this chapter.
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Pure catharsis.
This was almost too good!
This was almost too good!
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This is very interesting. I need more!
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This aint justice, this is just fucked up
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@Simkin From what I gathered reading, the point of the story at this point is to demonstrate just how bloodthirsty mob mentality and the cruelty of this class is. In other words, recall what the noble ladies state about Constance and her father---effectively, they are nothing like the other nobles who are seemingly all bloodthirsty despots who enjoy this sort of spectacle. I don't for a second believe the nobles are supposed to come across as "acceptable" in their behavior.
Think about it like this: If we compare the way the vampires act in Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign where the vampires ruthlessly butcher humans without thought or care, yet we see temporary truces only to see bloodthirsty massacres again, that sort of disconnect would be an example of the kinds of behavior we're seeing here. It's like
Looking at the comic from this vantage point, we see that this "evil lady" Scarlet probably wasn't evil at all, but was played by society. I mean, she could have been and that would be an ironic redemptive story for the manga's plot and characterization, but there's also the possibility that she befell the same fate as Constance because of that blonde who ended up with the Prince. Given how Scarlet acted when she meets Constance previously (both on the platform and at the ball, and also based upon the common tropes in fiction), it foreshadowed that Scarlet likely was framed. There's another comic that has a similar feel to this one wherein
Going off this other comic, we see similar features.
I'm not sure if Scarlet was truly a bloodthirsty ruling tyrant to control this mob of tyrants, or if she was framed, broken, and as a result, when she was broken down to her last, snapped and cursed them all, thereby becoming tied with that little girl who wasn't in the slightest evil. I'm not sure myself, but it is fascinating.
Likely, the story will revolve around Scarlet getting justice/revenge for her wrongful death (so I'm presuming). What happens next will likely depend upon the nature of things to come. As for Constance Pamala, well, Pam acted like the sociopathic/narcissistic lot desired/raised her to act. That said, the brutal responses were quite shocking indeed. For one, why is it only Pam being forced into red shoes and not her and Neil, when he was the one who chose to betray Constance? Pam did something horrible that could have threatened Constance's life, however, Pam seems to have only had a minor comprehension of what was taking place. I do think that she had a better idea because of what Pam says about "if I don't get her to forgive me..." and then Constance (operated by Scarlet) turns away from her and walks off. That alone demonstrates that she had some idea of what would happen, but clearly since things hadn't gotten bloodthirsty like they had 10 years prior, the nobles were reminded when Scarlet pulled a "Scarlet" in Constance's body, making Constance appear like her, reminding the whole room full of nobles about Scarlet, and making them miss her for her ability to provide them with "entertainment". Again, what role Scarlet truly played and what kind of a person she was is as yet unknown.
Think about it like this: If we compare the way the vampires act in Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign where the vampires ruthlessly butcher humans without thought or care, yet we see temporary truces only to see bloodthirsty massacres again, that sort of disconnect would be an example of the kinds of behavior we're seeing here. It's like
Ferid one moment playing with his toy boy, Mika, and then another slaughtering his (and Yu's) whole family before their eyes as they attempt to escape. It's shocking, horrifying, enraging, and more. All of this happens in a flash and it brings a reader to shock, revulsion, and a bloodcurdling desire to cut Ferid up into little pieces. Yet, that doesn't happen.
Looking at the comic from this vantage point, we see that this "evil lady" Scarlet probably wasn't evil at all, but was played by society. I mean, she could have been and that would be an ironic redemptive story for the manga's plot and characterization, but there's also the possibility that she befell the same fate as Constance because of that blonde who ended up with the Prince. Given how Scarlet acted when she meets Constance previously (both on the platform and at the ball, and also based upon the common tropes in fiction), it foreshadowed that Scarlet likely was framed. There's another comic that has a similar feel to this one wherein
the MC gets wrongly accused and eventually executed along with her family (who were so selfish and horrid that the people starved and lived in terror, and thus sought to get rid of them, get the ML to disguise himself as someone else, infiltrate the noble house, become the MC's fiance where he realizes that the MC isn't at all like her family, yet because her family is so terrible and she feels so horrible at the betrayal of him never telling her the truth, and also her guilt at being kept in the dark by her family that she gets a martyr complex and gets executed because she plays the villain precisely because of the guilt she feels for her family. She gets reincarnated and feels that she needs to spend her new life in penance, even though the love of her life disagrees and she already died; her new life is spent under the rule of her fiance whose home she eventually gets forced to work in, and there's the whole process by which he, who has never gotten over her and who lives in perpetual bachelorhood, and her eventually end up together as he slowly begins to realize that she's the reincarnation of the woman who died a villianous martyr by his hands because she refused to tell the truth that she wasn't a monster due to guilt).
I'm not sure if Scarlet was truly a bloodthirsty ruling tyrant to control this mob of tyrants, or if she was framed, broken, and as a result, when she was broken down to her last, snapped and cursed them all, thereby becoming tied with that little girl who wasn't in the slightest evil. I'm not sure myself, but it is fascinating.
Likely, the story will revolve around Scarlet getting justice/revenge for her wrongful death (so I'm presuming). What happens next will likely depend upon the nature of things to come. As for Constance Pamala, well, Pam acted like the sociopathic/narcissistic lot desired/raised her to act. That said, the brutal responses were quite shocking indeed. For one, why is it only Pam being forced into red shoes and not her and Neil, when he was the one who chose to betray Constance? Pam did something horrible that could have threatened Constance's life, however, Pam seems to have only had a minor comprehension of what was taking place. I do think that she had a better idea because of what Pam says about "if I don't get her to forgive me..." and then Constance (operated by Scarlet) turns away from her and walks off. That alone demonstrates that she had some idea of what would happen, but clearly since things hadn't gotten bloodthirsty like they had 10 years prior, the nobles were reminded when Scarlet pulled a "Scarlet" in Constance's body, making Constance appear like her, reminding the whole room full of nobles about Scarlet, and making them miss her for her ability to provide them with "entertainment". Again, what role Scarlet truly played and what kind of a person she was is as yet unknown.
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sure let me just draw the chapter myself
sure let me just draw the chapter myself
