Ura Baito: Toubou Kinshi - Ch. 174 - Ship Crewmate ③

[romie68]

I can't take the ending too seriously. it's just so absurd but honestly Christianity really is unfair like that though so im not surprised

It’s not as absurd as original sin. Religion in itself is just comedy gold

 

[fennec]

As soon as I saw "pure of heart" I knew.

On that note, that makes Daidai's everything even more hilarious. She survives everything because she's pure of heart, just like in all the fairy tales

 

[3141592653589]

Is that it? What about the hazard pay?

Unfortunately Yume's the only one who cares about keeping a proper ledger and she wasn't along for this one, so we'll probably never know how lucrative this job was.

It's okay though, Hama got paid in exposure absolution.

 

[capricieux]

I'm just glad our Daidai is still with us 🙏

 

[friendly]

God I love the tone of these "Color" type cases. Somethings always so wrong with them. The ability to understand them, the outcome of what happened in them, if what was happening in them even makes any kind of sense to begin with....

they feel particularly alien, you know? I adore that feeling. Something not really meant to be understood. Just something awful and strange our poor protagonists have to live through.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

lolwut. k bro.

 

[Vainfire]

I like it! definitely very conceptual, not quite as horrifying, it won't hit as hard if you're a jaded reddit atheist who doesn't know religious trauma. But it's very doomer, isn't it? there's nothing we can do. our sins are our sins. It's a continuation of the themes from last story.

 

[slch]

She is fine. "Borrowing form" does not always mean possession. Dai Dai is at the port still.

Thought she was early and less days had to pass to the end

 

[Phantommemorial]

Tough luck
Good luck without it

 

[rikamayaz]

This chapter is pretty creative. I feel this is a satirical take on Christianity. The author is trying to say that Jesus' sacrifice on the cross should not be seen as a Get Out of Jail Free card.

There are a lot of cases of Christians who did many sinful things, and they believe that Jesus will absolve their sins as long as they believe in Jesus. They usually pile their sins to a mountain-size level before truly feeling remorseful. This chapter tried to criticize these kinds of Christians. The professor exemplified this type of Christian (and probably the sailor as well because he was depicted as a possible perpetrator of incestual sexual activity). When he knew about the existence of the "Jesus-like" person, he decided to do as many sinful things as possible as if tomorrow would never come. Finally, his sinfulness level became tremendously high, and at this point, he became motivated to seek the cross in the middle of the ocean to absolve his sins.

However, who knows what would happen if a random mountaineer suddenly found the cross on the other side of the earth? This "accident" negated the "Jesus-like" person's sacrifice on the cross and caused the professor and his colleagues to return to the state of mortal sin.

As a religious Christian, this chapter reminded me of the importance of not only believing in the Saviour but also doing good deeds.

 

[Pagemistress]

Thought she was early and less days had to pass to the end

Nope. The savior probably caused her to be late to avoid suspicion. Not to mention protect her in case things got dicey.

 

[Fugutron]

Okay after letting this stew for a bit I have to come back because like, the image of some fucking guy just going "all the evil ever committed?" "That was me, baybee" is so cartoonish lmao. I cannot take it seriously. And then DaiJesus dying on the cross to absolve humanity of its sin just so the story can go "but you see there's a REVERSE CROSS WITH AN ANTI DAIJESUS and if anyone looks at it all sin absolving is NULL MUWHAWHAWHA" is again just not at all horror but pure comedy.

This is just jokes, this is the author having a laugh lmao.

Maybe dude just came off a 48 hr bender of watching Pearl Jam's Do the evolution music video non stop?

 

[Sonaldo]

I guess this Daidai... Die died for your sins.

The mangaka when they came up with Daidai name