Vigilante - Ch. 141 - Epilogue 3: Jo Heon

[MangaDex]

 

[Kendama]

So, Soedol survived. Is he gonna be an antagonist in the sequel (which is now no secret, as we've released the first chapter)?

Easy Squeezy and Awls made it alive! \o/ I hope to see them in the future, they're hilarious.

Jo Heon's backstory and life lesson to Jiyong is the most forced part of this series. Sure, I get in the average Korean mind South America is a hellhole. They still think it's all like Colombia in the 80s or Argentina in the 70s. In truth, their own dictatorship was way more violent than South American ones, and their corruption scandals are just as crazy. Eight Fairies? Seriously?

Yes, South American countries are violent, but it's localised criminality connected to poverty, not that kind of "gunning down random people on countryside roads" they pictured. In terms of institutional stability, Korea shouldn't be throwing stones, all their presidents post-redemocratisation have been tried for corruption, with good reason and without.

And isn't it weird that the fictional South American country is good enough to send a girl to learn piano, but also a crime-ridden anarchy?

I guess Africa and the Middle East were too cliché. Oh well. At least it's clear from other series that Koreans seem to think even European and North American countries are violence-prone.

Also, Jo Heon's thought is muddled as always. After all that happened, after seeing how Seon-uk died, he still thinks what he's protecting is order? That Jiyong's actions could bring about anarchy? He was trying to kill Jiyong and score PR points for the police in the beginning, undermining an investigation and all. He ought to get off his high horse.

Well, our translator showed me this when we discussed it:



In an aside, I'm not too happy with the revelation that Professor Lee had been protecting Jiyong from behind the scenes, if that's what the series is implying. I see no reason why he'd go that far for a random police academy cadet, even if it's the best student. I don't get why they're all forgiving him and offering him mentorship and guidance. It made more sense when Jiyong played a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities.

Well, I guess the stage is being set-up for the Vigilante to be at the core of some sort of informal unit to suppress criminals too powerful to jail, like the VIP here. And it seems he's gonna be very close around Jiyong, even being with him at the graduation photo.

Yeongji seems to be keen on settling things with Jiyong in the bed, and not mincing words about it. Way to go, girl, I said before: it's great that Jiyong isn't cockblocked like other protagonists like him.

Thanks everyone for reading, and hope to see you all in Part 2!

 

[sam24]

Such a great series

 

[thomadaneau]

Thank you for you hard work. It's been a pleasure to read.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Glad to have seen it to the end, thanks for the chapter!

I'm gonna be honest, I forgot like half the plot as it went on but I enjoyed it, I'm happy there's a sequel

 

[YerRob]

So, Soedol survived. Is he gonna be an antagonist in the sequel (which is now no secret, as we've released the first chapter)?

Easy Squeezy and Awls made it alive! \o/ I hope to see them in the future, they're hilarious.

Jo Heon's backstory and life lesson to Jiyong is the most forced part of this series. Sure, I get in the average Korean mind South America is a hellhole. They still think it's all like Colombia in the 80s or Argentina in the 70s. In truth, their own dictatorship was way more violent than South American ones, and their corruption scandals are just as crazy. Eight Fairies? Seriously?

Yes, South American countries are violent, but it's localised criminality connected to poverty, not that kind of "gunning down random people on countryside roads" they pictured. In terms of institutional stability, Korea shouldn't be throwing stones, all their presidents post-redemocratisation have been tried for corruption, with good reason and without.

And isn't it weird that the fictional South American country is good enough to send a girl to learn piano, but also a crime-ridden anarchy?

I guess Africa and the Middle East were too cliché. Oh well. At least it's clear from other series that Koreans seem to think even European and North American countries are violence-prone.

Also, Jo Heon's thought is muddled as always. After all that happened, after seeing how Seon-uk died, he still thinks what he's protecting is order? That Jiyong's actions could bring about anarchy? He was trying to kill Jiyong and score PR points for the police in the beginning, undermining an investigation and all. He ought to get off his high horse.

Well, our translator showed me this when we discussed it:

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In an aside, I'm not too happy with the revelation that Professor Lee had been protecting Jiyong from behind the scenes, if that's what the series is implying. I see no reason why he'd go that far for a random police academy cadet, even if it's the best student. I don't get why they're all forgiving him and offering him mentorship and guidance. It made more sense when Jiyong played a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities.

Well, I guess the stage is being set-up for the Vigilante to be at the core of some sort of informal unit to suppress criminals too powerful to jail, like the VIP here. And it seems he's gonna be very close around Jiyong, even being with him at the graduation photo.

Yeongji seems to be keen on settling things with Jiyong in the bed, and not mincing words about it. Way to go, girl, I said before: it's great that Jiyong isn't cockblocked like other protagonists like him.

Thanks everyone for reading, and hope to see you all in Part 2!

Ok after having read all the epilogues i guess the S2 is basically confirmed. Dead Queen is possibly nearing the end of the assault on the Xanadu CSG / Prince's north european fortress, which will mean the end of the season, or the end of the HIVE narrative altoghether, which might mean he's starting Vigilante S2 not long from now.

It's interesting how even though it was spooled up for a S2 the characters were still given closure.
I can see some budding cray-cray romance between Choe and Gang-Ok, MC and Yeongji somehow actually work as a couple, which i wasn't expecting. Awls got to look dumb trying to pull a Mr.bang 2.0 when he's not even 0.1 yet, and miss easy queezy still wholesome big boi.
Senior is still senior, which somehow just works, but i don't recognize the new girl? Maybe someone they met on S.A?
Mr.Bang is the setup of a whole new arc, and we can see he's had some sort of effect on MC, as he's started to see himself as not as righteous as he thought (he now symbolically hides from god's gaze), and his brother might want some misguided revenge

As for the tertiary characters, still sucks that Minu and Seon-Uk died in things beyond their control. Atleast Minu chose his own death despite being a coward, but Seon-Uk didn't get that. Instead he died unaware of how, why, or even understanding what was happening.
He was selflessly putting himself out there and got snuffed out uncerimoniously, and then he became a scape-goat. I guess Korea now looks at him as a sort of anti-hero, but I'm not sure his family or colleagues agree to begin with.

Irregardless, author never fails to deliver, thank you for translating his works.

 

[Kendama]

Senior is still senior, which somehow just works, but i don't recognize the new girl? Maybe someone they met on S.A?

Pretty sure this is Soedol's daughter they've rescued from unjust imprisonment in South America using Jiyong's QQ coins.

 

[LeannaCR]

well, at least it's over

 

[YerRob]

Pretty sure this is Soedol's daughter they've rescued from unjust imprisonment in South America using Jiyong's QQ coins.

Huh, surprised she wasn't just straight up dead, seemed like the most possible devlopment