Vigilante Part 2 - Ch. 10

[MangaDex]

 

[Kendama]

Jiyong should have a little more tact with breaking this kind of decision to Gang-ok. Sure, they've known each other for a few years now, but I hope Jiyong remembers that Gang-ok's primary motivation to be his sidekick is to find an outlet for his own psychopathic urges lest he becomes a serial killer and destroys himself.

Let's just hope Gang-ok manages to keep himself entertained with power games against his father in the company until Jiyong decides to go berserk again. Because let's face it, this chapter pretty much set the stage for a major dashing of Jiyong's newfound hopes: we all know his attempt to do things by the book is gonna fail, otherwise this series wouldn't have a point.

To be honest, when I read the chapter before this one, I thought Jiyong would reach the opposite conclusion. Sure, his chief did manage to arrest the small fry, but doesn't the fact that the "main culprit" died while in detention (presumably, before the matter ever came to trial) prove that the true masterminds were never touched by the investigation?

And speaking of deaths, I'm afraid at least one death flag was raised in this chapter, on Jiyong's boss. But maybe there's another one now in Jo Heon, seeing as Jiyong seems to respect him enough to attempt a change in his own ways.

As for reporter Choe, at first I was curious how she figured out Jiyong was active in the case of the pop-up realtor, but now I think it's obvious that she caught on to the disappearances of pop-up realtors, and maybe suspected him of being behind them. Ironic that the true culprit has sought her out instead.

Seong-gu is slowly growing on me. I thought he was just a chuuni murderer given how gung-ho he was on chapter one and even considered killing a passer-by who bumped into him, but his encounter with Jiyong seems to have given him a new depth. He might have recovered his humanity. So I have hopes that he will be of use before he dies, if it comes to that.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Thanks for the chapter

I'm glad they addressed the end of the first Vigilante

 

[YerRob]

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I don't really think Gang-Ok is that much of a loose cannon, he simply believes that those who are on the side of criminals deserve punishment, with or without the law, and he finally saw a kindred soul in the Vigilante. Which is why he dislikes MC's post Vigilante 1 mentality, as it's ruining the mental image he had of him.
Most likely he'll just find some way to try and convince MC of how simply waiting for the law will just cause suffering, or even sneakily force his way to dispense justice in a more physical manner, once again.
Though he doesn't even really have to though, it seems like MC is becoming more proactive in certain aspects: he's finally started going after criminals whose existence isn't even yet known by the law, rather than just ones who've danced around it.
Like you said, it's just a question of time till his (well, relatively speaking) peaceful ways fail him and the Vigilante rises once more.

 

[Kendama]

he simply believes that those who are on the side of criminals deserve punishment, with or without the law, and he finally saw a kindred soul in the Vigilante.

Well, if you go back to their conversation in chapter 42… to me, it's pretty clear that the "incredibly dangerous lump of emotion" he failed to control by immersing himself in work or turning to religion is a strong urge to kill. My preferred parallel to Gang-ok is the protagonist of the TV show Dexter: someone who solves the problem of psychopathic tendencies by killing people who deserve to be killed. He even gives that as the reason for murdering the twin gangster he threw off the hospital room window.

In short, I think Gang-ok is only on the side of (chaotic) good because he acknowledges his urges can destroy him and he idolises Jiyong for giving him a chance to vent off without harming people in a way that could get him in trouble. But left to his own devices, he either will go on vigilante sprees without Jiyong, or will do something nasty. Or both.

 

[YerRob]

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I think that was before his realization that he can just kill evil people and strike two birds with one stone.
If he does break, it probably won't be him murdering innocents, but rather doing something completely self-destructing like attacking his "father", or other company members, or just finding some well-armed criminals den and suicidally charging right into it.
Homie is a psycho, but he's not really "evil", and puts in a lot of effort in self-control. He understood his psychopathic tendencies, tried to avoid them for as long as possible and let them bubble up since he understood that they were wrong, until he finally found an outlet, that also happened to be uh, questionably "just".
We also saw that when MC needed his help at the concert, he decided to stay back in the company to secure his position, which shows that he is not so madly deep into it that he will even destroy his own life for it.
So that's why i think, if anything, it's unlikely he'll do anything "too" crazy, but i guess we can expect him to nudge MC into his old self, one way or another, though its entirely possible his dad is gonna piss him off so severely that he just loses his shit and kills him