#trashed chapters

[bitzy-bop]

oh rouxls how I missed you so

[blueteller]

How to get Cale to call you Hyung

Here is the secret.... Be a crazy rich guy.

...No, really, that's it. Cale just called Clopeh Sekka his Hyung. They were on a stealth mission, but still. What a world we live in!

😂😂😂

(Also: from now on, Pope Clopeh shall also be known as Bribe King. Hand that man a crown right now!)

[moonlights-delight]

It just suddenly came to me..

Text and no text. Original under the cut =)

I miss OK KO so much and also these weird gay people.

[orangjoe]

My favorite movie actor

(I beg you to click for better quality)

But at what cost…

[waxwing-ed]

just forget about us and make some real friends, okay?

[fng095]

chapter 255 Eat Up (2)

Cale meeting the sky eating water, formerly known as the water of judgement

as a reminder, this mf was like a day away from blowing up and decided fighting a repressed ancient power was a great idea :D

[is-iroh]

I felt like bullying him. Maybe it’ll fix him

[soulful-soda]

Spamton… soam neo.. him

Did you know I like that guy

[fallen6253]

One of my favorite partially confirmed headcanons? One that I want to see used way more in all things tcf?

Cale is a great cook.

He says he's a decent cook. One that isn't amazing, but won't poison anyone.

He also says he's a terrible person, and that he will definitely be forgotten by the world after a while.

In conclusion: Cale is an incredible cook, and he lies about it because he doesn't want to do all that work when he already has a great chef.

[bitzy-bop]

the guy

[zharaely]

TCF PART 2 SPOILERS

Cale being an incredibly intelligent strategist and leader: Everyone else: Wow, I wonder what he thinks about... Inside Cale's mind: With the team leader, anything is possible. Even going from Endable all the way to Roan as a freshly reincarnated baby.

[stanshikabutreddie]

CAN'T YOU COME BACK???

[nonexistentirl]

He's genuinely disappointed at the lack of originality 😆😆 and the 'Can't you even think that far?' LMAOOOOOO

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Part 2 of LCF is refreshing bc everyone in part 1 has gotten the chance to both revere and fear Cale and his family so now that they're going to different worlds we get to see new people go through the process of learning that Cale is a powerful saint that coughs blood who will steal and swear at and destroy everything in his path, and all of these things are true at the same time. And these new characters will always end up either loving him for it or being terrified of him, and that's beautiful

[dragonsbluee]

So I've recently been re-reading TCF And chapter 196 is such an excellent example of how Cale interacts with the people around him, how he views himself and how they view him. This is also at the point in the novel where he hasn't really accepted that he is Cale now, not KRS, because he doesn't feel like he can.

So anyway, we start the chapter seeing the people of Rain City react to Cale's shield and they say something important!

"Won't he faint is he uses such a large shield? Why doesn't he just activate it when the northern bastards come?" "Can't you tell? He doesn't want to see us or the territory getting hurt at all."

At first, I thought this was just the regular drama of people reacting to Cale, but then Choi Han, the kids, and Ron tell him he's being ridiculous, and I realize the townsfolk are right.

The Wyvern Battle is only the 2nd or 3rd major battle Cale has been in so far but only as Cale. As KRS, he's done this before, and having read later chapters, we know Cale holds so much guilt over those battles and how he wanted to keep those he cared for away from it all but couldn't. After all, record only gives him information to guide them and make plans; he often couldn't physically protect them. How many times has he defended a shelter or teammates and wished he could have just covered them all with a shield instead of giving commands from the back? We know how guilty he feels over Choi Jung Soo and Lee Soo Hyuk's deaths.

He knows he doesn't have to keep it up, and he's the one who spreads a rumour that it's taking all of his energy, but he's already considering himself a "bad person" for taking military command and only giving orders. (except that's what it means to take military command?) There is absolutely another motive for keeping the shield around the city. Cale wants the opposing forces to view him as weakened, or he doesn't want people to think his power is as strong as it is. However, at the same time, he's absolutely protecting them because, just like the townsperson says, he doesn't want to see any of them get hurt by an attack he could have blocked.

Cale is doing what he can to undermine himself while claiming he's going to make everyone else the hero of this battle, but he won't drop the shield, which means no one can disregard or forget his involvement. It's not intentional! He's just literally made himself the first line of defense as a direct parallel to every time he was the last line as KRS. He wants to stay at the back, he does not plan to get involved unless he has to, but Cale won't let himself stay out of it. So the shield goes up and stays for multiple days.

Meanwhile, all Choi Han, Ron and the kids see is Cale surrounded by paperwork (because taking command of the entire Northeast is a lot of work), keeping a shield up that's known to make him cough up blood (they don't know about it getting stronger or the vitality of heart), and only sleeping 1 to 2 hours a night (thank you crybaby), so they assume it's a combination of work and concentration to keep the shield up. As usual, they're worried and frustrated at Cale's self-sacrificing tendencies.

We haven't even gotten to the actual battle yet, but this is such a great setup of how it's going to go and how the novel goes.

[slackershipper]

one of my favorites parts of chapter 416 is when cale acts cute for no reason:

Cale shouted while looking at Choi Han who took his sword out to fight for real.

“Fighting!”

“Ha!”

Choi Han chuckled at Cale speaking Korean.

if you aren't too familiar with korean culture, let me tell ya this: when they say this, they also normally lift their hands in a fist, in a cheer kind of way. so when i read this, i couldn't help but imagine him doing the same.