#ch66

[shysheeperz]

[opbackgrounds]

This last little speech of Spandam’s reminds me of the big theme of the Krieg fight way back in the East Blue. In the world of One Piece, military might means nothing in the face of pure grit and determination

[dailysmilingnatsume]

[abybweisse]

Hey Aby,

How are you doing? I hope you are well.

I had a random thought when reading the Easter special chapter (I cannot remember the number). Grey says to Sebastian 'you weren't dead after all' which I find a bit strange considering what we know about Grey. He said a few times he is not scared of anything he can cut with his sword and that he is afraid of ghosts, spirits etc. Considering he was the one that stabbed Sebastian I would have expected him to be a bit more concerned about Sebastian being alive. I feel like they brushed over this a bit too easily. I can understand why it works with the other servants (although I think that was forced as well) but it makes no sense for Grey.

What are your thoughts? Apologies if this was answered already, I had a look but I could not find anything.

Regarding ch66, Frenzy

I also think it's odd that Charles Grey isn't terribly concerned that Sebastian isn't dead. I don't have a licensed copy handy right now, because I boxed them up! (What was I thinking? I should have boxed them last.) But doesn't Sebastian just laugh it off? Or Tanaka laughs? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Since Grey saw him "dead", he either thinks it's odd but possible that Sebastian survived, after all.

Or he has quickly learned there are things he cannot kill with his sword....

I wish this encounter had been explored some more, too.

[achtung-attitude]

CHAPTER 66: Gold on the Ceiling

Small flames dot the asphalt. Shizuka and T’onga walk through them, their ears still softly ringing from the explosion. They pass Sang-ok’s mangled remains as they approach the open gateway to All-Kill’s mansion. T’onga glances to her right, away from the body, to see the smoldering leaves of a tall hedge spread into a blaze. When she looks forward again, gravel crunches beneath her feet. Her first step into their enemy’s domain.

There’s no sign of All-Kill or his loyal wolf. T’onga scans her surroundings. Eventually, her eyes land on her daughter. She abruptly halts, her eyes going wide. Shizuka halts as well, summoning ACHTUNG BABY in preparation to fight. “What? What is it, are they there?” she asks.

“Ah…” T’onga says, looking away quickly, turning back to the house. “N-No, it’s nothing. Keep your eyes open.”

Shizuka retracts her Stand, but otherwise remains tense and alert. In silence they stalk up the driveway and T’onga attempts to forget the look she saw on her daughter’s face. A face she herself has made countless times: a look of pure murderous intent.

At first glance, the mansion appears to be pulled straight from a 1960s real estate catalog, only slightly larger and with subtle modern touches, such as ornamental grasses and a state-of-the-art doorbell security camera. They stop at the front door. T’onga peers inside the living room window and sees nothing but shadows inside. Shizuka lays flat against the wall on the opposite side of the doorframe. Gently, her mother lays her hand against the door. “HOUSE OF PAIN…” she mutters. Her Stand scuttles around on the vertical surface confusedly, then retreats back to its mistress.

“Yeah, that figures…” she mutters, glancing at her daughter. Shizuka steps away from the wall and prepares to kick the door down, but T’onga blocks her. “Whoa, whoa…” The older woman thinks for a moment, then gestures to the side of the mansion. They circle around to the backyard. The place is illuminated only by the swimming pool lights, casting everything in an eerie, fluid pale aurora.

There, All-Kill stands, facing away from them, staring into the blue water and lazily clutching a bottle of soju in his hand. He holds it near his lips, but doesn’t drink from it. The wolf, Yeon-in, is still nowhere to be seen. 

T’onga takes a step towards him. His head moves a fraction of an inch toward her, making her pause, but he doesn’t turn to look at her. Instead, he raises the bottle to his lips and takes a swig of the ripe alcohol.

“Your murdered your brother,” he declares, dabbing at his mouth with the back of his hand.

T’onga scowls. “He was not my brother. And you are not my father.”

“Oh no? What am I then?”

“My former employer. This is my resignation. I tried to hand in my notice, but you weren’t hearing it. So now, the time for negotiations is over.”

He shakes his head slowly, rubbing his forehead. “I don’t understand how you can say that… 22 years, we’ve been together. You can’t tell me that means nothing at all.”

She squints, peering into the dark in search of the wolf. “Yes I can.”

All-Kill turns suddenly, stiffly. The light makes his glasses shimmer, concealing his eyes. He grips the soju bottle tightly. “Why? How? How can you say that?”

Shizuka tenses, but her mother continues searching for Yeon-in. Without looking at him, she says “‘You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in.’”

He stares at her through his thick lenses, then utters a sound between a laugh and a sigh. “So that’s it… This is just another job. Me, Yeon-in, Sunmi. Sang-ok… Do you know… So you understand what you’ve done? What Sang-ok meant to me? I am nearly 60 years old. I can’t do this forever. He was to take my place. I taught him everything I know, I taught him how to be a man. He was going to take care of you and the others after I was gone. But you took him away… You killed my son…!”

He slams the ceramic bottle on a nearby glass table so violently that both crack without breaking. Finally, All-Kill loses his composure. “YOU KILLED MY SON!!!!!!”

Shizuka steps ahead in front of her mother and manifests her Stand. She glares at him in silent anger. T’onga finally looks at him straight on, betraying no emotion. There is no sympathy to be found in their eyes.

All-Kill calms and turns his head. The glare over his glasses clears enough to reveal one red eye fixed on Shizuka. “…But I suppose…” he mutters, “There is always you.”

“OK…” T’onga murmurs impatiently, gently shifting Shizuka out of the way and raising the pistol she took from Jerome. She clicks off the safety and levels the weapon, aiming it at All-Kill’s chest.

The women hear a snarl that chills them in the primeval parts of their souls. The pistol grip suddenly glows bright red. A light sizzling sound is heard in tandem with the animal growl. “AAH-!!” T’onga yelps, dropping the gun quickly and staggering back. 

The gun flips upside down as it falls. Before it hits the ground, the barrel also glows red, and a single bullet fires out of it. It barely misses T’onga, the small piece of lead flying parallel over her face as she ducks backwards, half-consciously avoiding it. 

Shizuka catches her before she lands on her back, crying “Mom-!” Both women glance at the gun and the reddening marks in the palm of T’onga’s hand. Then they look into the bushes and catch sight of the blazing red orbs emanating from within.

The wolf stalks towards the edge of the pool, its face lit by the deep crimson of its eyes. He paces back and forth on the other side of the water, his claws clicking on the tiles. “You…” All-Kill murmurs, his emotionless facade returning, “have betrayed my heart once again, Kim T’onga.” He unhooks one end of the chain on his pants and raises it, stepping towards them.

“BLACK KEYS,” he announces, his Stand appearing on the end of the chain. He spins the chain and fling it at T’onga. The dark key pierces her abdomen, so cleanly and so swift, it doesn’t even hurt. Yet the sensation turns her stomach and locks her into shock. All-Kill charges, reaching for his Stand to put an immediate end to the fight. 

Shizuka gets in his way. “ACHTUNG BABY!!!” she cries. Her Stand bares its open palm in All-Kill’s face, redirecting and intensifying the light from the pool to emit from its hand in a blinding ray. He’s dazzled and recoils, covering his face and staggering backwards, inadvertently yank the key from T’onga’s body. She remembers how to breathe, as the chain falls limp on the ground.

Shizuka smirks in triumph, then feels a terrible heat building on her right shoulder. She glances and sees a gout of flame bursting from her right sleeve. “AAAAAGHH!!!!” she shrieks in fright, barely noticing Yeon-in staring fixedly at her, his teeth bared. In her panic, ACHTUNG BABY ceases its assault on All-Kill’s senses.

T’onga comes to her rescue, throwing her daughter to the concrete ground to put out the flame. All-Kill rubs his eyes painfully, recovering from the glare. “Get out of sight,” T’onga orders before charging at him.

[diablo-that-first-spark]

Break out the Moonshine, Ch66 is here!

Featuring: - Me feeling like goddamn Julius Caesar for defeating Writer’s Block - Shit goes down literally everywhere and every possible way - Nobody having any idea what the hell is going on!

Through fire and hail, wind and rain we have arrived to this point! Thank you all for your patience!Let us all hope the road until the end of this Act will be smoother than this! ^^

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Act III Summary

2022.07.03.

[pardon-my-scifi]

Oh, look! Baymax has a cousin!

[officialtokyosan]

female......

[hauntedhounddragonwoman]

Some one have a crush

[mqfx]

However, Feng Xin shrugged it off. “Only one arm is broken, the other’s still fine. If both my arms were broken, I can still use my teeth to carry him by the collar and bring him up the mountain for you.”

Mu Qing rolled his eyes from behind him, then spoke up. “Nevermind. Let me carry him.”

But just as he made one step forward, that young child jumped off the bed himself and said, “I can walk on my own.”

An expression filled with rejection spoke louder than words, and it made Mu Qing’s second step extremely awkward, unsure of whether or not to proceed. That little kid had five broken ribs and a broken leg, but he was still as lively as a dragon. Xie Lian really didn’t know whether to laugh or feel concerned.

[shysheeperz]

[drbtinglecannon]

This series is so fucking funny I'm gonna break a rib from laughing

[dailysmilingnatsume]

[salteytakesonmanga]

STILL MAD ABOUT GRIT (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ This could have been such a deep and impactful sequence over several chapters that showed a lot of growth for Sanji and explained a lot about Luffy, but instead we got a mess.

I THINK, maybe, part of the problem is that what Zeff is saying is related to a Japanese idiom. I wasn’t familiar with it myself so I had to look it up and I think what Zeff is referencing is the idea of “devotion to a single spear.” A spear is an infantry weapon, so it’s not especially prestigious or “noble.” A new recruit conscript would learn the spear and then presumably move on to other weapons like the sword. But if you stuck to just the spear and mastered that, you could outclass someone with a “better” weapon simply by virtue of working with it longer.

If you know the Bruce Lee quote, “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times,” I think it’s something like that. The actual idiomatic translation is “persistence with” or “one’s sole talent.”

So I think what Zeff is ACTUALLY saying is Luffy has mastered the “spear” of conviction, while Krieg is dicking around with a bunch of showy weapons. In other words, Luffy’s greatest weapon is IN HIS HEART. hums the Sogeking theme. But Zeff didn’t phrase it exactly the same, and I still can’t really tell what the title of the chapter “the chewed-up spear” means here, so take all this with a giant grain of salt. The word “spear” appears in several Japanese idioms so there’s an excellent chance I am entirely wrong.

Anyway, rather than trying to communicate the idiom they apparently cobbled together a mostly literal translation that is just confusing.

[dizzybizz]

uyou dont underastand the.

the potential

ininia being adopted by garuga and atuarto you sdont get it it would be so

like

the thought of like

i mnot okay

ok wait this is a note i wrote in august:

do you think galga and atuarto will like

adopt ininia.

its just

cause

i

what if

they like

do?

and she tries to reverse the memory wiping

and like

😭😭😭😭

its a wishful thought

and im not sure

but like

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i do really like the flicker of regret ininia shows.

she feels bad about it

she just cant admit to herself

but she felt bad seeing the aftermath, how the person closest to galga suffers

and

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can u imagine them as a little family

like i do wonder

if atuarto will find out that ininia is a brimhat and reason for galgas memory wipe

and how hed react

knowing she is just a small child

but like is she

who knows

but he thinks shes a child

and theres someone pulling the strings in the background

and i wonder if he would want to help

he seems like a kind soul

would he try to step in

and get her away from restis

ok no hold up have a look in the tags too i put too much in there whoops

[achtung-attitude]

She swings her fist at him, but he dodges easily. BLACK KEYS manifests in his right hand and he jabs forward with both keys jutting out between his fingers like claws. T’onga dodges these and throws two jabs of her own, which he guards with raised arms. They struggle like this, trading blows, T’onga putting her life on the line just being this close to All-Kill. She positions herself so All-Kill stands between her and Yeon-in’s eyes.

Yeon-in, however, is focused on Shizuka. She recovers from her ordeal to see his eyes fixed on her still. “ACHTUNG BABY!” she calls and instantly turns invisible. She sees Yeon-in shudder at her sudden disappearance and begins to move around the pool. But when she steps on the cool tiles, the wolf’s head jerks towards her. Her fluffy leg warmer bursts into flames while still invisible. “It can use its Stand on me even while I’m invisible?!” she thinks as she frantically pays the flames out. “Ugh, of course! It doesn’t need to see me! A wolf’s sense of smell and hearing are over 100 times better than a human’s! It can just find me that way!!”

Shizuka runs around the pool, still invisible and not caring about the noise she makes. She runs in an arc around the wolf, not daring to charge at him head on. “At the very least,” she thinks, “I can keep it’s attention off Mom!!” Yeon-in’s ears wiggle. Its eyes follow the sound of her movement, its blazing eyes casting a trail of fire across the backyard, never hitting Shizuka, but always gaining on her.

Meanwhile, T’onga and All-Kill have exchanged positions. Now T’onga’s back faces the pool, while All-Kill’s assault threatens to push her over the edge. The KEYS dances in his hands, appearing between his fingers, then swing in his fists like miniature dagger, rolling around his fingers like a magician’s vanishing coins. It’s all T’onga can do to avoid the strikes.

Finally, she steps back and lurches backward. Another straight jab from All-Kill forces her further back, making her fall inevitable. But not before she grabs her opponent’s sleeve, dragging him down with her. 

Rather than resist, he instead leaps forward, throwing both himself and T’onga into the water. In the half-second before they dive in, All-Kill draws back his fist, the KEY between his fingers like an Indian katar, and stabs at her neck. Before he can, she raises her leg and wraps it around his trapped leg, diverting his fist so it merely hits water. With her free left hand, she grabs his forehead and drags it down, falling in with a tremendous SPLASH.

They wrestle underwater, T’onga trying to hold his head down. He lashes out with his legs, throwing her off, bubbles billowing out like a cloud of dust in a Western film. 

Instinctively, they adjust for the extra water resistance. All-Kill twists his body so his feet land on the far wall, then kicks off, rocketing at T’onga. She lands with her back against the wall and throws her hands up over the surface, gripping the pool rim. Using this as leverage, she kicks up, batting away his hand. 

But All-Kill’s advance was a feint. The KEYS float freely on the ends of the chain. Kicked away, his hands merely reach for the KEYS and grip them, then stabbing forward.

T’onga plays her hand too, rolling out of the way, revealing the water pump behind her back. The powerful water jet strikes All-Kill in the face, disorienting him and canceling his attack mid-move. T’onga scrambles, swimming to the nearby ladder and dragging herself out, gulping the air.

Dripping wet, she leap away from the pool edge. T’onga stares in horror at the scene on dry land before her: half of All-Kill’s backyard is a blackened, smoldering wasteland, still being set alight by Yeon-in’s Stand. She sees the wolf abruptly cease his firestorm to leap forward, his jaws wide. The savage teeth close around something invisible and T’onga hears a pained wail.

She bristles furiously and dashes to the glass table. She takes All-Kill’s cracked soju bottle, still leaking rice alcohol over the cracked surface, and hurls it at Yeon-in. In her panic, she realizes she missed  the wolf’s head, but the bottle is caught in mid-air by an invisible hand. Shizuka unveils herself, revealing she’s been bitten on her left arm. Her right raises the ceramic bottle and smashes it over Yeon-in’s head, shaking its jaws loose and spilling whatever remains of the soju over his head.

Shizuka hurries away, clutching her bitten arm. Yeon-in shakes the dizziness out of it head, barely affected. T’onga runs to meet her daughter. “You OK?” she asks quickly, inspecting her arm. Yeon-in teeth bit cleanly through her clothes, but the fabric was fortunately thick enough to keep him from breaking the skin too deeply.

“I’m fine,” Shizuka answers, “Where’s-?”

All-Kill emerges out of the pool, climbing up the ladder on the opposite side to the women. He removes his glasses and shakes the wet hair out of his eyes, then pulls a handkerchief from his shirt pocket to dry his lenses. However, he sees the handkerchief is as soaked as he is, so he tosses it over his shoulder. While looking around for a spare, steam suddenly rises from him.

“Oh, thank you, boy,” he says gratefully. Yeon-in pads over to him, his eyes mere cinders rather than blazing torches. All-Kill removes his jacket and tosses it over the back of a lawn chair. He rubs the fog out of the glasses and places them back on. Only then does he notice the charred apocalypse that has befallen his back yard. “Thanks a lot,” he says, frowning at Yeon-in. The wolf whines softly. Nevertheless, All-Kill turns back to focus on the women with a characteristic intensity.

Shizuka swallows. “It’s like they’re unstoppable…” she whispers, “I can’t see any openings.”

“All-Kill spent years building trust between himself and that thing,” T’onga explains, “It’s worked out so they make the perfect team. All-Kill runs the frontal assault while Yeon-in backs him. It’s like you said. With that arrangement, they’re nearly unstoppable.”

“So what you’re saying is, they’re at their best while they’re together?”

“That’s correct.”

“Ehhh? Ah… OK…” Shizuka murmurs, thinking. After a moment, a smile spreads across her lips. “OK. I think we can work with this. Yeah, yeah…! This won’t be that hard after all!”

T’onga grins wryly. “You think so? I’d still be careful, if I was you. That being said… Yeah. Trying to fight them alone before was stupid…”

All-Kill frowns as he watches them. “We’re better together too, I guess…” T’onga concludes in a self-deprecating way. Shizuka chuckles brightly. One of the faces is scarred; the other is painted. Otherwise, the two women’s faces are practically identical, with practically identical, confident smiles. 

END of CHAPTER 66