okay, so technically Sora's powers were deemed 'inadequate' even though they're not, and his contract was 'annulled'. By these standards, he has to take care of the mountain now? Like he promised the great monk? I don't want that for him!!!! Just as Sora said, the thing he wants most in life is to make his own choices. Being tied to the mountain would take away what he wants. I hope this has a happy ending!
Ok, so I caved and read the raws.
major, major spoilers.
Please DO NOT read this if you don't want to know what happens next. The only reason I'm commenting is because I am very stressed by the turn of events.
So, after the prince gets suspicion of the consort and Suu's plan, he breaks Suu's leg, so that Suu cannot move, and goes to kill Saharah, throwing Saharah, stabbed, into the lake. Suu runs after them, and the prince reminds Suu that his memories have been taken, and that he is the crown prince. Suu, of course, loses it. Some punches are thrown, but then Suu is pulled down into the water by some monster tentacle thing. He eventually emerges and is taken back to the rooms. When he wakes up, a spy servant tells him that Nadan is dead. Suu is now a dragon and kills the servant because of his hunger (the same Saharah had). The Prince has him chained to the bed and, because Suu now needs human energy, they have sex, but at this point, Suu really hates the prince, and for obvious reasons.
Still going through with the consort's plan to kill the prince, Suu asks the prince to invite him to the consort's dinner party. Suu poison's the prince's cup, but right as the prince is about to drink, Suu knocks the cup from his hand. Suu looks over to the consort, panicked, and in an intense, heated moment, the prince realized what happened. Suu is about to excuse himself, but the prince demands that he stays, knowing that if Suu were to be left alone, he could easily be assassinated for betraying the consort.
Chaos erupts in the hall as the betrayed consort declares that Suu attempted to kill the prince. The prince attempts to control the chaos, but the damage is already done and a team of guards go after Suu. While Suu is outside with nowhere to run, Saharah appears. The crowd, shocked, stops their pursuit. Suu, however, continued to run and runs to the wagon that the consort promised to him (the one that would take him and the would-be Nadan out of the city and to safety). The wagon driver, however, lures Suu into the wagon and attempts to kill Suu.
Meanwhile, Saharah shows off some impressive displays of power, killing someone, and then vanished in search of Suu. He finds Suu in the wagon, Suu having killed off the driver, and they share a tearful embrace.
All caught up. So, in all of this, I am pretty upset that Nadan is dead. I didn't even really like Nadan, he didn't have much of a character, but I knew how much he meant to Suu. He reminded Suu of a happy, normal, life to fight for, and that was taken away. I'm not really surprised by the prince's actions, and I do believe that he loves Suu... I guess that's enough i have to say about that for now.
I am just surprised that there are many readers who do not understand where Suu is coming from, and to those, I highly suggest a re-read.
I just hope he gets a happy ending. He's been through a lot.
Suu lets' go for the kill baby... kill this motherfuckers!
Saharah kills the old emperor.
I don't think Nadan is really dead (unless they've shown his boies in the spoilers) because he did say to just keep up the charade that he's dead even after Suu is no longer useful too the high ranking official.
Agreed.
AHHHH I really hope you are right! this will help me sleep at night~
Nadan is not dead. There’s a reason he had that convo with the prince’s guard asking her to lie and tell Suu he is dead. He didn’t want to stay with Suu anymore. I’m pretty sure he’ll come back at some pivotal point when Suu least expects it.
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I think Sahara killed the old king so that Jin would be locked into sticking around now to become king. He can't pursue Suu with the king dead. So Sahara goes off to be with Suu and they escape together and leave the capitol at last.
Suu is a little sad to leave Jin even though he hates him. Jin seems upset that Suu has escaped him. Even though he now has a very good chance of getting the throne his clenched fist suggests he is very upset to have lost Suu to Suhara.
Soo.. Is that the end or still ongoing?
it's still ongoing. I'm guessing season 3 will start in July or August
The moment i read that there will be a chance that suu end up be sahara, my heart just pray let it happen! Go for it(づ￣ ³￣)づ
So suu ends up with sahara??
No. the story hasn’t ended yet lol
Well if Nadan comes back at a pivotal point in the story, Suu would probably be pretty fucked up thinking Nadan pretended to be dead to get away from him.
I feel bad for Nadan getting dragged into Suu's mess. But I also feel bad for Suu despite the fact that Suu pursued this dangerous path himself.
If I were Suu, I'd just eat Nadan if he comes back alive.
Sorry, meant to upvote.
Sahara hungers for Suu. And as a result Suu hungers for the prince. It is a hunger for life force, as I understand, but it manifests in sexual attraction.
I was really nervous about the whole poisoning the crown prince plot. I couldn’t imagine Suu going through with it but I also wouldn’t be surprised if he did. This story has such complex and multi faceted characters I’m always feeling conflicted about them
Thanks for putting up this thread!
Sahara gets his fill from hugging or kissing too. He doesn't need any bodily fluids, just skinship is enough for the energy part.
Aww Ian wanted all of the people to stay because they were happy looking at his paintings! literally the purest thing.
lol literally RIGHT AFTER I commented this, another chapter was posted! I'm going back for a second serving. We eating good tonight
I'm not surprised that Suu's had to kill some people in the past. In these period pieces, it is almost always the case; it's live or die, especially in Suu's poor background where he was subject to many terrible situations. I just hope no one holds it over his head too much. If it were the seme who had killed, people are normally indifferent, but many times if the uke commits a crime, people have a harder time dealing with it, as they are supposed to be the 'emotional pillars' of the story. hope there is no double standard here.
It is obvious that Suu has a plan to free himself from his situation (yes, he is still imprisoned), but I think we will gradually find out what that plan is over the next few chapters.
I'm still really curious about his past!
well I understand the struggles to like Suu at time...even I am confused by what I am feeling. There are some stereotypes like you said, that we tend to follow and want to read in a book or a manga and that is because we (for good or bad) want to, in a way, relate to the characters, mainly the main character.
So even If I understand that the society they lived in was a hellhole and the way Suu handles it is super justified, no objection, he sometimes acts like an asshole... don't particularly agree with some of the choices he makes or the paths he choses. Do I sound superficial? OF COURSE ahahah but thats the way it is. Suu is the main character and as such you feel much closer to him compared to the other character.
That there are the stereotype of the dark rich jerk seme (crown prince) sureee, and I guess the stereotype exist for a reason...he is one of the love interest and as the audience we view him as such...we don't really put ourselves in his shoes so there is soo much less pressure put upon him. I guess thats my opinion. (=・ω・=)
i hate it when the first upload is only one episode! not enough!
Poor Sora! I understand where the monks are coming from, now, by keeping Sora there, but Sora should just be able to live his life! They talked about a lady in this chapter and I don't know who she is, but guessing she's the ghost lady maybe. I also think Sora started the fire, but he didn't mean to. He was probably trying to destroy a demon/ghost. I bet we'll find out soon!
I've read this weeks ago. But Nakyum in his puffy little winter outfit will never not be cute!
Oh my gawd that was so intense! Great character development already. I thought it was ok until the last few panels made me freak out and yeet myself off planet earth. really hope this is a good one!
Ok, so I reread the whole thing and I want to take a minute to talk about Nadan, as he was a character I struggled to understand and I think I got him figured out.
I am completely open to disagreements here! To be honest, I am still on the fence about him.
Anyways, what I think it basically comes down to, is that Nadan had a privileged upbringing (even if his mother was a slave, his father had political power), until his father was charged with high treason, but his comfy childhood made him blind to the harsh realities of the world and made him ‘kind’. He is someone who does not ‘scheme’ and is completely normal, all of which are traits that Suu strongly envies.
He once loved Suu when they first met as Suu arrived in Rahan, but Suu is a strong-willed person, always trying to get ahead, etc, and the opposites of their temperament just became too much for Nadan. This became especially true when Suu encouraged Nadan to become a warrior. The harshness of the arena changed Nadan, and made him resent Suu.
Still, Nadan had strong feelings for Suu and it is in his nature to care for Suu and protect him. Even in the first few chapters, he constantly asks if Suu is ‘staying out of trouble’ and would dread the idea that Suu was working for the noble consort.
Still, when Suu was taken away to the shrine to care for Saharah, Nadan barely noticed his absence, which you can tell greatly hurt Suu, but this showed that any romantic passion that Nadan had for Suu has been gone.
Now, to Nadan’s imprisonment: when Nadan and Suu manage to meet up (after Suu’s placement in the shrine), Suu is afraid that the consort is looking for Suu and angry with him for not poisoning the horses (from the first few chapters, this was his task) and tells Nadan ‘not to mention him if someone asks’. Later, when Nadan is framed for attempting to assassinate the prince in the forest during the hunt, he remembers what Suu had said, to ‘not mention him’. Nadan automatically believes that this ploy, ‘to kill the prince and frame Nadan’ is Suu’s doing. This is why Nadan is sooo cold to Suu when Suu visits him in his imprisonment. He knows that Suu gets tangled up in dangerous situations, and he believes that this is just another situation, and he is paying the consequences for Suu’s actions (even though we know that is obviously not the truth; it was the consort who planned to assassinate the prince during the hunt).
Without Nadan, Suu might have died in Jugang when he first came to Rahan, and these memories are what makes Suu so fond of Nadan. That, and Suu’s envy towards Nadan’s naiveness. Overall, Nadan gives Suu something to fight for, an innocence that he wants to keep safe, even if they do not fully have romantic interest in each other (as I recall, when asked if Suu would take Nadan’s place in prison, his answer was obviously ‘no’, as he does not love Nadan more than himself)
I think that's all I have to say about him for now!
holy crap, i never put it together that nadan might think suu was the one trying to kill the prince -- or even worse, that suu might have framed him. i don't know if he's that far in his distrust of suu but it wouldn't be horribly unjustified. nadan knows first-hand what the consequences of scheming in court are, and it's not just you who get exterminated, it's your whole bloodline and everyone you know, so he wants nothing to do with it. the only thing i disagree with you on is that nadan had a privileged life before becoming a traitor by association, because suu says nadan was never even given a name and lived in the slaves quarters. that implies he was considered a slave since birth, not as punishment for treason, and nadan is shown getting hit by other slaves in flashbacks so he may not have received special treatment.
nadan has a huge reason to hate suu that nadan supposedly still doesn't know about: suu made it so nadan would not be offered a place in the guard after his skill in the arena was noticed, because suu didn't want them to be separated. a pretty damn selfish play on suu's part. i think the nadan/suu and suu/sahara parallel is pretty solid, with baby suu and sahara both being the ignorant outsiders clinging to an older savior. think of when suu is chained to his bed after asking to see nadan and lashes out at sahara, and sahara replies, "but i like you like this. this way you won't go anywhere."
suu's possessiveness of nadan is not too different from the way sahara treats suu. suu and sahara both want to protect and repay the one who was kind to them when they were vulnerable but they're willing to sabotage their loved one if it seems like they are trying to break free from the dependent relationship.
i think this exchange between jin and suu in chapter 49 says it all about suu's perspective:
jin: I did notice that something about him makes you act irrationally.
suu: would you believe me if i told you that...certain memories can take root inside a person's heart, and control his entire life? Little moments that seem trivial in the eyes of others but which keep him going for the rest of his life. Binding him to the past, never letting him go...
Ah, you could very well be right about Nadan's upbringing! Sometimes I get the timeline confused. Was Nadan a slave even before his father commited treason?
Another thing I want to put on this Nadan thread:
First, in chapter 60, when Suu goes to retrieve that green sacred book from the library and runs into a young master from the Heo family (whom Suu served in Jugang), the young master said that his father's friend would have paid for Nadan's release from slavery, but Suu begged the young master's father not to do this. And never told Nadan that Nadan could have been free. The REAL twist is that in chapter 82, when Suryeon's two guards are pondering WHY Nadan became a slave fighter in the arena to begin with, they theorize that MAYBE it was to win Suu's freedom from slavery. (Now here is My theory: that Suu purposely may have stopped Nadan from being freed by the young master's father's friend so that Nadan could first win Suu's OWN freedom by fighting in the arena. It's a stretch, but I could see it)
Also, it is highly possible that Suu had to murder to keep Nadan safe, which is mentioned later in chapter 64. Since Nadan's father committed high treason, which is punishable by extermination of 9 generations of family (so this includes Nadan), the prince implies: 'Is this somehow related to a few murders you commited in Guiju? (We find out later that Suu has killed for Nadan, chapter 86)
Ok, so now more up to speed in chapter 78, when Suu goes to visit Nadan, Nadan seems overly joyed to see him, which is a stark contrast to the cold shoulder he had given the previous time that Suu had gone to visit him in his imprisonment. My thoughts were the same as Suu's: Suryeon is somehow making Nadan (probably via torture) seem welcoming. It was like he had been asked to embrace Suu with open arms even though he has strong discontent for Suu at this time.
Remember, Suu pulls away and asks Nadan: 'They are threatening you, aren't they?'
I, of course, was wrong, as was Suu. Suryeon had promised Nadan escape from the city if he acted fondly towards Suu upon Suu's visit. When asked if he would like Suu to come with him, he firmly says that he has no intention of spending the rest of his life with Suu. I think Nadan believes that his worry over Suu needs to end, as does Suu's worry for Nadan, to put it in simple terms.
Ok, so I am so sorry if I rambled on, I just really wanted to paint a timeline, mainly for myself to figure out the sequence of events. Always open to more theories!
Wow thank you, I really needed this post (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
It’s not easy to keep up with all the events (￣∇￣")