#bsd 123.5

[dancing-dawn]

hi hello i humbly call this piece:

"i burnt my favourite dress pants while ironing and got angry"

and now my boy must martyr himself for MY sins too :>

[thedreamofadaydreamer]

One thing the English FanTS of chapter 123.5 does not get clear about...

"Twin divine blades."

I'm a Vietnamese, and a fan-translator in my country has a different translation of this quote (roughly translated from Vietnamese to English).

"They are a pair of swords. Male and female."

In the raw, there is this word to describe them. "雌雄". Shiyuu. Female and male.

The translator also provided the legend behind it: The legend of Gan Jiang and Mo Ye.

This is a reference to the Chinese legend of the swordsmith Gan Jiang and his wife Mo Ye, in which the Chu King ordered Gan Jiang to create a sword by a piece of iron. Gan Jiang received the iron and, along with his wife Mo Ye, went to the Wu Mountains, quenched it in the water of Longquan River, and within three years forged two swords: one male and one female. Before presenting the swords, Mo Ye said to Gan Jiang, "These two swords, communicating with the spirits of darkness, can, even while remaining still, destroy their sworn enemies. I am now pregnant; the child I bear must be a fierce and brave boy. Therefore, even if you offer one sword to the King of Chu, you must hide the other sword and give it to our child". Gan Jiang followed Mo Ye's words, presented the male sword to the king of Chu and hid the female sword deep for their unborn child. When the King of Chu opened the magnificent sword and examined it, he truly saw that it possessed a spirit. He placed it back in its box, but while in the box, the sword constantly emitted sounds of sorrowful weeping. The King of Chu, finding this strange, asked his ministers the reason for its cries. All the ministers replied, "This sword must surely be one of a pair, a male and a female. It weeps in sorrow because the two are not together". The king, greatly angered, summoned Gan Jiang and ordered him to be executed by beheading. 

It is also said, when the iron didn't melt in the forge, Gan Jiang remembered his mentor, another legendary swordsmith, Ou Yezi told him it needed a woman to jump into the forge for the iron to melt. Upon hearing that, Mo Ye decided to do exactly that, only did then the iron bar melt to create the two swords.

I don’t think Asagiri just mentioned Tsukinogozen just to show that there is a way to defeat Amenogozen, especially when he specifically mentioned this little fact. But unfortunately I haven't found out the meaning of this reference.

The translator who provides this useful piece of information is Siêucấp Ngườiyêu ChịPun on Facebook.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Concept:

When Atsushi “died” his hand remained on the floor of the airport held out to Akutagawa.

Akutagawa who just had both his hands cut off by Gozen. So that even if part of Atsushi still remained Akutagawa would not be able to take his hand.

Also that while the two of them fuse abilities may be marked by Akutagawa giving Atsushi his coat.

It’s the claws that display both their power, with Akutagawa himself on the boat referring to them as “our claws.”

The claws that Fyodor wants for himself and has now prohibited Akutagawa from being able to use.

As Akutagawa begins to remember how much Atsushi means to him, the enemy tries to cut off his connection to him.

Because that’s what’ll drive him to act.

[lolasth]

"Could it be? Is this... my death?"

Kind of a screenshot redraw from chapter 123.5 but with additional imagery other scenes. Let me know if you catch the symbolism I was going after!

[starlightshadowsworld]

Concept: Akinari is a lot less willing to hand themselves over but Atsushi’s not letting them leave.

Akinari: It’s been years since I’ve seen a face around here

Atsushi: I was broken and alone in that hell I called my home

Akinari: Should’ve left me to decay

Atsushi: Finding me was your worst mistake

Akinari: And now he’s found his new obsession

Atsushi: Now it’s just you and me

Akinari: I turn away

Atsushi: I’ll be right beside you,

Akinari: I cut you off

Atsushi: But I’ll always have another way to find you

Akinari: You’re bodies still mending…

Atsushi: You’re in for a sight

[starlightshadowsworld]

And you know what I will take that Akinari powers the space that he and Atsushi are currently in and without them it would vanish.

Because I was right on that.

Not so much that Fyodor put them in there but I’ll still take it.

[littlemusic-muse]

An Eulogy to the relationship that I (he) was hanging onto... Oh, this is goodbye. It's so bright and everything I wished for.

My thoughts on this matter: I don't actually think that Akutagawa seeing Dazai this way is him regressing, nor do I think that he is actually dead.

The way I see it, he is choosing to see Dazai this way: saying those words that he has worked hard; seeing him so beautiful and dazzling: he's saying goodbye and letting go of Dazai because he is no longer really chasing him anymore, because those words "You've fought hard...", he is personally closing the door

For a more detailed thoughts process: please message me. I have thoughts on a comparison of this interaction and Atsushi's interaction with his own "teacher" in a sense.

[starlightshadowsworld]

Man it really hit me this arc that the Headmaster is dead.

That we’re seeing Akutagawa envision Dazai in his current role as a part of the Agency. We’re seeing him look to the present and the future.

While Atsushi is stuck in the dark running from the ghosts of his past.

Akutagawa listening to Dazai’s words to comfort him in his fear. To tell him what he has always wanted to hear.

While Atsushi cuts off the Headmaster and hides from him in a cell so much like his old one.

Because it doesn’t matter what the Headmaster tells Atsushi for he is already dead.

For Atsushi there is no closure to be attained. It’s all just empty words from a corpse and questions he’ll never have answered.

Akutagawa got Dazai’s approval a long time ago it’s just that now he may be finally letting himself accept it.

While Atsushi won’t hear another word that comes from the Headmasters mouth. To the point the man had to pretend to be Dazai to even let him hear him out.

Atsushi’s always known but it was just easier to pretend.

And the second the Headmaster revealed himself Atsushi ran away and was followed by his younger self.

Akutagawa who found himself in the light and Atsushi who ran to dark trying to escape himself.