Volume 2, chapter 13
by @ironmaidenjeannelasso, using their own books
Sorry for my tardiness! Life got hectic.
Volume 2, chapter 13
This chapter covers more of Jun’s fight against Yoh. Yoh starts in a position of relative weakness and it gets worse, as Jun uses her own blood to write new orders for Pyron: attack Yoh until he dies.
… Except Yoh’s resilience seems to get to the terrible kyonshi! Tears flow from his cheeks and Yoh promises him he will free his soul. At last, Yoh has reached Pyron; at last, the dialogue isn’t Jun-Yoh (she isn’t listening, yet), but Pyron-Yoh, and that’s when progress can happen. Hopefully? Pyron seems really strong.
I really liked seeing how Jun stands. She’s one of these shamans who doesn’t wear combat-facilitating clothing and she casually turns her back to Anna and Manta a few times. Until close to the end she is projecting confidence and isn’t expecting them to step in, which is interesting. Manta has tried with other people; it would have been fun.
Jun also does most of the talking in this chapter. The monologuing-until-scene-reversal is a tried and true trope. I’d wonder if she was really so confident about her whole spiel! But I do think she is, if only for her to have a real character arc. Jun Tao so far is someone who has been raised like Ren, with this darker kyonshi shtick where she’s not even just enslaving ghosts but taking living people’s bodies away from them. Just reading this chapter I burn to see where she’s headed.