Arguments for that would be based on if the fate in question was a good fate, evil/bad curse standards or whatever. Though a second argument could actually be that Reject Flow - if the naming translated well/correctly. By denying fate it self you are potentially denying its "blessing"; or you could even say that their attachment to the very world itself is being denied. By denying that attachment to fate that all other things should have it is like they are not a proper existence, so you can all on all the negative things that go with that, probably?

Last panel is the embodiment of: "And now they kiss!".

I get what you mean but his is like 11 at this point in time. If he just arrives back and kills his older brother for seemingly no reason(?) from the perspective of others... that might actually make one hell of a divergent story. Though I think they did establish that he was going ruin everything his brother became by stealing his glory and efforts.

Not overly convoluted but they really did not firmly establish that his goal is to basically turn every major success his brother claimed into a failure and push him into some kind of insanity or something; standard "A quick death it too good for you!" type deal. Though I could be absolutely wrong about that.

I myself was relieved of that notion some years ago. You may have been in the same boat as I was having your only good reference of a Rapier being the kind used for modern day [non lethal] Fencing. Its origin is that of a sword though, so why would they only have a sharp tip like some kind of weirdly held short spear... it only makes sense to sharpen the sides like a standard sword,. Then after you sharpen the sides it now has more ways to inflict damage. Then you also have to have to make other considerations, it is a main focus stabbing weapon so it would actually make a lot of sense for it to have a wider form at the base - to prevent suction when it is stabbed into a target.

Knife/Blade fluting is a thing too. Mainly done these days to help with cutting vegetables or butchering meats, but I have personally seen that it used on World War 2 bayonets. Not good with the history on that but I mention it as an example of purpose built designs for weapons of war/mortal combat. There is also a tv series about blacksmithing and/or forging metals that has a focus(?) on weapon making; I recall they did episode on Rapiers and - I was extremely surprised at the way the looked when finished. Might be worth a look!

This has a feel like it is in fast-forward mode; better described as frame skipping, I suppose. Feels like they make 20 pages and just cut out 7 saying not needed. Makes sense and I had no trouble following the story so.. more of a thing to be aware of rather than anything else really.

First 7 chapters were decent to good, so it has that going for it.

My point I ironically failed to make was one of clarity, many of the insults attributed to him are not ones he actually made; because others twisted what it was he actually said and added in their own words and context. They are not things he should considered responsible for...

Even some of the ones he actually makes are kind of invalid, can some of those things really be considered insults when the other party is the one making false assumptions and not actually conversating properly?

I get what they are going for and fully accept that I have a personal disdain for it because I have personally experienced it several times. They just push it past my limits and then do not recover well enough for me because the whole justification for it is basically summed up as: he is a moron; the level of stupid that makes people swear at horror movies - ya know, when the person make the worst possible move. At least a horror movie idiot can provide catharsis when they get done in after having signed themselves up for natural selection.

He is basically a moron I get that, but this level of forced misunderstanding, I am not even sure anymore... ah no it is just hits too close to home for me. People turning mundane questions into some kind of personal attack on themselves. I am just going to drop this one. It is like meeting someone somewhere and asking if they had any trouble getting there, and then they proceed to freak out implying that is was somehow meant to imply they could not drive properly or are too stupid to get on the correct bus or something.

No he really did not... he says one thing and everyone else just mixes the words around so that it becomes insulting. He basically says things like: "there are evil people and donkeys out there, be carful." and the people write his message down pass it on as "I heard you are out there being an evil bastard, you should really stay away from those donkeys you could catch something.".

This chapter and maybe a couple before it are possibly what you would originally expect from this series. The I don't know how many before, maybe seven(?, that is a shot in the dark guess) really sucked in comparison, cause I also put this down for a long while. The story was still going but it was like the wheels just disappeared off the car... it was like something essential was missing... Got nothing definitive for an answer on if the break helped with that or they story just got good again.

Might be better to say that this story rides a really thin line on what makes it really great and it is super easy for it to fall off that line. It is really great so when the expectation is not met, it can really be felt.

It makes sense to me. I think I am just tired, everything has a tendency to be just a bit harder when you are tired... walking tall, carrying the world on your shoulders, being vigilant of the doom & gloom.

Thanks for the humor and humouring. Helps a fair bit to communicate with a reasonable person from time to time, far to rare for me these days.

Oh, I can and will fully admit I am jaded. I have probably reached the middle range on the quadruple digits of people find negative intent on completely neutral statements, countless times I have born witness to stating objective facts being used as grounds for retaliatory harassment, Slander and outright deceptions justified as "just an opinion, bro".

So I know I can be jaded, mostly tired though. It is basically a life goal not to be outright rude at this point. I have lived in a place where lairs, cheats, thieves, etc. have not gotten the treatment they actually deserve.

Have you even watched/seen (can be found police footage) of a person just pushing the limits of another, they just keep going and going, then they feel the shift and suddenly back off cause they know the line has been crossed, then they start behaving and trying to act proper or do as they were instructed/told to do if the first place acting as if that is what they have been trying to do in the first place (with police a prime example is being told to leave or they will be arrested). far too many 'F around' and do not properly 'find out'.

I got a family member that is always doing the "wrong" thing, does not explain things properly, does things for people that you know will not repay or return favors. And a bunch of other things that any reasonable people would understand with not work out. Then proceeds to complain endless about how it is everyone else's fault -that is not a figure of speech; it is a literal daily occurrence (part of the reason I avoid them when I can).

I am just venting at this point, I have gave up on 'some' humanity; not all of it - there are still decent people. I would even say you are one solely because you added that disclaimer text.

English is not a good language, and seems to get worse as time goes on. I can not say your interpretation is wrong, nor can I argue that mine is right in a justifiable way. From my limited understanding this is far less of an issue in other languages; If it is because of words used or sentence structure, I do not know.

This is at the core of needless division. I would even argue that if/when AI hits 'singularity' it would wipe out faulty languages before determining if Humanity should actually be wiped out.

HA! For me it was the face having the dimensions of a wooden mask, flat and wide, those nose squiggles were not helping either.

Makes me remember that Jim Carrey movie: the Mask.

If you take the translation at face value he never told them to 'leave', he told them to not go further (or was it deeper?). They actually listened to what he said and verbally agreed with him - they moved sideways around the perimeter but not deeper towards the centre.

Women or not you can still call it overconfident. Story wise it is in no way unexpected, they were not a group that magically appear because of danger - they already showed up once before they were in a dangerous situation and interacted with the MC. Meaning they were going to be close by for a time, while it was implied they were in over the heads.

Arguably the "most idiotic thing" was them discounting him as reinforcements just because he was by himself; they previously followed in his wake as he wiped clean a path into the Core Area.

People commenting on this and that; I am Full Stop stuck on that nine finger glove. It hurts my reasons to live...

I really find some of the art for this silently hilarious; I do not really ever thinking it was "try hard", good balance!

There really is a lot to the issue, I think personally one of the major pillars to the issues on the age topic is cognition; excluding outliers, there is going to be a minimum age but that is heavily influenced by how society functions. An imperfect example of this is how the 10-15s of the 1800s are quoted as being vastly more mature than 15-20s or even including ranges in the 30s for our present 2020s.

Not the only factor but the school system is a giant issue in regards to this, it is party as you said: "there has been a good bit of evidence found recently that the brain isn't performing at optimum efficiency until 25". I am not saying that this is the single answer but just a single element of this issue - the Age of 24 is around the time where a person is now expected to go full independent high school ending at 18 with 4-6 possible additional schooling. A fixed schedule where you show up and spend most of your day being managed in memorization exercises. If a lunch is provided or bought then you are not even in a position where you secure your own meal either. It is a system where your only responsibility is to show up, even more so these days when they push you through even if you fail at the daily tasks.

You may even think of it as self Reliance, Responsibility, perhaps even Personhood is 'like a muscle' you only know what a persons character is when it is tested the more it is tested the more refined and solidified it becomes. A child should stop being treated purely like a "child" probably around 12yrs old.

still working backwards in age here: development of non permanent long term birth control is really lacking in prominence (devices that are not one-time use or permanent).

As for looking super young while above appropriate age, Bad Answers: the internet, methods that do not have an initial face to face like a match making services. Possibly plastic surgery to look older...

I saw this come up in a different place but a legitimate question: What about the individual that looks like a child? For the sake of argument say they look 15 but their actual age is 25, and does your answer change if they are 35?

Does the person that is well above legal age just need to forever give up being in a relationship?

Does your line of reasoning hold true for women as well? I ask because growing up I remember there was a fair number of girls that would "go crazy" over guys that had childlike features or levels of intelligence, and I saw the exact same thing happen a few years ago at a high school graduation for a family member. There were a couple of girls there going on about how cute a guy was, that boy looked like he was traumatised by a thought hitting him once and never had another. I used to think 18 was a good for the cut off but there are just more and more people that give off the impression that their minds are not developed to an autonomous level even at that age...

An extra point, I went back and looked a little closer... I assume it was on purpose; the blasts of light/colour of the assumedly Aura were yellow, but at least in this chapter there are actually 'motes of light' when the healing is being done and those are tinged red (assuming my colourblind-ness is not doing me wrong).

My assumption for the arrows: red - yellow = corrosion like reaction/rejection | red - purple = deflection (like two balls colliding after being thrown) or some kind of cancelling effect | yellow - purple = efficiency loss but not a "rejection".

Depends on some things, one of the biggest things is that: it is speculated that the brain will still function for a few to several seconds before complete death when it is cleanly cut off... so it may actually be a matter of if he realises that his head was cut off by the person he thought saved him and he was going to "make his". Not torture per say... but kinda there in a way, if the mind is actually active in that moment.