This is my meta hypothesis for what is going on, what the author is going for. Clay is trying to recruit Shirone, but those pesky morals are in the way and is trying to teach Shirone that being selfish and evil is the only way to go because even if you are morale people get hurt anyway. This way turning Shirone evil means recruitment and "joining the family". That would be why Clay keeps calling Shirone "brother". That is a very convoluted idea of what is happening, but the least convoluted I could think of and most likely explanation based on the general pattern I've seen from this author who likes to go for esoteric morale dilemmas. I personally like morale gray in stories but not the way this author does it.

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Mostly boring gibberish. Just STFU with your word salad and fight.

This is looking like a possible repeat of the shit arc earlier between the dark and light mage and the memory copy nonsense, the more it explains the worse it looks. I am taking this off follows.

This plot is not about "honor" in the first place!!!

This evil was done in the name of pride.
"I am more worthy than your child to learn your kungfu." If someone as worthy as me will not get your kungfu, then no one will"

These are not concepts of "honor" but of "pride" and envy. None of your words change this.

How many people died for this assholes pride, holy shit this asshole was stupid. The reason for all the evil deeds was so stupid I'd almost prefer to not know.

You mean pride, not "honor". I acknowledge that the word "honor" has always had a shit vague shit definition, but even at that I can still say the word "honor" doesn't really apply.

Sure Master should have handled it much better, but that reason for doing all these evil deeds was way too stupid.

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What are you talking about, you were the betrayer, not the person betrayed. This does not logically follow. Basically says if someone betrays Helmut like the master was betrayed, then es hopes Helmut would make better choices than the betrayer made..... Is this fool pretending es was betrayed or what? Or that the master should have handled being betrayed differently?

Sure, but they probably also knew MC was super strong and wouldn't want some relatively weaklings getting in the way.

Obviously are going to be at least reasonably powerful but not necessarily "higher ups" It makes sense that after reporting someone figured out it was MC who keeps making a scene in places interfering with their shit and realized they need more powerful people to even have a chance of dealing with MC. The three days was probably for those two to arrive.

Hmm? Lots of asian comics have some kind of system rewriting reality.

MC should bring some supplies with.

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I see, then i guess it's time for you to go/remain home

Internal monologue about going into stomach to attack from the inside says otherwise

Meh, authors put work into main characters but also some side characters they don't want to lose by killing them off, even if it means some temporary interesting story. Also readers generally don't appreciate such characters getting killed off either unless the story was like that from the get go.

It provided some flesh out of the character of those two characters and showed their growth and how MC contributed to it, it did the job well enough IMO.

It's a good chapter, but I don't get your pictures relevance. What's that from anyway?

I would figure with the name/theme of "Gluttony" it would be chubby or something

Not real forms, "thought forms"

I got the idea that the cult was just summoning cerabus Not saying I disagree with the rest, just this boss would have appeared regardless of what happened previously.

To be fair I think some of this like this final boss would have appeared anyway. But I do generally agree very much.

Even black feathers would insulate against the sun heat since feathers in general insulate well. So it would have to be because of decomposition/mulch. But you need plant waste to make mulch, something they lack. Also mulch needs to be carefully temperature manage because if it gets too hot, decomposition stops. Every mulch I've ever heard of just uses more plant waste plus a building or container to insulate.

Random feathers would not likely keep in needed moisture though.