Unseen vore

Even broke out the handkerchief

One always must clean their mouths after a hearty meal. Etiquette is important, after all.

Still got a bit of guard in your teeth there.

Brand's like, "Could I... have a moment to process what just happened first?"

At this point the first words out of my mouth would be, "Suzokon kyō, toire o karite mo īdesu ka?"

And RUN LIKE HELL.

My translator doesn’t recognize romanized Japanese, and my “google fu” failed me. What does this translate to?

"Lord Suzocon, may I use the bathroom?" Kind of a hard request to refuse, which is the point.

Hah, I only got a piece or two of this to translate. But I think I get the jist.

"Lord Suzocon, may I use the bathroom?" Kind of a hard request not to grant.

Note the difference in Brand's and Saida-hime's reactions. To Brand, this is, "When did he become a dragon?" To Saida, these may have been quetz she grew up with, and she got to hear that one's final screams.

One does not FAFO with old gods. Their idea of amusing is going to ruin your day.

Did I mention, "Sometimes fear is the appropriate response?"

Poor Saida, even though the body swap is disorienting in moments like this, Brand did his best to shield her eyes and ears.

Brand may not particularly like quetz in general, but that’s no reason to subject Saida to seeing something that traumatic.

Still, is Brand really going to help Suzocon? Even if his life was at risk, it doesn’t feel right to help the one who killed the two guards that were trying to protect “Saida”. At least, I hope they can stall until they save Roko before his “sense of self” disappears, or the Queen herself comes.

He literally has no choice. He just frittered away a chance to attempt to escape, slim as it was. He either gets back to work, or he ceases to exist.

At this stage there was zero chance of escape. They'd never have the time to find Roko and beat it before Monster Fox found them.

They need a distraction. And one might just be on the way. Think Vetra is going to just ignore that three of her personal bodyguard went to that island and never came back?

I think that Vetra is going to be on her way very, very shortly. That was effectively her personal bodyguard Suzocon-sama eliminated and she will NOT be happy when she finds out.

When she sees he has her Eyestone, that's when it all goes nuclear. I think the reason Suzocon killed those guards is because they saw he had that Eyestone.

Second panel definitely more eye opening as Brand is shielding Saida while he keeping at least one eye on Suzocon which definitely shows he doesn’t like what he sees but know better than let down his guard and have experience something similar happening.

Kinda what I said before the page posted. He's a dragon. This is what volcano dragons do with those they want to dispose of. It nearly happened to Saida herself, before Brand rescued her!

He's really not happy that they're dealing with something with less morality than a volcano dragon, but that's nothing compared to how shocking this is to Saida.

i don't think they want to not after what you did to the princess's people

There's a saying from Total Drama All Stars promo commercial: "Whatever doesn't kill them, will scare them for life!"

That's all I have to say

This was 100% used as a demonstration, breaking all pretenses. He just showed he has many methods of disposing of them, and that from now on they must follow everything he tells them to do.

Roko tried to warn them.

Also this was just his 4th through 6th dan attacks. We haven't seen what he's truly capable of.

We may be about to.

Surprised he not fatter

He's a fire kitsune. I suspect he burns calories as fast as he need to.

Same given the source material

I like this Kitsune even more xD

He's certainly very comfortable with killing, huh? Gosh.

Nogitsune to the core.

Uhh... I dunno about that...

?????????????????? - Saida is scared out of her wits by Suzocon's actions. Most creatures would faint upon seeing this, some may have a heart attack, others would flee, some would return fire at Suzocon, and some would outright die on the spot by seeing Suzocon's actions.

I guess Suzocon wanted a quick snack? Or perhaps it was a demonstration of his immense power...

Admiral Shokaku Yamamoto - There you are, Grizz. You finally returned to FA. I am actually liking Virmir choosing to HIDE the NSFW parts instead of showing them. Well done.

Nice to see you too, Admiral Shokaku Yamamoto.

Bro pulled the “ anyways “ after all that

My only question there, is did he end the quetz' suffering before the big gulp, or was the snap to rub it in as he went down alive?

This guy MIGHT BE evil...

Yeah, but he's that cool kinda evil.

Love the expressions in the final panel.

I feel like this could be a lot more disturbing if we weren't spared the gruesome details. And frankly, I'm glad we were spared those details. This is still pretty fucked up tho

Surprised Saida didn't lose her lunch at the sight of three of her own getting brutally logged out from the life SMP server.

https://youtu.be/ML6OV8fG74w?si=p_WCwDFjasB8C07q

I feel like there is a rule somewhere in here.

Granted Suzocon is a very god tier kinda guy, and could just be catlike playing because recluse on an island might be a tad bored and it'd be fun to stretch the muscles.

But.

He tried pretty aggressive subterfuge with the first one, when he got found, and it's clear that he both didn't want to be interrupted and has the power to get rid of them quickly. But he waited until the first one tried to zap him before disintegrating.

So that's not so crazy, but then he's just all super diplomatic with the next two, who have clearly seen their comrade fall apart. So he knows they're not just gonna: 'Oh, sorry to bother you, we didn't know this was your island', and then wander off without reporting to the Queen what they've seen. Then he waits until both of them each try to lightning strike him before engaging, and then he's super pleased when they do.

Yes, he's super-propersune until the moment he's not, and it could be a separate agreement with the Quetz that he won't attack any of them without cause, but maybe there is some kind of -rule- beyond a personal code, that doesn't allow him to wield all this power directly at anyone he chooses whenever he wants, and instead has to use subterfuge, magic mirrors, threats, and puppets unless he's directly attacked.

So, not that they'd know it, and it'd be crazy to risk putting it to the test, but at this moment Brand and Saida might be able to actually just walk over to the eye, pick it up, and leave, and Suzocon couldn't do anything about it.

Course, he also does have a hostage.

This is my take on it, based on Virmir's stories and how they interact with Shinto lore.

Suzocon-sama still has some zenko-kitsune - noble fox - in him. He wishes to gain his ninth tail in a traditional way.

But at this point it's all an act. He's a nogitsune to the core. If they dared try and steal the Eyestone right in front of him there would be no mercy. He treats ANYTHING that gets in the way of his plans as obstacles to BURN out of his way.

Do remember he possibly murdered an innocent that washed up on his shores, defiled her body in a truly hideous way and tricked ONE OF HIS OWN CLAN, a kohai, into an Infinity Trap to mindrape him into a blank slate.

He's no zenko-kitsune. He's an honorless dog that plays at being one to lure in victims.

I never said he wasn't a bad guy. I'm just saying he may not be able to use overt means at will.

He proved he could. Just the idea that they might be possibly there to interfere with his plans was enough to bring out the uzumaki and threaten them all with instant death. Heck, he did it when he thought Roko was being rude to him. And as we just saw, that was no bluff. He kills when it suits him. They're only still alive because he sees a use for them.

This look cast aside all doubt: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/59558091.

That predatory smile is pure, undiluted Nogitsune. That's the moment that Green Guy realized - the LAST thing he realized - was that he was in the grip not of an honorable opponent but a monster. And then the jaws came down.

Yeah, but that guard also attacked him. Had they just flown off to inform the rest could he have done any of that. That's my thought.

He tried. Instead of being allowed honorable retreat, Suzocon ate him. He effectively tortured that guard to death, and is busy torturing one of his own clan into insanity, just to delay the inevitable.

When Vetra shows up, I'm rooting for injuries. Eating one of her bodyguard and defiling the body of another is an absolutely nuclear insult and she'll take it exactly as such.

Heck if I were her, and realized that the vanguard I sent out never came back, I'd be back with Taran-ouji and the entire quetz army. She has to know this dude from the past.

I'm not saying there is any honor here, but more of a restriction. The way a vampire can't just come into your house without permission. Supernatural types frequently have weird little rules, and I'm speculating something like that might be in play.

By the point he was running the guard had already attacked him. So, fights on, as it were.

Roko was not directly attacked via his power. Suzocon just tricked him into looking into a mirror.

Suzocon is pretty smart, and I'm sure he's got plan B, C, and D in motion. And if this is a reality I'm sure he's very used to working around it. He's offered Brand the carrot and he's just shown him the stick.

Threats and intimidation work, but only until you press to test them. But it's a heck of a gamble with a very final result if one navigates the boundaries incorrectly. Lets see what Brand is gonna do.

Least one of my predictions came true. There was no sickening crunch. He didn't give that guard a quick exit. No, Green Guy got to die slowly, screaming all the way down. The first two were comparatively lucky.

Yeah, I don't know if that snap is putting him to an end, or just closing the jaws rather dramatically. Either way the tongue lick clearly gets the point across.

Considering he was swallowing him headfirst, the SNAP was almost certainly him closing his jaws on the tail. The rest of him was still screaming right until the jaws cut him off. But that scream is gonna be echoing in Saida's ears for a very long time.

I didn't think he was. The way the last panel of the last page looked to me was that Suzocon started at the tail and the last panel is just the Quetz's head sticking out of his mouth. Then this page starts with him screaming and then that's it.

Either way it went pretty hard for the guard and Saida is probably not gonna take it well.

You might well be right. Eating him tail first would certainly amp up the horror - and the pain. Also, would maximize the screaming until Suzocon-sama's jaws cut him off for good - one way or another.

'cause I'm gonna be
The last thing you see
Sayonara.
There you go
Sayonara!

Everything in my clutches
Sayonara...

Well that’s horrifying….

(Though arguably better than being swallowed alive and while)

Poor Saida tho (I love how Brand tries to shield/comfort her like that tho)

Brand's a lot more used to seeing this sort of thing, he grew up around dragons. For Saida, on the other hand... These were probably family. And those final screams are going to echo through the shrine for a long, long time.

True, and yes exactly, these are her people, possibly ones she knew (something that went through my mind the entire time I saw him slaughtering them), not to mention her sheltered life

Yep. She took Suzucon-sama's hospitality at face value and frankly so did a lot of commenters. He put on a very good act at being a Noble Fox, and it's quite probable he once WAS a zenko-kitsune. But take a good look at that expression he gives Green Guy before the jaws come down. That's pure, undiluted nogitsune. Wild Fox. He's nothing more than an amoral monster, playacting at being civilized.

I said they were in very deep shit the moment they set foot on his island, and nothing has dissuaded me from that since.

Indeed indeed, and yes, he clearly took such smug satisfaction and pleasure in the power he held over them, making them fear and beg for their life before brutally finishing them off...

"He's nothing more than an amoral monster, playacting at being civilized." Was definitely made clear with what he did to poor Roko, no care concern for his fellow kitsune, erasing his personality by mentally breaking him, all for the sake of an experiment to further his own goals... (and thinking about it I can't help but wonder now how many other victims he might have had over the years, to have gained as many tails as he did...)

This would most definitely seem to be the case, and with how powerful he is it's hard to say how they'll be getting out of this, not to mention they still need to save Roko

It's just my opinion, but I think the opening comes with a distraction. Like Vetra-jou showing up with Taran-ouji and maybe the entire Quetz army and opening fire.

I definitely agree, it seems like their only real hope of escaping from someone so powerful, not to mention how some of their previous 'fights' have gone (with Darya they simply fled from her army, and with Ayal they got lucky as he unknowingly doomed himself), and I definitely expected Taran to show up earlier with that approaching storm.

Though in the most recent pages we got to see firsthand that a few quetz soldiers stand no chance against Suzucon, but their leaders and/or army may keep him busy enough for them to escape (...and I also just realized now that they don't really have a means to leave the island, seeing as how they've lost their ability to swim, only two of them can really fly, and they don't know how far the mainland is, plus ocean travel puts them at risk of running into Draya again... potentially they'll need to trick some quetz soldiers into escorting them to safety)

They do have the pendants that allow them to shift to aquatic form. They might take that route and head out into the deep blue sea, or they might end up on Laputa with the quetz. The latter doesn't get them out of danger, but at least it gets them on solid ground and the hell AWAY from Suzocon.

Eating one of her guards was as good as declaring war on Vetra and the whole quetz nation. He has to know that, and probably wants Brand to finish charging the Eyestone before she shows up.

Ah, thought they lost them, and oh yeah

Very true, and oh yes, and ahh makes sense. He would most certainly attempt to use it against her

Those aquatic form TF pendants are in Roko's charm. Who knows what Suzocon has done with that. I'm sure he would consider it a little valuable to at least look through or put somewhere away from the balloon body. So until they rescue Roko and find his charm, they really are stuck there. I had forgotten about that.

Yeah that's a point. Without his hoshi no tama Roko's basically sunk. They have to get his spirit back, reunite it with his balloon body, AND reunite THAT with his Star Ball.

Root for an Andy Bowen v Jack Burke match when Vetra and her crew show up to exact vengeance and/or get her Eyestone back. If there's one thing that kaibutsu kitsune needs, it's having his whole eight-tailed ass kicked.

Fatality!
https://youtu.be/Sr1bLLvsbh0?feature=shared

WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87

https://youtu.be/sq_Fm7qfRQk?feature=shared

O_o welp... that happened

I guess that seems pretty accurate to what an Oni would do, as those can sometimes be quadrupedal kitsune called nogitsune

He isn't technically an Oni - those are humanoid, but twisted. But you are dead on that he's a yako-kitsune (Field Fox) or a nogitsune (Wild Fox). These are very, very unfriendly nature spirits not unlike evil fairies. Some of them are immensely powerful - one was said to cause a Japanese civil war in ancient times, bring down a dynasty, and curse a rock to kill anyone that touched it. That was one kitsune. Suzocon puts on a good act at being a zenko-kitsune - a Noble Fox - but he's absolutely not.

Rude.

He didnt even ask his guests if they wanted any.

Damn that would have been horrifying, probably too much even for this story.

"Here, Saida-hime. Here's a piece of one bodyguard you grew up with. Eat hearty!"

Vored

I would've thought Sadia was about to puke.

Watching people she grew up with die in hideous ways? Can you blame her?

She grew up a very sheltered princess. This is war, and now she gets to see it live and in color.

I like that Brand's instinct is to protect Saida

The dragon duo always meet the nicest of people. :3

There are a lot of corrupt youkai in this world. The million gem question is... why?

The green Quetz is slowly digesting by Suzocon

I don't think so. Suzocon isn't just going to swallow someone that can blast him from inside. He's either dead or just gone the moment he disappears down the kitsune's throat.

And Suzokon-kyo is far too clever for his own good.

Curious if this was just instant absorption or what, I know due to the story it doesn't matter but like, hey I'm interested if that quetz is going to leave any form of weight on them xD

Instant absorption. That doesn't entirely surprise me. He's a firebender kitsune. He probably, quite literally, burned the calories off once he was in his stomach.