Oh, no... this might not be good

Should have told him you’re a prisoner. Cuz you are.

And get erased by the one holding a foxfire gun to your head. Nothing is that easy when you're in the middle of a tiff between deities.

Brand told the truth. All he knows how to do, really.

Admiral Shokaku Yamamoto - Schwerer Gustav A.K.A. Taran, is baffled on as to why Brand, "Saida" is present at Suzocon's island.

Gunnery captain is confused why his own sister is behind the enemy lines. Which gives Suzocon more time to roll out his own artillery.

I'm not really sure it matters what Brand says, as far as Suzocon is concerned.

And the truth is, Suzocon's holding his tail guns to Brand's head, so prisoners they are.

He says anything of that sort, and Suzo will eliminate him and DJ Shock before his two neurons can rub together.

Brand in Saida's body you mean :P

aw yeah this is the body swap awkwardness I signed up for

Forgot the royal "we" there. He is gonna catch on that things aren't right.

Yeah, I noticed that immediately as well. That's the kind of thing that will immediately be noticed by people close to you.

Only if Taran can afford to. Suzocon can’t afford to lose either Brand or Eyestone now. And given how powerful said “rat” is, I don’t think Taran would be able to focus on that slip of the tongue if he gets into a fight with him. All Brand has to do afterwards is pretends that Taran misheard them.

Besides, shouldn’t Taran have noticed that “Saida” has been missing for at least more than 24 hours? That doesn’t exactly make for an observant brother if they hadn’t realised that someone supposedly important to both him and the quetz as a whole is MIA, especially after what happened when the real Saida had been imprisoned by dragons.

To be fair Taran isn't the brightest bulb in the royal chandelier. He's just the biggest gun. And he said he didn't have time for this crap.

So probably going to either grab and run or engage the "lil rat with extra tails" and get a nasty surprise.

I have a feeling whatever plan Taran is intending, he's drifting into the middle of a four posted trap.

The front half of that device is pretty obvious. It's a lightning catcher. And it has to be connected to something that can deliver a bunch of nasty right back.

Even worse, this isn't Suzocon-sama's first rodeo with the quetz, but this is the first time Taran has dealt with a kitsune. Calling Suzocon a "lil rat with extra tails" betrays a level of baka that's probably making Suzocon roll his eyes.

Taran I highly doubt would be hurt by his own attack especially when he mention training Saida how use her lightning (even though it was technically brand at time) since that implies that he a lot more skill than average quetz with lightning.

Oh, never said that it would just send back the attack. The crystals are, my guess, there to absorb the energy from the lightning and charge a ranged weapon to fire back at him. Uses the power of his attack indirectly, to charge a counterattack.

He's had a long time to study the flow of energy and how to direct it since he last fought the quetz, if I'm correct about who he really is.

He didn't last time. He strikes me more as the "Powerful but dumb" sort.

O-o oh its this guy again oki

Not surprised he's the one that showed up

I kind of am. I'd have thought Vetra would have gone after her own Eyestone, but I guess she considered it beneath her royal dignity and sent her baka son with the big gun instead.

I am pretty sure she's trying to keep up appearances that nothing is wrong, in order to avoid a panicked public. If so, it would make more sense to send your strongest muscle after the one who is killing your people.

She's the strongest offense they got and the ONE thing that probably can feed Suzocon his own tails. Sending Taran-ouji instead with no backup indicates they're all derping over there.

Or maybe she just figured he was expendable. He certainly has not the faintest idea who he's dealing with.

No royal with any intelligence risks themselves while there are other competent generals to send in first,.

He kind of is the general of the quetz, from what I gather. You're absolutely right: That's why Vetra isn't there backing him up.

He also seems to be far too big of a ditz to realize exactly what he is facing. Dismissing something with equal power to him as a "lil rat with extra tails" betrays an ignorance that probably is about to bite him right in the ass. The fact that the 'rat' is also an Arcane Artificer just makes his blithe dismissal even dumber. I'm a broken record about it, but I've faced that class in D&D campaigns, and they are utter bastards unless you got one of your own.

He's gonna get his shades knocked off.

That depends on if Suzo takes the Shock Jockey arriving first as an insult, or a novelty. He's not going to use his full power on someone unworthy. But if he feels insulted, all bets are off. (And honestly, now that hte machien is working, there's not much stopping him from "accidentally" unaliving Brand as well. So we should probably hope he decides he doesn't need to use his giant goodbye cannon or whatever yet. Because once that's truly operational, our heroes (such as they are) will all have officially oerstayed their welcomes AND their existences!

Really, it isn't that complicated. Suzocon seems to follow theee basic rules:

Everything on his island is his, without exception.
You fire on him, he promptly unalives you.
You cease to be useful to him, he makes you useful, or simply unalives you.

He already has his shrine defenses up. But they look like they will only activate if his shrine is fired on by Prince Shock Jockey. He doesn't care much for insults, but he also is very hard to bait.

It's Taran-ouji 's move. Let's see what Prince baka does next.

By the kami I feel sorry for Burando-san here. He's caught directly between two angry demigods and has absolutely no way out until the fight begins.

Prediction: Taran-ouji tries to smite "that lil rat with extra tails" and gets a whole faceful of unpleasantness in return. So he grabs "Saida" rather than engage an extended fight and books. While the actual Saida-hime is busy looking for Roko elsewhere...

She better hope this turns into an actual throwdown or they're both gonna be thoroughly hosed.

Suzo would be more likely to "Accidentally" Blast Brand in that case, to tie up loose ends. He can't risk the idiot dragon giving the game away with a careless statement, AND he doesn't really need him alive anymore. Plus the fact that general Shock Jockey really isn't a match for him, so it all comes down to whether or not Suzo takes it as a major insult or not that Vetra sent a lackey to face him.

ETA: Kinda reminds me of the confrontation between Shiromori (White Tree Demon) and Lewis from animated Mystery Skulls. The two Big Bads of the series, weapons drawn and ready to throw down... but then Shiromori decides she has bigger fish to fry and promptly retreats. Lewis, who desperately wants to fry the same fish, goes after HER. And when they both get to their targets all hell breaks loose, with a poor mortal caught in the middle.

I am so looking forward to seeing how that concludes. I'm hoping Lewis has a good end.

Considering that Reverb actually managed to turn a full blooded kyuubi no kitsune into a tatarigami, they're going to need everyone, including Lewis. They are in amazingly deep shit and I look forward to seeing how they heck they free Shinpi (Mystery) from Reverb. That's their one shot at survival, otherwise Satsujin jiken no nazo is going to eat the lot of them.

I get the idea that once Lewis realizes he was killed, not by Arthur, but by Reverb, he may finally find a way to be at peace. His friend did not betray and murder him. A demon just used him as a tool to do the killing.

His shades are so anarchistic.

I like to think he summoned them from another dimension while yelling "COWABUNGA!"

Straight out of the 1980s Chicago House music scene. I don't call this dude DJ Shock Jockey for nothing.

"eyo whadahell bro? ya kill me groove dude, not cool!"

Brand, this is why you were told not to say anything.

Did he have a choice?

Just smile and wave and wait for something else to grab his attention. Which I'm sure will happen any minute.

Uh oh

For all the words I've posted here...

that sums it up perfectly.

Pretty much. This can only end well... Luckily for Brand he's likely going to be looking out for his little sis

And having him haul "her" back to Laputa is going to put him in worse peril than with Suzocon-sama, if that's possible to imagine.

Ohh yes, assuming "she" doesn't sneak away while he's distracted with Suzocon ...though I realize now he might have her sent home while he deals with the rat

My prediction up top is that Prince Shock Jockey is going to try and smite "the rat," and get a face full of nastiness in return when the shrine defenses kick in. Since he's *ahem* in a hurry, he'd probably just grab Brand, head home, and let Vetra deal with him. Suzocon won't care about him hauling off "Saida." Her usefulness to him is at an end anyway. It just leaves him one less loose end to tie up.

He'll have bigger things to worry about soon enough anyway. Queen Vetra is a whole different beast - a full fledged deity. Unlike Prince Baka, she's already force-fed him his tails once. She probably knows exactly what Suzocon is, and is not going to screw around.

Oh yes. Well at least he would if he's able to, assuming the defenses don't capture him... But yes that's true about lord Suzocon

Very true. (Oh damn, he might've been the Puppetmaster, bringing objects to life as a part of his plans or experiments! o.o) And she definitely isn't, unlike her son here

My guess is that he was the Puppetmancer. Compare:

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49443833/
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58725072/

That's either a hell of a red herring, or a straight-up tell. And it's quite obvious this isn't the first time he's gone mano-a-mano with the quetz.

Yeah looking back at that page I noticed what look to be two tails, and now comparing it to that ominous shot of him there...

And honestly doing something like what the puppet master did would probably be enough to earn him a tail, and fans have been speculating he was the puppet master ever since we saw Miyo's soulless body

The fact that he's obsessed with bringing lifeless things to life is another big clue. He tried puppets. They failed miserably. So now he's experimenting with poor Miyo to see if he can later make much-harder-to-detect meat puppets. I dunno if that's the story, but it makes sense.

Very true, and yeah, that's what my thoughts were. Started out bringing life to lifeless objects and now he's trying to create life itself. Though thinking about it now it might be best not to think too hard about how he might've accomplished the former... (ie, taking living souls and placing them in inanimate objects to bring them to life, which he might've done as an experiment as far as we know)

"Nice shades!"
"Some joker put them on. I have no hands to take them off."

XD

Lol xDD

Can't you see a younger Princess Saida doing that to him in his sleep?

That is an adorable image, her being mischievous like that xD

Now you've given me a perfect idea for a fanart pic. Maybe something from before Prince Shock Jockey became such an asshole. He genuinely loves his sis and in simpler times, I can see them pranking each other.

Oh yes, and yeah he does seem to genuinely care for his sis and it's sweet to imagine them getting along so well when they were younger, like normal siblings

Ohno