There's that guy who always eats Doritos and gets cheese dust on everything.

He's a human.

Also I'm holding out some kind of hope that there is a good reason for them to be playing so maybe I will stop feeling like the 3 (now possibly 5) of them deserve to be punched repeatedly in the face for basically forcing an entire world (or at least Babylon Gardens anyway) to live action role play because they got bored one day.

I just want Bahamut to take off that visor. You can see light shining out of it!

Is it possible that there wil be an appearance by two, maybe three, new characters?

According to Pete, there should be four more with him.

and Dragon is almost definitely one of them. that leaves 3, 2 if Kitsune is also one of them.

my ideas so far?

- Baham is not involved in their game. For now, maybe in future he will to control the game as the gm, but kitsune will have to take active part to it

- those four persons more... it's not necessary they really exists actually. maybe is only a way to say "hey there is someone even worst than me and He's free to ho right now" or something. not sure though

- their game imo is a classic standard way to control a universe "dressed" like d&d. that's why it's so normal to Baham but Pete is afraid to seem a dork.

we'll see.

So what do you guys think the outcome of this trial will be? I'm guessing the most likely outcome is that everyone in The U&U game will be ordered to leave King alone.

aww, but where's the fun in that. Despite the fact that Kitsune already told Pete to leave him alone and the others never messed with him to begin with, so not much will change.

Kitsune never told Pete to leave King alone. In fact the only one he told to leave King alone was Dragon not Pete, Pete could still have tried to get him as an Avatar he just went about it by trying to steal his fate; likely because he knew that going up to King would have been completely pointless.

well, he did say here

I read this as essentially cutting Pete from even talking to King without a full avatar, meaning he couldn't get King as his avatar unless he could get him to agree without actually interacting with him directly. Essentially, he said to leave King alone, but Pete found a loophole. So essentially, ordering them to leave King alone, unless the whole game is forced to move from Babylon Gardens, would not be that different from what's going on now.

Well "entering the arena" was never defined so he could have still talked to him though dreams and stuff assuming it only means Pete can't physically be in BG. (also it would have to mean that because if he couldn't talk to anyone else he can't ever get an Avatar.) And "doing anything more" more likely then not only means no changing him further, like from a Dog to a Cat.

Edit: also since Kitsune had to say not to change him that means Pete can still in fact bother King anyway. So again the only one that has to stay away is Dragon.

I took "doing anything more" as including talking to him. That's how I interpreted it, but I could be wrong.

Plus there is also the fact that with that ruling it would mean that Pete would be allowed back in BG (since King would be completely off the table for The U&U Game) and he can more easily pick an Avatar.

Well considering that Pete turned him into a Dog, I would consider that not "Unmolested" (since he now has to go to a different Heaven then originally intended.) therefore making him clearly guilty of that (plus the B&E) in the least. And since he did that and stole his Fate, telling everyone involved to stay away from him in order to not mess King up more (and to stop causing problems for Heaven which both things did) seems appropriate.

Why he is on trial, I guess...

Pete stole it from pet heaven, did he not? That Heaven was fully occupied by animals from what I saw. Perhaps Pete was stealing it from there to put it in the Human Heaven, as a way to reverse what he had done or something? it is a possibility....

Kitsune said that Pete could reverse it with Magic, him stealing the fate wouldn't have reversed anything and two there is more to a persons soul then just his or her fate as we've seen so he would have needed to steal quite a few orbs. Plus if he was needed to return it to human heaven to reverse the spell why not just ask, it would have made everything a million times simpler on him.

Does the comic continue to fast-forward past the expo torrents with double strips?

a book of fate is just like a Death Note

only different

They want to determine if his actions aren't malicious.

Let's see: he irrevocably altered a man's life (perhaps erasing or ruining his existence as a man entirely), treated him like most people would treat their pets outside BG (to the point of extreme humiliation), almost always spoke in a condescending, arrogant manner to the "lesser being" (with a mean-spirited grin on his face oftentimes), and then stole HIS fate specifically (even if it WASN'T to threaten him).

Yeah, good luck proving that's NOT malicious in SOME way.

NEVER underestimate a good lawyer.

You'll need to adjust your expectations of what the court is looking for. They aren't (at least to a legal degree) interested in personal and highly fleeting feelings of individual mortals. Bahamut said that celestials are allowed to do as they see fit on mortal worlds.

That's................................. kind of upsetting and disturbing. (For clarification, I meant the "do-as-see-fit" part, mostly.)

Well unless we are changing the term unmolested to mean something else here they clearly have him on that considering Joel now has to go to a different heaven then intended (and an easier one at that). I mean you can argue its to some kind of lesser degree offense but I really don't see how it doesn't break that law.

It was meant in context of what Bahamut was talking about--King's soul. Not his body.

Ok then he gets off on this case, unless B&E is also a charge which there is no way he could possibly get away with that. (out side of time served)

Actually ruining a mortal world is kind of overkill and unnecessary, but from heaven's perspective, mortals who die are simply sent to judgement and then the next world, so nothing but matter is lost in the long run, and there's infinite amounts of that. As long as that process is not interfered with, along with it remaining in the mortal's agency to ultimately decide their morality for themselves, they can pretty much do as they like. Since King hardly has it the worst of anyone in the world (not by a LONG shot), coercion is not going to be a factor.

I don't understand. <sigh> And please remember, and I will make no excuses here: I am NOT being impartial. I am speaking from the perspective of someone who is really anxious to see how this turns out for King, and whether I will personally be okay with it in the end.



I thought it was Joel's.

Which brings me back to what I said earlier: Pete practically ERASED a human being, Joel, and as we knew him, he could only be a memory in King's head. As far as I'm concerned, most of the time, Joel does not exist. In the past, that's the sole way I've been able to keep up on this without getting more upset.

This whole thing can be an existential nightmare at times.

Um, nobody is exactly the person who they used to be in the past. Some people want to be firemen and grow up to be corporate cogs. Some people are drafted into the army and develop PTSD. Some people are turned into corgis.

Hardly comparable, wouldn't you say? Ergh, I give up!

Considering it was just a physical transformation, the is no existential question at all. King is just a name. Just like Joel is a name. They both refer to the same person, the same soul. Joel has not been replaced. His body has had extensive plastic surgery, but he is still the same guy.

So since the end of the trial has been basically spoiled I wonder if anything other then Info Dumping will happen in this arc perhaps Pete will finally get an Avatar or something.

Not for me. Sorry.

I didn't spoil the ending. I told you what was happening so you could keep up.

AND this could tie into shenanigans that Keene may be about to pull on earth.

Considering this is a fact, I am confused where we have a difference of opinion that causes you to respond in such a manor.
Edit: Ah! Thanks for clearing that up. =)

that happened to me once

that weekend sucked

Ok so I would assume that the woodland animals are Pete’s “followers” I wonder who Dragons are. And the point of the game is to fight Arch Demons (or at least one of the points are) I wonder what the “goals” where that they had. I hope we learn how Peanut and Grape play into this in the next strip.

well I guessed their ability to see all of time at once correctly. So far none of this is really conflicting with my fan fic yet. But I'm scared that it'll happen soon.

Is that Joan of Arc?

I thought that as well, but I kind of doubt it.