First lightning, then darkness. We're running the gamut of all possible presence of light, aren't we? Next thing you know, someone's going to be fully simulating daylight. Frankly, the place could use a bit of sunlight, from what I've seen. It's freaking DISMAL there, so it's no wonder the demons want to have access to the human world so bad. Sure, I'll believe they want to eat humans, but there's probably at least a small part of that desire that's motivated by the want to absorb a little vitamin D.
Unless the title just refers to Yusuke putting Suzaku's lights out the old-fashioned way.
Yusuke does his rapid punch volley again, but Suzaku remarks with alarm that he's quite a bit faster this time. You'd think wearing shields on his fists might slow him down a little, but then again, I don't imagine aura produces air resistance. Yusuke smacks Suzaku's wrist, the one of the hand that holds the whistle, and Suzaku curses as it flips out of his grip. Immediately ceasing his assault, Yusuke dives for the falling whistle, but Suzaku is able to elbow him out of the way right in the FACE, snagging the instrument before Yusuke.
The kid recovers quickly, pushing himself from the floor and demanding Suzaku give the whistle over. He swings his leg around to sweep a kick behind Suzaku's feet and unsteady him, then as he wobbles, Yusuke grabs the bulb of the whistle with the short branches extended out from it. But when Suzaku holds up his opposite hand glowing with a remnant of captured lighting, Yusuke hops backward again, alarmed at how close he was to getting his ass fried again.
Suzaku taunts Yusuke about how badly he wants the whistle, asking if Keiko is important to him or something. Uh, DUH, dude. Otherwise you wouldn't have chosen her as a target. Still, Yusuke insists it's none of Suzaku's business how he feels about Keiko, holding up his glowing fist again.
After a page-and-a-half spread explaining the arc so far to any Johnny-Come-Latelys, Yusuke freezes with disbelief as he glimpses the massive screen behind Suzaku, featuring Botan and Keiko. It also shows what's close on their heels:
Yikes at the scissors and pencil. That would be PAINFUL.
Suzaku says he can tell by Yusuke's expression that the drama in Human World has reached the peak of drama, admitting that Yusuke's two friends have escaped his minions at the moment, but not for long. He invites Yusuke to continue their little scuffle, seeming to be pleased with how challenging the whole thing has been thus far to fend of the CHILD with one hand while keeping the whistle out of his reach. Murg offers again to hold the whistle, but again, Suzaku declines. He reasons that Yusuke would then attack Murg, and she'd be helpless in that situation. He's definitely in love with this bird, so he has NO ROOM to mock Yusuke for having a thing for Keiko.
Oh come on, of COURSE he has another crazy move. OF COURSE he does.
Back at the school, Iwamoto's scissors are shown to make contact with something, pebbles of some sort flying. Keiko cringes and screams, her uniform sleeve torn and blood spurting from the tear as Iwamoto pries his jaw open to laugh raucously. Neither one of them are missing weird chunks, so I'm still confused over the first image, until Botan holds out a hand to Keiko and pulls her into an open door, leaving Iwamoto to stab at the wall again. Thank goodness it was just drywall.
Once the door is closed, Iwamoto slams his still bleeding fists on it repeatedly, yelling that Keiko is trapped and has nowhere to run. He asserts that she'll pay for hitting a teacher. My guy, you were going to murder her BEFORE she hit you, don't try and put this shit on HER behavior!
He's got his OWN problems, sadly. He's sweating it up as he looks at TWO Suzakus standing shoulder-to-shoulder. Then there's THREE, while one of them supposes that Yusuke will wonder which one of these is the REAL one. I'd guess it's the one holding the whistle, since IT doesn't seem to have been cloned along with Suzaku. Apparently, I'm WRONG. The second in the line disillusions both me and Yusuke from this line of thinking - he says that he's in fact splitting himself into SEVEN equally powerful bodies, the beauty of this technique being that ALL of the Suzakus are quite real.
Ugh, ONE of him was already lame enough.
Yusuke is horrified at the sheer number of this guy, as Suzaku says that six of him will more than suffice to take down this child. I feel like if you need more than one of you to defeat a CHILD, it's probably a skill issue, honestly. He impresses upon Yusuke that this isn't a cheap illusion - every single one of these Suzakus has independent with their own will. However, at least the two of these we see in the next panel are in sync when they pull back their glowing fingers to prepare to attack, and say that they're more than happy to coordinate.
Yusuke faces six identical Suzaku clones all suspended in the air as they charge up their electric assault, and can't help but utter a slow regretful trailing statement about it. He braces himself regardless, legs tented in a defensive posture and fists still sparking with aura.
Times 6. Coming straight at Yusuke. Who can do nothing but stand and grind his teeth in horrible anticipation.
One of the attacks glances off his shielded fist, another couple he dodges, and as another comes at him, he recognizes that he can't possibly avoid them all. Then he's speared straight through the shoulder, coughing up blood. He falls back in agony, Suzaku drawling about how his lightning blows could crack diamonds, and it's impressive Yusuke dodged five of them, but one is plenty to kill him. I mean, he took ONE before, and that didn't do the trick. Your memory taking a vacation, my guy?
Suzaku walks past what he's very stupidly assuming is a corpse, muttering that he's going to take care of Yusuke's companions now, and all of them will make a fine meal for the rotten scamps he's no doubt promised them to. He suddenly stops though, when he perceives Yusuke staggering to his feet again and demanding the whistle. AGAIN. Suzaku twists around, grinning a pleased little smile.
Running out of ideas?
Yusuke has collapsed back onto the floor again, panting, while Suzaku insists that he just doesn't see how someone else's life could be THAT important. Never mind that he understands it ENOUGH to use the threat on Keiko's life against Yusuke. He says he's all the more eager to watch this Keiko girl die, but isn't really SHOWING a greater excitement at the prospect. He's just as bland as he ever was.
Suzaku demands Yusuke get up.
Very elaborate offer for Yusuke, yeah yeah yeah. Ummmm... Are you resting your arms on LITERAL BONERS????
Unambiguous heads of penises with actual ribbed shafts???
Suzaku, dude, why are your PROPS more interesting than you?
Okay, I'll try to move past it. Held up on his knees by two of the clone Suzakus, Yusuke smokes and sizzles, but promises to kill Suzaku in half a delirium. Suzaku narrows his empty eyes, complaining about how disrespectful Yusuke's attitude is, and claims fear and humility must be his posture in his communications with the great Suzaku of the penis chair. One Suzaku yanks Yusuke's head back, and Yusuke lets out a grunt before he's fried on either side with electricity again by the Suzakus restraining him.
As Yusuke screams in agony, the Suzaku in the erection seat drawls that the shock treatment is meant to get Yusuke's undivided attention. Honestly, I think it's the only thing that could DISTRACT me from the chair's double-membered arms. Suzaku instructs Yusuke to look upon Keiko on the screen, but his uninterrupted screaming makes me think he's not really able to focus. Regardless, Suzaku poetically describes the girls cornered in the classroom watching the splintering door as the curtain rising on the final act of the untenable position he's constructed for them, and they can only despair now. He estimates the door won't last a minute, raising a wine glass from the spindle table next to him. Thankfully, the liquid in the glass is a darker shade, so I'm not inclined to make an assumption about where those contents came from.
Suzaku demands that Yusuke watch every second of Keiko being torn to pieces. She and Botan look with anxiety toward the the door, the angle of the screen focused full on their faces. Yusuke's head is held up so that, despite his continual electrocution, he can keep his wide eyes on Keiko. Suzaku claims Yusuke is a lucky man, being both the audience and protagonist for such a stirring tragedy. The tragedy being, of course, that Suzaku didn't use his abundance of creepy resources to just make demon porn. Imagine being scarred in your youth by stumbling across the internet classic "Two Cocks One Chair".
Yusuke wonders if this is how it all ends, his brain already struggling to articulate his inability to think as electricity courses through it and the rest of his body.
So, what did I think of this chapter overall? I don't believe for one second that all of Suzaku's clones are independent individuals separate from him. Not only does this sound exactly like what someone would say if they DID throw out a cheap illusion to fool you, but it seems EXTREMELY risky to just create clones of yourself to accomplish a specific task like this. When one is in a leadership/dictatorship position like Suzaku is, there's already a number of rivals jockeying for your role and trying to pull off coups every five seconds - why would you want SEVERAL someones who look, act, and THINK exactly like yourself in existence who can anticipate your every thought before you have it and supplant you at a moment's notice without any fanfare? Getting rid of them after this little chore would be super difficult for exactly the same reason. I just don't see this technique being worth pulling out even for a long-term complicated plan, let alone for getting rid of a human kid, UNLESS it really is just an illusion and Suzaku lied.
Then again, Suzaku doesn't seem to have the capability of being truly CONCERNED about anything, really. His expressions of shock are so brief and mild that you'd think he really were just watching a B-grade horror film rather than fighting to get access to a high-resource area. There's something very removed, remote about his reactions to Yusuke being stronger and more resilient than he anticipated that is almost... suspicious. Perhaps, if it's true that indeed his clones are independent of him, is he perhaps ALSO a clone? Maybe of a whole line of Suzaku clones created over centuries? What if that's the reason that he's acting like none of this is affecting him directly, because his identity is completely derived from an original that is so remote as to be a whim?
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