Tower of God 130 (v2 50): Conspiracy of FUG

Recap



Koon is at the entrance watching everything that is going on.

Baam watches silently at Koon, who does not recognize who he is.

Suddenly Rabbit ears, Xia Xia yells to them to stop while holding a detonator. She says that she installed a bomb in the arlene's hand and if she presses that button everyone will die.

Baam is wondering what is going on and suddenly one of Xia Xia's Light cubes beeps and shows a message to Baam: saying that if he doesn't stay stll everyone will die, it also says that she knows that he's slayer candidate.

She says to Cassano to come out and that he does, he then goes and grabs Horyang on his shoulder.

The cube is now saying that if Baam follows them they will spare Horyang, and if not he will die. It was trap from the beginning.

Koon is yelling to them that what kind of trap this is and who they were aiming for.

Xia Xia starts talking that they are just screening personnel and introduces Jyu Viole Grace, who's soon to be FUG's slayer, to Koon.

Xia Xia continues her story and someone came telling her that there's someone they want killed, someone who could be a threat to the FUG and that man is Koon Agero Aegis. She says that the plan was to kill Koon all the time.

Baam realizes what is going on and then he joins into Xia Xia's story. He however modifies it a bit: he says that he wants Koon to escape with his tail between his legs.

Koon however immediately realizes that Baam is being incongruent with his act.

Then Koon's allies act quickly and manage to shoot the detonator out of Xia's hand.

Baam however almost instantly retrieves it and promises to kill them all if they play with his friends' lives again.

Xia however still decides to detonate the bombs and There's a huge explosion.

Baam yells for Koon at the middle of it all who then realizes that he is in fact.. Baam.

Comments

What a great chapter this week, last week I imagined Koon instantly recognizing Baam, but this makes more sense: Baam's looks and attitude has changed tremendously.

In a way this chapter was a bit should I say, deceptive and a bit unclear. The whole thing started with Horyang searching for his Devil of the Right Arm brother and Baam following him. Koon's people were there after the bounty IIRC. 

So the conclusion for this "trap" was in my opinion that as the informant Xia Xia knew of Baams and Koons previous relationship she had to figure something out to for those two not to meet or at least recognize each other not to endanger Baams career as slayer. She being mad I don't understand completely, except that, well, she's just mad and wants to blow things up. It's safe to say that Xia Xia ordered the assassination of Koon outside and now she most likely wants him killed with the explosion.

However the whole point of Cassano and Xia Xia being companions trivials me pretty much, hopefully we get some clarity to that one as the story progresses.

In the end, SIU managed to make once again a great twist in to this series, it truly is a pleasure to read it.