LET US ALL APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT SAMUEL SEO USES HAND CREAM!!

Samuel Seo with his hand cream and Jake Kim with his lip balm?? Same energy.

I could totally see them casually taking a trip to Olive Young to shop for some skincare products if they weren't mortal enemies.

Just two bros chilling in the skincare aisle five feet apart 'cause they're definitely not gay.

I'd like to imagine that Seong Yohan went to Eli's hair salon for this haircut.

He looks fine af 😫👌

And it would be frickin' wholesome if Eli was the one who did his hair. My man has finally grown out of that hydra cut phase and gained some mad hairdressing skillz

Chapter 525 thoughts

SHINGEN-NIM!!! 🥹🥹🥹

YES YOU SHOULD. DON'T LISTEN TO THAT SCUM THEY CALL YOUR SUBORDINATE

NOOO MY HEART 😭

"Your name....."

is Shiro Oni (prediction for the next chapter)

Must be hard being born into such a brutal yakuza system where little Gun soon learned that he had to beat up others to be acknowledged. And I guess neither Shingen nor Shintaro would want to be trapped in the system if they were to be given a choice, too.

I mean there's no way these adorable little kids even had the willingness to study "Organized Crime 101" or "Yakuza Protocol: The Fundamentals". They just wanted to play outside in the sun, chasing butterflies. But they couldn't, could they? Because the system puts such pressure on them. They carried that pressure into adulthood. And as a result, Shintaro turned into a ruthless Rule Maniac ™️ (Shingen, 525). Meanwhile from all the fighting he had as the president of the most notorious syndicate in Japan, Shingen turned into an emotionless robot. Almost. Because apparently Shingen still had a little bit of compassion left for his brother and Gun.

I really wanted to put a few more screenshots to back up my thoughts, but tumblr doesn't allow more than 10 images in one post. But it's written in the chapter that Shingen did feel sorry for Shintaro and understood why he was furious.

I am terribly, terribly sorry for ruining your fantasy but men's black halter necks or whatever that's called remind me of Darius Hong.

Yeah, you can go ahead and shoot me.

I need him in one of these

I can only die after seeing this

Things I paid attention to on chapter 443 :

Daniel and Zoe finally meet again ❌

Vin Jin is joining Allied ❌

Samuel's beautiful long lashes ✅

I mean, just look at how snatched they are

Finally someone said it! If it weren't for the people who fucked up his life, Gun would be a good brother/bestie/father.

Headcanons are welcome 🙌🏻

My two sent on Gun's true nature: His nurture self

Like I have mentioned before, Gun has a tough and complex life. His environment is fucked enough to dehumanize him to the core. The narrator did a good job in portraying him like a demon, monster or something inhuman. Yet, the narrator gave us some hints of his true self - the nurture self.

I always like this image, the way he's gently caring Yena does something to my brain. Since then I always have the impression he has a mother-side. I mean what kind of man can hold a baby like that? Look at his pinkie, so demure.

Lately, we have panels of him venting about finding a succession (the urge to raise some kiddos), he "babysitting" Crystal, he cooking for Goo, making sushi for Daniel (we can all agree his love language is feeding people), being called "Nurture Genius", and he instinctively trying to comfort Daniel (even though he doesn't need to do that at all)

Then, it's where something clicked in my brain. I realize that is his true self. I bet he was sweet and caring before his family and the destructive lifestyle destroyed him. He has to suppress this self of him since the misogynist world he lived in associated nurture with feminine. And feminine equals weak. To become strong is to embrace the feminine destruction.

Likewise, monsters are made, not born. The problems of Gun Park are: 1) dehumanization and humanization of self, 2) destruction and nurture. I can see his struggle to be a human and control/maintain the "shiro oni" alter ego. It's nice to see his confidants (Goo, Daniel, Crystal,...) can bring out the side he is trying to reject.

I think it's interesting to see it in a major antagonist of a webtoon. Hopefully, Ptj can continue this work, I sure will let him cook.

*cough*Eli*cough*

I've read so much action manga to an extent where I think whenever any character is having thoughts about using their full power, they're gonna die. :P

This is my life now 😭😭😭

Ngl. I still read it as "what the fuck" taekwondo 💀💀

Heyy! Which chapter was the one with Jake having tteokbokki sauce on his face? Thanks for your reply! I hope you have a nice day! :)

Chapter 519

Have a nice day to you too, anon 👋🏻