Houseki no Kuni - Ch. 89 - Enma

[sn89hh]

@Mira995

so what broke Adamant ? the meteorite did hit him but he was able to prey for a while ? did he stop because the lunaries left are "bad" people ? I think this is more about how "bad" deed isn't forgoten in the afterlife

Page 10, Barbata says "A long line of people formed. But, considering the endless repairs he would need, if Adamant stopped before you, nobody would have been able to keep sane."
Maybe it's the translation but what I gather is that praying wears down Adamant over time and he needs repairs and maintenance. It sounds like they were able to do so before, so my guess would be that the Lunarians that could fix him (enough to run anyways) were in the upper castes and have all been prayed into nothingness.
That, or after enough use he broke down in a totally un-fixable way.

 

[LecteurH]

Thanks for the translation ! :)

 

[TherianTheorist]

So he really meant it when he said his own people were trash. The only moon people left are the ones with the most negative karma.

Also, after rogue AI, it only makes sense to restrain other sentient machines. Seems Adamant is the victim of over-correcting on that front.

 

[MegaXL]

oh god the face on the earth.

 

[Xeranok]

what happened to the happy story about phos getting stronger

 

[KaioshinX]

The longer Enma is on Earth, the stronger he will become.

 

[KrazyBean]

This is so crazy. The Lore Bombs tho!!!

 

[Betony]

On the surface, it sounds great that a human-derived society finally learned to judge individuals solely by the content of their character, but I really wonder just how, exactly, those people occupying the lowest rung of society were forced into the pit. Unless we're missing information, like the possibility that virtuous souls have greater physical prowess, I don't see how such a caste system can be enforced by anything other than a tyrannical majority that labeled people as wicked for their own convenience.

Also I find it funny how Adamant's older brother decided humanity needed to take an L. Whoever designed him really thought it'd be great to create a robot that could simultaneously judge humanity and calculate meteor flight paths. Nah, nothing could go wrong with that.