Vol.3 Ch.134: Declaration Of War

Declaration Of War: This is the hundred and thirty-fourth chapter of Volume 3 of Tower of God. It shows Traumerei being called by Zahard prior to the Battle of The Nest, where Zahard asks Traumerei for support in the war against Po Bidau. Meanwhile, Khun is implemented in a ploy by Rachel and Bellerir to stoke anger towards the Lo Po Bia Family

Synopsis
Prior to the Battle of The Nest Zahard called Lo Po Bia Traumerei over a Lighthouse about Po Bidau Gustang, who after the Battle of The Last Station declared there would be a split. Zahard has taken this as a declaration of war and has been informed that Lo Po Bia's Army is gathering at the Lo Po Bia Family Mothership, but Traumerei changes topic to that of Twenty-Fifth Baam and that Gustang thinks he is someone similar to the Great Warriors. Zahard asks for Traumerei's opinion, but he does not have any concrete feelings about Baam. Traumerei only concern is that he has started having nightmares since hearing about Baam, which makes him want to test Baam. Zahard encourages this notion while also returning to the topic of war with Gustang, as Zahard cannot send the Arie Family, Khun Family, or Ha Family, since they are too powerful to get involved. Traumerei understands and accepts the call to war against the Po Bidau Family, but on the condition that Traumerei get to examine Baam. And, if Baam has the same potential as the other great warrior Traumerei wants to marry him into his family and make him his heir, turning Baam into a needle targeted against Gustang and not Zahard. Zahard is surprised by this response, but accepts the demands and asks Traumerei about his nightmares. However, Traumerei cannot remember his nightmares as they are likely memories devoured by Leviathan, he just know they are nightmares.

In the Po Bidau prison Khun Aguero Agnis meets with Hwa Ryun in the living room, who asks Khun who his visitor from the Po Bidau family was, which Khun responds with Rachel. Hwa Ryun wonders what Rachel is doing here, but Khun does not know, Khun just knows that she has some powerful connections since she promised to get Khun out of prison. Hwa Ryun teases that Khun will now have plenty of opportunity to kill Rachel, but Khun is not so sure, since he has a bad feeling about the situation.

The next day Khun walks out of prison past the watchful eye of the prison guard Po Bidau Matte Ha into the custody of Po Bidau Bellerir. Bellerir takes Khun to the Suit Shop, where he gets Khun a nice black suit, with white shirt, and a blue tie before going to an upper class Floating mansion. On the way Khun notices graffiti decrying the war being cleaned away by Po bidau family members, indicating that war is on the horizon. In the mansion Khun is told his purpose, he is to read from a forbidden book at a private reading to certain upper class members of the Po Bidau family. Khun walks out onto a balcony that has a lectern with an open book in it, which is overlooking several Po Bidau in extravagant outfits with masks on. Khun starts reading to the book to himself, but notices that it is information that goes against the common history taught in the tower, which is akin to heresy within the Zahard Empire. Khun refuses to read the book and prepares to leave, but when he turn around neither Rachel or Bellerir is present and Khun realize that something is wrong. Before Khun is able to process what has just happened, the manor is raided by the Po Bidau Security Squad and Khun is arrested for holding a private reading and possession of an outlawed book.

The next day at the Security Squad's Headquarters Khun is imprisoned in a detention room, where he is interrogated by a Security Squad officer. Khun denies owning the outlawed book, saying that it was there prior to him arriving at the manor, but they are interrupted by Bellerir who proceeds to denounce Khun as a Lo Po Bia Family agent. Khun quickly realize that Bellerir's goal is not to personally attack Khun's character, just stoke up anger towards the Lo Po Bia and create a justification for war. Later Rachel visits Khun in his cell, who proceeds to tease Khun about his silence during interrogation, which Khun retorts with the fact the whole questioning is a formality and they have already come to a conclusion and there is no point in revealing more about himself. Khun asks Rachel why he was chosen for this ploy, but Rachel says that he is not special and that he just happened to be in a position where Rachel could mess with him. Khun ask about the book next, since it was very sophisticated and did not seem like something improvised for the plan, but Rachel denies any connection and claims the book is likely a bunch of nonesense. Khun's final question is how Rachel ended up on the Ark of Knowledge, which Rachel responds with chance and that she later was introduced to Bellerir and has helped him since. In the end Rachel want to know from Khun where Baam is, but Khun does not know where he is, he only knows that Baam is still alive. Rachel says that although not necessary Gustang still wants the public's support for the war, which he has accomplished through this recent ploy and Gustang will now declare war at the next public reading. Khun wonderes if a war betweeen the 10 Great Families will truly happen.

Naver Endnote
I am happy and sorry to be able to meet you with a new episode after such a long time. Until the end of the episode, I will work hard so that I can be healthy and serialized without any problems. I am eternally thankful to the readers who have been waiting

Blog Post
Hello ​ It has been a while since we last met. ​This is SIU. ​ ​If it's long, it's long, if it's short, finish the short break ​I started posting again. ​ ​It is difficult to avoid taking a break while publishing individual works for a long time, Again, we apologize for making our readers wait for a long time. sorry. ​ ​If you give me a little excuse There was a problem with the serialization due to personal reasons other than the work. I went through a lot of hard and painful times. In fact, it still is too much. ​ ​However, as a writer This hiatus is more than time to sort out personal feelings. Reorganize your past work Because it had to be an opportunity to create a better work There were many hardships and twists and turns, but I tried to get better little by little. I worked hard with my teammates to enter the re-serial. I don't care, but I hope in the future Thank you for watching ​ I hope the readers are full of good things every week and stay healthy. I will work hard for a good work every week. ​ Thank you. ​ -SIU out- p.s. After the re-serial, I will not be posting the blogs that I used to post every week. I'm truly sorry to those who came every week, but I'm reducing my time outside of work due to health reasons. I plan to reorganize the blog as soon as possible, and share only official information on Twitter if I do social media. If the plans changes later, I will let you know. ^^ ​ Always be happy. I love you

Notes and Trivia

 * This is the first chapter after his hiatus that started in 7th of August 2022, as part of SIU's comback he introducing several changes:
 * He stopped including a blogpost on each chapter, which he is doing for health reasons.
 * He stopped including an endnote on each chapter.
 * He no longer includes floor numbers as part of the chapter name.
 * The number of the chapter is included in the title itself, which as a consequence means the first chapter of each arc is not numbered.
 * He claims that he will reorganize the blog, but for the moment all previous blogpost are just hidden/deleted.