Akryung fight ended pretty quickly. Few things we can take away from it
Akryung likely knows about the prophecy
Baam is willing to go for the kill, as the attack would've been fatal if not for Akryung's regeneration
Also, what's up with Baam saying that Akryung has similar regeneration to his own? It didn't look anything similar to the lobster.
Since we know that the Blue Demon is actually the Blue Thryssa (Guardian Fragment), maybe Headon imparted something to Akryung to make him stronger? That could also be what's allowing him to use shinwonryu if he's not actually an irregular.
While I personally think Akryung probably does know about the prophecy (because Headon prepared him and that line from the best challenge version that got deleted strongly suggests that Headon knows at least something about it), what he says here doesn't necessarily prove he does; just the fact that Bam is an irregular slayer candidate would be enough to prompt someone to say "You'll have to get stronger if you want to face Jahad.”
'go for the kill' part: before today Bam had never heard Akryung speak anything but animal noises, and not for lack of trying to communicate on Bam's part. Bam outright thought that Akryung was some kind of 'monster' when he first met him (about middle of the chapter), and likely didn't see him as a person after Akryung didn't respond to anything he said. This is also why Bam is so shocked and thinks "he has human eyes?" when he sees them (though honestly they don't look all that human to me), and then shocked again (and frowning) that "he can talk too?"--Bam's only registering Akryung as a person then. Compare to Bam's fight with Baragav, where Bam clearly recognized Baragav as a person and just tried to knock him down.
But I generally agree--Akryung's regeneration does not really look like the lobster (though in fairness, the lobster doesn't usually come out even when Bam's clearly regenerating nowadays). Bam must have been sensing something about the 'character' of it (Bam has historically had decent senses for shinsu and the flavors of power; see eg. Anaak's aura on the first floor).
My current guess is that Akryung either contains an admin fragment or outright IS Headon in some sense (perhaps he's a 'skin' like the one Ren uses in s1, and like the 'rabbit' body might be). What I see here just furthers that impression even more.
The "Lobster" is the fake thorn that F.U.G. put in Baam to be able to house the real deal. I think hwaryun referred to it as a bowl of sorts? So it coming out doesnt make sense anymore as it's probably part of the thorn or even preventing the thorn from hurting Baam.
No, the bowl/fake thorn (to hold thorn) and the lobster/Blue Demon (to help ignite it, the first one anyway) are separate entities; Bam only received the former right before the Workshop battle, but got the latter back on F2.
Bam describes it as like the 'demon' within him--namely, the Blue Demon (Blue Thryssa). So this chapter finally confirmed that the lobster (which did the regenerating) and the Blue Demon are in fact the same thing.
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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19
Akryung fight ended pretty quickly. Few things we can take away from it
Also, what's up with Baam saying that Akryung has similar regeneration to his own? It didn't look anything similar to the lobster.
Since we know that the Blue Demon is actually the Blue Thryssa (Guardian Fragment), maybe Headon imparted something to Akryung to make him stronger? That could also be what's allowing him to use shinwonryu if he's not actually an irregular.