Insight into the nature of the Kumo

Kumoko

Kumoko

• Arachne
• Zoa

Basic Info

Japanese

Romanji

Aliases

Nightmare of the Labyrinth
Lady White

Statistics

Status

Nature

• Arachnepre-deification
• Zana Horowa
• Ede Saine
• Zoa Ele
• Small Poison Taratect
• Small Taratect
• Small Lesser Taratect

Relatives

• Arielancestor
• Queen Taratectmother

Gender

Occupation

First Appearance

Light Novel

Web Novel

Manga

“Kumoko” is the nameless main protagonist of Kumo Desu Ga, Nani Ka? She is reincarnated in another world in the body of a Small Lesser Taratect, the weakest monster, in the largest, most dangerous dungeon known to man: the Great Elroe Labyrinth. Her life in the labyrinth is fraught with danger, forcing her to constantly fight and become stronger in order to survive. She fights, eats, levels up, and evolves constantly over a two year period until she becomes an Arachne and meets Ariel. Although enemies at first, they are forced into a cease-fire when both realize that neither one of them can kill the other. Afterwards, Kumoko journeys with Ariel, Sophia, Merazophis, and the Puppet Taratect sisters to the Demon Territory, picking up Wrath along the way. She is given the name White by Ariel.

Appearance

As an individual of the spider-type monster Small Lesser Taratect species, she has a white body with black splotches on her cephalothorax and abdomen, with eight red spider eyes. Additionally, her two forefeet have sharp claws. When she evolves into the Zoa Ele, she has a pitch black body and her two front claws turn into thin scythes. When she evolves into the unique monster Zana Horowa she becomes snow white while maintaining her scythe claws.

Her final form is the Arachne evolution. Her main body is that of a young girl with bleach-white skin, white hair, and red eyes from the bottom of the waist up. From the waste down, the body is connected to a large spider by the head.

The spider body is entirely white like the Zana Horowa. The original mouth and eyes are also maintained on the spider, hinting that the entire form actually has two brains. She can keep functioning as long as one of the heads is intact [2] She also maintains her scythe-like front claws, and even uses one of those claws to make a scythe weapon for herself, which she uses to channel Rot Attack. [2]

Personality

Kumoko is usually a cheerful, happy-go-lucky type. She prefers to do as little work as possible. She is shown to be overconfident at times, and tends to get extremely frustrated and angry when she is manipulated or humiliated. While she does tend to be overconfident, she is contrarily extremely cautious due to her experiences in battle. She often fights when odds are against her, only fighting when she knows she at least has a chance of winning. If she knows that there is no hope of victory, she does everything in her power to escape and survive. Survival is the core of her personality.

Her overconfidence causes her to be proud of her own work, which allowed the easy acquisition of the skill Pride and the title Ruler of Pride [3] . She also likes to laze about and eat in her idle time, which made it easier to gain the skill Sloth and the title Ruler of Sloth [4] .

Due to not being able to eat palatable foods while living in the depths of the Great Elroe Labyrinth, she has become really fond of good foods and sweets, she would do nearly anything to protect any that she comes across.

Abilities & Equipment

White’s Scythe

Attack

Resistance

Special Traits

Automatic Repair
Rot Attribute
Dark Attribute

• Morning Spider (KuMorning Star): Kumoko uses her thread as a makeshift flail weapon. [citation needed] [5]
• Multiple Evil Eyes: Due to having 10 eyes, Kumoko is capable of using multiple Evil Eyes at the same time, or amplifying the power of a single Evil Eye skill by using it in multiple eyes at once.
• Multitasking: By giving specific tasks to her parallel minds, Kumoko is capable of conducting magic, doing complex movements, and coming up with strategies all at the same time without any drawbacks. [citation needed] [6]
• Respawn: By utilizing the Immortality skill and Kin Control, upon dying Kumoko moves her soul and main body into an egg of her own spawn made by using the Egg Laying skill. [citation needed] [7]
• White’s Scythe: A weapon built from one of Kumoko’s forward limbs when she turned into an Arachne, this weapon has been modified by D[8] with automatic growth properties, and within the confines of the System it is indestructible. It has the ability to cut through anti-magic and constructs, and emits an eerie aura of darkness. [9] A piece of Kumoko’s soul is inside it. [8]

Appraisals

Correction: in 4-5: Evolution, Thought Super-Acceleration was incorrectly translated as Thought Acceleration. This has been updated to reflect the correct skill.

When the Parallel Minds return to the main body after consuming most of the Queen Taratect’s soul, the power is directly added to Kumoko’s soul; this is why there is such a large jump in power from 4-5: Evolution and 4-11: Matricide.

Insights into Editorial: The nature of dissent

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Insights into Editorial: The nature of dissent

Introduction:

The Right to Dissent is an important addition of expressing one’s view, and on many of its most important constituent elements.

It will enable practitioners and citizens to claim their rights and participate more effectively in the project of democracy.

Disagreeing with each other is a fundamental human trait. There is not a single individual who does not disagree with something or the other all the time.

Context:

The quick arrest of academicians, human rights activists’ journalists and thinkers by the Maharashtra police in connection with the Bhima-Koregaon violence has brought out an interesting remark from the Supreme Court of India.

The apex court said, Dissent is a safety valve for democracy. If this safety valve is not allowed to function then the pressure cooker will burst.

Meaning of Dissent:

Dissent means “a strong difference of opinion on a particular subject, especially about an official suggestion or plan or a popular belief”.

India’s constitutional democracy is predicated on the people’s right to call state power to account.

Even at Household level also, there is no family without dissent between parents and the children, or between the siblings. A family which learns to deal with dissent rather than authoritatively dismissing it is a more harmonious family.

Dissent is the safety valve of democracy: Supreme Court:

Recently, while hearing a petition on the ban of protest on the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi, the SC held that Right to peaceful protest is the fundamental right guaranteed under the constitution.

The constitution under Article 19(1)(a) provides for freedom of speech and expression and also under Article 19(2) provides for reasonable restrictions on such freedom.

This particular right is also subject to reasonable restrictions in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, as well as public order.

A distinguishing feature of any democracy is the space offered for legitimate dissent, which cannot be trampled by any executive action.

Thus, the Court recognises that legitimate dissent is a distinguishable feature of any democracy.

Also observed that, every individual or a group of individuals, whether they are minority or poor or marginalised, have the right to express their dissent to the government policies and fight their social circumstances.

Protest strengthen representative democracy by enabling direct participation in public affairs where individuals and groups are able to.

Right to Dissent: Also promoted by International Institutions:

Dissent involves the exercise of individual and collective rights of expression, association, assembly, and participation in public affairs.

These freedoms encompass rights to receive and impart information, inspire debate, and influence decision-making about issues of public concern.

Article 7 of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders explicitly recognises that ‘Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to develop and discuss new human rights ideas and principles and to advocate their acceptance’.

Despite legal duties imposed on States to respect, protect and fulfil the rights to dissent and protest, these rights are routinely misunderstood and increasingly violated, with dissenters facing dire consequences including arrest, imprisonment, displacement, disappearance, and death.

Ethics of dissent:

The importance of dissent is not just that it is good for democracy. There is also a fundamental ethical principle involved in dissent

Any society which muzzles dissent is acting unethically.

• The first ethical principle is related to non-violence, a principle which is so integral to the unique Indian practices of dissent from ancient times to Gandhi and Ambedkar.

• The second ethical principle is that the worse off in a society have agreaterright to dissent and protest even when the more privileged may not agree or sympathise with that dissent.

• Social dissent is a necessary voice for all those who are oppressed and are marginalised for various reasons. This is the only thing they have in a world which has denied them the basic dignity of a social life.

Buddha and Mahavira were dissenters first and philosophers next. Ramayana and Mahabharata are filled with stories of dissent.

Dissent is not just about criticism, it is also about showing new perspectives.

Conclusion:

The course of democracy anywhere in the world is defined by events that test the resilience of democracy and also add to it.

Indeed, dissent is the quintessential part of democracy and allows people to have their opinions and to voice those without fear of intimidation.

‘Freedom of expression, freedom of association and the right to peaceful assembly are often compartmentalised and discussed individually, with little regard to their interdependence.

This unique guide of Protests provides activists, human rights defenders, jurists, NGOs, corporate actors, and government authorities with the tools and knowledge necessary to ensure rights, protect the lives and liberty of dissenters, enable meaningful participation in public life, and promote the rule of law.

The philosophy of dissent and democracy has also inspired our freedom movement and defines India’s constitutional democracy, which is predicated on the people’s right to call state power to account, albeit within the constitutional framework.

Thus, when we hear the voices of dissent from the oppressed and the marginalised, it is ethically incumbent upon those who are better off than them to give them greater space and greater freedom to dissent.

Haiku poems of autumn. The examples by Matsuo Basho

The autumn haiku poems of Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) have not only seasonally lonely but also somewhat frank. And some of them represent his later years.

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Sample (Old Pond haiku poem)

Basho’s Autumn haiku poems

秋の夜を 打ち崩したる 咄かな

Aki no yo wo/ Uchikuzushitaru/ Hanashi kana

In the autumn night,

A pleasant chat.

詠むるや 江戸には稀な 山の月

Nagamuru ya/ Edo niha marena/ Yama no tsuki

Rarely seen in Edo,

The moon in the mountain.

鷹の目も 今や暮れぬと 鳴く鶉

Taka no me mo/ Imaya kurenu to/ Naku uzura

The eyes of hawks

Would be in the dark,

白髪抜く 枕の下や きりぎりす

Shiraga nuku/ Makura no shita ya/ Kirigirisu

I pull out the gray hairs,

And under my pillow,

There is a cricket.

*kirigirisu: In ancient Japanese “kirigirisu” meant today’s cricket. Kirigirisu means katydid now.

Asacha nomu/ So shizuka nari/ Kiku no hana

Drinking the morning green tea,

The monk is calm.

The flowers of chrysanthemum.

Hakanage ya/ Oba hitori naku/ Tsuki no tomo

The old mother cries alone.

The friend of the moon.

*One of the Japanese old story, one man cast behind his mother in the mountains because he was told by his wife. But the beautifulness of the moon awake him and he took her from the mountains to the home.

Pii to naku/ Shirigoe kanashi/ Yoru no Shika

The last of the voice is so sad.

むざんやな 甲の下の きりぎりす

Muzan yana/ Kabuto no shita no/ Kirigirisu

Under the war helmet

*the war helmet: Basho imagined the samurai Saito Sanemori who dead as one of the Taira family in Heian Period.

武蔵野や さはるものなき 君が傘

Musashino ya/ Sawarumono naki/ Kimiga kasa

The Musashino region,

There is no obstacle.

Your travel woven hat.

おもしろき 秋の朝寝や 亭主ぶり

Omoshiroki/ Aki no asane ya/ Teishu-buri

Having an autumn lie-in.

Kono aki ha/ Nande toshiyoru/ Kumo ni tori

Why I get older?

The clouds and birds.

色付くや 豆腐に落ちて 薄紅葉

Irozuku ya/ Tofu ni ochite/ Usu-momizi

Changed the red color,

Fallen on the tofu,

The leaf of the light crimson maple.

Kawakami to/ Kono kawashita ya/ Tsuki no tomo

The upper reaches here

And the lower of the river.

The friend for the moon.

しにもせぬ 旅寝の果よ 秋の暮

Shini mo senu/ Tabine no hate yo/ Aki no kure

I’m not likely to die.

The result for the days of sleeping away from home.

It’s the end of the autumn.

*This haiku poem was created when Matsuo Basho took the jouney of “Journal of Bleached Bones in a Field”(Nozarashi-kiko) at the age of 41. The trip was started five years before “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”.

Tsukishiro ya/ Hiza ni te wo oku/ Yoi no yado

The white sky with the rising moon .

We put our hands on the knees.

The house at the evening.

Hayaku sake/ Kunichi mo chikashi/ Kiku no hana

The ninth day is very soon.

*September 9th is called the Choyo Festival(Chrysanthemum Festival) and it is a day to pray for long life to the flower that would let people.

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