Compensation and Atonement is the 101st chapter of the "Shuumatsu no Valkyrie: Record of Ragnarok" manga series.
Summary[]
Heimdall recounts what happened with Simo's attack
Witnessing the corpses that belong to the army of recreated Gods all disappearing, the audiences of both Humanity and the Gods are left speechless, leading Heimdall to exclaim an unaccountable number of copies were decimated with just a single shot. As the monitors replay the sequence of events, Heimdall recounts how the lone bullet that Simo Häyhä fired was separated into countless pieces, becoming a scattershot.
Loki tries to locate Simo based on his attack
With his surviving recreated Gods hiding behind trees, Loki stays behind a tree as well and thinks about what happened. He judges where Simo's hiding spot must be, based on the earlier flash, the sound of the gunshot when he fired and the scope of the damage. However, Simo is already gone from the place where he shot from and Heimdall points out not even all their cameras can keep him pinned down. Plus, the falling snow is leading to any traces of his footprints disappearing. As Heimdall wonders where Simo has gone now, all the Humans begin cheering over the power of the Strongest Sniper in Human History, asserting it doesn't even matter how many enemies there are.
Jack explains what a scattershot is
Smiling, Jack the Ripper says that was marvelous and Hlökk criticizes how the mass-produced knockoffs that Loki made weren't much after all. Jack believes that should be obvious and that there shouldn't be any comparison between the real things and Loki's recreations. He admits there's only one thing that gives him pause and expresses doubt that the earlier attack was as simple as one bullet being divided into a scattershot. Hlökk demands to know what a scattershot is and Jack starts by explaining to her that a regular bullet is, essentially, a point. The attack covers a long range with all its piercing power being focused on a single point. Conversely, a scattershot is an area attack. Instead of a single bullet, a small group is fired all at once. While it's more damaging over a wide area, its piercing power is nonexistent and its range is very short, making it unfitting for a sniper in the first place.
Ares upset at having to see Heracles die again
Yet Simo's attack, Ilmatar, had none of the usual downsides of a scattershot: it maintained unimaginable range as well as piercing power and pinpoint accuracy. So Jack guesses Simo must be utilizing some special power and wonders what sort of resolve is held within his bullets. At the same time, Ares laments at having to see Heracles die again, even if it was a fake. Moreover, he's angered by the fact that it was from a gun and he states that a gun, created by Human civilization, shouldn't be able to injure the body of a God. Since that should apply to a copy of a God as well, Ares picks Hermes up and shakes him around, asking him what he thinks about it. Hermes doesn't understand either and questions if such a thing is even possible through Völundr or Samavadhāna. Zeus suggests a separate trick was prepared for this and looks at Brunhilde in her VIP room, asking her if that's the case.
Buddha appears at Brunhilde's VIP room instead of Göll
When she hears the door behind her creak open, Brunhilde turns and asks if it's Göll but it turns out to be Buddha, who then asks her if something's up with her younger sister. Assuring him everything's fine, Brunhilde questions if Buddha needed something. He says something caught his attention and notes that Simo seems too impressive. He recounts how Samavadhāna, which he taught Brunhilde, is an operation where a Human and Valkyrie stack both their souls together, leading to a Human's body and a Valkyrie's Divine Weapon being able to damage a God. So even if a Valkyrie had turned into a gun, or stacked souls with a Human through Samavadhāna, the only things that would be capable of damaging a God would be the Human's body or the gun itself. Unless he was prepared with special bullets beforehand, what Simo had fired should've been a normal bullet and Buddha promptly asks what those bullets that Simo is using are.
Simo sacrificed his kidney to make a bullet
Brunhilde tells him that she didn't do anything and claims that what happened earlier was "compensation." Amongst all of Humanity, and even including all the Gods, Brunhilde firmly believes the only one capable of firing those bullets is Simo Häyhä. Earlier, when the army of Gods were trampling through the forest, Simo said to himself, "Munuainen," meaning "Kidney." In his body, his right kidney began twisting and morphed into a ball that travelled through his torso, through his arm, and into his Mosin-Nagant rifle, having shaped itself into the bullet that he soon fired. Simo made a tremendously powerful bullet but only by sacrificing one of his organs, which is why blood began to seep through his mask, with Radgridr also being injured. The power to convert his organs into a bullet is Isänmaallinen: it is Simo's compensation.
That pain... is also his "salvation"...
Buddha is taken aback to hear he's turning his organs into bullets and insists that's way too painful. Though he can damage a God if he turns a part of his own body into a bullet, Buddha asks why Simo would choose to fight like that and gives props to him for being able to clear his mind of worldly thoughts to that extent. He's curious as to what kind of life he led to get like that. Brunhilde confirms that, on the battlefield, Simo Häyhä butchered countless enemies and was praised as a hero for it.
However, even though he was fighting to protect his own fatherland, for Simo, shooting all of those people was an unbearable pain. Thus, this power of his was born. Brunhilde is sure that, right now, Simo is in immense agony, his body and soul both breaking. But that is his way of atonement. Racing through the snow, keeping his body low, Simo gets on top of a branch and empties his rifle's chamber. He then says "Maksa" and he invokes Isänmaallinen to turn that organ, his liver, into a bullet that appears in the gun. Simo coughs up blood again but wipes it away and takes aim. For Simo, the pain he feels is also his salvation.
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
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| Chapters & Volumes | |
|---|---|
| Volume 1 | 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 |
| Volume 2 | 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 |
| Volume 3 | 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 |
| Volume 4 | 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 |
| Volume 5 | 19 • 20 • 21 |
| Volume 6 | 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 |
| Volume 7 | 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 |
| Volume 8 | 30 • 31 • 32 • 33 |
| Volume 9 | 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 |
| Volume 10 | 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 |
| Volume 11 | 42 • 43 • 44 • 45 |
| Volume 12 | 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 |
| Volume 13 | 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 |
| Volume 14 | 54 • 55 • 56 • 57 |
| Volume 15 | 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • B1 |
| Volume 16 | 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 • 66 |
| Volume 17 | 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • B2 |
| Volume 18 | 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • B3 |
| Volume 19 | 75 • 76 • 77 • 78 |
| Volume 20 | 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 |
| Volume 21 | 83 • 84 • 85 • 86 |
| Volume 22 | 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • B4 |
| Volume 23 | 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • B5 |
| Volume 24 | 95 • 96 • 97 • 98 • B6 |
| Volume 25 | 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 |
| List of Rounds (Manga) | |
|---|---|
| 1. Lü Bu vs. Thor | 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 |
| 2. Adam vs. Zeus | 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 |
| 3. Kojiro Sasaki vs. Poseidon | 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20 |
| 4. Jack the Ripper vs. Heracles | 20 • 21 • 22 • 23 • 24 • 25 • 26 • 27 • 28 • 29 • 30 |
| 5. Raiden Tameemon vs. Shiva | 31 • 32 • 33 • 34 • 35 • 36 • 37 • 38 • 39 • 40 • 41 • 42 |
| 6. Buddha vs. Bishamonten/Zerofuku/Hajun | 43 • 44 • 45 • 46 • 47 • 48 • 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • 54 |
| 7. Qin Shi Huang vs. Hades | 55 • 56 • 57 • 58 • 59 • 60 • 61 • 62 • 63 • 64 • 65 |
| 8. Nikola Tesla vs. Beelzebub | 66 • 67 • 68 • 69 • 70 • 71 • 72 • 73 • 74 • 75 • 76 • 77 |
| 9. Leonidas vs. Apollo | 78 • 79 • 80 • 81 • 82 • 83 • 84 |
| 10. Soji Okita vs. Susano'o no Mikoto | 84 • 86 • 87 • 88 • 89 • 90 • 91 • 92 • 93 • 94 • 95 • 96 |
| 11. Simo Häyhä vs. Loki | 98 • 99 • 100 • 101 • 102 • 103 • 104 • 105 • 106 • 107 • 108 |