Nabi vol.17 Preview - The meaning of the manhwa title.

Hi everyone,

I want to summarize vol.17 for you guys right away, but the thing is I don't understand half of it. You think after that whole alternative universe confusion, the main story line would become clear now? Nope. Vol.17 just creates more puzzles. Well, we all know how Kim Yeon-joo's stories are, you can't get them volume by volume but you need the whole story to understand something in vol.1. That's why I'll wait for vol.18 with hope that it'll make things clearer, so I can do summaries on vol.17 properly. Only 2 more days, vol.18 is scheduled on Sep 4th, please be patient folks. I promise it'll be as soon as possible.

One more *small* thing, there are quite a number of people reading this blog, but very few are nice enough to show me their ideas/support via comments. It's quite discouraged for me to keep going on. Having all silent readers is never a pleasure guys.

Okay so here what I can tell about vol.17 at the moment:



Part 1 - Chap 32: Reverie.
Same as the title, it mentions everyone's dreams, some small, some big. It reveals that So-ryu drinks poison to commit suicide. because she's desperate in a world where no one loves her and she'll soon become a mere soul, a non-existence. To a point she says that her world now is a quite one, where there's no Myo-un's vengeance, Ryu Sang's anger, Isana's rejection, and Ha-rim's denial. "No such things exist in this world."

Part 2 - Chap 33: Heaven.
This chap is from Myo-un's point of view. As posted in Nabi vol.17 spoiler, Ryu Sang's very sweet to her. Seong is very nice to Ah-ru, while Seong's Shan clan and Ah-ru's Dal clan are supposed to be sworn enemies. Everything seems too nice. Then Myo-un has a dream that she kills So-ryu (in the bamboo forest). She wonders and recalls about a lot of things, it even shows a grown-up Hong Ha-young. Seems like she comes to understand something and thinks "So that was it...".

The last few pages:
It's everyone, Myo-un, grown-up Ha-young, Ryu Sang, Ha-rim, Isana, and So-ryu, watching the sky as a lot of airships flying around. A story is told, it's Zhuangzi's butterfly dream - a very famous philosophical story. And the last line is "It's only a dream. But even you wake up, it's not so easy to get out."

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Now you understand my frustration. Things are so ambiguous, just pieces and pieces, not the whole picture yet. Vol.18 better clear it up T_T

Still, at least it answers one question that I've had for ever: Why was this manhwa named "Nabi" (Butterfly)? It came from the philosophical story and the question: "whether then I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether now I am a butterfly dreaming I am a man". Well I suppose we will know at the end, that this story is real or some kind of dream, and if so, whose dream it is.


Hope to see you guys in 2 days xD
Jessie.