Rahan. Episode 113. By Roger Lecureux. The Rain of Death! A Puke (TM) Comic.

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Rahan.

Episode One Hundred and Thirteen.

By Roger Lecureux, drawn by Andre Cheret.

The Rain of Death!

The son of Crao knew the flesh of the "Armadillo" was tasty.
The one he was chasing took refuge under a large sheet of bark.
Ha-ha-ha! It is not under this "skin of the tree" that you will escape Rahan!

He quickly turned the bark over and.
Oh! Why does grass not grow under the "Tree Skin"!?
Forgetting the armadillo that escaped him once again.

He was looking at this grassless spot.
And it was exactly the shape of the sheet of bark.
Rahan understands!
"The tree-skin" has captured the fire and light of the sun.
Like a shield!

Curious about everything, he meditated on this phenomenon of nature. When.
Death to anyone who violates our hunting territory!

Page Two.

Rahan heard the clamors along with the whistling of arrows.
Death! Death!

Zlanck! Zlack!
Rahan owes you his life, "Tree-skin"!
His instinctive reaction had only temporarily saved him.

Some men appeared.
This territory is ours!
The god of hunting, speaking through the mouth of Haaki, says that you must die!

Rahan is a free hunter! As was his father Crao! And to say that you speak in the name of the god of hunting is a lie!

Haaki is just a vain wizard, like those that Rahan has encountered too often!
I will kill you!

Conceited and stupid!
The Bark "Shield" burst under the terrible blow of the lance.

Page Three.

And the sorcerer, unbalanced, collapsed.
Kill him! Kill him! What are you waiting for!?
No, Haaki! The chief shall decide his fate!

A little later.
Rahan does not know if there is a "God-of-the-hunt."
But if there is he must protect all hunters!
Do not listen to these words, Horkkan! The god "Hao" only protects our hunters!

I do not hear! He says to me "Fire-hair."
Is an enemy that our clan must destroy!
The excitement of the sorcerer Haaki contrasted singularly with.

The calm of Horkkan, the leader of this clan.
“Hao" often whispers curious things to you, Haaki!
The test of the "Rain of Truth" will teach us more surely if Rahan is an enemy, or if he is protected by the god of hunters!

The rain of truth!?
This is the "Judgment of the Arrows", Rahan!
Each of us will shoot like twice the fingers of both hands!

And if these arrows spare you, our clan will truly have proof that the god of hunting protects you!
The son of Crao was already being dragged to a hill.

Page Four.

Who soon after found himself crucified in the center of a vast basin.
They left Rahan his knife. But Rahan cannot grab it!
All the clan's archers had spread out across the heights.

The sun is setting. Why not get started!
No, Haaki! Custom requires that we wait until night!

The sky was darkening rapidly.
No god will come to Rahan's aid! Only a miracle can save him from the "Rain of Death"!

And Soon!
The first arrows, whistling in the darkness, landed here and there.

The clan's custom required that the archers not see their target.
But their arrows, describing a curve, fell like rain, exactly in the center of the basin.
Haaki-the-sorcerer was the most excited.

These arrows sometimes landed a few steps away from the captive, sometimes right next to him!
Page Five.

Each will get as much as four times the fingers of a hand.
And the hunters are more numerous than ten times the fingers of a hand!

Rahan cannot help but join the “Territory of the shadows”!
The "Rain of Death" Intensified. The whistling did not stop.

Ha-ha-ha! You will see that the "Rain-of-Truth" will prove me right, Horkkan!
At dawn, "Fire-Hair" will be nothing more than a "Beast-that-Stings"!

Ra-ha-ha! These vines are too strong!
It was impossible for Rahan to break his bonds.

Page Six.

And it was a miracle that he had not yet been hit by those arrows which were now bristling on the ground around him!

But suddenly!
This time Rahan is lost!
The long arrow, catching a moonbeam, fell straight at him!

And.
Oh Zlap!

The rain of death never stopped.
Ha-ha-ha!
We will soon know if the god of hunting protected "Fire-Hair"!
It was still dark when the archers fired their last arrows.

But it was only at dawn that they discovered the astonishing spectacle.
No! No, No! It is impossible!

Page Seven.

In the heart of the forest of arrows stood the silhouette of Rahan, the son of Crao.
But he had disappeared!
Unbelievable! All the arrows grazed his body without hitting him!
Only "Hao," the "God of Hunting" could perform this miracle and allow him to escape!

Rahan did not run away, Horkkan!

Page Eight.

As the son of Crao appeared, unharmed, the Clan bowed down.
Haaki was deceiving us! "Fire-Hair" is a god!
No, Brothers! Rahan is just a simple hunter.

He lies! He. He is a demon that must be destroyed! The god of hunting demands it!
Chop! Argh!

Since Haaki claims to speak in the name of the god "Hao", Rahan proposes that he, in turn, be subjected to the test of the "Rain of Truth"!
The whole clan acclaimed the suggestion.

Haaki had turned pale.
Eh, eh. It would be unworthy of a wizard. I, I refuse.
You lied to the clan and you are afraid of the verdict! Your place is no longer among us! Go away!

And never come back to our territory!
Haaki had to flee under the hostile jeers of the clan.

Rahan has often met sorcerers who claimed to represent a certain god.
Everyone lies to secure their power!

But you who do not lie, tell us how the god of hunting protected you?
Horkkan felt Rahan, searching in vain for any sign of injury.

Tell us by what miracle our arrows surrounded your body so closely without any of them hitting you!
There is no god of hunting, no miracle!
But does Rahan have the right to disappoint these hunters?

The son of the fierce ages observed the silhouette of the earth cut out by hundreds of arrows.

Page Nine.

Should he say, that a providential arrow had cut the bond of one of his wrists?
He had been able to easily free himself.

Rahan could run away from this "Rain of Death"!
But the clan would chase him! To confuse Haaki.
Rahan must strike the imagination of the clan!

And that's when he thought of the "Tree-Skin" protecting the ground from the sun's rays.
Then protecting it from the arrows.

Fleeing the "Rain of Truth," he had gathered enough bark plates.
You will replace Rahan, "Tree-skins"!

Braving the deadly rain, he had returned to arrange the bark in the shape of a human body.

Then he had witnessed, from afar, the success of his ruse.
The arrows sticking by the dozens in what should have been his own body!

Page Ten.

Should he say that, the "Rain of Death" having ceased, he had returned to look for these barks bristling with arrows.

Then he threw them into a deep abyss!

If Rahan had been in the place of the "Tree-skins," he would have long since been in the "Shadow-Kingdom"!

Yes, the son of Crao hesitated to reveal this ruse.
By protecting your body and just your body!
From the rain of truth, the god has made a prodigious miracle!

This superstitious attitude of the chief and his clan decided for him.
There is no god of hunting and no miracle!
Listen all, brothers! Rahan will tell you what happened.

It all started when Rahan discovered that grass did not grow under the "tree skin."
If he took the risk of denouncing a stupid test and revealing his ruse, it was because he hated to mystify "Those-who-walk-upright," his brothers.
Thus was Rahan, the son of Crao.
Rahan the son of ferocious Ages.