Akatsuki no Yona Chapter 170 Spoilers - “Front Lines”

it’s been a million years but I have the chapter and already started translating so I figured I’d throw up some pics!

Warning: a good percentage of these are Zeno pics, because I’m biased and love him. Also, I can’t take pictures worth a shit.



We start out with the battle progressing, Kouka is gaining the upper hand… but Kuel-bo is still smiling. Now that the Thunder Beast’s come out to play, he starts to move toward the front lines, and Yoon notes how the troops’ morale rises as soon as he does.

We then cut to the dragons fighting.



Kija and Jae-ha go at it for a bit, before Kija remarks, a bit annoyed, that Jae-ha seems to think he’s weak enough for Jae-ha to go easy on him.

Jae-ha’s facial expression in response is complicated.

Shin-ah is distracted by their fight, and Zeno takes the opportunity to knock him back, and then jump on him, so he can whisper to Shin-ah. They’re trying to prolong the fight as much as possible, to try to find an opportunity to escape and rescue Yoon, so Shin-ah needs to hit Zeno so the fight can continue.

Shin-ah goes “nuh-uh I don wanna.”

Zeno uses the infinite patience he has learned from his 2000 years of being alive and tries to reason with Shin-ah, because they need to keep the fight going.

Shin-ah: NUH-UH.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Zeno so, just… pissed before. It’s amazing. He’s not even enraged, he’s just annoyed because Shin-ah won’t cut him with his sword, or even punch him. Their argument gets more heated until even the soldiers keeping guard on Zeno and Jae-ha are like, uh, what?

Jae-ha thinks it’s hilarious. Zeno, decidedly less so.



The moment is interrupted by the sound of soldiers, excited by Kuel-bo’s arrival to the front lines.

We switch to Yona, being kept prisoner, who is brought food by Kuel-bo’s wife, who tells her that she won’t be able to escape. Yona brings up that Kuel-bo may not come back from battle.

The wife is very protective of her husbando, and gets in an argument with Yona about how great and admirable a man Kuel-bo is, and Yona ALMOST gets in a fight about how much cooler and better Hak is but restrains herself.



The wife also feels bad about losing her cool, and apologizes. Yona thinks it’s odd how polite she’s being, but the wife explains that Yona is to be the new goddess of war, so she deserves quite a bit of respect. Also, in the Tully tribe, first wives are supposed to help take care of second wives.

Yona: …nani

Yeah, so apparently this wife is assuming that Yona is going to be Kuel-bo’s second wife. Yona is like, haha, no, also? Not going to be the goddess of war. Ever.

They reach an accord and seem to grow a small respect for each other, so that’s go–

–ooooddammit Gobi. He’s like a cockroach. I took this picture because 1) Yona’s face and 2) damn Kuel-bo’s wife is gorgeous.

Back at the battlefield, Kuel-bo has now found Hak, who has a case of the “murder everything that comes into my sight”s, at which point Kuel-bo says, “so hey, is Yona your woman?” and Hak immediately snaps out of it, because what kind of stupid question is that.

It comes out to the general crowd of Fire Tribe soldiers that Kuel-bo kidnapped the dragons and Yona, and just as Kuel-bo is gloating about how he has them now…

Welp, there goes the wagon.

Hak isn’t done being murdery yet!

They fight a little, and Hak demands to know what he’s done with the dragons and with the princess (”hime-san”). Kuel-bo recalls that that’s the exact phrase she forbade him to call her by, and asks Hak why she would do that.

Hak’s response is, “how the hell would I know?!”

Kuel-bo’s response is…

Can’t tell if contemplation or “I haven’t even been following this romance for the last 170 chapters but even I can see it, how stupid are you two.”

And then the chapter ends! Next chapter on 2/20.

