Vinland Saga Vol. 21 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

All but unarmed, Thorfinn races through a fortress of flame and steel with his vow never to kill held close, pressing on toward Gudrid. Around him warriors take one another's lives, and his ideal of nonviolence is mocked and nearly trampled again and again. Yet as he is beaten down and rises to push forward, a strength opposite to the vengeance-driven boy he once was shines through. His grim bond with Floki, his father's killer, begins to cast its shadow, and the story's core question—whether the chain of violence can ever be broken—is thrust forward, laid utterly bare.