382: Sun Wukong: A Good Death (part 1 of 2)

382: Sun Wukong: A Good Death (part 1 of 2)

We're back in the story of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King and the Journey to the West, where Monkey goes undercover as a demon and defeats a whole army with a math equation.

The creature is Tsuchi-gumo, the reason you don't want to be too good at your job. Especially if your job is eating people.

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