Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 105: A Nobody
Continuing from last chapter, Ban and King (and I suppose Jericho too) are still exploring the new Fairy King's Forest, though again, like last chapter Ban is still showered with adulation while King is being booed and jeered at. Ban shows King where he laid Elaine to rest... and she's naked. No features are drawn or even covered with hair or flowers, and I suppose she isn't a child like Mavis in Fairy Tail Zero, but still. King just can't stand looking at Elaine's dead body and compounded with all the other feelings about failing the other fairies, he just runs off.
Ban, meanwhile, makes it a point to cradle Elaine's dead, naked body and tells her that he'll revive her no matter what it takes. This, of course, makes Jericho pretty fucking jealous, so I'm interested to see if Jericho's character is going to develop more from 'having a rivalry with Ban' to 'being tsundere with Ban' to something more... dignified.
Also, cradling the naked corpse of your lover? It's sweet in a way and I do like how the writer manages to make Ban one of the most complex characters whilst still giving off that borderline-psychotic vibe. I do like Ban quite a lot, and he's easily my favourite character in Nanatsu no Taizai... though King's right up there with him.
Ban tells the other fairies to stop calling him Fairy King and that their boss is King, and the other fairies go 'Harlequin abandoned the forest to save a couple of friends'. And among the fairies we see from here on out are these hooded goblin-like things that served Diane all the way back in chapter three, which is a nice little callback.
King then gives a counter-argument saying how he, who tried to kill his only friend just to revive one woman, have a right to be a king... and it's nice to see how Ban is technically standing up for King here. Ban is cool. I like Ban.
Meanwhile, King, who's a little fucked up himself, gets accosted by a different group of fairies who throws a shit-ton of stuff at his face which is a bit of a heartbreaking moment the way he just stands there and lets them all pelt him with garbage. Oslo shows up from... from whatever portal he hangs out in, and expands into a gigantic size and goes all 'rawr' on the fairies, but King holds Oslo back because he's accepting of his own fault that caused the first fairy forest to get burnt down... and still failed to save Helbram to boot and needs to kill him three times.
Also Oslo apparently left the Fairy King Forest to join King.
King then goes into a bit of a depression spiral as he thinks about how the kingdom doesn't need the Seven Sins anymore, and how Diane is better off without him, and it's a pretty sad scene as King just... basically breaks down. And I do like how effective it manages to do this with dialogue. There isn't any One Piece crying faces or whatever, just King's scrunched-up face with two streaks of tears down his face. It's pretty poignant.
King wears the hoodie-helmet piece that Helbram gave him before... and suddenly Helbram materializes in front of him and calls him a crybaby. And apparently Helbram's soul is sort of trapped in the helmet, and King can only see him if he's wearing it. It isn't quite clear if Helbram's soul can't move on because he was killed three times by King or simply because of generic regrets or because he was kicked out of the Capital of the Dead -- Helbram's kind of half-joking at this point. "My soul or something" indeed. But apparently he had been in the Capital of the Dead, and Elaine requested him to look after King and by extension Ban.
Helbram then brings up Hendricksen... and Helbram mentions that there's something about Hendricksen that bothers him, but since this is a manga, he goes all 'nevermind' despite King being savvy enough to immediately think that Hendricksen's still alive. Damn it, manga characters!
Ban looks at King seemingly talking to thin air and he goes 'has he lost his mind'?
Sadly, the focus pans away from Ban and King to the other Sins in the capital city. Meliodas, Diane, Gowther and Merlin are assembled before the king and they just sort-of wave Ban and King's disappearance to them just fooling around instead of, y'know, Ban straight-up leaving. Hawk doesn't give a shit about etiquette and is just gorging himself, and has apparently grown back to his original size.
The Holy Knights are gathered around them, and we see Gilthunder, Hauser, Griamor and the roly-poly dude with gravity powers whose name I forgot. There's a bit of whisper-whisper thing going on among the unnamed knights... maybe some pent-up resentment against the Sins? Also of note is that Guilla isn't around.
The King recognizes the Sins (and the leftover cleanups knights) for their services... but we get an unnecessary large panel of Meliodas just going 'objection!'
Overall a pretty slow, if interesting, chapter. Ban, King and Helbram definitely steal the show this time around and I cannot lie, I'm pretty disappointed to cut back to the main group only for them to do this... thing instead of something more interesting.
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