Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 137 Review: Between the Two of Us
Definitely a slower chapter after the whole Ten Commandments bit, but we get a couple of things going on. The first few pages dealt with the love triangle between Zanneli and Elizabeth over Meliodas' affections, and Meliodas is just basically sorta-ignoring Zanneli, not intentionally but very obviously, and we discover that the reason Elizabeth failed her druid power test is because Zanneli didn't even put a seed in the cup of soil that Elizabeth is supposed to use. And for a moment I thought it was an eye-roll inducing moment of petty jealousy because, y'know, this is end of the world stuff. But Zanneli has a justification -- she knows Meliodas will never love her, but she also knows how Meliodas will flip out if Elizabeth should be harmed and/or die. So her big (stupid) idea is to draw the two of them away because... Elizabeth is the reincarnation of Liz OH MY GOOOOOD
Okay yeah literally no one is surprised by this particular plot twist. They like look alike, have the same name and fulfill mostly the same role. Didn't need a two-page spread, certainly.
But it's nice to have confirmation, even if Zanneli's actions doesn't make sense. Like, at all. Meanwhile, Hawk goes around measuring everyone's power levels. Gilthunder and Hauser's powers have increased from the 1900's to 2300's... with Hauser actually being higher than Gilthunder now. But I don't think it's really a significant increase in the grand scheme of things against the goddamn Ten Commandments. Meliodas, meanwhile, has increased to 3250... er, 32500. Hawk forgot a zero. And I do like how Gilthunder was already fanboying when he heard '3250' and he's like "yep we got this in the bag."
And Escanor's power level is even higher than Meliodas' 32500. And Meliodas still isn't fully recovered, according to him. Well, it's good to see Escanor in the present day at last. Curious why King listed Escanor as 'dead' during his first appearance.
We also learned why Hawk turned into, well, a Dragonhawk (no, not the Warcraft creature). While fighting a Tyrant Dragon with Oslo, Hawk got eaten. So he ate his way out of the dragon's stomach, which is badass, so he's turned into a dragon-pig hybrid. Okay. I'll go with that. Maybe there's something more to Hawk than meets the eye? Meanwhile, Griamor is still a baby and Arthur has a cat stuck to his head.
Meanwhile, Dreyfus-Fraudrin shows up at a random city, observed by two random people, who are members of this 'Knights of the Azure Sky'... as the internet informs me, we saw them -- the generic mooks that were beaten down by Meliodas back when power levels were first introduced. They are Arden and Deldrey, and were featured on the cover page (I spent like five minutes wondering who they are supposed to be) and recognize Fraudrin as the demon he is, and note how they were reassigned away from the capital.
They kind of look generic, honestly. Arden looks like your generic shonen protagonist, while Deldrey looks like a hybrid between a knight and a wizard, who, in true anime style, wears armour but leaves the top half of her boobs and shoulders exposed. The knights of the Azure Sky we saw before weren't much -- weren't even better Griamor, the weakest member of Team Meliodas -- so unless these guys are so super-good and the dudes Meliodas met are just like, new initiates or whatever, they're going to really fuck up. And honestly, two dudes we've never met before, against what's arguably one of the main villains, one who killed Meliodas's love of his life? Yeah, Deldrey and Arden are going to die. Not sure why they're introduced, honestly.
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