Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 185: Pride vs Charity
Did anyone expect Escanor to be so insanely powerful? I mean, yeah, we know Escanor is on the top of the pecking order of power levels, alongside monsters like Meliodas and Estarossa, but holy shit, talk about a broken-ass character. And he's still entertaining as all hell, too! I highly doubt the battle is over just yet, though -- while this chapter implies overwhelming victory on Escanor's side, I'm highly doubtful that the most powerful of the Ten Commandments is going to just die off after two chapters.
The battle this chapter starts off with Escanor summoning a mini-sun that's so hot that the other Holy Knights' armour began to actually melt by sheer proximity, and after quickly confirming to Ban that there's a lake several miles off here, Escanor just... palms Estarossa in the face and the shocked expression -- not even pained or angry, just shocked -- on Estarossa's face is unreal. Estarossa is blown several miles away towards the lake, while Escanor does what can only be termed "Sun Surfing", catching up to the thrown Estarossa, before kicking the sun down towards Estarossa, slamming the dude so hard onto the lake that the entire lake evaporates. Truly an awesome action scene.
Zeldoris and Fraudrin-Dreyfus are there to witness, flying on ink-splotch wings, and we get to see Estarossa, wounded, acknowledging Escanor's power and noting that if he had been a moment later in activating his 'Darkness', he would've taken a mortal wound. Yeah, Escanor's sun surfing trick nearly did Estarossa a mortal wound.
Estarossa heals himself with his darkness, and goes all 'it's time to finish this'. Now this is the point that I honestly assumed that Estarossa is going to unleash his full power and take Escanor down a peg or two -- Estarossa's resemblance to Meliodas' angry mindless rage demon form at this point is possibly a factor -- and Estarossa, well, swallows Escanor's mini-sun with a 'Blackout', and Full Counters Escanor's physical axe swing.
And we do see Escanor bleed pretty heavily from his shoulders and whatever, while Estarossa gives this 'I have won' style speech of how Escanor's magic power is sealed by his Blackout, while his physical strength is countered by, well, Full Counter.
And then we cut to a bunch of literal random peasants, talking about how they're stuck doing chores at half an hour before noon, the most innocuous way of saying that, hey, Escanor's not at full strength yet.
And, well, a cut forms across Estarossa's chest -- a strike so fast that Estarossa didn't have time to Full Counter -- and, well, Estarossa starts getting more and more confused, and dare I say scared, as Escanor starts to revel in his sin of pride. "My mighty attacks can not reach thee? And who decided that? My blazing sun was swallowed up by a speck of darkness? And who decided that?"
Escanor's muscles and sun flexes so hard that they easily burn through Estarossa's darkness, before Escanor delivers this horrifying yet awesome line "The only one who gets to decide such things... is me."
Estarossa totally freaks out, Zeldoris moves in to help out, and Escanor just swings the full power of a mega sun that apparently incinerates Estarossa. It's utterly awesome, some really on-point scripting, some really great moments for both combatants involved and holy shit I am so glad we're still continuing on the Escanor-Estarossa fight instead of jumping away to some metaphysical bullshit with Meliodas and the Demon King. At this point, who cares about those two anymore? Certainly not me. Again, I highly doubt that Escanor's going to win this one still -- the other Commandments might intervene at that point, because if Escanor can defeat the strongest Commandment without being at his full strength, well, then, it's not even a challenge and Meliodas can just sleep tight and stay dead. Either Estarossa or Zeldoris needs to have a trick up their sleeve. Or maybe Gray Lord can just show up and go 'thou shalt not kill'... but honestly, do you think a blob with a bunch of masks can stand up against fucking Escanor?
Hail the Sun.
The battle this chapter starts off with Escanor summoning a mini-sun that's so hot that the other Holy Knights' armour began to actually melt by sheer proximity, and after quickly confirming to Ban that there's a lake several miles off here, Escanor just... palms Estarossa in the face and the shocked expression -- not even pained or angry, just shocked -- on Estarossa's face is unreal. Estarossa is blown several miles away towards the lake, while Escanor does what can only be termed "Sun Surfing", catching up to the thrown Estarossa, before kicking the sun down towards Estarossa, slamming the dude so hard onto the lake that the entire lake evaporates. Truly an awesome action scene.Zeldoris and Fraudrin-Dreyfus are there to witness, flying on ink-splotch wings, and we get to see Estarossa, wounded, acknowledging Escanor's power and noting that if he had been a moment later in activating his 'Darkness', he would've taken a mortal wound. Yeah, Escanor's sun surfing trick nearly did Estarossa a mortal wound.
Estarossa heals himself with his darkness, and goes all 'it's time to finish this'. Now this is the point that I honestly assumed that Estarossa is going to unleash his full power and take Escanor down a peg or two -- Estarossa's resemblance to Meliodas' angry mindless rage demon form at this point is possibly a factor -- and Estarossa, well, swallows Escanor's mini-sun with a 'Blackout', and Full Counters Escanor's physical axe swing.
And we do see Escanor bleed pretty heavily from his shoulders and whatever, while Estarossa gives this 'I have won' style speech of how Escanor's magic power is sealed by his Blackout, while his physical strength is countered by, well, Full Counter.
And then we cut to a bunch of literal random peasants, talking about how they're stuck doing chores at half an hour before noon, the most innocuous way of saying that, hey, Escanor's not at full strength yet.
And, well, a cut forms across Estarossa's chest -- a strike so fast that Estarossa didn't have time to Full Counter -- and, well, Estarossa starts getting more and more confused, and dare I say scared, as Escanor starts to revel in his sin of pride. "My mighty attacks can not reach thee? And who decided that? My blazing sun was swallowed up by a speck of darkness? And who decided that?"Escanor's muscles and sun flexes so hard that they easily burn through Estarossa's darkness, before Escanor delivers this horrifying yet awesome line "The only one who gets to decide such things... is me."
Estarossa totally freaks out, Zeldoris moves in to help out, and Escanor just swings the full power of a mega sun that apparently incinerates Estarossa. It's utterly awesome, some really on-point scripting, some really great moments for both combatants involved and holy shit I am so glad we're still continuing on the Escanor-Estarossa fight instead of jumping away to some metaphysical bullshit with Meliodas and the Demon King. At this point, who cares about those two anymore? Certainly not me. Again, I highly doubt that Escanor's going to win this one still -- the other Commandments might intervene at that point, because if Escanor can defeat the strongest Commandment without being at his full strength, well, then, it's not even a challenge and Meliodas can just sleep tight and stay dead. Either Estarossa or Zeldoris needs to have a trick up their sleeve. Or maybe Gray Lord can just show up and go 'thou shalt not kill'... but honestly, do you think a blob with a bunch of masks can stand up against fucking Escanor?
Hail the Sun.
Hail Escanor! Hail!
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