Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 191: The Insatiable Woman
Holy shit, Merlin... holy shit. Well, we always know that Merlin was super powerful, easily the strongest among the Seven Sins probably only seconded by Meliodas or Escanor... though after the display she just showed in this chapter? Holy fuck. Yeah, this is the total reversal of what Galan did to the Seven Sins, and with Meliodas and Escanor making short work of their opponents in current fights, the Ten Commandments are getting absolutely routed.
We had Hauser be a meat shield for Gray Road's sensory block spell thing and act all dramatic-like but Merlin dispells it immediately. Gray Road then launches a swarm of bugs that's a trap to get Merlin to kill something, but Merlin just hyper beams one of Gray Road's face off alongside with the bug swarm, despite Ban's warning... and everyone (like, literally everyone -- the chapter makes liberal use of the 'montage of people's faces reacting' trope) is just flabbergasted that thou shalt not kill did not work on Merlin.
Merlin goes on a long speech (thankfully only in a few short pages) about how there's a paradox between the amount of knowledge out there to be learned and studied (therein is the gluttony) and the finite time that is allotted to a person, then Merlin reveals that her own time is stopped, so having someone pull out all her time is pointless on her. Merlin reveals that her magic power is Infinity, meaning any magic, no matter how powerful it is, only needs to be invoked once by Merlin, and it will keep going on forever unless Merlin dismisses it.
Everyone's reaction:
Special highlights go to Ban going 'oh well, that's what I expected' and Gray Road's weird demon mask face going o.O
Gray Road and Fraudrin all freak out over the fact that Merlin was able to break out of Galan's petrification spell -- to which Merlin just notes that it's a particularly remarkable spell. Gray Road talks about how the commandments are bequeathed to them by the demon king... but Merlin apparently has a natural resistance to the commandments which she just forgot. She's apparently, in a lifetime long gone, Belialin's daughter, a fact that freaks Gray Road the fuck out in an absolutely hilarious panel.
Merlin says her true name which is like unpronounceable and a bunch of scratched lines, causing Gray Road to freak out and collapse back to himself. Merlin leaps up, and Gray Road's multiple masks freak out and try to tear themselves apart while trying to run away from Merlin in one of the most hilarious and awesome moments of the manga.
Merlin's response? Summon a gigantic fucking tornado that obliterates everything not on the ground, sucks in Gray Road's various pieces... into a test tube that Merlin seals, while she chuckles about how she got herself a nice little guinea pig. Holy shit, Merlin, channeling your inner Endless.
Yeah, why are Diane and King on the same ballpark as the likes of these dudes, I can never know.
Holy shit, Merlin.
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