Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 193: The Captain of the Holy Knights
That was a decent fight. A bit of fighting and magic thrown around, a random bit with demon Hawk popping up and distracting Fraudreyfus, and Zaratros apparently wants to use all his life force (well, he's technically dead and revived or something, and more of a plot device than a character, so it's not a big loss) to unleash the mother of all Purges onto Fraudrin/Dreyfus to finally separate the two... and, wow, I've never realized that Fraudrin was such a huge dude. I always thought he was relatively human-sized like Derriere or Estarossa, but he's, well, kinda big. Not building-sized big, but quite big.
He's this huge spiky humanoid with his mouth on his chest, and it's a nice, simple yet weird design. We don't see Zaratros get back up, but Hendricksen zooms in to combat the freed Fraudrin, who points out that exorcising him is useless since he can just re-possess Dreyfus. But Hendricksen points out that despite being a demon who supposedly doesn't care about anything, Fraudrin has been spending a lot of time within Dreyfus's body despite not really having much use as a holy knight captain now that his infiltration gig and 'kill Meliodas' thing are all over. Fraudrin has no answer, but I guess he just likes being Dreyfus?
Hendricksen is no match for Fraudrin, but the real Dreyfus stands up, Fraudrin gets distracted by little child Griamor... I guess he sees Griamor as his 'son', somewhat? I mean, Fraudrin did raise Griamor up for a good chunk of his life, demon or not. I guess turning Dreyfus into a kid lets the real Dreyfus raise him up properly or something? Whatever the case, Griamor distracts Fraudrin long enough for Dreyfus to shoot a lance through his chest, before hitting him with another pierce that blows Fraudrin up.
Hendricksen is no match for Fraudrin, but the real Dreyfus stands up, Fraudrin gets distracted by little child Griamor... I guess he sees Griamor as his 'son', somewhat? I mean, Fraudrin did raise Griamor up for a good chunk of his life, demon or not. I guess turning Dreyfus into a kid lets the real Dreyfus raise him up properly or something? Whatever the case, Griamor distracts Fraudrin long enough for Dreyfus to shoot a lance through his chest, before hitting him with another pierce that blows Fraudrin up.
A bit of a cool fight, even if, like all the other Commandments fights that came in the past couple of months, it does seem randomly too convenient and Worf-y. Only Dolor and Gloxinia are left that isn't dealt with in some way, but those two are established to be the weakest of the Ten Commandments. I dunno, I really feel that at least Estarossa, Zeldoris and Fraudrin really needed to stick around even if the author wants to quickly get rid of the others. Especially since those three have a long history with Meliodas and none of them have been addressed yet.
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ReplyDeleteI really hope the Commandments aren't down, but other than maybe Derriere, Monspiet and Fraudrin, I don't see any of them other than the two that's already dealt with pre-timeskip being taken out completely. Zeldoris is definitely still alive -- dude hasn't done anything. Estarossa merely got knocked into a lake, and, yeah, it's by Escanor, but it's benign compared to things that these dudes can tank. Gray Road is definitely still alive, just in a test tube. And honestly with all the talk pre-timeskip about how a demon can only be killed permanently if all their hearts are crushed (and even then Meliodas came back to life) it would kind of be bad writing if ALL the commandments are killed just like that.
ReplyDeleteIf anything, Estarossa, Zeldris and Fraudrin have unfinished business with Meliodas.