Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 197: Answers
Bit of a slower chapter. The first two or three pages of this chapter is devoted to Hauser's family life, with parents that, well, just look like nice folk, they just don't particularly care that their son is some kind of fancy-ass Holy Knight, and it's basically a little breather chapter, showing how Merlin has used her powers to rebuild the buildings in the city. We have a bit of a recap moment with Merlin taking a bath and Ban, Elizabeth and Escanor talking to Meliodas -- Meliodas turning Ban into a splat on the wall, Escanor making poems and all that, trying to cheer Meliodas up.
King Barta gives a long speech to the assembled troops, and they're about to appoint the new captain of the holy knights, and basically everyone and their mother expects Gilthunder (who's MIA... did we know that? I forgot) to be the leader, but it ends up being Hauser, the acting captain, a.k.a. Substitute Gilthunder. It's a bit obvious that Hauser's going to be it since he got all the spotlight in the early pages, and I... honestly don't care? Hauser has been absolutely uninteresting as a character after his role as a 'nice guy in a group of supposedly-corrupt knights' and playing as a foil to Diane. Now that the sins are all buddy-buddy with the kingdom again, Hauser has honestly ceased to be interesting, and is just 'one of those guys'.
It's funny how Hauser without hair gel looks nothing like Hauser, and his dad looks more like him than he actually does.
Merlin decides to get all the seven sins assembled, and apparently they're keeping "Goat's Sin of Lust" Gowther in the dungeons below, where he's, well, being Gowther. Going all "I'm the Goat's Sin" while striking poses and whatnot. They let him out, and suddenly he says "I'm the Ten Commandments' Selflessness, Gowther", before the screen turns dark and he goes all kyurinnnnn whatever that means. It's a bit of a surprising twist with Gowther, that's to be sure... but it's just... well, kinda there, I guess? Maybe we'll get a big Gowther arc with Gowther finally turning against the Sins, but I feel like it came a bit too suddenly, with Gowther himself not really having developed that much ever since the whole 'doll' revelation was done, and he's either sat in the sidelines or just hung around being weird. I dunno.
Meanwhile King and Diane are naked. King is trying to make something grow and is unable to do so (UM!) while Diane is trying to get a dance right. I honestly don't really care about these two? The amnesia subplot was the worst thing to have happened to King and Diane, really, since it's so aborted and nothing really came out of it. Hopefully they'll get over it quickly.
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