Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 204: Let There Be Light
Bit of a predictable chapter, but still interesting to read nonetheless. We get to see how determined Meliodas is to ending the war, the similarities between Ban and Law are noted by Gloxinia-King, and, well, Gloxinia-King pulls off some Big Brother Instinct towards Gloxinia's sister Gerharde. We don't get to see much of the ground group, though, because the majority of this chapter focuses on Elizabeth and the Ten Commandments that are present there, especially Derriere.
It's a bit sad to think that half of the Commandments present (Galan, Merascylla and Fraudrin for sure, Monspiet and Derriere a huge maybe) are dead, some of them dying less than satisfactory deaths, but at least we're still getting to see some of them do things in this chapter. Derriere is the most curious out of the bunch, being the one who always swears vengeance towards the goddess clan for killing the children of the demon tribe.
The confrontation from Elizabeth -- who genuinely doesn't know of Ludociel's plans -- and the members of the Ten Commandments plays out pretty much how you expect it. There's some grudging trust between Elizabeth and Derriere, the former who wants to try and sort things out without bloodshed, and the latter grudgingly trusting this goddess. The panel where Elizabeth tells Derriere that even if the other goddesses say no she'll do something about it, earning a smirk from Derriere, is well portrayed.
Of course, Elizabeth drops all pretenses of deals when Meliodas is concerned, much to the amusement of Galan and Monspiet. Man, I miss Galan. Did we ever see him have these cool looking shadow wings?
Ludociel shows up and announces that Elizabeth has done a good job at keeping the demons occupied, causing Derriere to lash out and whack Elizabeth down -- completely understandable, honestly, because, well, whether she meant to or not, Elizabeth did serve as a distraction. Too late for any of the characters -- whether Meliodas, King, Diane, Elizabeth or the Commandments -- to do anything, the demon civilians are lifted up in this huge energy bubble they call the Ark, having their magic drained... and apparently Derriere's brother is within it.
Ludociel just clenches his fist and the entire Ark and every demon within it gets smooshed out. Galan, Merascylla and Fraudrin are more angry than anything, but Derriere's expression is absolutely livid. No wonder she's so fucking angry all the time in the present. The ending promises a battle between these five members of the Ten Commandments against two more of the four great Angels, which I definitely do want to see. I... really like the Ten Commandments, that's why.
for the first time where we see demon tribe people , I would have liked to see more of the body type who exist in theirs tribe .and yes , galan is such a funny character that him and the other who were killes fell like a a waste (and in all honesty ,i will pay for a manga with them as protagonist).
ReplyDeletebut , hey ! i have always the fool hope that they are alive in some way or be will ressurected due to thenature of the tribues , theirs capacity to manipule souls or some magical bs like that .
ah , and i dont know if it's the same for all version , but the chap finish for me with the sentence "the ultimate evil , the ten commandements, are enraged",you know , after 3 leaf of the so called genocide .
for me , it's funny (and i hope that the team who stranslate have noticed the irony).
Mind you, the Commandments are pretty evil themselves -- we've seen them commit a fair amount of hideous acts, even the otherwise hilarious Galan. But they don't quite go as bad as capturing like two hundred civilians as bait and then murdering them in front of their families.
DeleteGalan's easily one of my favourites in the manga, though. He's so fun.
In all honesty though, it does explain a bit as to why the demons were so apathetic to every other race - all the other races united against them... to carry out their genocide (unwittingly or otherwise), and they had to spend 10,000 years sealed away with the knowledge all the other demons were dead. Hell, it seems like the only reason Meliodas is any different is because he knew the full story about the Goddess clan leaving out details for the others - or at least he was more of the omitted details then the rest of the Commandments.
DeleteThough honestly we don't know just how horrible the demons were for the other races to unite against them. The goddess clan might be huge jackasses, but the humans, fairies and giants probably aren't that genocidal. I'm just curious to see how the war started, though, because there's no easy way to tell if the demons are originally already evil, or it's just in response to the genocide plus the imprisonment.
DeleteFor what it's worth, the demons with Carmadios seem to be your average angry murder-everyone type.