Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 218: So We Meet Again
So, finally, Gowther has his heart back. We get a couple of cool confrontation scenes as Diane tries to stop Gowther from using the amnesia thing no himself, and we get to see that King and Diane has increased their power levels quite dramatically. She's over ten thousand now, and it's not even Diane's final form! King's over 40K, too, which is an insane gap.
Seeing Princess Veronica (very very convenient, isn't it? She literally happens to come by and then run away literally when it's convenient to the plot) and Gowther gets jarred because Veronica resembles her aunt. Which is nice. Some familial resemblance instead of all this reincarnation stuff over and over again. Gowther keeps wanting to erase the noise in his head... and then Merlin comes in.
She reveals the big twist, that the power to love is in Gowther all along! And that the heart is actually, well, just a little trinket -- Gowther was never heartless, he just developed emotions naturally, and suppressed everything so badly that he became a robot puppet. So, yeah. You know a writer is good when she pulls out one of the literal oldest tropes in the book, but still manages to subvert it so much that I legitimately never thought that this was a possibility.
Of course, Merlin only tells us (and Gowther) this revelation after Diane's rant-speech about friendship jarred Gowther's figurative heart open. Gowther's magical abilities also get a boost, because apparently when he suppressed his memories, he also suppressed a good deal of his magical abilities. Everybody be getting power-ups, Escanor might end up being obsolete soon!
Meliodas, Ban and Escanor show up, and, well, for the first time in the manga, all of the seven sins stand united, hanging out with each other like the pals they are, with all of the conflict that tinged individual members having been dealt with.
That's awesome! Now go kick someone's ass.
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