The Seven Deadly Sins, Chapter 252: Destiny
A very interesting chapter, this one. We start off with a very well-written moment between Elizabeth and the king, where they reminisce about their old times, and how everything's going to go to shit and Elizabeth is likely to die, and Margaret is possessed by Ludoshel (Rudueciel? Jeez, romanizing names is hard). It's nothing that I can really discuss, but it's a very heartwarming moment, and honestly the parent-child bond is something that a lot of older shonen manga like to skip over unless the parent turns out to be a fighter him/herself, so good on that.
Speaking of parent-child bonds, we get one between Griamor and Dreyfus, who tells Griamor that he had shared his mind and memories with Fraudrin the demon, and that Dreyfus is far more willing to distrust the goddess clan due to knowledge from the demons -- especially that the goddess clan is able to brainwash people. Oh, and also the fact that he's not entirely sure what happened to Hendricksen... is it druid fanaticism, or something more sinister?
And Hendricksen ends up asking the four archangels where the fourth one is... and then they give him a set of amazing-looking death glares, only for Ludoshel to tell us at the end of the chapter that the fourth member, Mael, was killed by the Commandments -- specifically Estarossa. The most interesting scene in this chapter is the one where Deathpierce and his buddies show up and call out the goddess clan for being hypocrites, with Nerobasta having killed their master Sir Denzel. I don't buy Ludoshel's speech about how the goddess clan are beings of flesh and they have sacrificed much and all that, but of course, we, the readers, have seen the jackassery of Ludoshel in particular. I'm not sure if Ludoshel's speech, tears and random power-up ends up causing Deathpierce and the others to support her, or if there's some brainwashing going on when Ludoshel sent out that power-up.
Regardless, it's getting a lot more interesting, and while it's a shame that the buildup to this point has been so uneven and rocky, I'm definitely happy that we're actually doing this.
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