Nanatsu no Taizai 111 Review: The Sin of Lust

Nanatsu no Taizai Chapter 111: A Man's Say

Pretty fun chapter, though it's another in a series of sub-plots that pile up on each other. It doesn't feel messy in the slightest, though, and instead makes me feel really excited for most, if not all, of the plotlines being introduced. We explore a bit of the previously-introduced plot threads like the Ban/King/Jericho camping trip to the Great Fairy's Tree, as well as Meliodas sensing the resurrection of the Demon Clan, and we finally bring the whole Gowther mystery into the forefront.

We first start off with King confronting Jericho, telling her it's not a good idea for her to stick around the Great Fairy Forest too long, but Jericho basically has gone completely head-over-heels over Ban, basically going all 'where he goes, I will go'. And when King drops the big question on Jericho, she acts flustered for a moment before being all cocky and going 'I'll make him show interest because I've got more to offer than a dead brat'... which is kind of sweet out of context, but borderline disturbing because the only reason she cares about Ban is the constant undressing that Ban does to her.

Ban shows up right behind her, and... strips her. For no good reason. King even lampshades that the stripping is why Jericho's got this 'strange attachment' for Ban, though Ban himself doesn't understand. Pretty sure he's got a one-minded romance mentality for Elaine anyway, so Jericho? You're definitely out of luck, because Ban doesn't seem to be the type to move on. You're also kind of creepy.

Ban talks to King and tells him that he's going to go around searching for a way to bring Elaine back to life, because apparently he's not really thinking of listening to the Goddess Clan Horn or whatever the hell is talking through that. Ban also warns them to get out of the forest because the fairies are only behaving as long as Ban is still around. Jericho, obviously, follows Ban, and King's attempts to get Ban to return get coldly rebuffed with him not wanting to return to the Seven Sins... guilt over him attacking Meliodas probably has something to do with that, too.

Ban then seems to mock King for a bit, before we get a little flashback of how before they set off, Diane was all 'when you go away, I get so lonely I could die' when King heads off. No clue why King chose to believe Ban now, but he gets all red and realizes Diane has regained her old memories. Romance confirmed?

We cut away from Ban and King before any further decisions are made, however, to Gowther and Merlin. Gowther eats some weird cube-shaped medication from Merlin, who gives him quite a number of the tablets, and talks about something along the lines of eating it every day for his 'armour's sake', and we all know there is something mysterious that the armour is doing on Gowther and he's been without it for some time.

Diane interrupts the meeting, freaking out about King disappearing, while Hawk just eyeballs Gowther's medication. Gowther goes away, and spits out the medicine and throws the rest of it away... well, what are you planning, you weird robot-thing? Gowther meets Meliodas, and Meliodas wants to have them pack up to go to Camelot... but Gowther refuses, talking about how unless it's an order, he doesn't want to leave since it's his 'will'. Gowther then heads home with Guila, which kind of puzzles Meliodas.

Hawk, of course, gorges himself on the medicine that Gowther throws away. Time will tell if those drugs will have an effect on Hawk, though I'm sure the author will not miss a moment to make Hawk suffer comically.

There's a bit where Elizabeth kind of avoids contact with Meliodas, but that's not at all interesting compared to Meliodas finally confronting Merlin. He wants to get back what was stolen from him ten years ago when he was driven out of the kingdom, and Meliodas reveals to Merlin that the guys that not-Dreyfus unleashed last chapter are the 'Ten Commandments', who are apparently the most elite force under the Demon King himself. This freaks Merlin out so much that her telekinesis magic thing goes haywire and everything in her lab-room gets levitated and spins around in a storm. The two of them then prepare to 'delve into the real issue'.

(Presumably the Ten Commandments have already blown up a small town or two by the time all these stuff goes down)

Gowther and Guila continue to be lovey-dovey, and Guila's brother Zeal shows up, wanting to talk to Guila and he looks pretty scared... and then the last panel is Gowther walking up towards a terrified Zeal with a serene look on his face and energy forming in his fingers, and says about how if Zeal wants to talk, he can always talk to Gowther...

Man, Gowther has snapped. Whether he's basically gone out of control, has mind-wiped Guila or actually is trying to hold on to his lover Guila in an extremely yandere way. And considering how emotionless he normally is, it's not too far-fetched to say that he's so socially obstute that when he does fall in love he takes it to the extreme. And perhaps Merlin's medication is suppressing Gowther's lust or something. It's certainly a fun direction to take Gowther in, even if it's a creepy one, and I'm really curious to see if Guila is going to get in the way between Gowther and Zeal and, well, basically everything about their relationship. It's so weird. Maybe he's just a robot trying to define his own 'will' and 'existence' by acting so much like a human, and those tablets are supposed to suppress his emotions, the most extreme of which is love and/or lust?

Also want to see more of the Meliodas/Merlin conversation and the whole Ten Commandments thing, but for the moment I am really curious about just what the fuck Gowther, the Goat's Sin of Lust, exactly is. He's been one of the most mysterious characters since his introduction and I really want some answers.