Nanatsu no Taizai 117 Review: Goth Fairy Bitch

Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 117: Two Fairy Kings

Not really a lot happened in this chapter compared to the previous chapters, but we still move on the King/Ban plot. I thought it was weird to introduce this new character Gerard (who some other translations call 'Gerharde' and since that's more gender-neutral I'll call her that) literally out of nowhere and this little goth fairy bitch is suddenly this big threat? I'm just confused. On one hand Ban and King are two of my favourite Nanatsu no Taizai characters and I like seeing them just do stuff, but on the other hand the stuff with Camelot and Merlin and Gowther and the Ten Commandments all interest me so much more than this. It's still good though!

We see this big lanky golem dude -- who I'm going to call George until he gets an actual name -- trash around and cut mountains with the sheer force of his arm. The generic fairies all fly around scared and shit, but King, of course, comes to the defense of the Fairy Forest and summons Chastiefol in Sunflower form and solarbeams George the Golem in the face. George manages to knock King back with his own beam attack and kind of make his head bleed a little, but neither really seems to be gravely injured. The other fairies are like 'why is the traitor king defending the forest' and all that, and I guess we're going to have a "redemption" arc for King? It's in my opinion that it happens a bit too soon after the revelation that the new Fairy King is Ban, I guess.

Jericho tries to get Ban, but the entrance to the chamber Ban is in is blocked by a shit-ton of roots and whatnot. Gerharde, of course, doesn't really make it a secret that she hates the idea of Fairy King Ban, and Ban himself really doesn't give a shit either way. Ban's actually being quite nice, immediately acknowledging that he never had any intentions to become Fairy King and that Elaine told him before that fairies naturally dislike the destructive humans. Gerharde then rants about how Ban has done the fairies a service by restoring the great tree but the only king is Harlequin, and despite Ban's insistence that, y'know, he does not give a flying fuck and is going to leave anyway, Gerharde attacks Ban with some underground thorn-root things. Ban acrobat kung-fu's his way through them, and still tries to talk Gerharde down, but Gerharde sends a root drill towards Elaine's dead body because she's a bitch that way.

Jericho manages to cut her way through the thorns and sees Ban pierced through the chest above Elaine, suspended by roots as he bleeds out down into Elaine's corpse. Gerharde says something ominous about Ban living as the new fountain of youth for all eternity next to his beloved...

And really, all this could've done with some better build-up. Gerharde could've shown up in the earlier King/Ban chapters, and it could've been done less abruptly. Honestly no one is going to buy that this random goth fairy bitch that came out of nowhere can just come and take out a main character like Ban in such an unglorified way. But I guess I'm still interested to see what's going to happen next, even if I bet it's going to involve King rescuing Ban and gaining the respect of everyone else and reclaiming his Fairy King title. It's not bad, it's predictable is all