Nanatsu no Taizai 118 Review: Chastiefol's Bankai

Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 118: Clash at the Fairy King's Forest

I've been worried how King (and Diane) will stack up with everyone getting power-ups. King's been the biggest badass amongst the crew before, but that was before Meliodas got his Sacred Treasure. And Ban hasn't even gotten his yet. And Merlin hasn't really even fought yet. And Gowther's weird. With King having his Sacred Treasure from the beginning and kind of struggling while fighting Hendricksen's lackey Helbram while Meliodas defeated Hendricksen without using his Sacred Treasure, it kind of seems that King and Diane will end up being the weakest of the Seven Sins since we apparently saw their full strength before this whole demon arc starts up.

Well apparently we didn't. And while Chastiefol having a 'True Form' is a bit of pulled out of the ass honestly, I thought it's pretty great that King actually, y'know, gets some kind of recoil from using this supremely powerful attack that just one-shots George the gangly golem to death.

But that's the final scene of the chapter. The first one starts off with Jericho and Generic-Fairy showing up near Gerharde and Gerharde just realizing that holy shit there's a building-sized monster blowing shit up outside. King tries his best with his regular Chastiefol to injure George the Golem and keeps thinking about Diane to keep coming back and attacking the Golem, but he gets rather brutally thrown around.

Then George slashes the Great Tree in half -- damn thing can't catch a break, and as King falls down and mutters about being a failure and shit, he sees Ban and Elaine within the tree. Though Ban has apparently been freed of Gerharde's crazy roots thanks to George's whip-arm things. (Jericho kind of disappears after the first page) Gerharde pulls King away from the conflict and blabs about how the Fairy King must survive for the fairy forest to survive, while all the generic fairy bastards fly up to try distract George.

We actually see some of the generic fairies get totally sliced in half and they totally died, which was unexpectedly brutal.

Helbram's ghost-thing shows up and starts talking to King again, and actually plays into King's Sloth sin pretty well as Helbram points out that the fairy clan itself is being slothful and relying too much on any given king solving their problems, and this way they're kind of making it up. Helbram tells King that he's sacrificed enough and now it's time to be a little selfish and return to Diane.

But King is, y'know, a nice guy. Won't let people die for him. So he stops Helbram and Gerharde and just goes all 'Sacred Treasure Release' which is basically a bankai, which no one apparently knew about, and then King talks about how he's selfish and he wants to protect everything (you sure you're Sloth and not Greed, King?) even Ban, who even now is protecting Elaine. Chastiefol assumes its true form, which is this holy-fuck-what-is-that giant spear which just nukes George the Golem to oblivion... but King falls.

A rather unexpected development because I was expecting Ban and King to do this heroic team-up and get everyone to acknowledge King as the Fairy King. But no, this happened instead. I'm curious to see what's going to happen to both Ban and King, really, and if this little conflict -- King's TRUE FORM and Ban being stabbed through the heart -- will have any lasting effects. Maybe Gowther didn't mess with Diane's memories after all and the backlash from using Chastiefol's true form is what will fuck King up?