Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 119: The Ten Commandments Begin To Move
More of a setup chapter, but since it features the Ten Commandments, it's still pretty freaking awesome. There's a little side story of King way back in the past just talking to Hellbram about how he loves the Fairy King forest, which is kind of nice I guess. The Edinburgh/Escanor side story, naturally, deserves its own post because of how fucking revelation-heavy it was.
The chapter opens with Hendricksen just trying to recover from his exhaustion and remembering that the Demons are still trying to regain their power. He also wants to turn Dreyfus back. And then he collapses. Whoops. Hendricksen's going to be a good guy I guess? That's fine by me, actually, though I don't think the other characters bar Meliodas will be all too happy with working alongside him.
We cut back to Zeldoris and, uh, *googles* Estarossa (I need to get a handle on these new names) who sense the destruction of the two Albions. Shadow-Hands Girl isn't particularly bothered by the 'rusty old toys' but the gangly armoured knight dude, whose name is revealed as Galan (as in Sir Galahad?) at the end of this chapter, is all laughing and crazy and shit. He reminds me of Nnoitra from Bleach, actually, minus sadistic sexism.
Galan is all ready to check out the powers that destroyed the Albions, even though Shadow-Hands Girl warns him that his power is basically depleted. Galan is all like 'it's going to be a warm-up exercise and I'm not going to be defeated' but Zeldoris blocks him and goes all 'did you forget that our pride led to our defeat'? Galan's reply to what is presumably one of the strongest Demons is 'the forgetfulness of the elderly is a terrible thing'. That panel is pretty awesome. Man, you crazy old suit of armour. I kind of like you. Zeldoris doesn't seem keen to stop Galan, though.
Mass-of-Tentacles Girl then walks up and informs Galan that one of the power signatures was nearly double of Albion (good job there King with your Bankai Chastiefol) and the other Albion had its power reflected back at him (Meliodas). Galan pats the Tentacle girl on the head which is cute, before just shooting straight into the sky, leaving behind an explosion. That's a rather cool visual! Kind of like the Hulk, really, how Galan just jumps to transverse large distances.
King Arthur gets a recap of the Ten Commandments and Albion and all that, and the destroyed Albion kind of looks like a broken Baymax. Also, apparently Threader has the doll Gowther tucked in his pocket. Meliodas then explains the power of Lostvayne, which clones himself -- and they naturally gang-grope Elizabeth. Pervert. Threader and Diane beat up all the Meliodas-es.
Hawk notes that Meliodas' power is 3370, but all the other Meliodases bar the original have only around 420. Merlin then explains that Lostvayne creates a clone with a power half of the original (1685), but that power is further divided if Meliodas creates even more clones. Since Meliodas fights by reflecting attacks anyway, though, it doesn't really matter.
Also apparently Diane's sacred treasure also has a special power that hasn't been revealed before (even when she's bleeding and dying when fighting Hellbram and Dreyfus). Elizabeth gets a generic 'I'm useless to Sir Meliodas' moment, while Merlin ponders the prophecy. She thinks how the other parts of the prophecy doesn't make any sense if Albion is the 'mountain' referred to in the prophecy, but some distance behind her there's a big explosion leading into the sky, and then we get a full page of Galan just shooting down and impacting on the ground like a goddamned Transformer.
Galan notes how he needed to take seventy-two steps (or giant hops) to reach Camelot instead of seventy, and notes how slow he's became. Also I've only noticed the grimacing faces on his knee-guards in this chapter. Galan and Meliodas notes each other, and Galan mocks Meliodas by saying how his appearance hasn't changed at all. We then get a pretty cool page of a shadowed Galan, and his power level, according to Hawk... is 26,000. Meliodas is only 3370, for perspective. This might be showing Galan at full power and not his currently weakened form, but if it is, well... that's one way the power levels gets to become pretty effective.
Freaking excited for the next chapter, which, thankfully, is going to be soon thanks to my lateness.
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