Nanatsu no Taizai 141: Death and Rebirth

Nanatsu no Taizai, Chapter 141: Father and Son

 We continue right off where we left off last chapter, with Ban and Zhivago just catching up, talking about how Zhivago kept the fact that he was a beastman secret from Ban, and how Ban drank from the fountain of youth. Ban basically dashes any Ban-X-Jericho shipping hopes by calling her his wallet (HA) or his little sister... before mentioning that he actually had a little sister who died when they were young. Huh. 

Some talk about reviving Elaine got Jericho grumpy, though Ban does take the opportunity to fuck around with Jericho and just tease her -- he does admit to Jericho's face that Jericho is the first human he doesn't mind being around... though considering all of his friends aren't humans in any way, well... he also re-establishes that he doesn't like Jericho in that way and considering how the chapter focuses so much on Ban's search for Elaine, it's not hard to tell where the ship will skew. Zhivago also mentions rumours about the dead coming back to life, like this fucking creepy-ass dead woman going back to her home and killing her husband. 

Ban also admits to his father about his internal problem when he chose reviving Elaine over Meliodas, noting what a "fucking piece of shit" he was. Zhivago tries to tell Ban that it's similar to the situation with him choosing Therion over him, but Ban's main point was that he tried to kill Meliodas. Zhivago notes how Ban keeps saying that Meliodas never got angry at him despite the whole killing attempt thing, and notes that Ban has a good friend and all he had to do is apologize... before fucking dying what the hell?

Goddamn touching scene, though, how he himself actually suffered for his whole life from running way from Ban and being tormented all the while despite Ban himself forgiving Zhivago since long ago. Pretty surprising, though since practically everyone expected Zhivago to train Ban and give him the power-up the way the druids were to Meliodas' team and Matrona was to Diane.

Then we cut away to a farmer coming back to life as a zombie, and then to this rain of souls coming down from the sky, while this Ten Commandment girl -- the one with giant shadow-hands -- starts chanting about how souls with regret and anger will be granted a second chance to take revenge on those who wronged them in life. She's apparently hanging out with Galan, who just grabs a random soul and noms on it. 

One soul goes to the Great Fairy Tree... and fucking revives Elaine. Well, how great is it that all the Ban stuff neatly ties into the Great Fairy Tree, the Ten Commandments and his own moving on from his guilt? Absolutely awesome chapter and I really want to see what's going to go on with Elaine and whether she is insane or whatever.