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Seven Deadly Sins 73.5

This is going to be a doozy: at least double the length of a normal chapter. Also, Seven Deadly Sins will be getting an anime adaptation, which is exciting for me as a fan.

Ages ago, the human and fairy kingdom made a treaty of noninterference. But it was partly based on the immense power King had under the name Harlequin

Diane sneaks up on King, scaring him with a prank. They talk about his dreams, King seeming like he forgot he was the fairy king. Diane rescued him when he was unconscious on a riverbank and she and King became friends, since Diane was alone for so long, only able to make golems for friends.

The next day, King finds Diane talking with a human. He tells her not to trust humans, which she inquires further about. We flashback to King and Helbram’s past, Helbram wanting to engage with humans, but King not interested. King confirms he has amnesia, slowly remembering things, like his original name and his friend.

Diane’s sick with a fever and King goes to get herbs, but Diane stops him, not wanting to be alone. We flashback to King leaving the forest in his sister’s hands to find Helbram. King wakes up, remembering his sister as the human from before comes in. He helps make medicine for Diane. King thanks him, the time passing for him slower than for the human, which was years ago

Diane and King are playing tag, Diane’s clothes ripped off. King helps her by tying her hair up in her usual pigtails and giving her the clothes she wears now, promising to teach her later.

King flashes back again, remembering that his job was to protect the Fairy Forest, mulling on that.

King and Diane find a village, discovering that the human from before is long dead and his grandchild is now an adult, meaning at least 30-50 years have passed. The two of them think about how short humans’ lives are compared to theirs and Diane asks King to always love her, since marriage is a foreign concept to them and a human practice. The fact that they can live for hundreds of years without significant aging does make it a bit redundant.

We flashback again after King sees the merchant’s carriage that goes to the village they were at, Helbram kidnapped by a man that looks like the human form he took for a long time.

King awakens, remembering everything: who he was, where he lived, what happened to Helbram, and how he came to be found by Diane. The village nearby is on fire, King going there, promising to reunite with Diane. Helbram reveals he’s taken on the form of the human who captured him. Helbram says it’s because he thought Harlequin was dead by a human, so he takes on that form to remind him of his hatred for humans. The humans tricked him and his friends to kill them for their wings, Helbram resenting them for their pettiness. He’s been killing humans for 500 years, aiming to eliminate them all for their horrible treatment of the fairies, torturing them to get the wings off without damaging them.

King seemingly kills Helbram by throwing a rose through his chest, apologizing and desiring to repent for his sin of leaving Helbram to suffer for so long without knowing.

King later claims he committed the murders, taken in by the humans and charged with this sin, imprisonment for a millennium the initial punishment, likely changed when he joined the Seven Deadly Sins.

The chapter ends as Diane, put to sleep by King, wakes up and remembers his scent as she wanders alone again.

Magi 222 

The Origin Dragon, specifically the Mother Dragon in this case, asks Solomon what he wants. Sheba reflects on how long lived this species is, 8000 years, amazed at the area around it, which seems lonely somehow. She even notices Solomon seems nervous.

We flashback to Sheba demanding to meet the Dragon in place of Arba. They explain that it’s dangerous, since it’s in the Continental Rift, like the one in the present world: light doesn’t reach into it and the Orthodoxy told children it was a place Ill Irah had forsaken. But Ugo says it’s just incomplete: the laws of physics don’t work the same there, implying Ill Irah seemed to stop halfway in creating the world. They leap in, Solomon’s staff keeping them safe.

It’s told to Sheba that there were two species that were resistant to the mind manipulation magic: the Red Lions of the Isteqa continent (the true form of the Fanalis Mu spoke of?) and the Mother Dragons. There’s only one Mother Dragon left, happy to see Solomon.

She says Solomon once was obedient to David, subjugating the other species. David was the one who developed the Gunud (the mind control magic) 500 years ago, Ugo explaining that David is over 800 years old. Sheba thinks this is why Solomon feels most responsible for undoing the damage the Orthodox have done. She encourages Solomon, saying that they’ll never betray him (nullified by the sad truth that one of them will in the future)

Solomon was saved by the Mother Dragon, since he wasn’t blessed by the Divine Staff. She slowly taught him and he began to realize the error of his father’s ways.

The Mother Dragon says she has seen the world from its beginning and the destruction and recreation over time makes the lives of humans seem like blinks: the world itself an instant to Ill Irah, but something else even higher than Ill Irah apparently exists.

She then notes that the world’s lifespan is reaching its end: 800 years ago, Ill Irah was white and pure, but over 800 years, humans have stolen magoi constantly and “God” is losing power, eventually to the point where the world will lose its life.

But Ugo’s confused at this, Solomon saying that God may not have had a will and people likely distorted what the true meaning of the gift of magoi from Ill Irah was. Ugo wonders what Solomon’s talking about, that thread dropping for now.

The conclusion is made that since the natural way of magic is just borrowing from the natural phenomena in the world that something is going beyond that and venturing into the realm of God itself. Someone is reaching such a level that they would kill God by draining its very power. The chapter ends of Ugo and Solomon saying there’s only one person besides Solomon that has that kind of power, David.

Next chapter will start a special arc, possibly going back to explaining David’s plans: likely involving Black Rukh

World Trigger 56

We learn that Kikuchihara (not Mikami, who’s the Operator for Kazama squad), has a Side Effect of enhanced hearing. It’s low ranking by Border standards, which ranks them from C-Enhanced senses to S-Extra Sensory Perception. Kazama thinks it has potential, Usami, their Operator back then, saying that she can transmit his auditory data, giving Kazama’s squad an advantage over the others. They rise to A rank quickly, since they were able to overcome the difficulty of fighting against a newly developed Chameleon Trigger at the time.

In the present, the team is easily dodging Endra’s attacks, Endra realizing they’re fighting by sensing the sound properties of his Trigger, which liquefies and seeps into places. He spreads the sounds around, but Kikuchihara is able to pinpoint the attacks with his Side Effect’s precision of hearing and they move forward to attack, dodging the real attacks.

Endra, frustrated at their tactics, unleashes his full power, hundreds of blades bursting everywhere. Kazama manages to slice off Endra’s head, the group thinking he’s done. But he returns his head to his body, the true nature of the Trigger being that it’s his entire body.

But Endra reveals his body doesn’t liquefy, Kazama spitting out blood as Mikami finds out that Endra’s forming Trion blades inside Kazama’s body, slowly killing him.

Endra compliments them on having a plan, but says it’s pointless to fight him, since he’s a Black Trigger. He defeats Kazama, who bails out as the chapter ends with Kikuchihara and Utagawa left to fight Endra.

 

Naruto 673

 Madara’s confused, the chakra at Gai’s heart gate not disappearing. Naruto moves to attack, Madara turning the Truth Seeking Orb that Naruto kicked away into a blade. But Naruto slams him into the tree, Madara thinking he still hasn’t recovered. He realizes, however, that Naruto’s overall power has increased.

Naruto draws out some of Son Goku’s power, combining his Rasen Shuriken with the Four Tail’s Lava Release. Madara counters with his Limbo attack, but Naruto dodges, sending his attack at Madara. It cuts the tree down and Madara is heavily damaged.

The ten Tail’s chakra inside the tree talks to Madara, telling him to absorb all of its power. Madara does this as Naruto gets Gai away from the tree, which disappears suddenly.

Naruto tells Lee Gai’s in no danger of dying, which really takes any sting out of his making a sacrifice.

Sasuke pulls the black rod out of Tobirama, who realizes something. He explains he can still teleport people with Minato’s seals, but he can only do one person with the power he has now. Sasuke says he’ll be enough.

Madara, having absorbed the Ten Tails, is now ready to start his final plans.

Naruto moves to fight Madara, Gaara vowing to become sworn sake brothers with him (like in NuraMago, sort of)

Kakashi sees Naruto, realizing Obito’s sacrifice. Obito is talking to Sakura, who thanks him even though he was once her enemy. Obito has a final request of her.

Naruto can now sense the other half of Hagoromo’s chakra in Madara. Madara says he can’t be defeated now, Naruto retorting that he and Sasuke will defeat him together.

Madara reveals that Naruto has Hagoromo’s senjutsu and Sasuke has awakened the Rinnegan, the chapter ending on him saying he has both and will defeat their teamwork.

Toriko 274

 The group is falling through the clouds, not making landfall on the Gourmet World yet. Quinn pops out and keeps the group from falling by grabbing onto a cliff, but Torpedo Sausage (flying sharks, basically), start biting at Quinn’s body. But she perseveres, Kiss flying in to stop them. A beast that’s as strong as the Four Beast, at capture level 255, appears and starts attacking the Torpedo Sausage.

Zebra thinks the Gourmet World is boring, but a voice comes from the clouds, appearing as a Wanyuudo, a face on a spoked wheel. It summons clouds to pull Toriko and Coco away, Zebra attacking it, but it constantly dodges. Sani’s Dining Kitchen cant’ even reach it, as they’re just out of its range. Terry moves to attack, but Toriko says they’ll be fine. He urges Terry to protect the others.

Toriko tells Zebra to use a barrier, Komatsu wondering why they aren’t going after them. Zebra reminds him that their goal is to survive and trying to save them might kill everyone.

Komatsu tries to communicate with the Riddle Chapter (the new capture level measuring device), but the fog is blocking reception.  Sani thought something like this would happen, so he put a tracker on them in the form of his Remote Hair.

Toriko and Coco are trying to get out of the fog, both Coco’s sight and Toriko’s smell sensing real food. They find a huge place with restaurant stalls lining the streets. The food’s all real too. The frog from before explains that it’s Real Mist, neither fake nor real.  He says it depends on you believing in it to be eaten, offering them a seat next to him.

The chapter ends as Sani senses something bad’s happening.

Bleach 577

  

Bazz B sees the meteor and immediately concludes Gremmy has done something crazy, annoyed at how quickly Gremmy jumped to an attack that’d kill everyone. Everyone else in Soul Society is looking on in fear or awe. Askin thinks to himself that Gremmy’s not all there and that they should’ve killed him when they had the chance. A Soul Reaper is confident the Shakonmaku that surrounds Seireitei will protect them, but the meteor smashes through, the threat still imminent. Jugram tells the Soldat to protect Juhabach, who’s looking on seemingly unaffected.

Gremmy explains that even if he’s killed, the meteorite remains a reality. He insists he’ll be the last one standing, saying Kenpachi has no way of winning.

But Kenpachi isn’t fazed, saying Gremmy’s no longer a threat, since he’s used all of his power and still hasn’t made him hesitate at all. He leaps up, releasing his Zanpakutou with the command “drink”

We flash back to Kenpachi meeting Yachiru as she remembers this, meaning it’s important in some way unknown to us.

The chapter ends as we see Kenpachi’s release form, a giant axe.

Fairy Tail 381 

Sayla has seemingly lost control after transforming into her demon form, attacking everyone in sight. Mira’s amazed at the power, thinking there’s no way they could win unless Take Over works. Sayla uses her Macro to power up even further, slashing at Mira. Lisanna is helpless to stop her and Mira is still unable to counter.

Mirajane flashes back to her childhood, the village she, Lisanna and Elfman lived in calling Mira a witch. She got near a church and fought a demon, unleashing her natural Take Over talent to absorb the demon’s power and defeat it. But the village still condemns her.

They leave, learning about Take Over from Makarov, Mira having problems fitting into the guild, while Elfman and Lisanna are getting along well.

Mira decides to leave, thinking her siblings will be fine: but she doesn’t see herself as human anymore. But Elfman and Lisanna stop her, revealing they learned how to use Take Over as well (Elfman’s was still undeveloped compared to his eventually mastery of the art later on). They still need to practice, but they promise to protect Mirajane like she protected them.

Back in the fight, Mira regains her resolve, trying to use Take Over on Sayla again, Sayla pushing her away. But she notes that she felt like a part of her was taken away, so she moves to destroy her, unlocking her Demon Eye power.

Mira reveals that she’s comprehended the power of Macro to send remote commands, Sayla realizing that Mira used Take Over on just her Curse power. Elfman is being controlled by Mira to attack Sayla, slamming her into the ground as the chapter ends.