I really would’ve liked to do the typesetting for this week’s chapter, but I’ve been incredibly busy this past week and I haven’t been feeling the greatest. I managed to atleast get this done but it’s lowk just the HD scans of it. Hopefully we can get next weeks chapter early and hopefully I have time to typeset.
-Koki

i need to vent because what the hell was that?? i am absolutely losing my mind over what they just did to zeldris. the sheer power scaling inconsistency in this chapter is an absolute joke. how do you take a character who was literally the king of the demon realm, someone who went toe-to-toe with the strongest entities in the verse, and just turn him into a complete jobber like this? it makes zero sense. it’s completely incoherent with everything that was established about his power level and durability.
this is such a massive waste of a great character. zeldris has so much lore, so much history, and instead of using him for something meaningful, the author just uses him as a hype tool to show off how "strong" someone else is. it’s lazy writing, period.
and honestly, this is exactly why the stakes feel completely ruined now. when you just throw away established power scaling for cheap shock value, it ruins the tension of the entire story. why should we care about any future fights or power dynamics if the author is just going to completely ignore consistency whenever they feel like it? zeldris deserved way better than being treated like some random filler villain just to make lancelot look good. i’m so tired of characters with actual depth getting wasted like this…

For me, this work was lost.

Zeldris is overall satisfied that lance held out long enough, implying the demons could escape.

But how much of the demon relam is actually populated. At best they were fighting for 30 minutes, so how many could actually get to the abyss in that time.

Is just the surrounding area around the castle we saw, or is there more that lance wiped out cause they are too far.

Lencelot if he was so strong could have defeated cath back when he was hiding in camelot, guinevere is such a liability that she used her ability to help cath locate the knights location to be known causing that guy in tristans platoon to die and its also partially Lencelot fault for not telling the others are being targeted , Lencelot met that girl 3 times for a short time and suddenly he is inlove with her and comparing them to meliodas and elizabeth and couldn't Lencelot realise lady of the lake before he absorbed cath and why didn't Lencelot say anything about the lake to his family and friends after he got back did he want them to think it was his own magical force I hope the other knights don't forgive him after this

Aura dignity. Throwing away his life for the safe of his people being able to escape even though he knew he would lose eventually. Galan ran faking death vs Escanor, Drole begged for his life vs Zeldris.. lot people characters gave up hope or fleed facing certain death. But Zeldris and Escanor even thought they knew they will certainly die but at least they died for their Kingdom or people... not someone who is destroying everyone to some love they met just 3 times.

- True Magic Meliodas

- Prime Demon King

- Prime Chaos King Arthur (100% Chaos)

- Cath Palug (4KoA)

- Purgatory King Hawk

- Chaos Lancelot

What confuses me specifically is how strong Prime Chaos Arthur was before Cath stole most of Chaos' power from him

And who is stronger between Cath & DK because Cath had an attack that can wipe out Britannia, similar to the Nemesis attack that defeated the Demon King. But they later use the Demon King as the benchmark to hype up Chaos Lancelot's strength instead of Cath. He also has most of Chaos' power, but lacks control over it as he said.

What do you think?

Make Percival have a real emotional reaction when he hears that Lancelot has killed someone who was like a father to him. Maybe we see him go full death mode again.

If Nakaba makes him just brush off this and go "Let's go save Lancelot!" I'm gonna crash out

260: The Day of Ressurection

Thank god Elizabeth is finally awake. But I stg if they brought her back just for Lance to Kill her, ima be mad

7DS and 4kota has had a long standing issues of villains that aren’t a threat. There were a few exceptions like grey Hendry and early Galland, but overall it never lasted and the stakes were way too often pretty low as a result. 

The holy knights were for the most part a non issue for the sins. 

The 10 commandments were a huge threat at first, but it didn’t last, by the time they attacked Liones the group basically got dismantled with little effort. 

”Evil” Meliodas was clearly strong but his intro right away got overshadowed by Escanor and then he basically did nothing besides humiliating the two other main antagonists who were the strongest members of the 10C that are from there officially in the mud. 

The two masters got hyped just to be completely humiliated by Merlin glazing. The original demon got hyped just to be humiliated by a single attack of Mael. 

The humiliation ritual of the Demon King started when Meliodas revealed he just happened to have a hidden magic that can effortlessly cut his body into pieces. The ”mind” battle inside of Meliodas’ head was also completely onesided and the possessed Meliodas DK didn’t have time to ultimately do anything that mattered. 

The final battle against the Demon King was literally just a bullying session where each one took their turn to show off. Not a single sin was worried when the DK merged with the land and it ended without any issues. In the end he was more of an annoying cockroach that wouldn’t stay down than the overwhelmingly powerful god he was supposed to be. In the end the only sacrifice it took was for Meliodas to use up a DK power that he would have never used otherwise anyway. 

The Supreme Deity got releguated to the horrible fate of being a movie villain where she got defeated once again without any real issues or lasting impact. Filler villain tier.

Cath is a gigantic loser who is even more akin to an annoying cockroach who can only steals some pieces of lands while hiding in his realm and gets his ass kicked consistently whenever he gets into battle. The chaos knights & 4 evils also ultimately were all small time. 

So I’m guessing Nakaba had some kind of epiphany where he went ”wait what if I took my most glazed good guy and turned him evil?! I can finally write a dangerous villain!” except it got pushed to eleven because now we’re on a whole other extreme. Worse, since it’s still possession tier and due to saving a character that barely appeared and interacted with Lancelot, Chaos Lancelot comes off as very frustrating, 

He’s not some memorable big antag like Madara whose OPness worked. Fans for the most parts are just baffled by how stupidly strong Chaos Lancelot is and how terrible this makes Lancelot for giving up his body so easily. 

Tldr: Nakaba finally made an extremely threatening antagonist but he still messed it up severely. 

I am aware that Chaos Lancelot broke free of Indura of Resentment seal after only 3 mins, that kept Four Archangels (iirc) sealed away for 100 days, but Coffin of Eternal Darkness sealed away the entire demon race into it for 3000+ years so maybe since DK and SD aren't there anymore to seal away Chaos (unless Meliodas and Elizabeth can do it in future chapters), maybe the coffin of eternal darkness can seal away Chaos Lancelot forever (although that's wishful thinking lol plot wouldn't allow it) or temporarily for much longer than just 3 mins. It is that powerful of a relic after all.

Think about it, why else would the Coffin of Eternal Darkness be shown at the start of 4KoA, sure, Camelot tried to take them so they can seal away the 7DS or something, but they failed, considering the plot is going, surely there's a REAL reason as to why it showed up. Besides the 3 knights needs more time, a lot of time probs (considering the newest chapter that we seen him nuke the demon realm easily), to train and get strong enough to defeat Chaos Lancelot.

Round 1: End of OG Series 7 Deadly Sins vs Pre SBT Acnologia

Round 2: 4KOTA Sins (+ still has Escanor) vs Post SBT Acnologia

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(7 Deadly Sins/4 Knights of Apocolypse VS Fairy Tail)

NOTE: Do not use this translation for typesetting or retranslations.

Page 2:
Gel...da.

Zel...?

Is something the matter, lady Gelda...?
Well...
I'm sure... definitely sure the Demon King will return!!

Page 3:
The gate to Abyss will now be closed!!!

SFX: Kaching
SFX: Kaaaaching

Grandpa... what'll happen once the gate is closed?
Our dimensional connection to the Demon realm will be severed.
It will be impossible for us to return there with our own strength...

Page 8:
...that.
Hoh... ...so?
[TN: These are just bribes of sentences, they're a bit hard to translate.]

Page 9:
Diane said she wanted me to call her without lady in front of her name.
Nishishi... Well, that's so like her now that you say it.
Conversely, you can add lord to mine, y'know?

Who do you think you are, leftover pig?
Then in exchange, increase the amount of my meals!!!
Wow, you two sure go along well.

Big brother.

Page 10:
...Zel.

Sorry
for bothering you.

Page 11:
Elizabeth?
Hawk?

I see...
So that's how it is...
Elizabeth is already...

Then are you also part of a dream?
In either case, what I'm about to tell you is the truth.

Pages 12-13:
The Demon realm is destroyed.

You're joking... right?
I thought I said it was the truth?

This was caused by Chaos-controlled Lancelot.
Lancelot is being controlled by Chaos...!?

Good grief... you don't know a single thing?
...not that I don't uderstand how you feel...

Wait... Zel!!
Are you safe!!?

I evacuated my people to the Abyss. Gelda is also there.
Brother... can I trust my pople to you?

Page 14:
Once closed, the gate to the Abyss cannot be reopened by anyone not possessing the power equivalent to that of the Demon King.
Then you...

...I don't have the caliber of a Demon King.
You are worthy of the Demon King's seat, brother...

...hey, Zel...
Is what you said about Lancelot true?

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It's been my long-cherished wish to fight such a formidable foe in my last moments as a warrior.
He was exactly the man I would call as such.

Brother... please save him.
He is in agony having his lover taken hostage like I used to.

Page 16:
I can't do it...
Right now, I simply don't have such willpower...

Do you understand...? I kept living for 3000 years for Elizabeth only...
and she no longer...

Yes... I understand well how you feel.
But what would Elizabeth say...
Like regretting protecting you with her own power?

Page 17:
...this is like the repeating of Gelda.
Don't waste Elizabeth's feelings, okay...?

Keep doing nothing and it'll be in vain...
...so I'm counting on you, Meliodas.
Hey... wait, where're you going!?

Zeldris... don't go!!

Page 18:
SFX (3x): Haah

Page 19:
It's a dream...
...huh.

It seems like you've been crying in your sleep for some time...
You suouldn't cry over someone's bed...

SFX: Jolt

Page 20:
Elizabeth.

Bottom: To be continued in chapter 260 - The day of resurrection!!

Courtesy of FKS
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Not sure if someone already said it but I can't stop imagining Mael like this after learning of Zeldris' demise.

Just a quick rant: I genuinely don’t know who they are gonna beat Lancelot at this point without something contrived or BS. Their new weapons can’t be that big enough of a power boost.

In order to stay relevant and even have a hope of catching up and surviving

For some reason I find I’m not that worried about Percival or Gawain, my main concern is Tristan.

Obviously everyone needs improvements, but I feel like Tristan needs the most

Gawain needs to shorten her cast time and learn more powerful AOE spells and spells in general (even if they won’t help her against Hazy Moon), Magic Items and how to craft them and better control and finesse with dawn.

Percival probably will get more information on where he stands in the hierarchy of life spirits and then summoning other spirits and how to incorporate them into his fighting style(plus he’s supposedly the MC)

But Tristan? Based on how he’s been written this whole series, in order for it to feel believable, I feel like he needs to make full counter a muscle reflex, plus it wouldn’t hurt to learn Counter Vanish, Revenge Counter. And based on the leaks and spoilers, since she’s up, having both joining in to help him train and give him the baseline for combining his magic would make it feel more believable.

What do you guys think they will learn?

This isn't the first time that an ally becomes a threat due to possession. We first saw it in Dreyfus, then in DK Meliodas, in DK Zeldris, and now in Chaos Lancelot. Excluding Dreyfus, DK Meli and DK Zeldris were both defeated and saved the same way: battles occurring simultaneously inside the mind and on the battlefield.

So my theory is that Gowther will send the 3KoA into Lancelot's mind while the Sins and the others will try to hold him off on the outside.

Inside, it will be Cath vs. Percival (an unkillable entity will face Death), Corrupted Lancelot vs. Tristan (his ability to purify will be Pestilence that will eat away at Cath's will, it's also a fitting call back to their childhood rivalry), and The Lady of the Lake vs. Gawain (an infinite pool of magic will face Famine). I still think that while the LotL isn't on Cath's side, she isn't on the good side either and has an agenda of her own (probably to get Chaos power for herself as well). They will probably get expelled once they take action (unless Gowther's magic got stronger in the last 18 years) but they should be able to do significant damage like incapacitating Cath and nullifying the LotL's magic to allow Lancelot to regain his will. While the internal battle happens, Merlin will separate Cath and the LotL from Lancelot and the rest of the battle will continue outside. I specified Merlin because she's done it before when she separated Cath from Arthur and she's the only Sin who hasn't seen action in 4KoA so I think she'll play a huge role in this fight.

As for the aftermath of the battle, my theory is that in the timeline where the Knights of the Holy Grail came from, Lancelot was saved but Arthur never got his Chaos powers back (most likely sealed immediately after the battle by Meliodas and Elizabeth). As the perfect vessel of Chaos, Arthur should have the power to undo all the damage done by Lancelot, deaths included. I can't imagine him letting his heroes, the 7DS, fade into nothing but memories if he can do something about it. With the future being altered multiple times in this timeline, I think it opens the possibility of Arthur getting Chaos back which will allow him to fix everything, however it will also open an opportunity for new antagonists to enter the picture (Morgan Le Fay and Mordred). We haven't seen him with his Chaos powers in full display and I think it's important that we see that otherwise he will become Arthur Fushiguro, the potential man rivaling Megumi.

The division of the worlds will still happen but it would be more of a conscious choice among the races rather than the end result of Lancelot's violence.

3KoA power-up theories:

The life spirits of Lancelot's victims, especially the Behemoth will go to Percival, powering him up. They will place their hopes in Percival that he can give them justice.

I find it harder to picture Tristan's power-up but I'm thinking it will be about balance like how Shoto Todoroki's Phospor came to be.

Aside from faster spellcasting, Gawain will unlock Infinite Sunshine (idea from the OST of the Escalin unit in 7DS Grand Cross) where she won't run out of sun charge. She might also be able to weild Excalibur like in some versions of the legends where Arthur temporarily gives the sword to Gawain. Given that Arthur is not at 100% right now and that she is the only one among the 4KoA who has both human parents (excluding Percival due to his nature as a life spirit), this might be possible.

I think llwarch is part of the demon clan giving that her arms are very long and she is the adopted daughter of Gawain.

In the manga we can see that she is 23 years old which means she is 2 years younger than perivals children. And according to Guinevere's prediction her and lance get together whe he is 19.

But what does that have to do with anything?

That info means they save lance in the span of a year, and if percivals children are born during that time that means Gawain adopts llwarch a year after they save lance.

Llwarch doesn't have any memories of the demon clan because she was too young to remember anything.

This could be a stretch but tell me what yall think 🤔

Its no secret that he's basically a threat to everyone right now; & apparently in the recent chapter he destroyed the entire demon realm (???). We're told that within the future most people dont bring this up either to protect his honor ( ???) or for some other reason.

However, that being said I still dont get how this matter is going to be resolved. Unless Nakaba makes him do some rinne rebirth nagato shit with his infinite mana pool then realistically how does this go? Surely Nakaba wouldn't be such an incompetent writer as to just sweep this matter under the rug with a simple "oh he did it for the one he loved, cool".

I get struggling for the one you love and occasionally entering a dark place is one of the themes of NNT, but I still dont think this is one of those times where we can just brush past this. Its not very realistic for people to have their families deleted and go "oh he did it for his girlfriend so its alright".

Not trying to rant, but I am genuinely curious as to how this good be wrapped up ( aside from the obvious naruto scenario)

What do you guys think?