Chapter Mokushiroku no Yonkishi Chapter 259 Spoilers & Discussion

[Rey151203]

The last thing to address is the elephant in the room, that being Elizabeth's return. I will say right off the bat that if this is exactly as it seems with no strings attached then it's total bullshit. When Elizabeth activated Perfect Time it prompted Meliodas to start bawling his eyes out because it essentially meant her going away somewhere he couldn't follow. This was reinforced after the battle when she ended up in a coma that Gowther said she was unlikely to ever wake up from. Now that was obviously not actually going to stick because in a series like this a character being put in a state of half-death practically guarantees that they will be revived, which is completely fine as long as the amount of effort required to bring them back feels appropriate for the situation. The problem here is that Elizabeth's revival required precisely zero effort because she just randomly got up mere days of her sacrifice for no reason. This is nonsensical.

However, the reason why I said no strings attached is because the manner in which things happen is somewhat suspicious. In the very first shot we see of Elizabeth's face she has this weird grin on her face, which does not seem appropriate for the situation. This gives me the impression that something may have gone wrong here. Is it possible that the person who woke up is not actually the Elizabeth we know but rather a different personality, paralleling what happened in NnT when Meliodas died and then came back without some of his emotions? I guess that could be way for Nakaba to finally show us the so called "Bloodstained Ellie" by turning Elizabeth evil.

Alternatively it could be that the revival that the next chapter title alludes to is not the revival of Elizabeth or even that of the Archangels like someone mentioned, but rather that of the SD herself. I don't know what the exact mechanism behind it would be, but with how obsessed the DK was with possessing his children's bodies it wouldn't be out of the question for the SD to attempt something similar. The fact that this occurred as a result of Elizabeth mimicking her mother's power and that she just so happened to wake up immediately after the Demon Realm was destroyed could be relevant as well. Most importantly, Elizabeth coming back in a way that introduces an even bigger problem than her coma would alleviate the issue of said coma being essentially ignored as a plot point, because in that case the real quest to bring her back has not even begun yet.

That's a really interesting theory. Elizabeth did not wake up, but was possessed by the supreme deity.

 

[Meliodaf]

His hate for the goddess clan makes the demon royals look like superstars by comparison. There's really levels to this.

I still don't see how the 3KotA gonna stop Lancelot, the whole series now feels like we are smack-dab in the middle of a bait and switch narrative only for the old established characters once again making the important moves and everyone else sidelined to NPC duty. Could've just called it NNT 2 at this point.

Nakaba does also hate goddesses. Mael appears to be safe by way of irrelevance.

Honestly, We’ve spent so much time watching Cath ruin Meliodas’ life that I genuinely do not care if the KotA ever show back up. I’m not invested in their time traveling shenanigans. He can just complete the bait and switch at this point.

 

[Mountain-Photo-165]

Lancelot had been holding back for days, which is why it took him days to destroy Camelot—even though he could have one-shot it just like he did the Demon Realm.

Cath told him that this was the recoil of holding back all that malice.

This means that after releasing all that malice by destroying the Demon Realm, Lancelot should return to normal, allowing him to hold back his power once again.

And that's how he'll be defeated.

 

[OtakuFreak]

I disagree with the idea Elizabeth is being possessed by the SD or that this isn't really her, Nakaba's writing is just as standard as it has been since the prequel in terms of retconning or deleting consequences for the main character's choices. Her waking up is clearly a writing direction for Mel to be motivated to fight and maybe even give up his life or take drastic action.

At this point, Nakaba has written himself into a corner that I do not see any direction or way to defeat Chaos Lancelot other than for Mel and Eli to use their SD / DK powers to seal him away much like their parents did to OG Chaos. It's far too convenient for Eli to wake up AND for there to be an implication Mel could become the DK again, within a single chapter, which proceeded Cath telling us you needed the combined powers of the Gods to properly seal Chaos away.

 

[Capalot98]

I dnt really have much to say about this chapter but I will say seeing all those people that complained about Chaos Lancelot being a fraud a couple chapters ago now complaining about how he is gonna be defeated does put a smile on my face.

I really hope Nakaba switches to the 3 knights training soon because I can’t wait to see what kind of bs training arc he’s gonna write to justify those 3 somehow being able to challenge chaos Lancelot. If it wasn’t for the fact that their the main characters now then I would say Merlin was better off letting the 7ds use the holy grail instead because them working together with holy grail weapons and beating Lancelot is way more believable then the 3 knights doing it after getting trained by the 4 evils

 

[Meliodaf]

Speaking of Merlin she should be dead by the end of this manga. She’s genuinely so awful. The worst thing Meliodas ever did to himself was save her.

 

[Rey151203]

At this point, Nakaba has written himself into a corner that I do not see any direction or way to defeat Chaos Lancelot other than for Mel and Eli to use their SD / DK powers to seal him away much like their parents did to OG Chaos. It's far too convenient for Eli to wake up AND for there to be an implication Mel could become the DK again, within a single chapter, which proceeded Cath telling us you needed the combined powers of the Gods to properly seal Chaos away.

But Lancelot will have to be saved one way or another; that seal would eventually be broken by someone.

 

[kkck]

How did elizabeth wake up? Does that make sense? I suppose it doesn't have to make sense at this point.

 

[Mountain-Photo-165]

Elizabeth's awakening might be the result of one of two things :

• The death of the behemoth : Because he possessed so much life force, when he died, it spread and awakened those who needed it.
• The destruction of the demon realm : it tipped the world's balance of power toward the light , with darkness entirely extinguished, the Goddess Clan and their celestial realm received a massive surge in their light power.

 

[MeliodasDeUzy]

@FKS Could you translate what is written on the side?

 

[Mountain-Photo-165]

Schwarz protected Zeldris. I don't know how, but he might have had some hax or a secret ability that managed to save Zeldris at the cost of his own life.

He wasn't absent in the last chapter only to appear in today's chapter just for dramatic effect—there's clearly something going on with Schwarz.

 

[Covers]

We might get early spoilers in Friday due to holiday.

 

[Mountain-Photo-165]

Hold on a second. I believe Elizabeth woke up because the demon realm was destroyed, tipping the balance of power in favor of light because the realm representing darkness perished. That's the only explanation I can think of.

There was even a panel in this chapter that implies as such—light is slowly becoming dominant over darkness.

But what if that's not all? What if the seal on Chaos wasn't completely lifted by the deaths of the Demon King and the Supreme Deity?

What if their realms also had to be destroyed for the Age of Chaos to truly begin? If that's the case, the Celestial Realm might get destroyed next.

 

[FKS]

@FKS Could you translate what is written on the side?

That's the summary for the events so far. And the text is too blurry to attempt any translation, and I'm not interested in doing this even in the contrary case.

 

[Covers]

Elizabeth looking fine like her mama.

 

[Mountain-Photo-165]

Spoiler: [Theory] How did Elizabeth wake up ?

 

[kkck]

So basically pantcelot is Saitama without a hint of irony or humor....

 

[tdtd1234]

So basically pantcelot is Saitama without a hint of irony or humor....

No? For one he is the antagonist, so he will be defeated.

 

[Kv0]

Rip zel

 

[MeliodasDeUzy]

That's the summary for the events so far. And the text is too blurry to attempt any translation, and I'm not interested in doing this even in the contrary case.

Is zeldris says the “realm” destroyed?