User blog:LastationLover5000/Fairy Tail 380 - Suspense? What Suspense? (Hell's Core)



"The Demons from the Book of Zeref, otherwise known as the Etherias...a pitiful human's attempt at demonic power could never match them. No, not it couldn't, Master. It shall begin soon...a darkness will pour forth from the doors of Hell...a darkness to swallow all the world's light."

- Marde Guille and E.N.D

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Alright everyone, here I am, as promised. It's way later than it should be, and I am still sicker than hell, but I did promise a review, so let me get on it!

We pick up right from where we left off; Natsu and Lucy are understandably freaked to see the spirit of their former Master give them orders to "release the Light" -cough-LumenHistoire-cough-, and  Happy decides to go inform Makarov while Natsu "beats the ass of every bastard in this place". And worse (yes, worse than Happy or Natsu) is Franmalth, who is not dead yet and makes a trip down to the lab for a rebirth; what happened with the previous two demons who were defeated.

..Fuck.

"I'M BACK, BITCHES!"

And look at that. Ezel is back, and, quite frankly, pissed that he lost to Wendy. He's screaming to be reborn, and Sayla, who is preoccupied with Mira, refuses, as she wants to finish her battle before she does anything else. Mira catches this, and poses the question, to which Lammy says this lab is Tartaros' "respawn" point, known as Hell's Core. TITLE DROP BITCHES! Due to a contract they made with the Demon King, they can respawn here whenever they die; effectively becoming an immortal guild.

"No. None of that. Shame on you."

Yeah, Mira is having none of this "immortal" shit; using Take-Over, she uses the tentacle demons to destroy the tanks, killing Ezel and Franmlath, who just arrived in his own tank. Sayla figures this is why she was unable to use her Macro skill on Mira, but Mira is also unable to Take Over Sayla. This actually makes me curious — what if the 'demons' of Zeref's book aren't actual demons at all? Perhaps the nature of their creation makes them unrecognizable as natural demons, the kind Mira takes over, and so Mira's magic doesn't recognize Sayla as a known breed of 'demon'. Just a thought. Due to neither of their abilities working on the other, it's decided this will all be brought down to a head-to-head battle, and Mira adopts her Sitri form. Lisana is only too happy to think it's all in their favor when HOLY FUCKING CHRISTMAS

That is...that is horrifying. And what's worse, Sayla completely owns Mira in one kick to the stomach. If this is what can happen to Mira, who was more or less at full strength, I'd hate to see what'd happen to Erza, whose fighting Minerva. While weakened. Because, you know, Minerva can't ever fight her on equal ground. Coward. The sad thing, however, is this — I cannot feel suspense from this. Hiro's passed too many chances to cause permanent damage to these characters — brainwashing Mira and Erza, which could have not only happened but been INTERESTING AS HELL is the biggest one this arc; Minerva isn't worth the power-up she's wearing. Wendy and Charle, who should have died, survived thanks to....the tracking chip Doranbolt installed? Mira and Lisanna will be fine.

"Christmas? I hate Christmas. I hate gingerbread houses, I hate presents and toys. I hate reindeer and all do the good girls and boys. I hate the Whos down in Whoville, and all of their songs. I hate their wumpets and flumpets and goobak for brons. But above all else...I hate Santa Claus."

I had to do it, guys. Swallowing all the world's light reminded me way too much of TFS Turles, so this had to be done. Needless to say, Bishie over here, Marde Guille, is holding E.N.D, and the only other notable thing about him (which Ash pointed out to me) is his cloak has the same pattern as Acnologia. Process that while I score this.

Score
Fairy Tail's art is always good, and Sayla's disturbing demon form as well as Marde Guille's throne room are marvelous in appearance. 10/10. The story, we barely got anywhere for the most part, 5/10. The end of the chapter was what mattered; we've finally seen the age old book that is E.N.D. The fight was 4/10. The transformation happened only near the end, and it was more or less a curbstomp. Not bad, either way, but not the best. Overall, Very Good.



Fairy Tail is all done for today, but it should be back next week with Fairy Tail 381 - The House In Which Demon's Live. You can bet I'll be right here to bring everyone the details as they come on in!