OnS Chapter 146 - Analysis and Review. Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
Hello everyone, a new chapter dropped and I gotta say it was rather interesting except for certain character's offscreen.
The chapter starts with the Progenitors detecting Ky Luc's presence as gone, furthermore, the remaining progenitors have noticed they're under attack leading for Lest Karr to go to the battlefield.
Given Urd and Rigr's differences, Urd warns Lest to be careful but Rigr of course suggests that Urd doesn't have faith in Lest, leading of course to Lest boost with confidence that he will succeed.
Within this part, the dots have begun to connect, what do I mean? We got information regarding the spells in the most subtle ways possible, but at least we know two of the three.
Following up with the panels, the encounter with Lest and Ferid Bathory begins.
Then we jump to Yuu and Mikaela trying to decipher the First's spells, along this, Mikaela is the one monitoring the memories of the First whereas Yuu is pretty much eating. (Yes...literally...*sigh*)
One of the things I find fascinating is that there's limit to what Yuu can read in terms of the ancient language along what Mika can. Let's remember that when Yuu and Mika did a memory regression, Mika was unable to read yet Yuu was able to...but among this, there's another character able to read all the information Shikama had within his memories, who do I mean? Correct, Shinoa Hiragi.
Then we return with Rigr Stafford checking the spells of the first along his goal to fully decipher them nevertheless we still see the differences of ideals between Rigr and Urd, like the moon and the sun.
Given that Rigr saw the memories of the First, he's obviously inclined to literally grant his Father's wish just like Yuu is aiming to do so since Rigr has much more knowledge in the field of magic, sorcery and spells.
Still, focusing back in the panels, Rigr on the other hand is not interested on what Urd has to say, ensuring Yuu gets the calories needed to keep exploring the memories of the First; meanwhile Urd is analyzing further that the enemy is actually gaining the upperhand thus leading to something I found fascinating.
Rigr was in a mode of: you go do this and that but Urd literally took a firm posture and chose to stop following Rigr.
Now, what was what I mentioned at the very beginning of this post? True, we got information regarding of the spells, one of them is how to Resurrect Michaela.
Still, how would that be possible? Correct. Gathering the 7 Sinful Keys and sacrificing all the progenitors standing. Ironically, Rigr has been cunning enough to make the Progenitors head to such path. What Rigr did with Lest by dismissing Urd's warning is merely psychology and manipulation.
But given this, Urd finally took a decision, he managed to grab the Sinful Key and of course, before Urd could actually use it, Rigr used an illusion on which Yuu died but of course, Urd is fully aware now how Rigr attacks, meaning the illusion was futile.
Ultimately we have a flashback of Rigr and Urd back when they were children and slaves, Rigr was always optimistic whereas Urd was the opposite.
Within this, there's a lot of parallelism between many characters, what do I mean?
Thanks to a dear friend, the whole lore of OnS is always related to paralellism and change.
Urd and Rigr reflect the ideal vs the truth, Ashera and Krul reflect the same yet Ashera realized too late that the treasure of life he had, discarted it easily by following the devil and at the end, being unable to save his sister. The last pair being of course Mika and Yuu. Mika when he was a vampire, was always opposing Yuu but given that Yuu is one of the main characters; it was bound to happen the current result, yet with the case of Urd and Rigr, such pattern actually shattered. The greed carried down by Rigr is simply too much, there's no guarantee with anything even if hope is what lingers within him.
The sacrifices they will make are extremely high hence why Urd stated that their journey has gone for too long, nevertheless, they detected they were being watched by Shinya Hiragi no less.
Guren is fully aware of Yuu's location and the final panel being Ferid Bathory devouring Lest Karr.
I must say this was disappointing.
Lest Karr was a full representation of a pointless character within the plot given that we didn't have a backstory for him or his motives. Unless the author actually gives him a flashback even if he is trapped within Ferid's body.
More answers will come following this , what do you think dear readers?
