#ch191

Okay, I just... realized... but. This faked injury moment reminds me of Jellal dying in TOH only to come back in Nirvana. It's even more of a parallel when you consider

1. The only thing Jellal thought of after that was Erza. The only thing Mystogan thought of at the time is making sure Lily is alright.

2. Jellal immediately goes to awaken/destroy the Nirvana, hoping to save everyone. He fails. Mystogan immediately heads to reverse the Anima to reset Edolas and send everyone home. He succeeds.

3. The Jellal/Mystogan vs Natsu fight. Jellal lets himself be hit so Natsu can forgive him and accept his flames. Natsu lets Mystogan hit him so Mystogan can accept the role of being the hero to the nation.

Why does Layla have this pair of scissors that can cut into the top of Ronald's lawnmower death scythe and jam up the works of its rotating blades? It must be made of the same stuff as those lawnmower blades. But it doesn't look like a death scythe.

It could be a death scythe disguised as something else, like how Undertaker's sometimes looks like a sotoba, but here's another possibility: it could be a special pair of scissors meant specifically for cutting cinematic records, and those might be made of the same stuff as death scythes... but serve a separate purpose.

Ch60 has Undertaker explaining what reapers do: they collect souls and send them off for judgment. They also cut the cinematic records right after the word "END". He's shown with a death scythe but also with a pair of scissors. It seems to me that death scythes aren't always good for precision work, like cutting between two frames in a cinematic record, especially if your death scythe modification is anything other than shears or a simple blade.

There are two major possibilities here: either death scythes convert into shears/scissors for precision work... or reapers typically carry a death scythe and a special pair of scissors, which are probably made of the same material. The whole issue is complicated by Undertaker saying just before (previous page) that cinematic records "come to an end at that moment" that the soul is collected.

I'm thinking that "END" pops up in their cinematic record at that moment, but cutting the film is something different.

Well, perhaps Yana-san isn't entirely sure how to illustrate exactly how reapers carry out their duties, so the images and explanations are a bit vague and slightly contradictory. A third major possibility now exists: reapers don't normally carry around scissors, nor do their death scythes convert to that shape; the scissors shown in ch60 are just shown there to help us understand (but ultimately cause more confusion) and aren't actually used in the process.

I’m very disappointed we’ve never seen Nami use her clima tact at one of the Straw Hat’s parties.

I'VE BEEN A THIEF FOR EIGHT YEARS.

I've never seen such an adorable dysfunctional relationship.