As expected, the Knights of the True Cross can’t win this first battle. Whatever happened with sealing Satan away with Shemihaza’s crystal, Amaimon’s assistance and Samael’s powers, something went wrong (I see you Jeremiah…) and I’d say the future for the True Cross is as bright as its paladin’s…
…in other words, it sucks (you’re going to be Lucifer’s vessel for a while Arthur, I’m sorry my boy, they’ll come help you fight against the possession later).
I’m also very worried for Shiemi’s mom, the acting Shemihaza Grigori who really used all her powers into sealing Satan away…
…and I’m really hoping Shiemi won’t lose her mom in this fight. They haven’t had a chance to talk since Shiemi basically lost her freedom and her mom wants the best for her, so I believe they deserve to speak about The Issue before her mom…goes anywhere (plz don’t die ma’am, you need to recover your freedom too).
I’m also a bit worried for Mephisto…
…but since I expect him to lose his vessel against Arthur!Lucifer, I can’t say I’m that surprised that helping to seal Satan away would cost him so much.
Yukio, Neuhaus, Suguro and Shima fell during the chaotic storm that took place and Rin is nowhere to be seen…
So the only ray of hope is basically Shiemi “Saio” still barely fueling the Enpaira, in order to help people with running away. Therefore I hope Shura, Izumo and Koneko will also be okay.
As mentioned before, I still think that at least Rin needs to experience a journey through Gehenna to maybe understand what kind of existence Baals and Satan lived with or without their ego, but mostly without a corporeal body. He is half demon after all and he didn’t learn to fully coexist with his demon self. Besides since spirit/ghost!Yuri is apparently still wandering in Gehenna (at least she was when Satan was first exorcised), I’m thinking she can maybe help him with becoming “the Blue Exorcist” he’ll need to grow into, in order to seal Satan away.
Meanwhile, before she can back the twins, Shiemi (helped with Yukio?) has to discover why the Uzai family is so fucked up. Tough story, since she clearly has some repressed memories from her childhood, but if she or someone else doesn’t discover what Jeremiah and co are up to, then the Illuminati will keep on winning.
Can’t wait, this arc is absolutely d r a m a t i c and I want mooooore!
The new omake posted by ONE (aka. ‘Magic > Psychic powers’) on 2022/11/09 is now translated and typeset - the latter done by @Sleepydon1 over on Twitter.