MAO 23 Evaluate
SPOILER Abstract/Synopsis
After Mao treats Hyakka’s and Nanoka’s wounds, Tenko briefs Mao on a brand new state of affairs on the native hospital. A person with bandaged eyes sneaks out of the hospital each night time. He returns to his mattress within the morning coated in filth and dust. Rumors have it this affected person could have just lately murdered a non secular healer. Mao, Nanoka, and Otoya go to the hospital, the place they focus on issues with the nurse. That night time, they observe the blinded man as he jumps out of his second flooring room.
The trio comply with the affected person to a graveyard, the place he begins consuming grave filth, then vomits it into the air. Mao acknowledges this as an Earth magic curse. The one individual sturdy sufficient to do that magic exhibits up. Natsuno denies Mao’s perception she did the curse. In reality, the one purpose she’s there’s due to the filth within the air. As quickly as Natsuno approaches, small dragon serpents come out of his eyes by way of the bandage and fly off.
Mao and Natsuno give chase, leaving Nanoka and Otoya to get the person again to the hospital. Mao and Natsuno arrive on the non secular healer’s corridor. Natsuno triggers a lure and will get coated in mud. She passes out. When she awakens, she summons the spirit of the non secular healer. They be taught the affected person certainly murdered the healer. Nevertheless, the healer tossed filth infuses along with his vitality on the affected person. With that, the healer’s responsibility bought handed onto the person.
Natsuno says that this responsibility was to summon her right here. Nevertheless, for the reason that affected person died, Natsuno leaves. Nanoka and Mao return to Milk Cafe to seek out Kamon there. Mao asks Kamon why he distrusts Natsuno. Kamon questions whether or not Natsuno actually bought summoned to the Goshikido. Nevertheless, he can’t clarify her immortality. After the autumn of the Goko Clan, Kamon visited the dying Natsuno at a hidenin — a temple run refuge for the aged, youngsters, and sick.
One of many feminine attendants on the temple informs Kamon {that a} plague god visits Natsuno nightly. Kamon units up a barrier round Natsuno and waits for night time. A big, earth entity arrives. Kamon banishes it, discovering it was an earthen doll. Natsuno awakes and her hand goes out of the barrier. She’s snatched from beneath and disappears. The incident left Kamon with a scar, which solely those that have been summoned to the Goshikido may inflict. Nevertheless, Natsuno was too weak to make use of such highly effective magic.
Ideas/Evaluate
We get some thriller about Natsuno thrown our method in MAO 23. This episode raises doubts about Natsuno getting summoned to the Goshikido. I made point out in my evaluate of episode 18 that “Nonetheless, contemplating Shishou’s disdain her love of therapeutic, it’s odd that he’d summon her to the Goshikido.” Nevertheless, she is immortal and he or she has the silver hair. Nevertheless, now that this episode raises the doubts about her, I do be aware that she doesn’t have any black hair, solely silver.
Regardless, now we all know why Kamon was shocked to see Natsuno alive again in episode 19. I didn’t make a lot of it again then. I figured that she’d saved a low profile for 900 years to keep away from drawing consideration to herself. Nevertheless, within the further Kamon flashbacks we see that Natsuno was dying one 12 months after the Goko Clan fell as a result of her couldn’t heal herself. Then we witnessed her get snatched. So how’d she develop into immortal if she didn’t go to the Goshikido?
Assuming Kamon’s suspicion is appropriate, I believe now we have some clues on this episode. Nevertheless, I don’t know what to make of them. One clue got here from the brand new data within the first Natsumo flashback. She’s clearly unwell there, so though Masago gave her a therapeutic treatment from Kamon, Natsuno knew it wouldn’t remedy her ailment. So when Kamon met her a 12 months after the Goko Clan fell, what snatched her physique? Why did it snatch her physique?
I don’t assume it’s unreasonable to assume that no matter this entity is, it summoned her to the graveyard. One other flashback exhibits that some entity communed along with her 100-years in the past that they’d meet once more. Odd although that she didn’t appear to acknowledge the entity then. That apart, I believe this entity is one way or the other related to the Goko Clan and handed on some type of immortality to her. If that’s the case, then why does she assume she went to the Goshikido? May her eye shade change from brown to blue have one thing to do with it?
Remaining Ideas and Conclusion
In the long run, lack of Japanese honorifics apart, I discovered MAO 23 to be fairly attention-grabbing. The thriller of Natsuno is intriguing. I don’t assume she’s going to finish up being a traitor to Mao.
