Another piece of review? Again? Yeah, sorry for that. I know it would be classier if I wrote something sophisticated like the nature of life, the corruption of society, or that kinda stuff. Too bad I’m too lazy to delve into that matter now, so here I am, reviewing another TRC’s chapters.
In chapter 159, we had learned that Ashura-ou asked ourFai (Yuui) to fulfill his wish one day. That wish was, apparently, protecting Celes from anyone who brought harm to the people of the country. Anyone, including himself. I’m not sure if that was really his wish or he simply wanted to die for who knows what reason.
Not long before ourFai fled from Celes, he found out that Ashura-ou had slaughtered his own people. The more he killed, the more magically stronger he became, and Ashura-ou didn’t even show any remorse doing it. If ourFai kept his promise, he should’ve killed Ashura-ou because he clearly had brought harm to the people of Celes. OurFai couldn’t do it, though. After all, for ourFai, Ashura-ou was the first person who showed him (and realFai) compassion, gave him home, and cheered him up with kind words, albeit Ashura-ou’s hidden motive. Instead of killing Ashura-ou, ourFai chose to put him to sleep (literally) and ran away from Celes.
It seemed that Ashura-ou had known that ourFai would’ve never been voluntarily willing to kill him, whatever evil thing he might do. That’s why he gave ourFai the tattoo thing (you know, the one ourFai handed over to Yuuko at the beginning of the gang’s journey). OurFai’s magic grew stronger the more he used magic, but the tattoo would suppress further development of his magic. Thus, even if ourFai refused to kill Ashura-ou, the curse would cause ourFai to do so as long as Ashura-ou’s magic power was stronger (assuming that the curse hadn’t been broken).
As a further attempt in forcing ourFai to kill him, Ashura-ou threatened to kill Sakura (who, you might remember, had landed in Celes before the rest of the gang and had mysteriously been alive although her soul had left her body). Trying to save Sakura from the clutches of Ashura-ou, ourFai, Kurogane, and even Syaoran attacked the king. Ashura-ou stabbed Kurogane by a sharp block of ice during the process and at that instant, it looked like the ninja had finally met his end.
That was the final straw for ourFai. It didn’t matter that Kurogane had just previously cut his living-dead brother, realFai, with his sword; the fact that somebody else had died because of his weakness was enough for ourFai to make up his mind.
OurFai finally decided to kill Ashura-ou and died along with him, somehow. His effort wasn’t successful, though, and in the end, Ashura-ou took control once again. When Ashura-ou said that killing the rest of the gang would probably send ourFai into wrath, enabling him to put out all his power to attack and kill Ashura-ou, Kurogane stroke out of nowhere and stabbed the king.
New questions that popped out inside my head after reading chapter 164 are these:
1) Is Ashura-ou dead?
2) Why was Ashura-ou so surprised when he saw the protective seal on Kurogane’s forehead? It must mean something, considering that seeing the seal made Ashura-ou lost his focus, enabling Kurogane to stab him. And by the way, “protective seal”? That’s a weird way to refer to something which was depicted as a curse (“If you kill someone unnecessarily, you’ll lose some of your power”-stuff) by Tomoyo-hime herself.
3) What was it that had weakened Syaoran and Mokona? Why did Syaoran say that he couldn’t protect Sakura?
4) Would Kurogane be alright, considering that he was badly injured? (I have to ask this, he’s my favorite TRC’s character after all.)
On to chapter 165.
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