Noragami Chapter 103.1 Spoilers!
Suzuha, Tsugaha, Sakura…the number of characters we knew by name and who actually ended their lives in Noragami is less than the number of fingers on our hands. Adachitoka doesn’t kill their heroes and certainly not the main ones. Until now.
If we’ve actually seen Kazuma die, and there’s no reason to think we haven’t, he’ll be the first of those really important characters we’ll have to say goodbye to.
I regret it, because he was a character that was incredibly interesting. Totally positive, devoted, kind and friendly, and at the same time capable of acts that were far beyond the boundaries of commonly accepted morality.
And also someone who dragged so many flags of death behind him that he could wallpaper an entire room with them.
Kazuma was an ideal candidate for death. It is this type of hero, with a bright white character sprinkled with dark streaks of bad deeds, who rarely live to see the end of the story. But this awareness does not change the fact that I mourned his death.
His departure evokes another emotion in me, stronger than sadness, and that is the fear of what will happen. Adachitoka, if they are killing, they have a very good reason to do so. Each death moved the plot forward, each departure of a character had a significant effect on the behavior and decisions of the other heroes.
At the end of the last chapter, Yato was wounded and exhausted to death, but happy because he felt that he managed to protect those he loved, but the moment he understood that Kazuma was going to die, his emotions turned into absolute despair and a wish not to be. Kazuma was his best and for a very long time, also his only friend. And suddenly he’s gone, and there’s no way to stop Yato from believing that it’s all his fault. Because guilt is a attire that Yato wears almost constantly.
Even though it was Kazuma who literally forced himself on this suicide mission, knowing the end it could bring.
But the one who will suffer the guilt of Kazuma’s death and the pain of his loss even more is Bishamon. She tried so hard to protect him, he meant so much to her. Her blessed vessel, a person as close as if he were a part of her. How could she forgive herself that he died?
And how could she forgive Yato? Her hatred for him is like an old acquaintance. A habit that is hard to get rid of. It will be much easier for her to immerse herself in familiar emotions to overcome the unbearable pain than to think about what exactly happened and why.
And this time there is no way to appease her hatred.
