Ah! My Goddess Manga/Oh My Goddess! Manga
ああっ女神さまっ Chapter 277

SPOILER Summary/Synopsis:

With Belldandy unconscious and Keiichi also out with missing hands and feet, Hagall has Totenkopf D. , inside a skull-device begin the injection to turn Belldandy into a mazoku. She still has some of her energy left but after removing that remaining power, Totenkopf cannot order his crew to do the injection since he feels she should not be touched. Hagall sees the unit isn’t doing its job and calls Mokkurkalfi, who’s still doing karaoke with her little, big sister Ehwaz. Mokkurkalfi cannot see anything wrong with the unit on her monitor.  Ehwaz loudly sings a line to “destroy it all,” so Hagall agrees to this strategy with Mokkurkalfi making a new unit. This stuns Mokkurkalfi, but Hagall understands what is going on and threatens to destroy the unit herself, causing Totenkopf and crew to suddenly decide to get to work.

Meanwhile, Keiichi is frustrated at not being able to do anything. He hears Hild’s voice within him and reminds him that when she kissed him, she transferred a piece of herself into him since she knew the pendant would be found and thus used it as a decoy. She explains that Keiichi still has his limbs but just can’t perceive them. She reminds Keiichi on how Belldandy recovered previously — the ring he’d given to her filled with his feelings.  He is then reminded that he has such an item from Belldandy — the birthday watch which is on his arm. Focusing on that, the watch reappears, followed by his hands and feet.

Now restored, Keiichi rushes in at the last second to grab Belldandy, sparing her from injection. Hagall is very surprised and amazed that a human was able to overcome her magic.

Thoughts/Review:

Leave it to Fusjishima-sensei to have other means than the obvious to get the job done. I was pretty sure that Hild wanted to be found and expected to be disposed of, but I was thinking that the mistake Hagall was making was having a piece of Hild out and about.  I had forgotten that Hild had kissed Keiichi and that she would use such a method to transfer a bit of herself into him. Heh. Well, there you go.

Then, there’s the whole watch element. I should have figured that too but since I haven’t been going back and rereading all the stuff from earlier, so I’d forgotten about the whole deal with the watch.  Once reminded, it seemed obvious, especially after Fujishima-sensei set it up with Belldandy’s ring.

I was amused at how Hagall handled the crew in Mokkurkalfi’s creation not doing their job. Plus, the scene allowed for Mokkurkalfi and Ehwaz to get an extended cameo.

Otherwise, there’s nothing much to comment on. Now that Keiichi has Belldandy, I’ve no clue what comes next. Well, that’s not quite true. I have some very strong suspicions based on the reactions to the next chapter, which is obviously already out weeks and weeks ago in Japan.  I’ll not say anything speculative at this point and will just wait to see what goodness awaits me. *lol*