@Ukimix:
That's a thing I don't like much of the end of the tourney. The author developed three different stories that supposedly could have a happy end with the price of the tourney: Matrona's kid, Diane learns the dance of the hearth (or something like that) that only Dolors masters, and Gowther earns a heart. To me, the most logical rival for Dolor was Diane: both are giants and supposedly she still has to learn the powers Dolor masters. And the idea that she's going to master those powers agains another rival,left you wondering about how would have been if Dolor faces Diane at their top levels? And Diane winning the tourney would have solved also the problem to heal Matrona's kid. (Maybe Elizabeth will do it). But still, it's possible Dolor stands up now; anyhow that seems to be much better than he-resurrects-to-finally-face-Diane scene.
It could be a fair way to have Diane take care of business without having to yell BS because of power levels. Elizabeth probably can heal the kid. Gowther's luck just suck.
Connecting both topics, maybe the axe is in the place where the goddesses are, and Escanor can summon it.
That thing was hanging on his wall for seven years and he had urgent deliveries to make. I doubt the sword would return to the goddess on his own if it didn't mind 7 years on the wall. Also I'm pretty sure the goddness are sealed or semi-dead, which is why they have to use an horn to talk.
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@.access:
I probably missed something because I rushed through the last chapters, but why would be tournament be over? Gloxinia is clearly alive in the last panel and we saw he could effortlessly heal and even resurrect a nearly dead person, so he shouldn't have problems putting himself and Dolor back from that.
Because they kinda almost got killed by that Escanor. I doubt even if they could restore themselves they are just going to ignore the whole matter.
Btw, I was just following the manga through comments but decided to catch up because, well, Gowther <3 kinda sad that he lost (I mean, that doesn't count as a victory except by the tournament rules), I hope at least he will not have a change of heart (ha!) just because Escanor didn't went after his head - although I accept that planting a seed on himEscanor was after the commandments. I doubt you can lost if there was no fight to begin with.