What we lack."
The trio gets healed by the elder head and wakes up.
The head stops King, saying he has to forgive his friends' enemy.
The trainees enter the cave almost bare and with ashtree poles only.
Merlin being a mere spirit, she will be observing the scene, and Hawk and Oslow, that joins them afterwwards, take part in the training.
After crossing the darkness, Gil and Howzer find themselves unaccompanied just like last time.
Against an unwinnable enemy, Gil remembers getting told by Meliodas that he was being too stubborn
and Howzer by Dreyfus that he was being too much halfhearted.
Stating thay they want to test something, they change their stance. It's only after that that there's a change in the two guys' power levels.
End texts: "The bad guy holds the key to become stronger!! Open the door to new strength!!"
"Gilthunder and Howzer realized what thet're lacking during the training!! They enhance each other to get stronger!!"
To be continued in chapter 133 / Impatience and anxiety.