Nanatsu no taizai 253 spoilers

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TL
"Sunshine."
The grace my late little brother Mael of the Four Archangels is gifted with!!
His power increased with the sunrise and when noon approaches, he took pride in his strength I cannot possibly hope to be on par with.

But my brother was defeated by the Ten Commandments…
Eh? Eh?
His grace was lost again…

...you're saying that grace
is this power that I possess?

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And the summary

Elizabeth's at the castle and says "Wait… Meliodas." King and Diane sit by the bed of an unwell Elaine. The Fairy wants Ban and Captain back. Merlin talks with Gowther while fixing his body. Gowther has a request and Merlin hears it but his line isn't shown but that got Merlin to ask him if he's serious. Escanor and Hawk discuss while walking in the town. Meanwhile, the Archangels are drunk. Ludociel uses a spell to get over it and notices a presence. Escanor then meets the same Archangel who asks him who he is. The Sin introduces himself. He then explains his power and proceeds to say it's a cursed power. This irritates Ludociel who attacks Escanor, asking him who it was that he took it from. A question that the Sin doesn't understand. The Archangel says that the graces are bestowed upon the Archangels by the Supreme Deity just like the commandments are to the Ten Commandments by the Demon King. His is "Flash", Sariel's is "Tornado", Tarmiel's is "Ocean" and Mael's is "Sunshine". Ludociel then asks Escanor to release the grace if he doesn't want to die. The Sin of Pride says that he was born with Sunshine, that the grace basically chose him. Escanor tells Ludociel he should thank him since he's on his side. The chapter ends with Ludociel saying Escanor will be useful and with the latter telling the former not to get in his way. Title of next chapter is "Camelot of despair".

So, Escanor basically.

>Explaining Sunshine
Lame, but it's cool that Escanor essentially told the pidgeons to fuck off.

This pretty much confirms that Mael was indeed the strongest fighter in the holy war. Escanor is just a human but even in his hands Sunshine is really OP, so with the goddess clan having higher base stats + goddess healing + ark + brainwashing abilities added on top Mael would've easily been stronger than Mel anywhere near noon, maybe even without using his equivalent of The One. I don't particularly like this connection between Escanor and the goddess clan but it's something people have been theorizing about for a while now and it does give an explanation for Escanor's powers.

Also since Mael's grace is Escanor's magic, does that mean that all the graces behave like a magic ability that can be activated at will rather than as passive ability that triggers on its own? I mean Sunshine is obviously not controllable but Sariel's Tornado seemed to be. That would mean that either the archangels have 3 magic powers per person(ark, personal and grace) or the goddess clan doesn't have personal magic and rely solely on their clan magic instead like the giants. The goddesses not having their own personal magic abilities would be lame considering that it would probably mean no new goddess characters, since what's the point of introducing more generic fighters? I guess there could be some goddesses that are sorcerers like Chandler or maybe with some kind of unique physique that would make then distinct. It's a bit weird how the demon clan still has unique abilities in addition to their darkness but somehow none of the other clans have both clan and personal magic, aside from the druids who are basically just imitating the goddess clan.

Sunshine is controllable, to an extent. Like when Escanor played dead against Galan until he was strong enough to kill him.

The nature of sunshine is one of the cores of Escanor character of course it was gonna be explained

>Ludociel then asks Escanor to release the grace
So the graces can actually be extracted too. Oh boy.

inb4
Is there an anime character stronger than Estarossa?

And I'm referring to the demon prince Estarossa with the physical full counter and the powers of darkness(with hellblaze) equipped with his swords of rebellion and in possession of the Demon King's 10 commandments of piety, love, purity, reticence, faith, truth, pacifism, selflessness, patience and repose as well as the Supreme Deity's 4 graces of flash, tornado, ocean and sunshine with Mael's soul inside him and with access to his Indura transformation as well as being extremely strong and cunning.

Ah so they finally explained Escanor.

>Escanor really was a human
Biggest surprise.