The First Vampire

"The First Vampire" (初めのヴァンパイア) is the one hundred and twenty-ninth chapter of the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga series, written by Takaya Kagami and illustrated by Yamato Yamamoto.

Synopsis
Seraphs fire their light into Sika Madu and destroy the Tower of Babel. A humanoid angel states he has condemned his followers to Hell, and that this is the end of the Earth. Meteors bombard both angels and their civilization. Amon is the last to perish before Sika Madu, who is told by the angel that he himself can no longer die. Now burned by the sun as an undead, Sika Madu spends millennia on an empty world.

In accepting what he had done, Sika Madu found he could generate darkness to protect himself from the light. The homunculus named Yu formed, and brought Mikaela's coffin. To find another means of resurrecting everyone, Sika Madu resorted to darkness. He had the homunculus produce a human, which Yu and Mika witness in the memory. Many humans were generated then filled with the souls of the angels fallen to Hell.

A child resembling Yu notices Mikaela's coffin, and can communicate with him. Mika feels Yu should be able to remember what the past Mikaela was saying from his memories. The child heard Mikaela wanted to put his soul in him, which seemed to have been done. Remembering all of it, Yu feels he is Mikaela.

Characters
List of characters in order of appearance:
 * Seraphs (multiple trumpet bearing ones in a memory)
 * Amon (appears in a memory)
 * Raum (appears in a memory)
 * Naberius (appears in a memory)
 * Shikama Dōji (appears in a memory as Sika Madu)
 * An unamed male humanoid appearing angel (appears in a memory)
 * God (not seen, name mentioned only in a memory)
 * Bathin (appears in a memory)
 * Yu (Homunculus) (appears in a memory)
 * Mikaela (appears in a memory, deceased)
 * Yūichirō Hyakuya (appears as a child while accessing a memory, as well as presently seen)
 * Mikaela Hyakuya (appears as a child while accessing a memory)

Summary
A small sun-like object radiating light, and ringed with electricity shines in Space. At least three trumpet wielding seraphs announce that a taboo has been detected, and has been broken so punishment was being dispensed. On the surface of Earth, Amon looks up in shock. Raum is also nearby regarding the dark lightning emitting sphere above and asks what is that. Having heard what the seraphs had communicated, Naberius questions what they meant by punishment. Naberius also wonders were they not going back to paradise.

Suspecting the background to this, Amon asks aloud what did his Majesty do. A lightning strike is discharged from the bright sphere towards the base of the Tower of Babel which Amon sees. Stood alone there, Sika Madu speaks to everyone how he is sorry. The lightning crashes into the ground.

The Tower of Babel suffers multiple breakages from the lightning strike, and debris falls where the damage is unable to be recovered from. The brunt of the impact is on Sika Madu who is enveloped in the lightning. Enduring the force, Sika Madu considers he needs to regenerate and get clear of the bolt. His skin blackening from the surge of electricity, Sika Madu attempts to use his hand to generate light but after a stronger torrent of lightning he can only cry out in pain.

Stepping forward, an angel armed with a spear approaches Sika Madu. Addressing him by name, the angel questions why did he stray from the path he was on. Stating that God was waiting for him, the angel adds they looked forward to Sika Madu's return more than many others. Burning all the while with his hair having disappeared, Sika Madu can only yell in anguish.

Continuing, the angel details how yet Sika Madu stooped to personal desire, and condemned his followers to Hell. Shouting for him to wait, Sika Madu requests that only he be punished since it was just him. Completely disregarding Sika Madu's words, the angel immediately responds that this is the end of Earth too. Clicking his fingers, the angel stands underneath a tremendous rain of fiery streaks that fly down towards the seraph civilization.

As Sika Madu damns the situation, elsewhere Amon and Naberius also witness what is transpiring as the shadows of the fires above hover over them. Alerting them that they are coming this way, Naberius orders Amon to dodge as he pushes him to safety. While Naberius had noticed the one coming towards him, the speed was too great to avoid and had the impact of a meteor as it struck him through the head before smashing into the ground.

Amon looks on in horror at what happened to Naberius, as a huge number of fiery projectiles hail down on the buildings of the city. Stunned at what he witnessed, Amon asks why. Called to, Amon hears from Bathin to go to his Majesty now. Pointing to the location of the lone lightning strike coming down, Bathin begins to detail if his Majesty can be saved. One of the many fire streaks crashes before Amon who attempts to shield himself, and he sees only Bathin's dismembered arm.

While shocked, Amon flies into the air to head to Sika Madu's location. Attempting to navigate through the continuous barrage of fire, one of Amon's wings is severed apart by a projectile. Falling to the ground, Amon focuses on his Majesty.

Now suspended in the air, the angel is before the light that continues to fire into Sika Madu. Angered at the destruction, Sika Madu demands to know what he did to his angels. The angel replies he did nothing, before insisting that Sika Madu did this. Listing creation, resurrection, and apothanasia, the angel declares they are all forbidden acts. The mere thought of them leads one to lose their gratitude for life. The angel adds that causes one's soul to rot.

Turning to another matter, the angel has notions that Sika Madu thought he could become a god, which he is quick to label as hubris. Speaking that he was the only one who sinned, Sika Madu pleads with the angel to not take the others' lives. Promptly, the angel asserts that just taking their lives is insufficient, where all of them will also have their souls chained to Hell for eternity. Announcing that God has turned their back to Sika Madu, the angel avows they will not turn their eyes on him again.

Having one more thing to say, the angel claims he permitted one to survive. As Amon races to the base of the lightning where Sika Madu is, the angel explains that one will impress onto him the severity of his sins. Calling to him, Amon checks if Sika Madu is okay. Seeing that Amon is here, Sika Madu is surprised. Shouting that everyone died, Amon conveys that all the other angels were struck down before he seeks Sika Madu's guidance on what do they do.

Addressing Sika Madu, the angel questions does he see, that this is the truth of his sin. Realizing what has bee planned, Sika Madu can only say no. A lightning bolt is directed to lethally strike Amon which terrorizes Sika Madu.

The seraphs that were in Space have descended to the ground and float over the humanoid appearing angel. Turning to them, the angel asks the seraphs whether it is done, have all of the angels been destroyed. Apparently not communicating via speech, the seraphs confirm it is done, all are eliminated. Additionally, the seraphs impart the news that the angels' souls are bound to this planet.

Answering good, the angel directs the seraphs to focus their lightning on Sika Madu. Responding yes, the seraphs indeed cast further lightning into him. Beseeching them to kill him, Sika Madu says he longs for Oblivion. The angel raises how Sika Madu has noticed already. Declaring that he cannot die, the angel details that Sika Madu will suffer for eternity, where he will be burned to death by the light only to be reborn over and over.

The angel specifies that Sika Madu is now an undead. As Sika Madu registers this, the angel affirms that is his punishment for attempting resurrection. The angel states Sika Madu will burn in his guilt forever, trapped on this empty planet.

Inviting everyone to come, the angel guides them to return to paradise. As the light radiating sphere above continues to shine, the trumpet armed seraphs followed by the angel head upwards. Still on fire, Sika Madu requests that God be told something by him. Cutting him off with a no, the angel scornfully responds that the words of a sinner do not reach God's ear. With that, the angel resumes his ascent to the sky until he and the seraphs disappear into the closing light.

On his back and blackened from fire, Sika Madu reflects how everything is gone and he has been left alone on an empty world. Although he is no longer affected by the lightning surge, Sika Madu notices the sun above. Finding himself greatly pained, Sika Madu notes his whole body hurts. On fire from the sunlight, smoke billows from his burning body.

Finding that the pain will not go away, Sika Madu despairs at the situation. As he walks where charred remains are left behind, Sika Madu shouts aloud to tell him this is a lie. Questioning if this is really going to go on for eternity, Sika Madu can only yell.

Millennia passed, and Sika Madu had made his way to the valley with the intact grave markers of the angels' burial sites. Apparently having remained there, a trail of smoke rose from Sika Madu's ever-burning body as he cried out in pain. Reaching for the heavens, Sika Madu spoke how he despised God for this and cursed him, being on fire all the while.

More time passed, and the smoke from Sika Madu appeared to billow all the more on occasion. Among the graves in the valley, Sika Madu observed that tens of thousands of years passed and yet he still did not die. Around the surrounding landscape, greenery such as trees had developed.

Positioned upright while burning, Sika Madu contemplated how he did not know how much time passed after that. At first he cursed God's name, then screamed apologies to the souls of all his followers. After that came acceptance, Sika Madu feels he resigned himself to eternity alone with his sin.

Upon accepting what he had done however, Sika Madu found something strange happened. His eyes began to clear and he saw ways to take advantage of his punishment. Using his hand, Sika Madu found he could generate a halo of darkness in front of him. Regarding the darkness, Sika Madu requested that it protect him from the light.

Levitating over him then moving downwards, the circle of darkness could defend Sika Madu from the burning light so as to change his blackened burned appearance and restore himself to who he was. Noticing it nearby, Sika Madu found in between the halo of darkness a shadowy like mass with a light in its center.

Able to perceive that it was a homunculus and a specific one, Sika Madu speaks to Yu and questions if it saw everything. The shadowy mass now having formed into the homunculus named Yu, its eye movement is the response to his question. The homunculus observes Sika Madu as he is able to stand and appear as he once did.

Speaking how last time he failed, Sika Madu feels he will just have to be better about it this time. Resolute in bringing everyone back too, Sika Madu then considers how Babel has fallen so he does not have it to collect light for him. Even if he did, Sika Madu can sense the light no longer responds to him and he cannot touch it, not now that he has become a cursed undead.

Looking to the homunculus for answers, Sika Madu asks how does he go about collecting the power he needs for resurrection now. The homunculus' answer is to allow the coffin containing Mikaela to slip from its being. The entire coffin slides out the open base of the homunculus' body before the deceased Mikaela is seen within.

Where Mikaela and the coffin are unscathed from the downpour of fire that devastated Earth, Sika Madu regards him as the answer. Affirming exactly, Sika Madu elaborates how he suffused Mikaela with enough light to revive everyone. The light had been condensed into seven keys. Addressing how Mikaela is dead now, Sika Madu mentions he would have to resurrect him as an angel. Resting his hand on the glass, Sika Madu wonders how he would do that.

The best way in Sika Madu's mind is for them to copy God. As God made angels to collect light, Sika Madu decides they too shall create. Placing a hand on the homunculus which glimmers with a harsh radiance, Sika Madu decides he will make cursed dolls out of mud to collect darkness.

A fully formed human child drops from the homunculus. Sika Madu regards him with some degree of dissatisfaction. The child is conscious while Sika Madu speaks how he thought as much. Concluding that he is not permitted to create angels, Sika Madu finds however that apparently he is permitted to create humans.

The child is able to talk. Addressing him as mister, the boy asks Sika Madu who he is. Also questioning where he is, the child remarks with amazement how this place is big.

Observing this in the memory they are accessing, Yu and Mika are sat on the grass nearby. Given the dark hair and similar eyes, Yu speaks to Mika to raise how he popped out. Yu questions Mika if the child there is the first him. Wondering whether it is, Mika states he is confused and cannot tell who is who anymore.

As Yu wonders which one he is, Mika asks the same where both are unsure. Reasoning that one of the two of them have to be here, these events would not be in their memories otherwise. As the scenario in the memory plays out, the homunculus trembles slightly before ejecting a blond haired child.

From that, Yu speaks to Mika on how that child looks like him. Uncertain if that is him, where the formed humans are unclothed, Mika questions if that one is not a girl. The blond haired child also asks where are they, and what is this. Running over, the dark haired child excitedly greets the other and asks who they are. The blond haired child begins to answer but is unable to do so.

At this point the homunculus emits many children into the area. With respective looks of wonder and uncertainty, Yu and Mika discuss in awe how whole bunches of them are being born. Totally lost, there is the question of what is going on. Meanwhile, the children in the memory find themselves in this new environment.

Physically touching the homunculus, Sika Madu speaks for Yu to make these humans greedy. Make them ephemeral, additionally Sika Madu would like them to experience melancholy, and be strong. After this, Sika Madu directs the souls of the dead angels to be put into the humans. The humans should then be made to breed and prosper. Sika Madu needs more so that he can collect all the darkness he possibly can.

A light like energy is around Sika Madu's hands as he says to bring to him the souls of the angels who have fallen to Hell. With this, many individual lights spring from the cross-shaped grave markers. As the human children frolic in the area, the lights that came from the angel graves collide into them.

Affected by the light, the children are still as contact is made. With the child resembling Yu as an example, his eyes change to become featureless as the light shimmers around his body. The children including the one resembling Mika once again appear perplexed as if registering a new state of circumstances.

After this occurrence, the child resembling Yu who had an angel spirit fly into him is a different kind of lively. Happy, the child runs a distance before being the only one to notice Mikaela's coffin nearby. While the child calls to ask what is that over there, he proceeds to investigate of his own accord anyway.

Lying unmoving in the coffin, Mikaela is viewed by the child who looks like Yu. Commenting that he looks so pretty, the child rests himself on the glass before asking the deceased Mikaela who he is. Responding as if being spoken to although no voice is heard, it becomes clear to Yu and Mika who are watching that the child is receiving contact from Mikaela.

Keeping updated with Mika on what may be happening, Yu asks him whether the situation is what it seems. Continuing to watch, Mika responds probably. In the memory at the time Sika Madu interacts with the homunculus alone and does not appear to have noticed that one of the children he made is communicating with his deceased son. The homunculus also does not seem to have picked up on this.

Having thought to check, Yu and Mika also find that the First has not noticed. With that, they both move closer to where the youth is speaking to the physically unresponsive Mikaela. The boy has evidently heard that Mikaela has shared his name as Mika. After he asks how come is sleeping, Mikaela's still face gives no answer.

Receiving the information that Mikaela is dead, the child asks him what that means. Where Mikaela remains still in the coffin, the boy says aloud what was mentioned, that it means he cannot play with him. The child shares how he does not like that as he continues to hear what Mikaela is saying.

Saying to wait a minute, Yu registers with Mika that they are talking. Wondering how Mikaela is talking to the boy, Yu does not get it and neither does Mika. On that, Mika asks Yu if he is sure he does not know. If this is Yu's memory then Mika reasons he should remember hearing what Mikaela said given he is speaking in his mind.

Surprised at the idea this could be his memory, Yu says to hang on, he does not hear anything. Wrestling with his head, Yu tells Mika he thinks something is in the way but does not know what. Adamant that this is his memory, Mika commands Yu to remember it, now, much to his consternation.

Where he has been listening to what was being shared, the boy engaging with the corpse of Mikaela feels okay that he knows what he wants. Urging him to hurry, Mika states to Yu that something big is about to be said and he has got to remember before the chance is missed. The child reveals what Mikaela said.

Speaking aloud, the boy checks whether Mikaela wants to put his soul inside him. With that done, Mikaela will be him and he could save his dad. While Yu appears struck at those words, Mika regards his expression. The child is happy with this arrangement. Extending his hand, the boy says okay, if Mikaela wants to they will both save him together.

Inviting him to come inside him, the the boy places his hand on the glass of the coffin. This results in him to instantly appear as if he has experienced an impact to the head by an unseen force. Looking upwards, the child can only speak "I" as his mannerisms appear markedly different.

From his physical location in the Sea of Trees around Mt. Fuji, Yu is positioned on his knees as the child in the memory was. Thinking how he remembers, Yu considers it is all of it. Yu speaks how he is Mikaela.

Quotes
"A taboo has been detected. A taboo has been broken. Dispensing punishment."

- Seraphs holding trumpets perceived the homunculus darkening the rings of light around the Tower of Babel and attack.

"What's that?"

- Raum reacts to the sphere of light in Space where he is apparently unfamiliar with a combined seraph assault.

"What did they mean by "punishment"? Weren't we going back to paradise?"

- Naberius having heard the seraphs' communications, and remembering Sika Madu stating that they were to return.

"Majesty... What did you do?"

- Amon deduces correctly that the seraph activity is in response to Sika Madu's actions.

"Everyone. I'm sorry."

- Sika Madu's apology as the lightning crashes downwards.

"Need to... ...regenerate... Get clear of the bolt... Light. I..."

- Sika Madu endures a lightning blast that broke apart the Tower of Babel, and reveals regenerative abilities in the process.

"Sika Madu. Why did you stray from the way? God was waiting for you. They looked forward to your return more than many others."

- The unnamed male angel's first words in the series, and sharing details of God namely claiming he was waiting, that others are around them, then referring to God as "they".

"Yet you stooped to personal desire... ...And condemned your followers to Hell."

- The angel's view to Sika Madu that personal desires are something to stoop to, and that his followers would be condemned because of that.

"Wait! Only punish me! It was just me!"

- Sika Madu seeking to accept punishment for what where just his own actions, and attempting to spare the angels who assisted him in other areas on Earth.

"This is the end of Earth too."

- The angel's prompt response, and with a click of his fingers he would bring down a rain of shattering fiery missiles to destroy all traces of the seraph civilization.

"They're coming this way! Dodge, you idiot!"

- Naberius sees the fires coming towards them, and in shoving Amon out the way to safety it would save his life but cost him his own.

"AMON! Go to his Majesty! Now! If his Majesty can be saved, then we-"

- Bathin calls to Amon who she entrusts to reach Sika Madu. It would seem Bathin saw that rescuing Sika Madu may have also been the best chance for their own survival, however she would perish before being able to complete her sentence.

"I did nothing. You did this."

- The angel's contemptuous response to Sika Madu asking what he done to his angels as they are murdered by fire.

"Creation. Resurrection. Apothanasia. All are forbidden acts. The mere thought of them leads one to lose one's gratitude for life... ...And cause one's soul to rot."

- The angel lists the three forbidden areas, and feels the mere thought of them has multiple detrimental effects.

"Or... What? Did you think you'd become a God? Hubris."

- The angel has his own ideas of why Sika Madu would attempt to carry out the forbidden acts. He is just as quick to affirm this as arrogance.

"I was the only one who sinned. Please, don't take their lives."

- Sika Madu is on fire as he points out what may have already been known, that he was the only one to partake in a forbidden to angels activity, and pleads for the lives of his followers.

"Just taking their lives is insufficient. All of them will also have their souls chained to Hell for eternity. God has turned their back to you... ...And will not turn their eyes upon you again."

- The angel deems a mass slaughter as inadequate, and means to keep souls bound to Earth. That God is said to have turned away from Sika Madu may be something the angel knows for a fact having heard it, or is something assumed.

"Oh, and one more thing. I permitted one to survive. One that will impress on you the severity of your sins."

- The angel having watched Sika Madu burn, generated a destructive rain of fire, and meaning to imprison souls in Hell for eternity, apparently allows Amon to reach Sika Madu's location just so he can be violently murdered in front of him.

"Ah! Majesty! Are you okay?! Everyone died! All the other angels were struck down! What do we do?!"

- Amon reaches where Sika Madu is being attacked and reveals the status of the other named humanoid angels he was with.

"Do you see? This is the truth of your sin."

- The male angel has a question for Sika Madu once Amon arrives, and evidently is set to carry out the pre-planned murder.

"Is it done? Have all of the angels been destroyed?"

- The angel asking the trumpet holding seraphs whether an entire civilization of angels have been massacred.

"It is done. All are eliminated... ...And their souls are bound to this planet."

- The seraphs communicate not just the end of the seraphs on Earth, but how their souls are to remain there.

"Good. Focus your lightning on Sika Madu."

- The angel speaking in a leadership capacity gives directions to the trumpet wielding seraphs, apparently waiting for Sika Madu to realize he cannot die.

"Kill me. Please. I long for oblivion."

- Sika Madu requests death after the loss of the angels in his civilization and the lightning he experiences.

"Aah... Noticed already? You can't die. You will suffer for eternity, burned to death by the light only to be reborn over and over. You are now an undead."

- The angel indeed awaited Sika Madu to notice that he can never die from the pain he endures. Through some unknown process, Sika Madu had also been turned into an undead (meaning Sika Madu was the first vampire and changed into one by angel related powers).

"That is your punishment for attempting resurrection. You'll burn in your guilt forever... ...Trapped on this empty planet."

- The angel has Sika Madu kept alive as an undead to experience permanent burning for the mere attempt to resurrect others. The planet at this point may literally be empty of life.

"Come, everyone. Let's return... ...To paradise."

- The angel makes a point that he and the seraphs are to return back to the Sun as they take to the sky.

"No. The words of a sinner don't reach God's ears."

- The angel haughtily cuts off Sika Madu's request to tell God something for him before resuming his flight upwards. If the words of a perceived sinner literally are unable to reach God, then Sika Madu may have already been labelled as such so his speaking openly of creating Mikaela may not have actually been heard by the God. In either case what Sika Madu wanted God to hear here is not known.

"It's gone. Everything. I've been left alone... ...On an empty world."

- Sika Madu incinerating as he considers the loss of the seraph civilization, the Tower of Babel and all the angels and homunculus from Earth.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA It hurts! My whole body burns! And the pain won't go away!"

- Sika Madu greatly affected by a new pain, namely that from general sunlight. On complete fire from that, smoke billows from his burning body.

"This can't be. Tell me this is a lie! Is it really going to go on for eternity?!"

- Sika Madu registers the continuous searing as he walks, where it would indeed continue for millennia at least.

"Millennia passed... More time... Tens of thousands of years passed... ...And yet I didn't die."

- Sika Madu as a burning angel on Earth reflects as the world changes around him.

"I despise you for this... ...God! I curse you...!"

- Sika Madu having burnt for millennia reaches towards the sky as he shares his fury for God.

"How much time passed after that, I don't know. At first I cursed God's name. Then I screamed apologies to the souls of all my followers. After that came acceptance. I resigned myself to eternity alone with my sin. But when I accepted what I'd done... ...Something strange happened. My eyes began to clear... ...And I saw ways to take advantage of my punishment."

- Sika Madu could sit upright while on fire, then recounts his actions before finding acceptance, and what that brought about.

"Darkness. Protect me from the light."

- Sika Madu speaks for a halo of darkness to form where he could cease his body being burnt and assume his previous appearance.

"Yu. You saw everything?"

- Sika Madu asks if the homunculus named Yu witnessed the destruction of angels and their civilization on Earth.

"Last time I failed. I'll have to be better about it this time. I'll bring everyone back too."

- Sika Madu reflects on his failure to have a homunculus darken the light gathered in the Tower of Babel, yet seeks a different means of resurrecting the fallen angels.

"But Babel's fallen. I don't have it to collect light for me. Even if I did, the light no longer responds to me. I can't touch it. Not now that I've become a cursed undead."

- Sika Madu considers the loss of the Tower of Babel, and can feel he no longer has access to that light.

"How do I go about collecting the power I need for resurrection now?"

- Sika Madu is either seeking advice from the homunculus, or his question is rhetorical given it induced the homunculus to produce the coffin of Mikaela which Sika Madu did not appear surprised to see. As for how Sika Madu would collect light for resurrection, light is stored within seven keys within Mikaela.

"Exactly. I suffused Mikaela with enough light to revive everyone... ...Condensing it into seven keys. But he's dead now. I'd have to resurrect him as an angel. How do I do that though?"

- Sika Madu considers the light that gradually spread into Mikaela had formed into what would be regarding as sinful keys, but Mikaela is apparently needed alive to access them so Sika Madu needs to resurrect one angel, to access the light in seven keys to raise all the others.

"I think the best way... ...Is for us to copy God. As they made angels to collect light... ...We, too, shall create. I'll make cursed dolls of mud to collect darkness."

- Sika Madu seeks to resurrect Mikaela to use the light inside him for others, so creates humans to gather darkness for that initial goal.

"I thought as much. I'm not permitted to create angels. But apparently I am permitted to create humans."

- Sika Madu sees a human child (resembling Yu) produced from a homunculus, and clarifies what he is able to form.

"Hey, mister? Who're you? Where am I? Wow! This place is big!"

- The human child who looks like Yu is fully conscious, able to speak, where he is surprised at what seem to be new surroundings.

"Wait. I popped out? Is that the first me?"

- Yu's question for Mika having seen a child looking like him dropped from a homunculus.

"Is it? I'm confused. I can't tell who's who anymore."

- Mika responds to Yu after he asks whether the child in the memory is the first him.

"Is that me? I dunno. Isn't it a girl?"

- Mika after a light haired child is seen who Yu thinks looks like him. Given the child has short hair yet is naked, it may be the case Mika thought it was a girl based on the private parts in what would be the first female created on Earth.

"Where am I? What is this?"

- The blond haired child's first words, who like the first human seen, speaks as someone transferred into this world rather than created as a life form.

"Yikes! Whole bunches of them are being born."

- Yu comments on the many children that were rapidly produced by the homunculus.

"Make these humans greedy, Yu. Make them ephemeral... Melancholy... Strong... Put in them the souls of the dead angels. Make them breed and prosper. I need more, so I can collect all the darkness I possibly can."

- Sika Madu places his hand on the homunculus, who can seemingly instil short lived existences in the formed humans, and make them sad with no obvious cause. Sika Madu sees these means of having humans gather darkness in order to resurrect Mikaela.

"Bring to me the souls of the angels who've fallen to Hell."

- Sika Madu is capable of raising souls from Hell (Earth) and has the angel spirits fly into the human bodies.

"Ooh! He's so pretty! Who're you?"

- The human child who looks like Yu, after having an angel spirit fly into him, suddenly notices Mikaela who he regards as pretty.

"You're Mika, huh? How come you're sleeping? You're dead? What's that mean? It means you can't play with me? Aww! I don't like that. Oh? Mm-hmm."

- The child who looks like Yu can receive communications from the deceased Mikaela, who shares his name as Mika. He continued to be spoken to by Mikaela through non-verbal means.

"Uh, wait a minute. They're talking. How is he talking to him? I don't get it."

- Yu raises with Mika how the child and Mikaela are interacting with one another.

"Are you sure you don't though? If this is your memory, you should remember hearing what he said."

- Mika checks if Yu is unable to remember, and feels he should be able to recall what Mikaela must have relayed in his mind.

"Hang on. I don't hear anything. I think something's in the way. I dunno what, but..."

- Yu surprised at the idea this is his memory tries to recall what Mikaela said but feels something is interfering with that.

"C'mon. It's your memory, remember it. Now!"

- Mika commanding Yu to recall what was said, and acting certain it is his memory (Mika is not keen on the idea of the past Mikaela being him so may need it to be Yu's memory).

"Mm-hmm. Uh-huh. Oh! Okay! I know what you want!"

- The child speaking while hearing from Mikaela in his mind, and happily realizing what he feels he wants.

"Yu, hurry! He's about to say something big! You've got to remember, or..."

- Mika urging Yu to remember what Mikaela passed on in his mind before the child reveals something they may not understand.

"You wanna put your soul into me? Then you'll be me and save your dad?"

- The child speaks aloud what Mikaela evidently said.

"Okay! If you want to. We'll both save him together. Come inside me!"

- The child readily accepts Mikaela's soul into his body, and where an angel spirit has already entered him it's not clear how much of the child's personality or existence is his own.

"I remember. All of it. I... ...Am Mikaela"

- Yu after Mikaela's soul entered the body of the child who looks like him, where rather than that human, Yu feels he is Mikaela.

Cover Details
Where feature images for chapter covers are often artistic depictions of characters or scenarios which may not be related to chapter events, the one for chapter 129 is instead one directly concerning story events to follow. Continuing on from events of the previous chapter 128 "The Wings of Icarus" the cover image features three seraphs holding long trumpets.

The trumpets are not playing musical notes as they were when generating a light based power for offensive purposes. The seismic orb of light appears fully active here, where there were just light rings of various brightness in the previous chapter around the dark centre of space as the power activated. Where space shattered and the light blasted through into the large homunculus in the previous chapter, the brightest orb of light in the centre appears ready to be fired again and is now circled with a ring of electricity that appears to emit a buzzing sound.

From the text bubbles, the seraphs are not communicating verbally, rather though some means of telepathy hence why their communications can be heard from the surface of Earth as understood in later pages. For what the seraphs are saying, they are unanimous that a taboo has been detected, and since it has been broken they mean to dispense punishment. The dispensing punishment part is a lone pentagon like text bubble in the second panel, which does not seem to be showing the blackness of Space, rather is indicating the gravity of the words in a manga style of depicting scenarios.

The third panel shows the different scene of the surface of Earth, far away from the seraphs in Space, but directly linked since that location is their target and their intent is clear. There, is one humanoid angel shown namely Amon who appears concerned by what he has seen and heard. The feet of a second figure can be seen in the cover image, which is likely Raum or Naberius yet could also be Bathin as they would later be seen in the area.

The lettering for the chapter is entirely featured on the left side of the page. The Seraph of the End logo, and author details are located in the top left. The chapter number and title are situated in the lower left of the cover image.

"Well one of the two of us has to be here. This wouldn't be in our memories otherwise."
 * There were at least six seraphs armed with trumpets seen in Space in the previous chapter. The number would almost certainly be the same however three are shown in Space at the beginning of this chapter.
 * The rings of light now surround not Space as they did, but an even brighter shining orb.
 * Page one appears a mixed scene, at the end of the last chapter the homunculus was destroyed as the column of light then blasted into Earth. Here it would seem that the homunculus may have just been attacked, where the light would then fire into Earth where Sika Madu was after Amon and others had registered the situation.
 * Circular speech bubbles are used for dialogue where jagged edged ones indicate shouting. The five sided pentagon like speech bubbles with double lines used by the seraphs may indicate communications via telepathy and would further explain how they can be heard from Earth.
 * Upon seeing the shining sun like weapon, Raum responds by asking what that is, where Naberius focuses on what the seraphs said. Amon appears to realize this is retribution and assumes it is because of what Sika Madu did.
 * The sun like orb fired down a lightning based attack specifically to where Sika Madu is apparently located. Where he was somewhere in the Tower of Babel in the previous chapter as he revealed the existence of Mikaela, he had moved to the base of the tower.
 * In saying sorry to everyone as the lighting surged forward, Sika Madu perhaps did not understand that everyone would soon be annihilated where he may have just expected punishment for only himself.
 * Both Paimon and Mikaela's light based attacks were seen to be able to damage the Tower of Babel, where spell circle like formations could quickly repair it. The lightning from the seraphs breaks the tower apart in multiple areas though, where the spell circles may have been powerless to act even in the event they appeared.
 * Not moving as the lightning came down, Sika Madu attempted to endure, regenerate, then get clear of it.
 * In his thoughts Sika Madu indicates he has the ability to regenerate, further being able to do so from electrical based assaults.
 * Although he calls for light, Sika Madu may not have been able to generate it due to the attack he was weathering, or it was an indication he could no longer access the light at that moment onwards.
 * A new character is introduced to the series, namely the unnamed male angel with six wings that appears before Sika Madu. Having six wings like Sika Madu where other humanoid angels have two, this angel also wears more elaborate clothing in a possible indication of his rank.
 * If this angel is of a higher rank than Sika Madu, of which that is a possibility then this unnamed angel would be the most powerful being seen in the series yet.
 * Speaking how God was waiting for him, the angel indicates this and that many others also awaited Sika Madu's return.
 * Having been referred to as "he" in other cases, the angel refers to God as "they" which Sika Madu would also do as well.
 * Sika Madu is burned by lightning until his hair disappears and his skin is blackened.
 * The angel feels personal desires are something to stoop to, and in Sika Madu doing such a thing he has condemned his followers to Hell.
 * Clicking his fingers, the angel can generate a rain of fire where each projectile can smash into the ground. This attack appeared so absolute so that no traces of a crystaline seraph civilization where ever found on Earth. It was seemingly the meteor based event that resulted in the extinction of dinosaurs alive at the time.
 * The instrument the angel is seen to carry is shown to be a spear, one resembling those used by seraphs to attack Shikama Doji in the present times in chapter 108: "Yu's Sword".
 * This spear is not used by the angel here though, not needed on account that Sika Madu is ostensibly restrained by burning sun-like lightning, and meteors are seeing to destroying the city. Still, it may indicate another battle style the angel can resort to.
 * In pushing Amon away, Naberius would save his life but be unable to avoid the rapid meteor that fired through himself and into the ground.
 * Naberius is the first angel seen to have been killed by something else, namely one of the many powerful meteors.
 * As Sika Madu is being targeted by lightning while fiery meteors descend over all the city, Bathin calls to Amon for him to head to his Majesty. Bathin appears to regard Amon as the one who could save Sika Madu and perhaps themselves as well.
 * Bathin's hand remaining pointing to Sika Madu's location is all that is seen left of her after a meteor collision where she is the second angel seen to have been murdered.
 * Although Astaroth was seen in the previous chapter, but not in this one, it is probable to assume that he was nearby, and in any case also to have perished off-panel since every other angel is said to have done so.
 * Similarly Raum was seen here however his presumed passing is not shown.
 * While angels can fly, they are shown walking regularly. This may be similar to vampires of later ages who do have a supernaturally fast sense of speed, yet societally walk at a normal to a human pace when in non-combat situations.
 * For angels such as Sika Madu it would seem he can have his wings appear or not at will. Angels such as Amon have them ever-present, where an injury such as having one severed in half appears to cause physical pain. Wings may be able to be manifested for some angels, but be a physical feature of others.
 * Amon is the first angel of the prehistoric past seen to use his wings for flight aside from Mikaela.
 * After summoning a meteor shower the unnamed angel had taken to floating in the air as the beam of light continued to fire into Sika Madu.
 * Angered where he can seemingly make out the destruction occurring around him through the burning light, Sika Madu asks what did the angel do to his angels.
 * Although he initiated the attack, the angel attempts to blame Sika Madu for the ongoing devastation.
 * The angel feels that merely thinking about creation, resurrection, and apothanasia can lead one to lose their gratitude for life. He has an idea of the soul being able to rot.
 * The angel's comment on the three forbidden acts is made where Sika Madu had just carried out creation, yet meant to resurrect deceased angels and cure a plague based illness.
 * Perhaps not willing to understand that Sika Madu would want to create life, to store enough light to resurrect angels who had died so that they can all reach paradise, the male angel suspected that Sika Madu would delve into the forbidden because he wanted to be a god.
 * From this, the angel may feel that being able to create life, resurrect it, and cure illnesses are considered the traits of a god. He may have also just wanted to see hubris, real or not, in Sika Madu to hold him in contempt for that.
 * Reiterating that it is only himself who is responsible, Sika Madu pleads with the angel to not take the lives of other angels.
 * Believing that taking their lives is insufficient, the angel mentions that the fallen angels will have their souls chained to Hell for eternity. It would transpire that these souls could be summoned from Hell, their graves on Earth, and placed into the bodies of humans.
 * God was not seen responding to Sika Madu when spoken to by him, not even when the existence of the created life of Mikaela was shown. The angel affirms that God has turned his back on him, which may have taken place earlier than this event.
 * The lightning strike is shown able to be manipulated so it stands to reason the meteors can as well. This would match what the angel said about allowing one to survive, namely Amon so that he could be killed with Sika Madu watching.
 * With Amon revealing that everyone had died it would indicate that indeed Raum and Astaroth were murdered before this.
 * The seraphs are the ones shown to be able to control the lightning strike, which is used to murder Amon once the angel ensures Sika Madu has seen him nearby. It's possible that unseen telepathic communications were occurring between the angel and cloaked seraphs for the timing of this scenario.
 * After Amon perishes, all the human appearing angels introduced in chapter 126: "Purgatory and Paradise" are now deceased. For the first to last order and how each of these humanoid angels passed away:
 * Paimon: ill from the seraph affecting plague, Paimon would end his own life with a dagger after failing to kill Mikaela.
 * Bael: having also fallen ill, Bael would similarly take his life to remain where Paimon was.
 * Belial: a grave marker near Paimon and Bael's indicates her passing at some point, likely from the plague.
 * Naberius: struck by a meteor sent to punish Sika Madu for attempting resurrection after he pushed Amon out of harm's way.
 * Bathin: meteor fire while attempting to send Amon to assist Sika Madu.
 * Astaroth: his passing is not seen but it is likely to have been within the initial meteor shower before Amon reaches Sika Madu.
 * Raum: like Astraroth, while Raum was nearby his passing is not seen but is probable to have been in the same manner.
 * Marbas: his status since his introduction is not heard of, though from plague or the seraph's ruin of Earth it's likely he perished at some point.
 * Orobas: identical to Marbas, his status is not known though it is likely he is deceased given the seraph's confidence that everyone was destroyed.
 * Attacking from Space, the seraphs then descended to Earth's surface. Sika Madu is not seen affected by the lightning during this time so it's possible the assault briefly stopped before commencing again upon the angel's direction.
 * In asking the seraphs, the angel is apparently unable to sense whether all the angels have been destroyed himself, unless he was asking for Sika Madu to hear.
 * The seraphs seem able to detect that a huge city of angels have been eliminated, and that their souls have been bound to Earth.
 * For the seraphs holding a trumpet, and a humanoid angel, for who occupies the higher rank where those exist among seraphs, the seraphs follow a directive from the humanoid angel.
 * Falling feathers are seen when the seraphs are ordered to focus their lightning on Sika Madu, which may be his where his wings may have recovered or indicate seraph activity as they have done in previous chapters.
 * Shown in a state of despair at the loss of Mikaela in the previous chapter, Sika Madu would also cry out at the loss of Amon here. The deaths of them, and all seraphs combined with the collapse of the city, then the burning from the lightning results in Sika Madu asking to be killed as he now longs for oblivion.
 * Once hearing Sika Madu plead for death, the unnamed angel chooses that time to sadistically remark that he cannot die and will instead spend eternity burning.
 * Although the angel mentions that Sika Madu would be reborn, Sika Madu would find that he would never able to be killed. Given what the angel is prepared to allow happen, it may be the case there is in fact a yet undiscovered means for Sika Madu to be killed, only for the curse to then have him reborn to experience burning once more.
 * In labelling Sika Madu an undead, where he is also burnt by regular sunlight, it would indicate that he is the first vampire that the chapter title refers to. No thirst for blood, neither turning mad, or into a demon is shown which would be a feature of later vampires created by Sika Madu.
 * Destroying every angel, the seraph and homunculus civilization, and devastating Earth, then having Sika Madu cursed to experience burning for eternity was done solely for the attempt at resurrection.
 * Interestingly, there was no punishment mentioned for Sika Madu outright carrying out the forbidden act of creating life as he did with Mikaela. Where the angel makes no mention of Mikaela it is possible that he, neither God were actually aware of his exstence.
 * In mentioning it, it's not clear how empty the planet was considered to be given there were angel spirits trapped there, along with vegetation that was alive enough to be able to form in the future, neither whether every dinosaur had been wiped out if the rain of fire took place across the entire planet or just in this one location.
 * Being sure to mention that they were to return to paradise, the angel and at least five seraphs made their way to the shining sphere of light that was used as a weapon.
 * What Sika Madu wanted the angel to tell God for him is now known given he was cut off.
 * That the words of a sinner do not reach God may be literal as God did not respond before when Sika Madu spoke to reveal the forbidden created life of Mikaela to him.
 * Once the seraph created ball of light fades, Sika Madu finds he feels perhaps a worse pain from his body burning from sunlight.
 * Where he commenced his operation to darken the rings of light around the Tower of Babel at night in the previous chapter, enough time passed during the angel's campaign of destruction that it is now day time.
 * Burning, Sika Madu is capable of movement where he apparently just makes his way to the valley of graves that other angels were in. Nothing is shown of him attempting to reach any shade (of which shade does stop vampires burning in later ages) neither any activities he does when night falls where he should be able to recover.
 * Neither a lack of blood which has an effect on vampires, neither a millennia apparently spent burning in pain seem to have any effect of Sika Madu's frame of mind. Upon finding protection from the sunlight, mentally he has persevered to remain exactly as he was.
 * Millennia, then tens of thousands of years are said to have passed. That is a possibility, as is it Sika Madu feeling it was that amount of time. Greenery is around the valley of graves, where nothing has spread to cover the graves. This lack of foliage spreading may be curse based, or indicate that it was not as much time passed as Sika Madu felt.
 * The rain of fire utterly destroyed the crystalline based buildings of the seraph civilization and may have been a planet-side affecting event. Despite that, the cross-shaped grave markers of the angels near to the city were completely intact. While these would be the only remaining indication of man-made appearing artefacts from prehistorical times, they were apparently not identified in the present time.
 * Again, while the angel said that Sika Madu would burn to death and be reborn, Sika Madu found that he did not actually die despite suffering burns that would result in the death of any others.
 * For what Sika Madu may have wanted to be passed onto God, it could have been that he despises him, and cursed him.
 * This expression of hate is an exceptionally rare time when Sika Madu would ever express any negative emotions.
 * Further to being able to move, Sika Madu appeared somewhat comfortable sat upright as he violently burned in what may be the greatest indication of his constitution given everything he has endured.
 * Regarding what Sika Madu was thinking in the time he was burning, as well as cursing God's name he also screamed apologies to the souls of all his followers.
 * Although they were not mentioned by name, where Sika Madu gave apologies it's possible he would have given them by name in which case Paimon, Bael, Amon, Belial, Astaroth, Marbas, Bathin, Naberius, Raum, and Orobas would have been mentioned and in his mind.
 * Where the angel was clear that Sika Madu was to burn in pain for eternity it appears he and God were unaware that there was a way out of this. In accepting that he would live eternally with sin, Sika Madu found that would be the means to use darkness to protect him from the light.
 * It can be inferred that darkness is a very effective means of defending one from angel and the Sun God related curses and punishments.
 * Upon his acceptance, Sika Madu feels his eyes began to clear, which fire based damage aside, may be figuratively speaking as he goes on to see ways to take advantage of his punishment. As for taking advantage of his new state of being, generating darkness would be a demon related trait, where they would be closely related to vampires in later ages. For Sika Madu's undead state, he is one without the need for blood and someone able to generate demon based powers.
 * A new power is displayed by Sika Madu, one in where he can conjure a circle of darkness.
 * Speaking for the darkness to protect him from the light, Sika Madu could have the blackened halo encompass him to deliver that effect. His burned self with no hair or ears could be restored to how he was before.
 * At being restored, all aspects of Sika Madu's attire are present including a metallic appearing bracelet. Mikaela was seen formed with clothes already on him, thus angels may share a trait with demons in that their powers can form non-biological features such as clothing.
 * Once the darkness is invoked, from a circle Sika Madu sees a substance most closely resembling a black sun of later ages. Sounds are also a feature of this being coming into existence.
 * Seeing the shadowy mass with a light at its core, Sika Madu can perceive that it is the homunculus named Yu.
 * This may confirm that black suns are not an experimental version of homunculus, rather are just a different form they can take. In that case, homunculus were also active in times such as the dark ages of Greece.
 * The homunculus formed from the circle of darkness Sika Madu made appeared to be active in some state after being blasted apart by the seraphs' initial attack. Experiencing destruction, the homunculus can exist and store memories as well as objects apparently in another state of being. Where is seemed unable to manifest before Sika Madu without darkness, it appeared to still be able to monitor events.
 * Having experienced burning for so long, upon his recovery Sika Madu does not have vengeance against God or other angels in mind, rather remains set on resurrecting his fallen followers and Mikaela where he is undeterred by the response for the previous attempt.
 * Whether through attempts or an innate feeling, Sika Madu feels he cannot touch light such as that which was gathered in the Tower of Babel.
 * Given the amount of light gathered in the Tower of Babel which is the source of God's power where he presumably would have desired it, after the light was darkened, the God may have disregarded that tremendous amount of energy or he may be powerless to change darkened light back into original light.
 * Previously it appeared that Sika Madu did not pay much attention to individual homunculus based on his comment to Mikaela in chapter 125 "Soft Serve with Father" that he had named one again. For whatever reason, perhaps because this one has been "cursed" with a name, Sika Madu undergoes a prodigious amount of close co-operation with the homunculus called Yu. In the prior chapter Sika Madu counted on Yu the homunculus specifically to commence the operation to darken the light rings to resurrect everyone. Here, Sika Madu resorts to the homunculus to produce the coffin containing his son, and to create humans. Sika Madu is seen interacting with it to the point he does not notice that a human is being spoken to by Mikaela.
 * For the extent of its intelligence, the homunculus answers Sika Madu's question of how he is to go about collecting the power required for resurrection by bringing forth the coffin of Mikaela, where it evidently knows he also has seven keys worth of light to restore all angels.
 * This course of action to store light within keys Mikaela holds was a plan revealed to God, yet the homunculus had learned of this off-panel at some point.
 * The homunculus appears the size of Sika Madu's head before changing its proportions to be large enough to birth a coffin, and then return to it regular smaller size once more. Alternatively given that a coffin of that size could not possibly be stored within such a small being, the homunculus may be able to shrink objects including beings. More alternatively, the homunculus could have its body serve as a portal to transport objects from elsewhere. Given the homunculus was able to be formed out of a portal created by Sika Madu, the transfer option is likely, more so if the humans were not made but transported.
 * The coffin containing Mikaela had been kept safe somewhere after the Tower of Babel where it was situated came under attack.
 * Mikaela could be kept positioned in his coffin despite being dropped vertically from the homunculus.
 * Without a thought to seeing Mikaela himself, especially after the devastating attack on the Tower of Babel where the coffin was, Sika Madu instead regards him as the means for resurrecting others.
 * Seven keys worth of light have been stored within Mikaela where it is implied he is needed alive in order to access them. In later ages the seven sinful keys are seen separately, which may mean Mikaela was resurrected from death at some point between now and the future, or that the seven sinful keys of later times are different to the light infused keys within Mikaela.
 * Where Sika Madu desires the keys infused with light, by the present time where as Shikama Doji he has possessed Shinoa's body in chapter 84 "Nativity of a Princess" he appears fearful at the sight of a sinful key. Indeed in chapter 85: "The Guinea Pigs Gather" Shikama Doji would be sealed by the effects of three sinful keys.
 * The light within the Tower of Babel could have been darkened to attempt the resurrection of all angels, yet with that gone, the seven keys of light within Mikaela are another means.
 * What is involved with extracting the keys from Mikaela may have a drawback otherwise Sika Madu could have used the seven keys of light in Mikaela to resurrect the fallen angels, and then the light gathered in the Tower of Babel to return them all to paradise.
 * Sika Madu's current plan is to restore Mikaela to life in order to resurrect the fallen angels. To do this, Sika Madu takes inspiration from God and where he was having angels gather light, Sika Madu will used cursed dolls of mud/humans to collect darkness.
 * In placing his hand on a homunculus Sika Madu can cause a fully functioning child to be produced.
 * Ascertaining that he is still bound by rules of some sort, Sika Madu finds he is not able to create angels but can create what he knows are humans.
 * The first human seen on Earth is a short dark haired youth who resembles Yu. The second is a short and light haired youth who appears like Mika but is seen to be female.
 * These children which drop out of the homunculus are two among at least fifteen brought to the area. Stated to be created and born, the children are more akin to beings that have been transferred from another location by a homunculus who is also capable of transferring objects such as a coffin. The children are readily conscious, have enough life experience to know terms such as "mister" and be familiar with what sleep is. Capable of speech they are curious as to where they are and others around them.
 * While it is possible that newly created humans behave in this manner, it's also a possibility that humans existed in other parts of the galaxy perhaps in other satellite kingdoms, yet were transported here to Earth where they would become the ancestors of present day humanity.
 * In any case it would appear that this was how humans would develop from Earth, they were brought into existence by Sika Madu and a homunculus where he wanted them to gather darkness so that he could resurrect angels who were wiped out.
 * Left alone with his thoughts in the previous half of the prior chapter it was not clear whether Yu and Mika saw Sika Madu state to other angels that they were to return to paradise, before he would instead direct the homunculus to change the rings of light around the Tower of babel to darkness. Neither was it apparent whether Yu and Mika witnessed the seraphs and humanoid angel destroy everything Sika Madu had built and left him to burn. The production of humans on Earth is an event seen by Yu and Mika however. Watching nearby, Yu questions Mika whether the first human made is him given their resemblance.
 * While the speaker is not seen, the quote:

- Either Yu or Mika as they wonder about who in the scenario one of them could be to be able to access such memories.

Is probably spoken by Yu given the order of speech bubbles, and that Mika remains unsure who it could be where Yu is more ready to discuss who could be the owner of such memories.
 * Although the homunculus named Yu could discern Yu and Mika themselves in chapter 125, it makes no indication that it can see them despite their close proximity here once more.
 * Given the homunculus is seen to communicate with Sika Madu, it is entirely possible that Shikama Doji, who is currently a prisoner of Saito and Urd in the present time, is in fact aware that Yu and Mika are accessing these memories. Like the homunculus though, Shikama Doji may just not be indicating that he knows he is being watched.
 * When the child who looks like Mika is dropped into the world, they are asked who they are. Giving some thought to the question, the child is unable to answer as the focus is brought to further children being made, but it may have indicated exactly who the child thought they were in terms of specifying a name and history of someone appearing in this manner.
 * The children are produced near a grass covered area which features some cross-shaped grave markers of angels. It would seem Sika Madu had moved away from the barren valley of graves after he had used darkness to shield himself from the light.
 * Rather than being an artistic choice in the manga for depicting the children it is possible many of them did not have hair. The two who appear like Yu and Mika are the minority seen with hair and even then it is very short. At least three children are shown with what may be an indication of different skin tones.
 * Appearing unsure of how Mikaela is speaking to the child, Yu would apparently not remember that the Yu existing during the dark ages of Greece in chapter 113 "Everyone's Secrets" that Mikaela spoke to him then while being deceased.
 * Contact with the homunculus appears to allow Sika Madu to inculcate attributes such as greed into humans. Sika Madu may have meant qualities such as having them ephemeral and melancholic would make them strong in his view, or that added strength was another feature he wanted in them.
 * Last time when creating the humans, Sika Madu's hand glowed at touching the homunculus for that result. While physical contact was made there appeared no activation so perhaps instilling these greed to ephemeral traits into the humans was not carried out. Either way, Sika Madu with a homunculus at least seems to think that he can have this effect on a group of humans.
 * For what feelings a homunculus can shape, in chapter 79 "Eternal Hell" a black sun, which may be a form of a homunculus, was seemingly involved in molding Yu's behavior as a seraph.
 * What does appear to come to pass is Sika Madu having the souls of the dead angels into the humans.
 * Despite said to not be able to touch the light anymore, Sika Madu displays a light based power around his hands to bring the souls of the angels who had fallen into Hell, thus there may be different manifestations of light.
 * For what powers he has access to, Sika Madu seems able to bring forth the souls of angels bound by curses to Earth to have them enter the bodies of humans.
 * The merry appearing children all pause as the angel souls make contact with their bodies. The visible effect is them shimmering with light and their eyes being completely faded over. After this, the children appear unsure once again, which may very well be angels processing their new situations of being within a human's body.
 * The child resembling Yu had the curiosity of seeing a newcomer at the child who looked like Mika who may have been female but had parted ways as other children entered the area. It was after an angel soul flew into the child looking like Yu that he noticed the body of Mikaela who he felt was pretty.
 * The only child seen to have noticed Mikaela and in attempting to speak to him, it became apparent to Yu and Mika that the youth was hearing the deceased Mikaela speak.
 * In engaging with the homunculus, Sika Madu does not notice that one of the generated children is interacting with his deceased son.
 * Communicating with the youth, Mikaela shares his shortened name of Mika, using that for the first time.
 * In explaining to a human child what death meant, Mikaela stated it meant that he could not play with him.
 * The child who resembles Yu knew what sleeping was but is not familiar with the concept of death. He makes no reaction to that he is speaking to someone who looks asleep at best without his mouth moving.
 * Mika feels Yu should remember hearing what Mikaela said in his mind. While Mika assumes the youth who looks like Yu was a form of him, Yu is surprised at the idea this could be his memory even with that, and with the homunculus named Yu here.
 * In chapter 125 Yu was shown able to read some indiscernible text by focusing on it yet it gave him a headache to do so. Here Yu attempts to remember what should be events from his memory yet feels something is in the way.
 * Where Yu could read such text, that may be from memories of the homunculus which may have been capable of reading. While in this chapter Yu concludes he is Mikaela, it is unlikely that Sika Madu would have allowed Mikaela to access information on his plans, and then Mikaela was surprised to hear related information from Paimon as well.
 * Although Mika feels Yu should remember soon before they miss out on key information, the boy who looks like Yu provides their answers in speaking aloud.
 * Whether it is how he regards humans, Mikaela is upfront that he wants to put his soul into one to be him in order to save his dad, Sika Madu. It's not clear how much autonomy the child would have should he have Mikaela's soul within him, the child may already be under the influence of an unknown angel soul that had collided into his body to affect his eyes and temperament.
 * Yu appears shocked at the idea the child who looks like him would be keen to have Mikaela's soul enter his body.
 * With no hesitation, the child decides they will save Sika Madu together and invites Mikaela in.
 * In Chapter 127: "Love or Loyalty" Mikaela took his own life under the belief that his existence would be a problem for his father, and so he removed himself to help Sika Madu in his mind. Given that Sika Madu now needs him alive to access the light infused keys to resurrect other angels, it would seem that Mikaela in his deceased state had heard this. In having his soul enter an alive human, that may be Mikaela's means of being in the alive state for the keys to be accessible.
 * Apparently having been able to hear Sika Madu's plan, Mikaela does not, or cannot communicate with him. It may be because of Sika Madu's newfound undead state, yet Mikaela can communicate with a human youth with an angel soul within.
 * In calling the souls of angels into humans it would seem that Mikaela's stayed within his body, which may have been due to angels from nearby graves being called for the currently limited number of humans at hand. In any case it seems set that Mikaela's soul can enter a human's body at any rate which can be done with a human inviting it in.
 * Where the youth appeared to have been hit by a force when Mikaela's soul enters, the "I..." spoken may be from Mikaela inside the human body he is now within.
 * Inside the cabin they have taken refuge in, Yu appears outside the memory in the same body position as the human he was observing and feels he remembers his past as Mikaela.
 * As to whose memories he and Mika were able to access, the homunculus named Yu and Mikaela were the suspected candidates for Yu and Mika respectively. The addition of the first human on Earth who looks like Yu was another candidate, where Yu now feels he is the one linked to not them, but Mikaela himself.
 * It may not be the case that Yu is Mikaela, rather that is just his perspective in the moment given something fleeting he just experienced.

Gallery
Manga panels provide a visual overview of the events of chapter 129 with depictions of the characters, Seraph of the End world and scenarios.