"Think about killing them and nothing else. You can annihilate them. Dakini. That's what I made you for."
While Sho Shibamoto is no stranger to having unsettling moments in his stories, Flower Knight Dakini takes it to another level just by delving into the deeper mysteries.
Moment Subpages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
- Chapter 2
- The reveal of Dakini's status as a Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb is compounded by the appearance of her mother, a cursed being with a serpent-like lower body and several arms, hooked up with tubes sticking out of her back and dripping what is seemingly blood.
- Chapter 6
- While Eiden is enjoying the pleasant drawings in Crain's artbook, he turns the page as the focus switches to Dakini for a few pages. Once the viewpoint switches again, the audience is treated to a flashback to after the destruction of Buribcus. One of Eiden's classmates approaches him as he's drawing something. Then he turns his head, now with large eyes and a wide mouth full of sharp teeth, and his drawing is a Sky Golem being strung up and torn apart. Suddenly, Eiden snaps back to the present and notices the pages he turned to were of a hand (presumably Crain's) tearing into a picture of the destroyed buildings in Arkhamheim and an impaled burning corpse.
- Chapter 7:
- The Humanoid Golem shows far more autonomy and intelligence than the Sky Golems. When the Spider Golems get knocked into the air to no effect, it starts laughing. Just when it seems like the evacuation is going to work, it speaks and obliterates all the buses that would let people leave the city. Kayoh believes it deliberately wants to destroy everything as sadistically as possible.
- On the final page, Eiden sounds happy to see Dakini come to the rescue, though he starts smiling in the most disconcerting way possible...
- Eiden's artist block is actually the result of his own anger towards the Sky Golems consuming him and making him paint the above flashback's drawing. Then it's revealed he had actually been drawing a childish version of the painting in the first chapter, but had erased it before we actually saw it. The mental manifestation of his hatred even seems to mock him as Dakini destroys Karura.
- Chapter 10:
- Dakini has a nightmare revisiting the battle of Karacuma, where she helplessly watches herself destroy the town while being encouraged by her mother to remain focused on killing the golems. Then her mother emerges from her past self's mouth and starts removing her mask, which is apparently kept on with spikes, several of which stab right through her thumb. With the mask off, Dakini's mother apparently looks like a horrifying monster with several faces fused together.
- Chapter 11:
- Karura turns out to be still be on the trail of Dakini, as his corpse is being puppeted by a cluster of parasitic golems. His body is in much worse condition, and after taking just one blow from Eiden, it looks like he could fall to pieces at any moment.
- Eiden gets speared through the arm by Karura right before dealing the decisive blow. We even get to see the aftermath and can even see his bones before he's able to heal himself with medicine water. According to the author's notes, this would have been nearly fatal otherwise.
