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The Daybreaker & Scimitar of the Seven

Gerudo Town celebrates Naboris no longer being a threat, and Riju makes a huge cultural shift in the Gerudo to honor Link's heroism. The darkness from the Yiga Clan Hideout follows Link to his home.

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  • Actually Pretty Funny: Buliara finds it funny seeing Link trying to decide whether to use his own equipment or that of Urbosa, since both fit his typical fighting style.
  • Adaptation Deviation: Riju makes a change to Gerudo culture that doesn't happen in the game. She decides that Gerudo will be allowed to bring their husbands back to town, and that Link has permission to enter Gerudo Town openly as a voe.
  • Asshole Victim: No one is upset with Link killing the Yiga girl, the worst is just how brutally he went about it.
  • Bad Moon Rising: Another Blood Moon rises at the end of this chapter.
  • Breather Episode: Once again, this chapter serves as a cool down after the previous four intense chapters. Subverted at the end when Link is attacked by a Yiga Clan member and he violently kills her after giving her an immense Shut Up, Hannibal!.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: The Yiga Clan Footsoldier first suffers major bone fractures, but Link heals these. Afterwards, he impales her with the Scimitar of the Seven and violently electrocutes her to death.
  • Faux Action Girl: The Yiga Clan Footsoldier who attacks Link is female, but she does no damage to him and is very quickly beaten by him with no struggle.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • The Blood Moon is revealed as not bringing back the Yiga Clan.
    • The Yiga girl's attack on Link is this on its own. There are still Yiga Clan members out there.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Link outright says that the Yiga have no excuse for their behavior, and citing something that happened ten millennia ago justifies nothing.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Link has officially recognized that this will never happen to him regarding the Yiga Clan.
  • Kirk Summation: Though it's only said to one member of the clan, Link nonetheless tears apart any argument they could have that could even try to put them in the right.
  • Moral Myopia: To the extreme. The Yiga Clan Footsoldier claims that Link is a monster for having hunted down the Yiga Clan, forgetting about how they had hunted down many innocent people and tortured them to death violently. Link calls her out on it.
  • "Reason You Suck" Speech: The Yiga Clan Footsoldier rips into Link, claiming that he's more monstrous than he thinks the Yiga are for having slaughtered all of them, hunting them down like animals.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: Link has none of the Yiga girl's words, and he throws back at her that they're nothing alike, especially with how the Yiga hunted down and murdered innocents, including pregnant women.
  • The Unfettered: Link has no scruples whatsoever when it comes to making the Yiga pay. Not even the presence of numerous witnesses prevents him from displacing vengeance and anger on them in the name of keeping Hyrule safe from them.

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