![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Kouta kills Lucy soon after in an act of mercy as the process of reviving him has left her irreparably damaged and in pain. This inability to exist within the human world is reflected in the poem, with its titular elf being chastised for his attempts to peek into human life. In the manga, Lucy’s alter-ego Nyu is taught the song by an aspiring singer and Lucy later sings the song herself in the manga’s final chapters as she makes the fatal choice, in opposition of her killer instincts, to save Kouta, the human boy she’s always loved, rather than destroy the world, which has constantly inflicted cruelty upon her when she attempted to coexist alongside humans as a Diclonius. This notoriously gory series derives its title from a German poem that translates to “Elf/Fairy Song”. ![]()
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