@Kilocron said in Demon Lord, Retry! Vol. 6:
I dunno, I think Hakuto as basically the unofficial leader of the empire. Maybe not in name, but no one would cross him would be my assumption. Even in that world he was unparalleled.
Looks like Yu is catching on that he's really Akira and not Hakuto as well now.
Nah he wasn't the leader in the Empire. The empire was riuled by God peple and he was simply the leader of the public organization which upholds this status. Don't forget the disdain Tahara had to nobles as he reprimanded Yu what they did in the sleepless castle.
So I already did give my 2 cents regarding this "retry" part but maybe I should collect my thoughts in one post.
I assume this is now atleast his second attempt to a retry. I would not rule out that he is really Lucifer. But this depends on the information later on what reality is or not. He lives now in a world which leans on the "real World". Atleast from the names used or persons he encounters.
So my take is it (and it can have many iterations). First he was Lucifer and created this world (although there are 2 paths). Either he was a creator in the real life and made the world he is now in centuries ago with the names he encountered there or the real life Akira we see is not "real life" at all and the world he sees there is a creation (speaking, our world we are in is formed from the former world of Lucifer). Second life is a programmer which tries to make his ideal world digitally and now his third is the one we follow in the book.
Briefly. I see him as someone who has the power to create worlds but not as the absolute Ruler of those. If he was Lucifer then he had the Great Light above him. As a programmer he had a second persona as the Demon Lord which also had people above him. And as someone mentioned it could be that he wanted to rebell against those above him. And now he is the Demon Lord and building up his empire in Holylight.
Question is. Who is his friend we see in RL? Is he maybe the great light? Did he get bored by Akira as a programmer and simply pressed a button like in the endless swallowing game he made to restart it?
Oh and a point I always contemplate. We know he had a RL friend who simply vanished. Now he is in a world where an angel is still not accounted for, which is also missing since centuries.
And yes speculations. But we all know that the world in 1999 and this one is intersected (names or heck even his former chief as a bandit leader). And after all the hints we got the Japan he lived in was destroyed in 1999. And I must always think back about the comment that it is a sandbox game to him (as he recruited McBonald, etc).
