The comment system under the comic have been updated! It’s got several improvements but we are still testing it out! So- use it- so far I think I like it. One thing, it allows for longer reply chains. Which is nice 😀
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How about ‘all of the above and he completely believed the spirit’?
Or is everyone around here, still so weak after the removal of magics seals that they actually thought that spirit WAS the real amatrasu? (Or at least an avatar of her) after all she seems to at least have been stronger than the water spirit that liked slinging curses around. I am guessing she was likely top tier among lesser/middle level spirits?
Hard to say. There is some merit to suggesting they should have known better since it’s feasible Naoko’s family and Inari could have tried giving this government agency some pointers or literature on this a while back.
A lot of it strikes me as a timeline issue and how much of a set back Emi unleashing the Power seal affected the projected return of mystics and monsters. It’s been a while since we heard from the family and Inari is still a wild card here.
Since we don’t know if they were planning on decades before dealing with serious threats being released and as opposed to eaten by more mundane spirits Ama was a lesser evil here.
More over if the narration is to be trusted, which maybe dubious given Yuki is calling him out for ignorance. Allegedly the Suijin was a Demi-God. If that holds true it’s not a surprising mistake.
That said I can agree the casual arrogance here is stiffling.
Interestingly I wonder if he’s a type of chimera predisposed to channeling spirits. Leaving him with little recourse for this bond. I’m not familiar on the practice, but I think there was some form of ritual magic for hosting spirits in ones body.
Granted this is a massively leap in assumption though. Since this is half remembered on my end and possibly not even compatable with Yosh’s magic system.
But if you wanted to theory craft in the weeds for a bit, you could consider that some folks are specifically predisposed or only capable of this type of posession magic.
The chimeritization of the native population has gone rather sideways after the original Fire Magi’s mistake. So it’s not infeasible. Axel being a conduit for demons specifically might lend credance to this. But to be fair, he is a super special case on par with the Null though.
As strong as a spirit can get, it doesn’t always elevate them in status. Not being able to know themselves prevents them from ever growing beyond their class. A bunch of stolen power they can cause destruction with, but can never learn how to really use it. The only thing they could come up with was sharing it with someone else and manipulating them for more power.
That’s actually a really interesting angle. Since spirits may not have physical forms in the truest sense, a cognitive dissonance deviating from their true self could lead to some interesting consequences.
So this implies that faith is a similar source of power to mana and harvesting it can lead to short term gains but not necessarily profeciency in use?
This does bring up an interesting question on why they couldn’t intergrate it though. Presumably faith is faith, is there a lore reason why they couldn’t properly utilize it?
I imagine if it’s siphoned improperly from shrines that’s one thing. But Yuki’s in comic assertation asserts it was freely given. What exactly is preventing them from leveraging it? Provided you don’t mind asking.
Noticed the improvements in the new comment system immediately. Much appreciated Sage. The edit feature is a fantastic addition in my personal opinion.
Yuki is responsible for all improvements, I’d break something, or make it work in some arcane way that shouldn’t work and only worked for 10% of people! 😀
Haha, fair. I can’t say my tech literacy is much better. Please pass on my regards to them. Let them know me being quarrelsome on the site has never been easier for me. You two have a good weekend.
So was adding her to Yosh payment for the improvements.
She’s not mad, she’s disappointed.
I’m imagining that meanwhile Inari is standing just off panel, quietly waiting for ‘mom’ to finish scolding the foolish exorcist.
Oooh, like the new software. Good choice!
As for the comic, I can’t wait for her todd to reluctantly announce his presence. I imagine he’ll probably get a hug, but there’s the chance she’s annoyed enough to share some of it.
Yuki speaks of his abilities, but did he even have any? Didn’t Kate say, that everything he did was the doing of somebody looking through his eyes, as in only fake Amaterasu was doing the work? Maybe he doesn’t have any abilities at all.
I believe the exorcist explicitly said as such when he banished the Suijin. It’s highly likely he was functioning solely as a conduit for the spirit’s powers.