Talk:WN/Honjou Masayuki/@comment-172.90.90.176-20161023074037/@comment-131.215.220.163-20180805062549

PEDANTIC SPOILERS AHEAD

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Near the end of the web novel, Rimuru and his demon lord allies invade Heaven where Yuuki's alternate personality Velda resides to summon his angels. Using the memories of Rudra before his many reincarnations and his two loyal retainers, he revives the three with the power of angels that has returned to heaven with the defeat of the angel army. While it appears as if the three were revived with unprecedented power, the truth is that the soul and its free will are independent of its memories, and thus the three are supposedly not their real incarnations. This hypothesis is overturned when Rudra begins to act defiant towards Velda and claims that he is only following him purely because of his desire to settle his score with Gii Crimson. When it becomes clear that the three are no match for Veldora, Velgrynd, Velzard, Diablo, and Gii combined, Velda orders them to self destruct, by converting their bodies into energy.

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But just as Rudra, the most powerful, is to become the last to explode, Rimuru appears just after having learning [Instant Transmission] from his battle with another World Traveller whom he convinced to switch sides. Rimuru absorbs the volatile energy, but discovers that Rudra's memory core has survived as a result! Upon analysis, Ciel believes that Rudra has free will because over the course of his many reincarnations, Rudra's soul was slowly shaved away, and over a long period of time, these remanants coalesced into a true reincarnation of Rudra somewhere in the world (this process is similar to the way demons like Gii or Diablo would inevitably revive over the course of a thousand years in the event of their deaths). They decide that in the meantime, they would attach Rudra's memory orb to Rudra's personal sword, creating a sentient weapon that would only resonate and grant its full power to a person whose soul wavelength matches that of Rudra. Velgrynd and Rudra speculate that such a reincarnation may well be a very lucky man and a coward since sword version of Rudra has maintained his courage and indominable spirit. Rimuru immediately speculates that this is probably Masayuki considering his skill, [The Chosen One], which creates a lucky field around him that grants himself and his allies the ability to constantly roll Nat20's.