Xebek’s Blog

Luke arrives in Daath and Anise’s difficult situation is fully revealed.

Impressions:

You can tell we’re getting close to the end with all the things that are now happening. I mean Ion ended up passing away and a major fight between Anise and Arietta has been set up in the preview. Do feel bad for Ion passing away in this. I know people got all over the guy for how passive he is and how he can’t do much, but really he was a nice guy at the end of the day. He didn’t stand up to Mohs here, because he knew it would put Anise’s parents in danger. Made it clear at the end how important to him she was. It didn’t matter if she had been spying the bond and feelings he had for her remained the same. No way could he do something that would hurt her and since the score has gone so far off course it really shouldn’t have mattered. Besides it seems pretty obvious he was considering taking a desperate course of action to save Tear. Knowing the short life of a replica he probably felt it was worth doing. If there was a major flaw in Ion it was that he lacked any self worth. He never saw his life as being worthwhile since there were replacement Ion’s ready to be used at the moment of his death. But never thought about how everyone that knew him would feel terrible sadness.

I have mixed feelings about Anise to be honest. Could understand the steps she took through the series with her parents at stake. Being cursed with such idiots for parents must be a terrible burden. How did those two survive long enough to have a child when they were so terribly naïve? I mean really it couldn’t have been that hard to trick them out of everything they owned when they practically gave stuff away as it was. Still Anise could have done something before it got to this point. She made herself seem greedy and never let people know just what was going on with her. By the time Mohs took her parents physically hostage it was too late to do much else. No matter how stupid they are, family is family.

Anise has perhaps as heavy a burden on her as Luke since she continually gave the enemy information that made any level of secrecy pointless. But would put some on the others since they never did dig deeply into Anise even after seeing what her family was like. Tear in particular took a preaching stance on taking money from nobles. I mean really they are nobles, who cares if they give you money and you keep it? One thing that bothers me about Tear is how she always preaches to everyone. Like when Luke questions his existence she tells him he shouldn’t. Isn’t it human to wonder about your existence a little bit? Don’t think it’s something you should blissfully ignore and hope it all works out. Tear did get lucky with Ion helping her out. Her condition wasn’t going to get better and really she was bound to die from falling on her face so often. She gets quite the miracle cure and it shouldn’t mean much guilt since Ion was probably going to die anyways.

Really feel bad for Arietta in all of this. This girl has never been told the truth by anyone regarding Ion. She honestly thinks it’s the same Ion she has always known and that’s one reason why she pursues him so much. Van used her by not telling the truth about Ion and Luke’s group didn’t think to tell her either. Sure she would still be angry about the Ligers, but she might be even angrier at Van for using her feelings for Ion. Following the idea that replicas are different it makes sense to let the girl know what is going on here. Really she has lost what she feels to be her family and even Ion without knowing it. Now she is going to be reacting to the pain of losing him and likely blame Anise for it. Since it’s not like she liked Anise at all in the first place. Taking her place at Ion’s side and insulting her on every occasion they met. Just can’t see this being a nice ending for anyone.

Even worse is this replica army coming up and trying to cause a war. Mohs really is a piece of garbage who will do anything to get the score moving forward. He doesn’t care about anyone. Really is an interesting contrast to Van who was out to destroy the score at any cost. Hopefully Mohs pays for everything he has done and everyone he has hurt along the way. Disrespecting replicas and even the innocent people who would have to die in a war he started up. The replicas are pretty pitiful since they are just being used as tools. Must really hurt for those in the group since being attacked by the faces of people you know died is an ugly thing.

Definitely moving to the end of this story and it’s probably going to be rushed. With so much to cover you really can’t be surprised by that fact.