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Hey Blazar, any thoughts on the new chapter leaks?😭😭

So, on one hand I have a lot of thoughts, but on the other hand most of my thoughts can probably be summed up with a jumble of incoherent screaming that wouldn’t let me sleep last night. If I try to put my thoughts in order though…

The happy thoughts

First thing I should get out of the way is that, from a narrative standpoint, I love this twist. It was subtle enough to not be painfully obvious, while at the same time, there were enough hints for this not to feel like it came out of nowhere. That’s a hard balance to achieve. There’s no room for me to accuse Tabata of taking a perfectly good dork like Julius and doing a 180 on him for shock value. This was planned for Julius’s character from the start.

The twist also makes the Elf Saga even better in retrospect. After all, you can’t kill off the final boss in the first major arc. Plus, the final boss certainly couldn’t let one of his most important tools (William) go anywhere, so keep him exactly where he is under the guise of having him repent and make him feel guilty about even considering leaving.

His new grimoire cover is also very cool. The presence of the Spade, which symbolizes death, and the upside-down Spade, which symbolizes rebirth? Perfection. The fact that overlapping two spades somehow creates a heart, a clover, and diamond on his grimoire too? Double perfection. Though, the way it is right now, saying there’s a diamond hidden in there feels like a bit of stretch, and I feel like for the sake of balance one spade shouldn't overlap the other, so personally I would have designed his grimoire so that both outlines are present like so:

Also, this opens the door for cool, edgy Julius fanart, and the fact Yami and (presumably) William were corrupted by the Qlipoth ritual means they can all be cool, edgy devils together. A part of me wants to photoshop my icon's hair to be black to celebrate the advent of edgy Julius but I'd be spoiling so many people...

Speaking of fanart, I guess the comic I drew about Julius secretly being an alien wasn’t completely off the mark? 🤔 He certainly isn’t completely human. Some of my other fanart featuring him doesn’t feel right anymore though ^^;

The not so happy thoughts

Like you’ve mentioned in some of your posts on the topic, I feel that Julius was not aware of his identity as a devil-host or as a Zogratis. There is no reason for him to put on an act while he’s alone, so his shock about his identity is likely legitimate. Maybe Lucius has magic that allows him to manipulate minds or memories, and he wiped his own memories Light Yagami-style so that he could live as an innocent citizen of Clover? Or maybe Julius is a result of Lucius being “reborn”?

Assuming Julius was unaware of the truth, he was probably subconsciously drawn to William and Yami, much in the same way William was subconsciously drawn to the elves. Like how William felt like he was being guided by mana as he recruited people for his squad, Julius may have felt like he was simply following a random whim when he recruited them. The excitement he felt when he met them both was real

While this would mean the kind Julius we all met was real, and that he genuinely loved William, Yami, Asta, Marx, and everyone else, this also probably means the Julius we all met will never come back

While the above is all speculation based on one chapter’s worth of info, there is one thing I know for certain: everyone is going to be devastated when they return home

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