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Antilene will carry those fond memories for the rest of her life. The first time she had allowed herself to disobey her orders and indulge her own desires.

The clash she eagerly wished for, to feel alive after so many decades serving as a sentinel.

She will forever treasure in her heart the memory of the man who made her heartbeat grow faster for the first time in one-hundred years... till the day they would meet again under a pale moon.

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Anon7274

Under a pale moon? Did we read that already or is that foreshadowing? Also, great picture as always. All we need now is an animation. Someone call up MastarMedia.

Mike

Man, Apollo be knocking it out if park with these artworks.

Blackjack

I am curious as to what will happen next i regards to Lin with her pursuing Satoru. Right now, while she does not know what race he is, she at the very least thinks he is a humanoid and not an undead, and those should be able to mate with her. What is making me curious is how she will play this. With her assuming he is a mortal, possibly human, that means she has a time limit she has to work with to achieve her goal. She not only has to work with the fact that, since she thinks he is human, he will have a human lifespan of around 80 years, and since Satoru is around 30, she actually has only around 50 years to achieve her goal. While that might seem like a lot to us, to a girl who is a half-elf and probably do to her long life span sees a human life span as so short she might not even realize how much time has actually passed it is a very short period of time. If she is aware of this this I will put a sense of urgency in her doing to, as far as she is concerned, she will blink and Satoru will die of old age. There is also the fact since most of her time is stagnantly guarding the vault, it probably means she will notice even less how much time will pass. Then there is the additional angle of fertility and given what her goal is, I doubt she has not done research, so she should know that the older Satoru (a possibly human or humanoid) gets the less viable he will be. Meaning that reproduction with him will be that much harder. So in actuality, she has a window of around 15 years to have the maximum possible success. This leads me to think that really soon, like in the next two arcs, we should be seeing Lin either begin or make her move to actually escape the theocracy, again, for another outing to actually battle Satoru with everything she has. Using the best weapon she can get away with taking from the vault she is guarding. I doubt she can take Shashaanas Syth and the wind god's armor, but she will probably take some lesser item to use in battle.

Anon7274

There is the possibility Raymond could help her with that. While there is a low possibility that those two would get together now, he does still hold enough feelings for her where he wants to see her happy. That would also fulfill his young adult wish of ‘saving her’ from the theocracy. I wouldn’t be surprised if Zero had her use the gear she used in the light novel considering Lin would want to be in top shape to face against Satoru. Especially since she believes he is much stronger than he lets on. This would also show Satoru that the gods really were players and focus more of his attention on Slain, maybe start helping with the elves in exchange for seeing the rest of their treasury and the other gods gear.

ZeroSenpai Writer

Uhm, i htink you are assuming a bit too much there. I mean, she is certainly fond of the caster, but she is an adult, not a teenager prone to making on the spot decisions (otherwise she would have left for the elf kingdom ages ago), she understands her duties toward her country, and is not gonna jeopardize them for Satoru. After all, as she said multiple times, all the things she had done till this point had never been detrimental for her country while still allowing her to indulge her curiosity.

Blackjack

I have a couple of questions/comments to ask now. One, I thought she was a late teen or early twenties in terms of half-elf years. In human years, yeah, she is definitely way older than a teen, but in elf/ half-elf years, I thought she was like late teens or early twenties. The other thing is, I don't see how what I said could be seen as being detrimental to the slan theocracy that she has not already done. If the detrimental part was her leaving, then she has already done that with very little regard to the slan theocracy, or if it is the taking of the item, she has also already done that. Given her battle with Satoru, we know the weapon she used definitely came from the treasure, and while in terms of power it would be way less than the item I mentioned above, it was still detrimental that she took it and likely other items too. So if she were to grab some slightly better items than what she had before, then yeah, it would be bad like last time she left, but only by a marginal amount more do to the items. I do see your point, though that she would not do something detrimental to the slan theocracy, but at the same time, didn't she already do that by leaving in the first place? If she does not consider that to be detrimental, then her leaving again does not seem to be a problem for her. However, the item thing is still a problem, but that just calls into question what her plan is, then? How is she going to fight Satoru at full power without the right items that would allow her to be at her best? If her taking items from the treasury to fight was never in her plan, then how was she going to determine if her opponent was "worthy of her"?

ZeroSenpai Writer

She operates on her own logic. The Cardinal were pissed that she left taking a couple items, but Raymond is the only one who truly understood her. She didn’t leave because she wanted to indulge her curiosity (not as the primary reason), she left because in 3 years the ST tried to figure out Satoru and came up with a big load of nothing, meaning that he remained an unknown, and unknown entities are extremely dangerous entities. Trying to figure out who he is, where he came from, what he wanted, and how powerful he is, were the reasons behind her leaving (she came back with a book filled with info about Satoru after all). This was far more for her country’s safety than it was for herself, even though it turned out good for her personally too. She even made sure to take items not even that powerful if compared to the top tier in case she didn’t return from her mission. She acted in the best interest for her nation. Her leaving right now, taking top tier gear only to indulge herself in battle, would be detrimental to her nation as they would risk loosing much while gaining nothing. And, in my vision, physically resembling a teenager doesn’t mean having the mind of one. She had endured horrible things and experienced decades of interactions, so in my view she is pretty much an adult, and a well navigated one at that. Aura and Mare are probably so childish due to their backstories and to the fact they were NPCs till a couple years ago and so couldn’t experience and grow from life like a normal elf would.

Nolbert Campgreen

Sigo esperando el capítulo de mediados de mes...

Anon7274

I feel like that is what Muruyama was trying to do with Zesshi but didn’t execute it properly, so I definitely agree with your interpretation of her character. Let’s not forget that while her mother assumingly tried to abandon, if not straight up tried to kill her like Thanos’s mother did, she did have her aunt who was supposedly a theocracy soldier who was Zesshi’s parental figure and taught her proper responsibilities. While she may not like it, I feel like Zesshi is fulfilling her duties out of respect of her seemingly only family member that loved her. She wants to experience love and companionship but after being trained into the STs ultimate weapon, and without any living family members left, aside from her father, her worldview has been warped that strength is matters above all else. I feel like she would agree with Neias philosophy of strength and weakness. Also, after learning about her heritage and her existence, she may seek strength from herself and the ones she’s interested in because she doesn’t want to feel weak in this world. Her mothers neglect and her father existence may have twisted her worldview and now she needs someone who can understand her physical and mentally as a means of venting her feelings and feeling whole. At least that’s my point of view right now, this is just a broad generalization and there other things I theorize about her character.