Talk:Remedios Custodio/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180510012507/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180515012619

True, but Ainz is giving him a freer hand than usual because he really has no better alternatives.

Ainz has repeatedly gone off-script from Demiurge's plans when earnest salesmanship was better than following diabolically wicked schemes. Indeed, the current strength of the pro-Ainz SKXHK faction (thrice larger than the entire pool of candidates from which he was to charm a small fraction in Demiurge's plan) is a result of another such merciful deviation.

Demiurge is no doubt lost in wondrous contemplation of Ainz's deep inscrutability in making such an innovation for such massive gains. But the point is, an even more "unfathomable" plan in which Ainz peacefully overcame the HK's deeply entrenched resistance to friendship with a nation not only ruled by an undead king, but incorporating demihumans as full citizens, didn't plausibly exist.

This plan fulfills the requirements of the SK being allowed to conquer and incorporate the Abelion Hills without making it an open enemy of the HK. That is, in the long run, the least costly course for the HK as well.

It is unfortunate for Remedios that she is being treated as the scapegoat for the HK's obstinacy. But it's not like she hasn't essentially volunteered for the position.