Talk:Remedios Custodio/@comment-76.172.105.236-20180714060408/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180717032530

Suzuki-kun's thoughts about being Ainz often mean the precise opposite of what he "literally" is thinking.

The classic example is when he first sees the villagers being butchered, or kills someone for the first time, and is all like "I feel nothing about this."

That's BS. I've killed while feeling nothing, and I've killed while feeling enough less about it that I noticed. I don't confuse them with imprecise language like "I feel nothing about this."

If I really feel nothing, I don't bother thinking about how little I feel. If I feel less than I expected, I think, "this is a bit easier than I thought it would be."

When Suzuki-kun thinks "I feel nothing about this", what he means is "I feel less about this than I think I SHOULD, and that makes me deeply conflicted." It's not an emotion I can really feel, because I cannot become deeply conflicted about killing to the point of mistaking "this is easier than I thought it would be" for "I feel nothing".

Suzuki-kun can. He does. Even when he knows perfectly well, rationally speaking, that there is a very carefully planned reason that he has to inflict casualties on a scale and with a relentlessness that will instill deep terror in the Kingdom, he resorts to thinking "I'm just doing this because it's cool."

And in the end, the slaughter was actually insufficient, because only the most intelligent and realistic of the leadership of the Re-Estize Kingdom understand how deeply pointless it is to plot revenge against Ainz Ooal Gown.

He should have killed even more of them.

Because he didn't, the coming civil war will be probably a half million casualties more bloody than would otherwise have been necessary.

But I'm okay with that too. I prefer the heavier toll to be exacted during the controlled purge anyway.