Talk:Overlord Volume 07/@comment-91.54.255.11-20150929215016/@comment-91.54.255.11-20150930013122

I didn't read the first volume or the second volume but I watch the anime and read the manga to it, so things may slightly differ, but from what I saw, I got the feeling that Ainz was never completely indifferent  to humans. Yes, it's always stated that he doesn't feel any bondness to the humans in the new world but he sometimes showed reactions akin to empathy. For example he remarked "This is unpleasant." when he saw the corpses of the adventurers in the second volume or was troubled by the fact that everyone in Nazarick thought humans to be the lowest life form. And didn't he helped the villagers because he was thinking about what Touch Me said about helping people? I think at first he didn't want to do anything, because he didn't know anything about the world. However he went in there anyway. If he really just wanted to test his might, he didn't need to save anything. He healed the girl and even gave her a horn to summon goblins. Any info he wanted he just could have forced out people and saving some small village doesn't seem to have any real merit to risk an attack. Especially when we know Ainz didn't even plan for world domination at that point.

I'm just saying that in the beginning Ainz never felt like somebody who would kill people unnecessarily, seeing them more like animals, killing only those who bite you without you doing anything wrong. In the third volume the adventurers he killed were necessarily killed. He even warned them in the beginning. But in the seventh volume, it seemed like the humans have fallen to being maggots for Ainz. You cannot call people greedy who do this things as their work. How else would they gain money? If you want to eat, you need to work. The ruins were supposed to be very old and their original owners long dead. The only ones who they thought to be there wre undeads. They never did anything wrong and even Ainz as a former salary man should know that this is merely work for them and that they would never have considered it to be robbery. The loss of life this time seemed so much different then from before, because it seemed so unnecessary. That's why I feel like something changed in Ainz.