Talk:Remedios Custodio/@comment-85.48.51.97-20180608193336/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180610044330

It's not so much a matter of being dumb as realizing the pointlessness of harboring suspicions. Caspond, Gustav, and Siliaco all consider Remedios's theory about Ainz and Jaldaboath conspiring against them, and decide that there's no evidence. But the real problem is there isn't a thing they could do about it other than hope that Ainz has written the scenario with an option for at least some people in the Holy Kingdom to not all be tortured to death.

If there is such an option, it definitely isn't accessed by openly accusing Ainz of working with Jaldaboath...as Ainz reminds us repeatedly, he's not above massacring innocent people to keep secrets. He prefers other alternatives if they exist, but if Gustav had declared to the entire city that the Sorcerer King was working with Jaldaboath, what would happen other than Ainz taking offense and leaving, and them being left defenseless when Jaldaboath showed up?

That answer doesn't change whether or not the accusation is true.

Of course, there is also the issue of believing what they would prefer to be true. Remedios' lack of honor in dealing with Ainz shook Gustav more than he admits. He doesn't like to think that Ainz is doing precisely what they had planned to do to him, only succeeding where they failed.