Talk:Calca Bessarez/@comment-97.81.107.214-20180817012053/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180817202241

Ainz simply likes Nemu, though.

And while he hasn't put the rest of the village on the "defend at all costs" list, he still cares about them. He didn't order Barbro's force annihilated because they had managed to pose any kind of serious threat to the people on Lupusregina's list, all of them were fine (scared, because Lupusregina is a sadist who likes invisibly watching people under her protection suffer till the last possible moment to intervene, but fine). Ainz ordered Barbro's force massacred because they attacked the rest of the villagers.

Ainz does have an idea of how to make the world better. Parts of it may be pretty naive, when he's talking about children of different races holding hands and playing together it's enough to provoke a spit-take with your coffee. But when it comes to recognizing that there are costs to seriously pursuing that vision, he's pretty on the mark.

He may be nearly the only one in Nazarick who recognizes those costs as representing losses rather than rewards, which tends to exacerbate the costs at times. Rationally recognizing the need to drive Remedios insane and ordering Calca brutalized in that particular fashion are two different things. Maruyama has repeatedly tweeted etc. that Calca is for reals dedded because a lot of fans still want her to survive somehow. I think it's worth leaving up in the air from an artistic perspective. So I doubt Maruyama will make much effort to further foreclose the possibility of Calca having survived somehow in the text.

I also belong to the camp that believes that Demiurge needs to eventually be brought to heel, and I don't mind it being a rather sharp yank on his chain. Maybe Albedo will be the instigator of that, or possibly Pandora's Actor (which would be hilarious).