Talk:Foresight/@comment-4755074-20180815064159/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180815084656

They get bad treatment because they were working for Jircniv as disposable pawns.

Jircniv already knew that Nazarick could wipe out the Sunlight Scripture, a force dozens of times as strong as the total strength of workers he sent in to probe Ainz's reaction. He knew they would lose.

What he wanted to find out was whether he could push Ainz around by using human shields.

That was literally the only thing he actually had any chance of finding out. And he got his answer.

Now, the fact is that the answer might have been different if Jircniv hadn't been plotting how to use any weakness for showing pity against Nazarick. It's been different other times.

Ainz asked why the workers were doing it just to gauge whether they were under any false impression that this was some kind of noble or necessary deed. If he'd gotten a different answer (for instance, we're just doing it because some asshole is driving us ahead of him at swordpoint), then someone might have been treated differently (like some were).

The anime is likely to be somewhat less morally ambiguous and complex than the LN was. That's an ongoing pattern (color me surprised). We're probably going to see Tenmu's slaves rescued on purpose, for instance. And we may see the offer of submission that Hekkaran flushed down the crapper with his con game.

But ulltimately, Foresight isn't among the players. They're just collateral damage.