Talk:Foresight/@comment-26601629-20181123060514

As far as plot goes, it(Foresight's annihalation) might go with the story, and that is fine. But even going off of your explanation. Ainz is still evil. Lesser evil than the rest, maybe, but evil none the less. He isn't evil because he kills people, the evil act was instigating the killing and then brutally torturing them for it. He has killed people because he was attacked. He even showed that he wasn't aware the first time nazarith truly crossed the line, when they attacked the Kingdom, he did ultimately cave in to Demiurge (which he seems to be doing a lot, worringly), but he granted them a painless death IIRC. But this was the first time, where he proactively carried out a plan that lured in people (weak people, innocent and guilty alike), and then proceeded to brutally torture and murder them, and then had the gall to blame them for taking his bait. Ainz is evil, it's as simple as that. but that doesn't mean it's problematic to the story.

People saying he only brutally murdered them becuse of the lie are kidding themselves, the plan was the plan from the beginning. Same as people who think they could have taken the gold and left (He also killed the ones who did that).

As far as legitimate reason's for doing things he did, testing out defence and the like, he could have summoned a familiar and had them do it, testing his CQC without armour could have been done the same way. Doing all these thing at the expense of the weak, when he doesn't have to is just sadism, and it conflicts with the monologue that is portrayed, which is why it's difficult to see as an action Ainz would take.

Him being easily impressionable by demiurge is the only thing that ties everything together consistently. Because while he has said even in his monologue that he is unfeeling, and doesn't care if anyone not of nazarick or of use to them dies, his mentality has been to kill when necessary and to just kill. Not to decieve and then brutally kill those that are far below him. Now if the intention is to portray his descent into being an overlord, then the monologue needs some work.

At this point, i think the author just intends the work to be for a "specific" kind of audience, but baits in other kinds with Ainz's antics.