Talk:Pandora's Actor/@comment-95.90.249.26-20151206125006/@comment-27168967-20151206134831

Actually, you got it mildly wrong. Ainz can understand spoken language and it got interpreted into Japanese in his head just like how I would translate someone speaking English at me into Mandarin in my own head because I possess understanding of the entire English and Mandarin language just fine. If you read the RAW LN, you'll notice that Pandora's Actor really did speak in German language for that particular phrase. So, Ainz got the oral knowledge imprinted in him somehow, as did all the other denizens of Nazarick, but he could not understand the written language if put in front of him at that point. Moreover, it's mentioned that he does have a translator item when he,as Momon, was reading the quest board but it was lent to Sebas to smoothen his side of the job.

Also, Ainz wasn't asking Pandora's Actor whether that's German. Actually, it was more like "Are you speaking German to me?"

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One more thing before I forget. Tabula designed the treasure vault and the password door that uses German as base. It's possible Tabula gave Ainz a crash course in German because as the Guild Leader it would be embarrassing if he cannot even open the door when the Guild needs the weapons stored in the vault. That probably also affected the creation of Pandora's Actor or it's because Pandora's Actor took on Tabula's appearance just before returning to his own appearance; this I can only offer a conjecture.