Talk:Foresight/@comment-9398371-20180815204027/@comment-34783543-20180817030228

I find it quite surprising that you claim the murder of Iguva and his team was a "triumph of emotion over logic". Which emotions? All Ainz saw in Iguva was an annoyance and he held no respect for him as he compares him to a child with no self-control. Even if Iguva had asked Ainz to accompany him in the proper manners, it would have changed little to nothing. Maybe AInz would have given them a choice to wait near the place AInz and Shalltear fought at. If they complied, AInz would have used them as publicity after showing them the battlefield and told them to spread the tales of the black hero Momon. If not, they would have died. That's all there is to it.

The main reason for their death was a shortage on time. Shalltear has been mindcontrolled and the culprit might be another player. Ainz needed to bring the situation back into his control as fast as possible because the worst mistake he could have made would be to allow the enemy time to act and think. And then Iguva demanded to go along with him. Ainz solved this problem in the quickest way he could think of: killing them and claiming they died in battle to rise his fame.

Ainz rarely gets emotionally attached to inhabitants of the New World. Most of the time he couldn't care less. Why did he save Carne Village? He wanted to live up to Sebas' expectations. Why did he confront Nigun? He had just saved the village and saw it as a waste to let them die right after that. Also he wanted Gazeff to be indebted to him. Why did he want to finish off Clementine with the black dagger? He saw the adventurers as an asset to rise his fame. He had some sort of relationship with Ninya but in Volume 10 we can clearly see that he does not resent Clementine for torturing and killing her. He even wanted to thank Clementine for the Martial Arts lesson. The list goes on and on. The only humans Ainz actually likes are Gazeff,Neia and Nemu and all of them for reasons related to Nazarick. Gazeff and Neia bear a resemblance to Touch Me. Neia also is friends with CZ. Nemu praised the work Ainz and his guild members put into the Tomb.

My point is that the slaughter involving Iguva and his team members is hinting at the fact that Ainz lost his humanity (to 99% at least) and will never get it back. The way he reacted and responded to his demand is very cold and efficient. If you see some empathy in Ainz that he gradually loses throughout the series, fine with me but from my viewpoint Ainz has never changed since his arrival in the New World. The only thing that he loses is his need to feel guilty for the atrocities he commits.