Volume 23

One theory that I have seen thrown around in the wake of who or what Rimuru is, is that he is the manifestation of Veldanava's lost love that he had for the world after he fell in love with Lucia. This theory doesn't make sense to me due to the fact that Rimuru has and is willing to lay out whoever it is that threatens Tempest and places his nation's people above the lives of any others.

Speaking of Tempest, he hadn't even wanted to build a nation from the get go. If I'm not mistaken, he says that he just stumbled upon the role of being the leader of a nation by complete accident. With that, I'm under the impression that I don't understand what it means for Rimuru to be the lost universal love of Veldanava and would like clarification.

Rimuru has shown that he can have his own fixations and priorities that can overtake others. With this in mind, what exactly does a lost love for the world even look like? Does it mean that Rimuru loves all who are in it? There have been quite a few people that Rimuru has disliked and couldn't care less about if he tried. Does it mean loving the world itself? He didn't start off with it considering that he speculated that he would have just aimlessly drifted about. Not to mention that Rimuru has shown desire to want a special someone. He seems to love Tempest rather than love the entire world at large. Does it mean that he has a sense of wanting to protect the world? He sure as heck didn't have that instilled in him from his conception nor was that even a basis for his existence. Or does it align with what Milim basically thought? That he made a system where people aren't left behind. That also doesn't hold up because he made that system in Tempest alone, not propogate it to every other nation out there.

I'd like to understand this theory and what lost love for the world even looks like and how it could apply to Rimuru cuz I'm confused about it.