After defeating him, why didn't Reg incinerate the Zoaholic and kill Bondrewd off for good? Won't he just continue torturing and killing children now?
Also, how can Bondrewd see through Nanachi's eyes? I didn't quite understand that part.
Posted Dec 6, 2017, 12:46 AM UTC
That's the million dollar question. Some think the Zoaholic was destroyed during the fight or off-screen. Some think continuing the fight would be dangerous and that having destroyed the infrastructure should be enough. Expect that to be relevant once the B-plot of the 2000 year curse develops, as Bondrewd says himself he is involved in that.
Who knows. Could be some sort of device like the communicator, but it seems to work off of Zoaholic. Maybe he implanted some part of a Zoaholic'd individual's brain into Nanachi's optic nerve.
Without looking for the source, I think the explanation of the eyes is that Nanachi can see the curse through her eyes similar to the spike beast. And Bonedrewd has some tech/artifact that allows him to hijack the curse sight because of how the curse works. Because normal people can't see the curse, they can't be hijacked. Basically magic with no concrete explanation or even name of the tech/artifact. When I was first reading I thought I skipped something but it was largely glossed over from what I remember.
Perhaps Bondrewd tried to Soul-Slave Nanachi, but she was resistant due to the blessing and thus all he got was the sight hijack?
I don't think she was particularly resistant, however, I do remember them mentioning somewhere she on some level made contact with the Zoaholic, which would lead to his ability to see what she sees.
According to Nanachi's convo with Bondrewd right after his defeat:
Zoaholic is likely destroyed by the Riko's group before they left idofront though it's not shown. Bondrewd lost all combat oriented bodies during the battle with Riko's group and unable to get a new one (Zoaholic gone). So, he is completely useless right now. Perhaps elevator to transport children is destroyed as well.
As for eye thing, it's never explained. Maybe there will be a reveal later.
I think Riko's group didn't manage to destroy the Zoaholic. Reg even asked Nanachi if it is okay to leave it be, but Nanachi only said it was Riko's decision after all. I think if ever the Zoaholic gets destroyed, Bondrewd's consciousness will cease to exist as well. About the eye thing, Nanach seems to have some contact on the Zoaholic itself (referring to her saying that the Zoaholic looks like abig arse, and that the Zoaholic can affect anyone that sees it) , making her to have a little part of Bondrewd's consciousness which affects her vision (granting Bondrewd's access to her eyes).
My interpretation of departing scene was that Riko did not want to slaughter and eliminate the remaining praying hands (= letting Bondrewd live), which suits her non-violent character.
I don't know if Zoaholic will "delete" transferred consciousness if its destroyed. That's an interesting speculation though.
I believe Riko was the one who mentioned the shape and size of Zoaholic. Something along "shaped like a bottom" and "size of a huge room/chamber" in translation. Nanachi was responding to Riko's information. There was no clear reference to whether Nanachi had a contact with Zoaholic (while conscious, anyways).
More chapters of MiA is the only savior...
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Yeah it's highly unlikely that the Zoaholic was destroyed
I think Reg was realistically the only one who could've destroyed it in the first place anyway and he was pre-occupied
i guess the eye thing is a transmition device. she explains that. she even mentioned about signal quality when got to th sixth layer. a small camera inside the eye would do the trick