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Honestly with what we've learned about Jikishirone in the most recent arc, I'd say she gave this little speech specifically because she knew it was going through everyone's heads and she wanted them to confront the thought fully. Monegold gets angry about it, and I don't think Monegold is necessarily a bad person, but she does have to think about things in a broader "what's good for everyone" stance as the leader of the association.

So, this is what the World-Hater Majik's (WHM) eyes normally look like:

They sometimes have a glint in them, like when he's addressing Uroro and the glint seems to be one of disdain. But for the most part, they're empty. Dull.

So when rereading chapter 1, and I got to this part:

I realized that it's the same look.

It's an apathy toward life. Toward living.

So then, what happens next?

Ichi didn't just amuse WHM. They weren't just caught off guard by his intensity or enthralled by his enthusiasm.

They were caught off by how he made them feel a surge of life.

WHM has a "purpose" for living: destroying the world. But they do not "live." They said it themselves: "I appear. I warp. I leave. That's all."

But for a split second, Ichi made WHM feel alive.

And considering their whole thing is, y'know, eradicating life, and Ichi's whole thing is loving life: