#csm 131

The Falling Devil when her boss/crush criticized the food she cooked:

I agree with all those who see this 131st chapter as the one that best represents why Fujimoto's writing is so good, so effective.

But it's so good not just because it's funny and absurd, but because even in the absurdity, we find answers and meaning.

It makes sense that Nayuta and Fami, who are still demons, should act like demons, that they shouldn't be guided by some kind of morality.

It's brilliant, because it's precisely this pseudo morality and duty that we've tried to model on a demon that created the horror that was Makima.

Fami and Nayuta are based on a connection with humans

In a purely rudimentary logic, demons are the natural hunters of demons being their main cause of death.

The fact that the choice to save humanity is based on food shows that, on the contrary, there is not a shred of humanity among demons, who think instinctively: through hunger and pleasure.

By a bond, yes, but a functional one

What this chapter tells us about Nayuta is that she is first and foremost a demon, but that she was raised by Denji.

The fact that she automatically refuses because she's got school is great fun, but it also shows that Denji is a good big brother who puts a lot of emphasis on her education.

Just like the fact that he saves up every penny to pay for her university education, because he thinks she's brilliant.

Denji is very self-aware and knows that his lack of education is a weakness because he thinks instinctively.

He also shares Reze's dream of going to school.

If Reze is a laboratory mouse for the USSR, a veritable weapon of war and propaganda, it's because education is a way of avoiding control.

Denji also knows that controlling the demon of control exacerbates her nature and flaws through Makima.

SO, more than a hymn to food, it's a hymn to free will.