#ons chapter 89

Hello everyone, after a good while, I feel inspired again to update analysis and theories, therefore, let’s talk about something very sensitive, this character analysis will dwell around Mikaela Hyakuya, therefore, let’s begin!

P.S: Analysis are held within a neutral view and ships are excluded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKerqp5yOGo (fitting the mood)

Mikaela Hyakuya is known to be as one of the characters carrying a painful life ever since he was a child; many might know that his parents weren’t the best one for him, along the fact they were followers of the Hyakuya Sect. Of course, there was a time of blessing for him since he was able to find a beautiful family filled with kids; that made him feel responsible for them, specially when Yu arrived to his life and the vampires appeared.

It could be said that, despite the outcome of his childhood life, he was able to smile again thanks to the help of the Hyakuya orphanage kids along Yu’s arrival which only increased that happiness within him:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 01

Of course, such happiness and peace didn’t last forever due to the arrival of the virus and the vampires; such events only made them become food for the vampires, they were gathered in order to keep them in order to not lose resources, and of course, such events would unleash a tragedy, a tragedy that would crush the minds of two kids, being Mika and Yu:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 01

As many might recall, we’ve seen Yu’s side but, what about Mikaela?

After Mikaela became a vampire, his happy demanor changed drastically, as a half vampire, he was disgusted with himself, he hated living with the curse he was imposed with even if such curse would lead him to meet Yu again, but within this, he saw the hidden truth of the world, which was about how humans performed secret experiments which eventually would lead him to not trust humans:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 39

But within this, after reuniting with Yu, he aimed to live, he aimed to trust even a little the humans Yu labeled as family; but of course, due to his distrustful nature along the fact of what happened in the past, he wasn’t able to open up to them, he wasn’t able to communicate better with Yu’s friend even if they respected him and treated him as an equal.

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 43

Within the short period lived with the squad, he did grow to the point he did care about what they thought and decided. Mika could have taken different paths against them but at the end, he followed them and walked down as a family even if he couldn’t forget his first important family.

After some time, Mika would fight all together with the squad when it came to face down enemies; and of course, within the story, we’d see his hate towards Guren Ichinose, which, to certain extend is justified since he only saw one side of Guren in the whole story, he didn’t see the side Yu managed to see back when he was rescued or picked up outside of the vampire capital.

It could be said that, before the tragedy, Mika’s mentality was all focused on protecting his last remaining family and important person. All he aimed was to have a bit of peace instead of fighting aimlessly, but of course things went down. Peace wasn’t something that could be achieved easily.

But, when exactly were we able to grasp Mika’s mental health or rather what he felt towards his own self?

The first time we were able to see his real emotions were back in this panel:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 89

Back when they were fighting against Guren, Mika aimed to unleash a powerful attack towards Guren, of course, Guren’s plan was to halt him but that did only the opposite, Mika kept going until he released all the blood his body harbored in order to save Yu, but within this, there’s something to be cleared, what could it be?

Correct. Mika never saw himself as someone righteous, but rather, as a disgusting creature, someone who lost his chance to live the same way as Yu did, someone who lost the power to label himself as human even if his “heart” was human like (a metaphor dear readers, Mika’s emotions were human despite his vampire state)

After these events, Mika became a demon, and of course, this takes over a theory I updated 2 months ago:

OnS Theories (17S). Twelfth Theory - Mikaela’s Samsara and Demon Mikaela (Sad Theory)

The demon Mikaela awoke as a demon without memories, he awoke as someone who aimed to feed on human desires to sustain a dream world on which he gazed upon a small family living happily taking care of each other, even if he didn’t recall who he was at that time, he was happy gazing at them:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 98

And of course, as I stated in the theory linked in there, Mikaela’s world or samsara is made out of what his heart truthfully wished, a world on which he could be happy with his family, but, of course, the price for it is to destroy his memories of who he was in order gaze upon an unreachable dream.

The world his soul resided happily is a reflection of what he couldn’t protect back when he was alive, and this is heavily exploted in the latest chapter in a very gruesome way:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 101

After the demons invaded Mikaela’s samsara, the demon Mikaela wasn’t able to keep the fight against those 3, allowing Asuramaru reach what he aimed to protect, thus leading to a small chase until he managed to unveil what Mika desired the most, which is to receive all the blame of his decisions.

But what does this represent?

This represents the huge and damaged heart, mind and soul Mikaela has. 

In terms of his heart, he couldn’t cope over the fact that he wasn’t strong enough to protect the kids he loved the most, including Yu; he knew from the depthness of his heart that he simply allowed everything happen without thinking when us as readers are aware the fact that Ferid Bathory is smarter than Mika, that he always had the upperhand against him.

In terms of his mind, he feels deep regret, he feels rage towards his own self and disgust of what he ended up becoming, he hates the fact that he ended up leading his family to a trap on which they’d lose their life; he hates the fact he got turned into a vampire and that is heavily reflected by how he sees himself as a vampire in previous chapters; and most of all, he feels like a total failure for not being able to rescue the last member of his family which is Yu; what do I mean?

He feels he failed to protect Yu from the experiments; their escape only lead him to think everything ended up as misfortune.

As for his soul, his soul only desired to get a happy time with his family, but the fact that regret and grief filled it instead of something positive, it only made him think of mentally punish himself, he constantly gave dark thoughts about humans, about vampires, and mostly about himself, he reached a point on which his mental health tore apart and what only kept him going was the fact Yu was his only family left from the one that saved him from despair.

The fact that he finally broke down in the recent chapter shows all the pain he has carried within himself:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 101

Despite the fact that the demon Mikaela has no memories of himself, and the reason is because he views what his soul wished for at the loss of his memories, but the fact that he ended up crying reflects a lot what his inner self always felt, that despair of not being able to save up what he wished to protect, for alwayss being weak.

The fact that Mika’s life has been a constant torture and samsara, on which he reached a point of drowning on his dark thoughts, reflects how much he has endured deep within his heart.

It can be said that, Mikaela Hyakuya/Shindo is a guy with a tender heart that always worries about those who he cares the most, but the fact that the scenarios he has faced ended up taking away what he loved, has only destroyed and shattered him slowly to pieces in an endless circle of pain and constant torture.

Of course, as any samsara, this one will be shattered.

What do you think dear readers? 

Let me know!

Here is my translation of the last few pages.

No. I’m not okay. I am SO far from okay.

The truth is that Guren INDEED stabbed Mika.

We can see it in the next pannels. Mika was sliced in a half BUT remeber that Ferid who was sliced in a half too could easily heal himself.

So why Mika is in such a bad state?

He told his sword to drink EVERY LAST DROP OF BLOOD from his body in order to keep Yuu safe.

Even Ashuramaru tell us that Mika is far too gone because he is dried (of blood). And as we know from earlier chapters- if vampire don't have enough blood- he will become a demon.

Mika knew he couldn't avoided Guren's attack so he wanted to take him down with himself.

So this powerful attack that we see later is no one else's than Mika's.

And don't get me wrong! Mika is cut in half because of Guren- not his own swing of sword (as many of you folks think).

I hope that you all understand now that Guren indeed sliced Mika in a half BUT because of Mika's command to his sword he is such in a bad state.

He wanted to protect Yuu from Guren (because Mika doesn't trust him) in order to give up on his own life.

And belive me or not- I love Mika so much that I cried a lot after reading this chapter and I was feeling like shit...

Like most of you did...

Please... I just don't want our fandom to argue in hard time like this.

Hello everyone, a month ago some friends from discord made a question whenever Mika and demon Mika were the same due to their physical aspect and the sort, therefore, I’d like to talk about that within this theory, therefore, let’s begin!

P.S: Theories are held within a neutral view and ships are excluded

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix1VyUE5YIo

One of the biggest things that had many readers intrigued was the fact that Mikaela, after dying as a vampire, became a demon with a child like apperance:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 95

Along this, as I stated in former theories, the reason why Mika has a child appearance is due to how his desires where on its peak back when he was a child around 8-10 years old which is something stated in the Catastrophe LNs.

But retaking the main topic of this theory, are demon Mika and Mikaela Hyakuya a different being?

The answer to this is a big no.

But why, how can I state this?

The reason goes to a previous theory which I titled it as Mikaela’s samsara, and this is due to the fact that Mika’s pain has been so much that his soul wished to separate his memories in order to create a demon persona or something more common to call an alter ego; within this, it’d mean that Mika would forget who he was and what he used to do before becoming a demon, with the exception that his soul would fulfill what it dreamed without directly affecting Mika, but of course, the big difference between Mika and demon Mikaela is mostly physical appearance.

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 94

But as I stated before, how can I state this? How can I proof they’re the same being despite the absence of memories?

Easy, because there’s proof. 

If you guys might recall, Mika’s main task was protecting everyone, which is something very well reflected to back when he was a child, back when he had hope, even now, despite him becoming a demon, those small aspects didn’t change:

Let’s compare:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 01

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 101

While the time on which those statements were different, Mikaela’s main thoughts were of protecting, he aimed to do or take risks if it meant protecting what it was dear to him; back in chapter 1, he didn’t mind giving his life away if it meant to see a survivor in the whole massacre Ferid Bathory performed; alas for chapter 98, after he became a demon, despite the lack of memories he had, his soul managed to create a whole dreamworld, a samsara on which his kid self without any memories that demons,vampires or human experimentation existed, until the memories that were buried deep within him popped but, nevertheless, within the first panels, Mika didn’t hesitate on throwing his life if it meant keeping his family safe, he would play the role of the bait in order to give time to his family to flee.

Another proof is the fact that Mika used to do despite not being a good trait was the fact that he underestimated his enemies, while it’s something not so good to recall, it’s something that he alone had and in fact it relies due to him getting used to his life as a vampire that he was able to detect stuff in slow motion, same for his case as a demon, he aimed to fight since he had confidence on his power:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 12

Comparison with following panel:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 100

Mikaela aimed to fight anything even if he was against all odds due to a confidence he had, and as it is known, confidence itself is not bad, in fact, it’s something humans tend to have in order to keep pushing against all odds; but of course, in Mika’s case, that confidence turned into overconfidence but nevertheless, it’s something the one that lived as a human, vampire and demon didn’t change.

But the biggest proof that they’re the same is this: (WARNING: Sad memories coming up)

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 101

No matter the condition Mikaela is set to live, he always punished himself due to the actions that marked his past, he blames himself for what happened in the real world, he couldn’t overcome the grudge nor he couldn’t move on from those events to grown mentally strong

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 93

Even before he accepted to become a real demon, while he struggled within the dream world to accept it as a new reality, he was aware of the things that surrounded him, he was aware that it was a beautiful dream he held dear despite all the things that happened, it was a mere simple dream that held beauty to his heart but despite that, the events that were buried deep within his heart made him realize it was just that, a dream, and in reality, he couldn’t protect what he held dear.

Mika did have a will to fight but despite the end goal he set which was to protect Yu, ultimately, he couldn’t bear all the pain that was carried for so long, even until his last breath as a vampire, he couldn’t acknowledge himself as someone worth it.

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 89

At the end, what could it be concluded?

Despite of the memory loss the demon Mikaela has, his soul still remembers all the events that happened back in the past, his soul still feels that pain he couldn’t overcome, and the fact that Asuramaru settled a space on which he’d kill his family again, it only lead to the demon Mikaela break up in tears:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 101

Despite how gruesome this is, I’m very aware the theory itself is painful, I really had a hard time writing it.

The fact that Mika became a child again as a demon, doesn’t mean his will, emotions, actions and thoughts are different, he still has that essence what made him be Mikaela Shindo/Hyakuya.

What do you think dear readers?

Hello everyone, I’m sure you’d be wondering why I labeled this as a second theory when I shared one yesterday...the issue is...It wasn’t as satisfying as I thought so I’ll develop it much better without making it be so confusing, therefore, let’s talk about something rather curious, shall we?

P.S: Theories don’t involve ships. Theories are held within a neutral view

First of all, this theory isn’t focused on what Mahiru in terms of what she’s done but rather, on something that was dismissed:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 92

Correct. It is well known that demons that are tied to a weapon have their notable differences between male and female demons. What do I mean?

It has been clear that male demons have a pair of horns which can be heavily seen with:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 98

Asuramaru, Kiseki-O, Gekkouin

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 83

Byakkomaru and of course Noya; meanwhile, for female demons which the only representation has been Raimeki:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 58

But in Raimeki’s case, it’s only visible that female demons only have a horn compared to male demons; therefore, the main question is, why does Mahiru Hiragi popped a pair of horns if she’s a female demon?

Correct. Mahiru Hiragi isn’t a demon and that’s been stated by Byakkomaru himself:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 54

Back then, Byakkomaru managed to see Mahiru Hiragi for the first time and within this, he stated she was no demon; therefore this leads to some questions such as:

What exactly did Mahiru do in order to avoid becoming a demon but, at the same time being able to manifest as one?

Why is the reason of her pair of horns?

For the first question, it is hard to state what exactly she is; since the last answer or rather evidence of what happened to her at the end of the last volume of the Catastrophe LNs was that 

After she stabbed herself with Noya, Mahiru got absorbed into the cursed gear Noya resided and that was due to a curse that resided within Mahiru that only made it impossible for Noya to stop, Guren was left all alone with the corpses of his friends and Mahiru was gone; he couldn’t tell if Noya absorbed Mahiru or if Mahiru absorbed Noya but there was no doubt of the silence in there.

After such events, the First Light Novel of World Resurrection came, one of the things that came to happen was this:

After Guren awoke in a highschool classroom, he met up with Kureto, of course Kureto asked for the details; and monitored that Guren’s cursed gear was too advanced for their technology but nevertheless, they didn’t acknowledge that Mahiru was absorbed within Guren’s gear, instead they suggested it was his demon playing tricks to him.

Of course, Mahiru was able to float like a ghost while nobody could see her. Mahiru instructed him how to reply towards Kureto’s answers in order to stop the interrogation faster.

World Resurrection at 19, Vol. 1 - Friends.

After that, we get that interesting scene in the 2nd Volume on which Rigr Stafford uses a Sinful Key in order to “hide it”

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Guren Ichinose World Resurrection at 19 Vol. 2 - Chapter I

After that, the relation between Guren and Mahiru was quite the concept of a ghost teasing Guren to no end...out of a small joke, it is true that Mahiru would tease Guren but within this, what exactly was placed in her body in order to trigger a curse in order to get absorbed?

For that, the answer is unknown to certain extend but, she was able to fully appear again with weight... (honestly Kagami seems to have quite the fascination about making jokes related towards chests), but for the meantime, let’s head to the next question. (Such topic will be further explored in another theory.

Why did Mahiru gain a pair of horns in chapter 92?

The most possible answer is that, thanks to the fact that she’s something that isn’t bound to the demon laws, I mean, as what makes a demon nor a human, and of course, taking in count that Noya was sealed again within her after she used a rather interesting drug to supress demons, it could be something similar to how a former human that accepts becoming  a demon turns:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 89

Yu and Guren had a pair of horns which implies that they were gaining power from their demon without losing their own will or consciousness; of course, in Yu’s case, he returned back after Guren used a drug on him but nevertheless, in other cases he hasn’t lost his consciousness or rather, Asuramaru didn’t possess him completely.

Therefore, what could it be said about Mahiru gaining a pair of horns?

It could be said that, once Noya was K.O with said drug, Guren and Mahiru that kept half and half of Noya, ended up returning to Mahiru, allowing Guren only to keep Mahiru out while she started to return him back inside her...of course, as a reminder of how that happened:

It is a rather short theory but of course it is held within a concept of curious facts, nevertheless, about how she was able to manifest, we’ll dwell in another theory.

What do you think?

Hello everyone, finally the english chapter was released, it was such a surprising chapter but well, let’s get to the theories, a month ago, I promised I’d share a special theory, therefore, this one will be focused on Mika’s destiny, let’s begin!

“To protect justice within your heart, it’s neccesary to master the darkness”

                                               Otto Apocalypse

A beautiful quote form a villian character I love, but, you might ask, what does this quote have to do with Owari?

So far, Mikaela Hyakuya’s destiny or life has been a complete mess, a disaster, literally an unfair life, ever since he was a kid, it was stated in the LNs that his parents believed he could do everything. His parents were afilliated to the Hyakuya Church, until one day they thought he could fly, they literally threw him from a car in movement but luckily he survived.

But now, why does the theory state something about destiny?

First of all, the first time destiny played a huge role on Mika’s life was when he was planning to escape from the vampire capital, of course things didn’t go as planned. Ferid literally slayed the Hyakuya kids along Mika, only Yu managed to survive. 

But, what does this have to do with destiny?

In the LNs, Guren was tasked by Rigr to retrieve Yuichiro Hyakuya and Mikaela Hyakuya:

“Guren scanned the paper. It contained information on two test subjects. It gave their location, when they could be rescued, even the best way to go about it.

The names of the two test subjects Guren was meant to were listed there as well:

Mikaela Hyakuya Yuichiro Hyakuya

Guren stared at the two names on the page, his lips moving silently.

“Who the hell are they?”

As it can be seen, Rigr’s set goal and task that was given to Guren, was to retrieve Mika and Yu alive; but destiny was cruel, only Yu managed to get out, and this is because Ferid Bathory, interfered with Rigr’s plan on having Mika joining Guren since a kid. But why? What could have happened if Mika made it alive as a human?

In the case the story didn’t start with Mika becoming a vampire; it was likely that Yu and Mika would have awakened their seraphs sleeping within them, but, at the same time, that would have given the upper hand to the First since he was aware Rigr was playing and using his cards to chase him down and stop him, even if it meant playing with the lives of two innocent kids.

Therefore, knowing that Ferid Bathory in a way had daddy issues, interfered with such plan and made Krul Tepes turn Mika into a vampire.

After that, we see Mika struggling against his vampirism until he meets Yu again and the story unfolds until Mika ends up meeting Guren only to end up distrusting him due to the events with the JIDA and how they used Mirai to defeat the vampires that Krul brought with her.

Furthermore, near the current events, we see Mika fighting Guren, he ends up giving his best shot even if it meant his death.

Ever since that moment, Mikaela’s fate was written in a way, and with all due respect, have stated that Guren’s guilty over Mika’s fate or destiny since we saw Mika ended up slowly stopped showing he’d get better after unleashing such attack

Even if he was able to drink blood, the inmense amount of blood loss was a factor that he’d never be able to recover as a vampire, and within the process, he slowly started to fade 

Lastly, Mika ended up exploding but, at the same time, once his body was left, a void appeared on his face, such void ended up delivering a scream only manifested demons and vampires could hear, which is something called the “Death Wail”

Of course, with this, we could end up seeing how the corpse of the vampire Mikaela ended up giving such a painful shriek until Guren stated that Mika was turning into a black demon.

Now, many might believe that Guren’s responsible of Mikaela’s cruel fate but in fact, it’s the latter, you might wonder why, for this, let’s quote something about the latest LNs. World Resurrection at 19, Vol. 2:

Saito looked down at Guren with an almost tender look. “You are my scion. I made you to resist him. To abduct the maiden from the pages of his story.

Of course, that only hints that Saito made a key to fight against the First Progenitor, said key was Guren, but now, what does this have to do with Mika’s destiny?

Mika’s destiny would have been or should have been an end if Guren never interfered, what do I mean?

If Guren never injected Mika the special drug he used with Yu, Mikaela would have died or even he’d have become a lower rank demon, furthermore, the fact that Mika ended up drinking the blood of a demon which was Guren’s blood, only boosted the fact that he’d end up becoming a demon from the black series, but, why is this a good event despite the outcome?

It is well known that the First Progenitor has control over the world, he chooses what stands or falls, he doesn’t care about someone’s emotions or feelings related towards love, jealously or hatred; furthermore, the fact that Mika’s only suffering speaks loud of what exactly Mikaela Hyakuya represents to the First Progenitor, what do I mean?

Correct. For the FIrst, Mikaela represents something similar to Guren, an obstacle. 

If Guren never appeared as an obstacle to him, he wouldn’t have cursed nor moved the wheels of fate in order to make Guren’s life miserable; same applies to Mika, each time Mika is at the border of death, something else happens; the first time he was at the border of death, Ferid Bathory made Krul Tepes turn Mika into a vampire; furthermore, it’s likely that was estimated within the bargain she had with Mahiru; the second time was against his fight against Guren; if Guren never injected said drug, it was highly possible that Mika would have been dead.

This logic applies to Mikaela as well; Mika’s been an important and valuable key for Rigr Stafford; Shikama is aware that Rigr’s been pulling certain strings to create an opportunity to defeat him, hence why the experiments of the Seraph of the End begun.

Mika was the success of those experiments, hence why Rigr was always treating Mika with care and freedom. But, for someone with power and knowledge of the world itself, the First Progenitor ended up unleashing a chain of events that ended up twisting the whole cast’s lives, though, despite the outcomes, there’s hope for the characters within the story.

Therefore, to conclude, Mikaela’s a key element on the defeat of the First Progenitor, for the reasons, that’ll be stated in another theory.

What do you think guys?