#ons chapter 98

Hello everyone, I’m sure some are hyped, others are making memes (yeah I did some for the spanish fandom ehe!) and others might be sad due to how at the end Guren’s plan is turning into a complete reality, but, is it really bad?

For that, I shall discuss with you some missing points within this theory.

Therefore, let’s begin!

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

As something that was bound to happen, within the newest chapter of OnS, Mikaela was finally able to become Yuu’s cursed gear and demon, allowing both to devour each other’s desire to become stronger and finally be able to face down the First Progenitor:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 107

But despite this positive outcome, there’s something that several fans have pointed out which is something that the First mentioned:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 107

Therefore, let’s talk in depthness about these two standpoints of view and who might hold reason through all the story.

Shikama’s Point of View

With Shikama, we’ve seen how he slowly prepared everything to ambush the demon Mikaela by sending his three Apostles to his world in order to capture him, but of course, such event was halted by Yuu:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 102

And of course, after these series of events, Shikama decided to step in and ambush Yuu and Mikaela after they had a small fight between each other to seal the pact between demon and wielder.

But, if Guren’s goal was to have Mika within a cursed gear, why does Shikama aimed to do that as well?

First of all, Shikama wasn’t planning to make Yuichiro and Mikaela happy by any means despite how the ancient forgotten past may seem to look as a possible miracle of bringing Mikaela back, but why?

This is due to the fact that the corpse we’ve seen several times, despite being called Mikaela, isn’t Mikaela Hyakuya, what do I mean?

It’s known that the soul is the composition of consciousness, the one that harbors our memories, will, fondness of someone, etc.; but once the body perishes, the soul dies with it and leaves the body to a faraway place.

First of all, Shikama’s main goal or objective with Yuu in the past was to “SACRIFICE” his life:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 106

But, with the current chapter, a new contradiction appeared, therefore, why is it that?

What does Shikama aimed for by having Mikaela as his cursed gear in the future?

First of all, there must be something clear. Mikaela Hyakuya is his own persona. The one that embraced to turn into a demon in chapter 93; the one that appeared in that beautiful dream was his soul and the consciousness was the demon itself, the figure that lurked and saw the happiness in such place while not knowing what he was seeing or who he was seeing.

The corpse despite carrying the same name as Mikaela is not Mikaela Hyakuya.

This in general means, being autonomous, having one’s own identity.

Therefore, when Shikama asked the next thing:

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

What was the danger in there? That’s easy to answer and that’d be the loss of identity and memory. But, is there proof to this?

There is.

Once the demon Mikaela’s heart was shattered, and eventually was rescued by Yuu, there was something that could be described as a reset in chapter 103 due to the attitute he took with Yuu after they met again:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 103

The demon Mikaela behaved like any other demon after meeting the one that would either become their meal or their wielder; and of course, after this the battle took place between them, BUT, there was something else at hand, at that was, resonance, which lead to the soul of the demon Mikaela remember something from his past which was the next thing:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 104

Leading to the same painful memory Yuu and Mika hold to their hearts, the very needle that hurts them to no end.

But, what does this mean?

It means that the demon Mikaela only holds memories of what he lived and what his current present self had, thus leading to the same question.

What would have happened if Shikama succeeded on taking Mikaela’s soul?

That’s easy.

Mikaela Hyakuya would have ceased to exist. His existence would have forgotten everything, all the memories, all the sadness, all the pain, all the joy he expeirenced in life, to leave a soul in a blank state, an empty canvas prepared to be overwritten by something else.

But, how does this relate to seeing Mika as Yuu’s future cursed gear on Shikama’s plan?

That’s simple. Shikama’s highly possible goal was that the new soul he’d rewrite and bring forward would have favored his side, thus making Yuu carry the soul of what he lost to eventually take over him and make him cease to exist, which would lead to possession, a complete possession with no absolute control by his side.

But, since this scenario never happened thanks to Yuu, thus leading to the new scenario.

Yuu’s scenario of Mikaela’s Fate

In contrast to what Shikama had aimed, Yuichiro is very aware there’s no time, and whatever the monster wanted, it wouldn’t benefit Mika and himself, it’d mean they’d cease to exist in order to fulfill the agenda of a being that has never treasured life.

But perhaps many might wonder, how is Mika becoming Yuu’s demon makes any difference?

In contrast of being sacrifices, they’ll preserve their autonomy and fight for what they want which is to live; Yuu wants to see another tomorrow not only with his friends but with Mikaela as well:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 107

Yuu not only wanted to save Mika for his own goals or desires, BUT because he wanted him to see that there’s still hope in the world, that nothing is over yet, but in order to find the key to the map they traced, they have to fight, they have to stand together to defeat the one twisting their fates constantly.

Yuu doesn’t want to lose the gold time they spent ever since they met from the first time up till now, those years they met and fought to finally be reunited were valuable:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 107

Yuu’s main objective isn’t to use Mikaela as a tool, but he has set in mind to save Mikaela from the curse of being a demon and return him to be human again.

For Yuu, Mikaela was his first friend, his first family, the first person to ever need him in his whole life without interest, 

Which this will lead to the first loss of the First Progenitor. It’ll be the first time he’ll see that Hope and Love towards life overcome any curse; it can break havoc any fate imposed even by  a fake God.

Does this mean Mikaela will forever be trapped in a weapon?

The answer to this is NO.

He’ll become human again. How? Only time will tell!

What do you think dear readers?

Let me know!

Guren and Krul chapter 98:

Kimizuki: You two know each others???

People: WERE YOU TWO WORKING TOGETHER ALL THESE TIMES??

Guren and Krul:

Hello everyone, I’m very sure many are extremely happy with the events of chapter 102, along this, there was something that awoke within several readers which is a particular panel between Yu and Asuramaru, with the suggestion of @mikaisyuudere, let’s talk about this with depthness.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKerqp5yOGo

As many might have noticed, Yuichiro headed off to save Mikaela and managed to defeat three black demons with the enhancement of his desires thanks to Asuramaru, but, within one particular panel, Asuramaru asked Yu the next thing:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 102

Asuramaru asked Yu what he really wants since he states that Yu doesn’t want to save Mika.

But of course the scene goes for Yu focused on saving him no matter what, leading this to a question that has invaded several readers as to why is Yu working for Guren since he was the one that cut Mika in half? What is the purpose of saving him if the First Progenitor stated Mika is his son? Wouldn’t that make Shikama the protective figure for Mika?

(Warning: Theories are take aspects of confirmed events and such event was stated by the summary of said chapter)

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

In chapter 98, Shikama possessed Shinoa again in order to know how Mahiru was able to track down his plan back when she made a deal with Krul, this only lead Krul to detect his presence easily leading an attack towards Shinoa’s body.

Of course, Shikama managed to halt such attack easily and stated that he was trying to save Mikaela along calling him his precious child.

But, as painful as it might be, Shikama isn’t focused on saving anyone in particular, but, how can I state such thing?

If many might have noticed, Shikama could have gone himself towards Mikaela’s dream world and enter in contact with him directly in order to protect him, but instead, he sent 3 black demons to literally break him mentally and emotionally, leaving him in this current state:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 102

This only leads to the next criteria which is literally the background that has been revealed so far about him, and such background of Shikama consists on the next thing:

Experimenting on human children way before he met Ashera

Creating infinite clones of Yuichiro without worrying about killing each clone for his own selfish purposes

Creating a vampire society to eventually select his chosen “apostoles” along mesmerizing them to work for him without objections

Start a long chain of experiments within a chosen Family until the perfect Vessel came out of it

Experiment with more children manipulating the hands of time and destiny in order to make everything fall within his palm in order to create children with seraph traits and Michaela traits

Lead the end of the world by making the Catastrophe descend upon the world by a 3rd party

Send 3 black demons to literally capture Mikaela’s soul by breaking him emotionally and mentally

But then, if there are more negative aspects within Shikama, what makes Guren a better option? Or rather, why does Yu follow up Guren’s plan?

First of all, there’s no justification for actions the characters do, I’m very aware Guren may be the least character some readers enjoy, and viceversa but nevertheless, Guren and Mahiru have been working alone in order to counter the twisted motion of the First Progenitor; instead of seeing a World in ashes, they want to see the same bright world they managed to experience when they were younger, but for that, morality was needed to be dismissed specially with how the current scenario goes.

Guren’s goal is that Yu and Mika merge together so they can become a strong being that will counter Shikama, such being is the archangel Michael which has been stated several times:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 79

The Sun God Aten they refer is none else than Yuichiro Hyakuya, he is the one they captured back in old chapters after the Hyakuya Sect managed to infiltrate within the JIDA headquarters.

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 81

In chapter 81, the same line was stated again and the only person that was being dragged was Yuichiro Hyakuya along his cursed gear Asuramaru, and, as I stated before, while it is true that Sun God Aten belongs to other culture and religion, in fact this is a code, because in Christianity, such God is in fact the Archangel Michael, which of course is clear as water since the Hyakuya Sect soldiers mention “The Sword of Michael” which at that time was Asuramaru.

On contrary of Shikama, Guren aimed to locate Mikaela in order for him to make a contract in a more peaceful way with Yu so they could be together again, but of course, they weren’t expecting that the black demons would be working with the First Progenitor.

It could be said that Guren first’s goal was to erradicate the First Progenitor in order to return everything to how it was before the Catastrophe took place, which means restoring the world.

But let’s have another insight about “Saving”.

What does Yu view as saving Mikaela?

Yuichiro has displayed in several times that his biggest grief is to lose the first person that ever gave him warmth, what do I mean?

Mika was the first one to make him feel loved. Yu only knew hate from those he loved before, which means, his parents.

Yuichiro had no one to count with back as a kid but once the Catastrophe arrived and once the incidents within the Vampire Capital came, Yuichiro learnt the value of having a family. Such thing is heavily reflected in the first chapter of the story:

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

Yuichiro couldn’t move on from that loss at that time since he knew Mika sacrificed himself so he could live after the whole massacre of his new family happened in less than 5 seconds, but of course, the squad alone was able to make him start accepting new people along having a new family, but of course, the events lead him to see Mika and eventually reuinite with him.

It could be said that Yu’s view of saving isn’t directed of having Mikaela bound on any state he is but rather, he is aiming to fulfill the promise he did to himself long ago, but what was that promise?

“Return Mika to be a normal human being”

Despite the silly attitue Yu has displayed within several chapters, Yuichiro’s solemn wish is to see Mikaela live a normal life, he wants to see him well and healthy with his new family, he wants to bring back those he lost back when he was a kid and eventually live what it could be labeled as “Paradise”. But how can I bring down such term?

Paradise itself is indeed a term often spoken as the last place for kind souls, but even paradise can be found on Earth when those loved ones exist next to you. As for Yu, his biggest desire isn’t to save Mika but rather, to fulfill his promise and bring peace to those he have met since deep down, he feels responsible for the mess that many have faced with the time he has spent with them.

He might not shout it out aloud but, he feels responsible for the next things:

Making Mika saccrifice himself for him

Seeing Mika become a vampire for him

Seeing Mika sacrifice for him leading for him to become a demon

Seeing Shiho lose his sister due to events that were tied to him

Seeing that just the fact his actions lead to heavy losses in old chapters for some 

Seeing Shinoa sacrifice herself in order to save him and his demon

At the end, saving Mikaela just by how Yu stated it:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 102

No matter what it’s to come, he’ll save him.

Such statement clears any doubt he could have, and this is solely focused on giving Mika a “miracle”, a chance to live again before he lost his humanity, as he once knew the young Mika that managed to make Yu feel that caring world he once sought.

What do you think dear readers?

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!

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?

To all AO3 writers who put the idea about Mahiru being jealous over Shinya cause Guren is closer to him than her:

Hello everyone! I’m finally back and of course I’m happy for that, I hope these theories are to your liking.

A song beffiting the events:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kpxJ6_iVts

But now focusing on the latest chapter, there are so many intriguing details about it, therefore, let’s begin!

First of all, with the current events, we’ve learnt that Mikaela is called “child” by the First Progenitor, but, there’s an issue to it, what may it be when the First mentioned he had a “son”?

The demon Mikaela is a young boy without memories, a boy who has no clue what’s going around but his sole goal is to feed on desires nonstop; his powers are way too much compared to the current black demons, but now, what may be the issue?

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

Correct. The first isn’t seeing him as his real child but rather as the key to bring the real Michaela back to Earth. But how can I state such thing when he’s calling him his precious child?

That’s easy. If many have seen Mika’s demon powers, he’s able to attack other demons from afar, which is something on how Jisengo worked like but without the need to open up portals but rather tracking the source of the enemy; within this, he’s also the only demon being capable of seeing his “bubble dream” compared to the other demons.

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

But before we proceed to talk about the vessel, let’s give an insight of Shikama.

Shikama is perfectly known to be a Fake God that is able ot manipulate history as his own pace and ambition; he was able to create humans with his own methods and within this, he also had a rather interesting attitude when something called Shikama’s attention and this is very reflected with Ashera:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 79

Shikama saw slow hints of progress with his research, and for this, he only needed the correct words and deals so people would end up doing his biding, including on bringing few subjects which are the demons to his main goal; what may his real goal be? 

For now, it’s the speculation that he’s aiming to bring back his real son but, within this I’d like to give a note of something that is within a layer of doubt.

NOTE: Shikama might actually be trying to not exactly bring back his child but rather, get his real body back which was the corpse sleeping in the coffin since the story is about revenge itself.

But with this, what does this have to do with Michaela’s vessel and our current demon Mikaela?

Correct, Shinoa Hiragi is the mentioned vessel, but how can I state such thing?

If many might recall, Shikama aimed to possess Shinoa long ago until he succeeded. Within this possession, he wasn’t focused on devouring her heart like other demons usually do which feed on desires but rather, he was preparing her body to be able to hold down the real power of his son, which can be seen in previous chapters:

Image taken from Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign - Chapter 85

He stated in that chapter that he could resist the power of the Sinful Keys but he chose to not do so in order to not break the vessel he has, but, what does this mean?

Correct. Shikama isn’t trying to use Shinoa Hiragi as his vessel but rather for someone else. And that person is his real son, Michaela

But then again, how can I state such thing?

Shikama made Shinoa with the experiment Tenri conducted so he could fin a suitable vessel capable of holding down many demons but within this, he also made sure the vessel he had, could be able to withstand the abyssmal power he has along the one his biggest secret has.

And so far, after Guren trapped Shikama within Shinoa’s body, Shinoa’s body only suffered soreness but overall, her body in general gained inhuman strength and power; she didn’t lose her memories nor suffered any other side effects asides from seeing Shikama being able to pop his consciousness within Shinoa’s body.

Along this, there’s also an issue to be noted; in the Catastrophe LNs, Shikama mentioned that if it weren’t for Shinoa, demons wouldn’t be able to exist; at first it might seem like an innofensive phrase but it carries a heavy meaning behind; furthermore, Shikama always tried to offer his memories firsthand to Shinoa intead of other things, and seeing how Shinoa withstood such offers, he proceeded with other methods until he finally decided to attack Yu and Ashera in order to make her come and rescue them.

But now,  what does the demon Mika might actually offer or give to Shikama?

That’s easy. His powers. Shikama sees an abyssmal power of the current King of the demons, but he’s not interested in the physical appearance of Mikaela but rather, he’s interested on his soul

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

Shikama Doji could have tell Ashera to capture Mikaela but instead, he asked for Mikaela’s soul, which is the base of everything, the base of what defines a person.

Therefore, with Shinoa and Mikaela’s soul, his end goal is to set Mika’s soul alone within the vessel he currently uses to finally bring Michaela back to life.

What do you think dear readers?

Let me know!