User blog:S3r0-Ph1i/Demons!

Chapter 98 brought more than some welcome clarification on the Mika becoming a demon situation, which as detailed in this entry was one heck of a long haul. Other demons have also come to the forefront where unbeknownst to all they seem set to shape upcoming events. Yes it’s a good day to be a demon in Seraph of the End, more than ever considering they’re supposed to be quite happy just feeding off the desires of people. It turns out not only can they communicate with one another but they can and have also planned together. Regarding the strongest classification, black demons Asuramaru, Kiseki-o and Gekkouin are apparently bolstered from having had their memories return where they have turned their attention to a certain rank one demon.

When the unthinkable happened, the King as this new demon is referred to in chapter 95 was not Asuramaru, Kiseki-o wasn’t addressing him as the king rather he was asking whether he had felt his awakening. For who the king was the matter isn’t helped by the fact that Seraph of the End demons are hands down the most craftiest most convincing puppeteers of any series. Nothing else comes close to how well they can imitate and deceive others. The obvious guess that Asuramaru and Guren backed up was the demon transformation was affecting Mika himself thus it concerned him. Chapter 98 confirmed the possibility that it was the past Mikaela that had been mentioned who was this new rank one demon, the king.

Some very welcome clarification since Mika himself turning into a demon is unthinkably horrid. It's a different story for Sika Madu's son who is back in the world. After the dust has settled (kind of) now however the next uncertainty concerns the number of demons since as with the immediate assumption that Mika was now a demon, here it is just as quick to assume that there is only one demon. It may be the case that there are three. Or at least three possible:

The demon candidates
1) Mikaela, the hooded demon with horns who resembles Mika as a child is Sika Madu's son from the past who has re-entered the world as a demon, likely as Sika Madu planned. Noya was happy to point out Mika may be 'a Mikaela' namely a successful experiment where the genetic similarities to the past Mikaela's body may have made Mika a suitable vessel to have Sika Madu's son Mikaela return. It seems the case that it was not Mika turning into a demon rather Mikaela using his body as a chrysalis to emerge himself. So for our number of demons we have one confirmed, Sika Madu's son, the past Mikaela, Mikaela is a demon.

2) The next candidate is Mika himself. Realistically, and thankfully, Mika is unlikely to become a demon. This is both for story purposes, Mika as he is makes the story, a close someone becoming a demon has already been explored with Guren and Mahiru, there is already a demon weapon and character shown in Asuramaru, and then reducing Mika to an object to be used is unfathomably evil if it enters the cursed gear route... it's all overlapping and so unlikely to come to fruition. Then there’s that Yu having had time to give some thought to the matter may not after all be comfortable with having Mika turned into a demon and cursed gear, good. Ashera was of the same view that it may not be ideal for Mika to change in this manner. That he has his humanity restored Ashera is aware of Mika’s value to Yu and that tasked by the first he may be pretending to co-operate with Sika Madu whilst working to undermine him. All in all Ashera may be especially open to preventing Mika from being changed. Then if others are unable to actually help Mika and he does embrace the perfect illusion rather than the harsh real world he is in so embrace this path as was the case in chapter 93 then seraph intervention may be the failsafe. So Mika has the potential to become a demon but this is unlikely.

3) After Mika's experiences which involved Guren using a curse-amplifying drug he awoke as a child in a world where there was something waiting for him. Whilst its methods were different, kind and patient even, in sharp contrast to general demon behaviour, there was still a consciousness that worked to have Mika become a demon himself. It was aware of Mika's family and imitated them, it had some flaws in its behaviour as if it had some kind of personality. Readers could infer it was not a memory of the orphanage family, rather observe that it was something working quite hard to act like them. What Mika noticed as well was that it didn't catch on right away that the orphanage director wasn't there, it could be noted that it expressed tiredness. Hardly a place, rather it was operated as a being. Even with it shown that Mikaela was there observing, that illusionary Yu and the orphanage family do not seem to be the creation of Mikaela who has memory issues. Perhaps it is a place where vampires go to in order to be turned into demons however the world and the human illusions in it, this entity does seem an independent being itself, one that acts like a demon.

Since the demons are so good at haunting those in universe, and those reading the story as well, their habit of being unsettling hasn’t stopped: it is possible the Mikaela demon is actually Mika, looking at himself in his own illusion unaware that they are one and the same. Regardless of the developing situation so long as Mika is fine then Mikaela, the demons set on capturing him, Sika Madu, the demons as a whole can and will do whatever they please.