I thought that that was single-target--that's why I said what I did. Hem's response after yours gets me thinking that it would not change much, however.
You made a lot of good points--the two biggest ones, in my opinion, are the government's potentially regarding Hades and his kind as nothing more than (exceptionally powerful) monsters and Kikuru and the applicable members of his group being charged with dereliction of their duty as guards.
It paints quite the ugly picture, however.
See, I didn't think that Hades would be so belittled when his kind are considered "gods". (Or the equivalent of what the Japanese term kami refers to, if it was used here--i.e., venerable spirits. The distinction is important because you have entities like Zenith and Phoenizaku, and then you have the "local 'gods'" and others: though Hades functions similarly to one, deriving power from faith, and not seeming to have had mundane origins like the previous god Kikuru faced--and killed.) Not only are they so considered, but they're venerated accordingly--it was shown in this chapter via the flashback, and early on through the depiction of a shrine with an image dedicated to a local god. Based on what I'd seen, post-giant-strawberry civilization is built on and around mysticism that directly involves these gods (with Zenith and Phoenizaku at the center, apparently). If things are as you say, then that reverence is something society--particularly the movers and shakers at the top--can cast away arbitrarily.
Then again, maybe that's the point: maybe these gods are "gods" until they're not.
That was exactly what that flashback proved. That said, I agree--Hades should have been smarter and thus much more precise in his action, but that's the only fault I can assign to him: with how the humans he directly protected turned on him despite their life debt, could he be confident that bringing his grievances to their government would produce suitable redress? Wouldn't his troubles as an intelligent being be important until they're disregarded as the snarling of a subhuman beast, the same way?
he uses it in 74 to give the memories to four people at once, i assume the idea behind the spell is giving a whole jury a direct view of what happened
well hes talked to them so at this point he doesnt think they dont get where hes coming from and gets that they disagree regardless
as for talking to the police theres one TINY factor thats easy to miss, the village betrayal gave him malice towards people, assuming its something he couldnt get rid of it would actually prevent him from entering any of the towns to talk to anyone which is probably part of why he made his abduction from so far below ground, he needed to be outside the wards range himself
There seems to be "world" level gods and "local" gods.
It seems that "world" level gods were created by human awe, fear, faith, and perhaps negative emotions.
That Zeus-like god - Zenith - that is married to Enome was formed from a cloud after enough Human faith was pointed towards the world or whatever (he himself explains it in a previous chapter, do check to make sure he wasn't a monster before).
"Local" level gods like the Twin foxes that now sexually harass Hitamuki+protect Kikuru's town (Mebuki, I think), Shock (True's partner the dragon or Salamander), and Hades (a Mole monster) are Monster's that through faith became "gods".
Hades was even given the ability to change into human form through Human faith and reverence - remember that Hades can change his body parts (arms/claws) into his previous Mole shape too.
There perhaps is the chance that some "world" level gods were previously monsters too, I don't know if that will be the case.
This is also kind of like Japanese Shinto Faith, where there are "river" gods, "rice" gods, "spider" gods, "flower" gods, "mountain" gods, etc that the people may worship, thank, throw festivals to appease, or even fear - but the people would not be against sealing away or tossing aside those same gods if circumstances dictate that the god must be discarded/slain.
"Named" Monsters appear to be powerful monsters formed through mutations, stray faith/human emotions flowing throughout the world, or the World-level gods themselves allow "Named" to be created for some reason.
The "Named" that eventually learn to communicate and literally name themselves seem to become much stronger than the "Named" that are more intelligent than their base species but never learn to communicate.
Anyway, after saying all that "useful" monsters like Seitan (San's sloth friend), Shock, and Kazenbo's soul are given "rights" by the government and are even recognized as "humans" if they behave properly.
Seitan is under San's guardianship and his actions are her responsibility until he proves himself to be worthy of the government's trust.
The same for local "gods" who are given a bit of special treatment until they do something that harms the people.
After-all, when a human kills a human, that human is punished. (Unless the government has a reason to overlook the murder, that reason could be good or bad.)
"Named" are just dangerous monsters that are to be put down like any other potentially dangerous monster until special circumstances prove otherwise.
Hades being in a human shape, speaking human words, and having had TWO police officers investigate what was going on, would have gotten the government to listen to him.
Those two women came BEFORE Hades had done any harm to humanity and Hades was NOT on a time limit, he could have at least tried. AND NOTHING would stop him from still rampaging if the government didn't do enough in his opinion afterward - unless he was dumb enough to say "punish them the way I want or I'll kill humans." Hades isn't that stupid.
Because of the Time mage, they probably wouldn't even need Hades to testify.
Perhaps Hades would have NOT been able to get the government to listen to him before the police officers showed up (because the monster wards react to him) but I bet if he contacted enough humans/guards without causing them harm, eventually someone would have said "Maybe we should investigate his claims." - Again remember, Hades is in a HUMAN form, he's not a giant talking monkey or a weird looking Mole-man.
In the scenario where Hades did not wait for the Policewomen to show up before trying to contact humanity - There is the chance that the old people could catch wind of it and would send guards to provoke Hades or tell outrageous lies to try to get the government to make hasty actions, but that just depends on luck or if Hades was smart enough to ask for help in a region that was outside of the old people's reach/influence (Like the Tanuki beast girl "Pon" or whatever her name is).
