The funniest thing to me so far is that he underestimates how bloodthirsty you can get a crowd with some righteous anger. He did a stellar job of getting the bystanders worked up into bloody frenzy and approving of his decision to execute the teleporter with a few glib words.
It is low-key funny to see all these guys run after Keios because their girls started having lives outside their boyfriends and fiancés. Keios is definitely slowly growing as a person, starting to understand how to be a considerate partner, but in a twisted way he deserves at least some small...
To me it's also an issue of like... does it really take a real catastrophe of this massive calibre for Ruby to understand that some things she blames on others are her own fault? If she doesn't understand she's a horrible person until it starts to threaten the entire world, the realisation is...
I like her growth as a person at least. She feels guilty about the way she herself was acting towards him and wants to stop others from hurting him, because as you say the bar is indeed in hell.
Sometimes it's the small things that just get you down, even if you know they're low-key nonsense. It sucks, you feel bad, can't see the rational thing to do, your mood gets worse, and it's a spiral, especially if it's a concert he really wanted to see.
This really is a very funky situation; one can draw obvious parallels to real life bigotry, but unlike in the real life examples, the demons' presence can be actively harmful to non-demons. Using tools to protect oneself from the effects of malicium is probably the best way to start things...
They just get worn out over time. There's multiple factors that put stress on that particular section of strap so it breaks most frequently there, and then that becomes "coincidental" when the plot needs it.