Raito's design as a sword is based on a tsurugi, an older type of Japanese sword before the rise of the curved tachi and katana. But once those became the dominant sword, the tsurugi largely became a religious offering. And of course, there's the Kusanagi-no-tsurugi, one of the Imperial...
Yeah to be honest, after thinking about Cattleya's motives and reasoning a bit more, it's all kinda...childish, isn't it? She's like a teenage "philosopher" who thinks that since everything is gonna fade away in the end, everything doesn't matter, only in her case, once she realized that...
Something I just realized about Cattleya's goal with turning everyone into Youma, kinda made me wonder what Kaguya's potential choices could be to change the world, assuming she wins. I'm thinking either:
No more Nin'you; turn everyone into regular humans
Get rid of youmafication
Make everyone...
Well, considering the pacing of the past few chapters and the more than likely oncoming axe, I can only see the story ending in 2, maybe 3 ways:
Cattleya wins; she goes to the Land of the Rising Sun, gets the last Vessel soul, and creates the new chaotic world she apparently wants so much...
Upon doing some re-reading, in chapter 178 after the meeting with Kobayashi, it looks like Yamano gets on a call with Ooguma, so it seems like they've been friends for some time already.
Ah thanks, I was wondering who it was, since I thought he looked really familiar. Although, when did Yamano and Tezca interact? Off-screen? And was he watching over her, or did he just happen by when Shota thought to blast her ass while she wasn't looking.