It's been so long, what relationship did Shinozaki have with Mahiru again? And what is this talk about compatibility between the caster and repository?
It is not "common in history", the idiom "history is written by the victor" is a complete farse - the two biggest examples of this I can think of of the top of my head is that we suffered through a second world war predicated on the myth that the German army was betrayed by the politicians back...
She did remark on him having a "fine form", like under the mask and all, in an earlier chapter and his reaction was like "what?" and she dodged the question. I don't think she thinks he's actually an undead.
Honourifics shouldn't come back. Public service has a read-aloud/audiobook-segment and yesterday was the first time I've heard a Japanese story from them but they kept the honourifics in even as they made everything sound incredibly stitled and unnatural when translated. . . .
I'm with domus...