@BloodySorcerer
"merely manipulated people so she could have a family?" Huh? You did read the part about summoning zombies, almost destroying the world by raising an evil dragon, stealing people's secrets through mind control, and turning people's friends against each other, right? She did all kinds of evil deeds.
At the very least, she deserves some prison time, and or rehabilitative training, like the black knight from the first arc.
The notion that erasing someone's memories is a kindness is also super messed up, in a lot of different ways. Maybe there are people out there that would willingly take the Soma and enjoy the
brave new world that comes out of it, and if the villagers had consented to it, that wouldn't be the worst thing. But memories are one of the core fixtures of what makes a person who they are. If someone wants to cut away at a person until there's nothing remotely painful left, they're not going to have much person remaining by the end.