Augh, uck... I get it makes sense but so uncomfortable... The demon's choices of words kept getting worse haha... We kind of grasped from demon-kohai that it was a sexist culture but eesh.
The fall to darkness path is, at least in a formal social way, being a concubine? This is some vampiric soul corruption stuff plus magical girl salvation. What a great chapter. Great worldbuilding. (Ugh.)
It's basically confirmed Junna isn't the older magical girl
but she used to be or is reconstructed from that girl.
So. Junna was something like a concubine. Maybe different ranks but mechanically the same. What a trip. Junna's whole mentality was warped, and even after she's freed she does not consider herself the same person. Even trying to regain power it's for her own freedom to wield it.
That makes seeing her heroine put in that danger all the worse. So many levels of trauma. "I don't want you to be ended like my predecessor ended" and "I don't want you to experience what I did" and "I don't want to lose you".





