Chapter 122

So...
...although it hasn't been said directly, it is implied that Rood is actually Master's little brother.
Because there is no freakin' why that two characters that look alike are not related by blood.

It seems like we will have to re-new theories about Demon King because it becomes more likely that he is sealed within Rood. Perhaps by his own wish...?

Out of being an idiot I read that Demon King just happened to be Kielnode's little brother.
...and from there my mind started to make a theory:
What if they created Demon King in that ceremony? And after that Demon Lord... becomes a Time Lord - meaning, time travel. And to ensure his own existence Kingy has to make the first portal to human world.

Yep, that doesn't make much sense. 


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On more serious note:
Master says this: "That man didn't come to mother once after we came to his mansion. Then whose child is it?"
Well, I guess, this is the chapters biggest question. Any speculations? Other than "HOLY SH*T Rood isn't Demon King, Rood's his son"...? Although that is the only theory that I actually have on this matter. Don't know how it works. Or if Demon King just has a power similar to Tepes' from "Crepuscule".

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And that magician that saved Master looks weirdly similar to Lispen. Like his father or something.
So I have a theory that a demon's human form is actually taken from a human. That is why have seen younger Lispen, that is why Rood grows...
...it kinda further supports my idea that, well, the original human "Rood" has been replaced by Kingy.

I think that if Rood really is Master's brother then Kiel never met him after birth. He didn't know how he looks like and didn't care about him at all. Their mother wanted to get rid of an unnecessary child (or something happend, like Rood releasing his powers and killing [that man]. Then Tower took intrest in him as good guinea pig because he nad a good mana affinity like Kiel. During [ritual] Demon King was sealed into Rood. Master didn't know who is the experiment sample, until he saw Rood chained and recognised him as his brother.

Or maybe master adopted random child because he finally noticed that experimenting on humans is wrong, and wanted to repay to someone whose life got messed up because of him.

I love this - nothing to do with the ritual.
Why not? Maybe the kid was just at the wrong place at the wrong time and is actually nothing but a normal human. Well, at least at the beginning...

My personal theories on this is Rood originally just a human born from Kielnode's (a.k.a. "master's") mother and had the demon king sealed inside him during the mysterious ceremony or Rood was always the demon king to begin with. The demon king may have appeared before Kielnode's mother and somehow used his powers to convert himself into a child inside her womb, which might explain why the child had no apparent father, Rood was the only "human" to survive the ceremony, and Kielnode's mother hid herself in her room (either way though I think she was probably trying to hide her pregnancy so the noble and his wife wouldn't find out. I wouldn't be surprised if they probably would've punished her for being involved with another man and called her a slut, even though she was a mistress. Societies with nobles and forms of feudalism can be really harsh in fiction).

Of course, this is all just speculation running on the fact that Rood MIGHT be Kielnode's younger half-brother so I could be easily wrong on both accounts

Most likely not. Kielnode might have never told Rood that they were brothers out of guilt for leaving him back at the noble's mansion and allowing him to be put through the tower's ritual. Rood obviously has no memories of what happened during the ritual (or any memories prior to the event for that matter as seen in the prologue) and as we saw in Kiel's last encounter with Rood, Kiel never explained to Rood anything about what happened during the ritual. Kiel obviously seems really guilty about the event and protective of Rood.

As a side note, I wouldn't be surprised if the noble's wife sent Kiel's younger sibling (and possibly mother as well) to be fodder for the tower after Kiel's father died given how much we saw her hating on Kiel.

Okay, it makes sense too. But why would Master try to hide Rood from Tower so badly? If Rood wasn't the experiment that was smuggled from tower then what other connection could there be?