We begin this month with Shiro stuck in fatherhood hell. He’s raising a crybaby and a demon baby. Baby Rin is apparently a beast with a rubber nipple and shits often with reckless abandon.
Shiro eventually gets himself settled at the monastery and starts to raise the boys. Shiro tries really hard to do right and be a good parent. He raises Yukio to be an exorcist because he had zero confidence and was afraid of Rin. He kept Rin at home and taught him to cook, because Rin seemed to enjoy it and Yukio enjoyed his cooking. He was trying to get the brothers to bond and trust each other.
HERE’S A BIG REVEAL : Yukio knows!!!
Yukio knew about Satan possessing Shiro. It wasn’t a secret. Shiro shared everything with Yukio, Yukio knows more than he’s been letting on in the story so far. Shiro is so comfortable talking with Yukio he’s joking around about it. He tells Yukio not to worry because good emotional health and physical health with help stop possessions. So eat up Yukio!!! You got the Satan eye too kiddo!!
This means that Yukio knows full well what’s happening to him in the future. He knows that Satan is peaking through his eye to spy on Rin. He did the same thing with Shiro.
Does this mean that Yukio ran away from Rin to save him from Satan? Interesting to consider! It would be fun to think that Yukio is playing Satan for a fool. Yukio is also playing us for fools!! I like it!!
So Satan uses Shiro’s body as a way back into Assiah to try and possess Rin. Satan then realizes that Rin isn’t strong enough and attempts to drag the boy into Gehenna. Shiro does the selfless thing and kills himself to save his son.
Another interesting reveal. The Koma sword is trapping Satan in Gehenna?
Satan says that the sword can’t contain him any longer. The sword can’t contain him? This entire time I thought that demon Rin was a part of his soul. But maybe he’s a version of Satan living inside of Rin instead. That means if Demon Rin is exorcised, Rin would continue being himself. I like that idea. So it stands to reason that when Rin draws the Koma sword he gives Satan access to his body in small increments? In the future the Koma sword was broken. Does that mean that Satan now has free reign in Rin’s body? Is that why Mephisto makes sure that Miwa takes the broken sword and scabbard together? The scabbard might still have the power to trap Satan back in Gehenna.
MEPH BEING CONTRARY…a lot!!
We then jump to the future. Meph is calmly eating some noodles and brings up the fact that so many people have died because of Rin.
It seems that he’s rubbing salt in Rin’s emotional wounds. But he’s not really, it’s just Meph being contrary again. He knows that Rin’s emotional stability is fucked right now. He’s testing out Rin’s feelings to see how Rin is handling it. Remember the advice from earlier in the chapter.
So Mephisto is testing Rin’s emotions. This is the part that gives me the creeps. Is he helping him or not? I’m not sure!!!!!
OPTION ONE: MEPH IS SETTING RIN UP
The heart is the key to demonic possession. Is Mephisto trying to help Satan take Rin’s body over by causing him to become emotional? By cracking his heart?
After Rin has his little heart-to-heart with Shiro he goes off in search of Yukio and his demon heart is hanging out!!
Who is going to notice that?
Satan of course!!!
(this is probably why Yukio left his brother’s side he doesn’t want Satan to spy on Rin)
LOOK HOW SHOCKED YUKIO IS.
IN HIS HEAD…HE’S LIKE RIN…YOU IDIOT!!
JUST A FLASHBACK
YUKIO WANTS TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO HELP RIN
MEANWHILE RIN….CARES ABOUT FAMILY….BUT
MEPHISTO HAS WARNED RIN WHICH PATH TO TAKE
OPTION #2 IS MEPHISTO TRYING TO STRENGTHEN RIN’S HEART?
Rin goes into the past and realizes that Yuri and Shiro gave their lives to save their son. Regardless whether or not Rin should have been born, he was loved. That love makes him remember his love for Yukio. Maybe that is the event that stops demonRIn from possessing him. Shiro teaches Rin to cook because it helps him both mentally and physically. The lesson was to help stabilize his emotions.
DID RIN LEARN ANYTHING FROM SHIRO?
HERE’S HOPING!!
SO IS MEPHISTO LYING?
Mephisto claims that he doesn’t know what’s going to happen to Rin after he leaves with the Kamakushi key. This is another fib. Because Shiro totally recognized that Rin was his son.
Rin unlocked the front door with a key to get into the monastery. In the past Shiro gave the key to Rin. So he must have asked Mephisto for it. Mephisto is fully aware that this little meeting between Rin and daddy would happen.
Meph is waiting to see what Rin does
Rin must decide the future, Mephisto can’t force Rin into decisions. That part I believe is true. The human heart is a wild card that a demon can’t predict.
Rin is in charge of what happens next. Whether he wins or fails
Meph will decide whether to sacrifice Rin to Satan or use him as a weapon based on Rin’s decisions and emotions.
So this statement is entirely true. (strictly speaking neither….frankly speaking…well…that’s up for debate)
