Talk:Act 17 - The Saint's Gospel/@comment-45429041-20200811191509/@comment-44330163-20200811224615

Looking at this it seems you remember a lot of things wrong from both the LN and the WN, I really recommend you to give them a second lecture.

On volume 6 the only girls that talked with Rio were Celia and Aisia, mainly because Miharu and the others were on the spirit folk's village while Rio was on the Stralh region looking for Satsuki and Takahisa, Rio certainly didn't showed his cruel side to Celia and Aisia, but there wasn't either a chance for it. Do you want Rio to make the same face he was making when fighting against Lucius or Reis' monsters while he goes shopping with Celia or has dinner with the girls or what? Rio didn't like having to show his cruel side to the girls on the process of training Masato. So what? Is there even one person who likes to show the side of him that they call their bad part to the ones they care about? That isn't matter of Haruto's or Rio's side being stronger than the other.

For starters, there isn't something as Haruto being the main personality on the WN and Rio being the same personality on the LN, the author said several times in both versions that there's just one personality that resulted from the fusion of Rio and Haruto, there isn't something as one sided being erased for the sake of the other, at the end of the volume 16 Rio already said that just because he already fulfilled his revenge he doesn't feel or will feel like being Haruto again, that he can't and that he doesn't want to. So exactly of what are you afraid of?, the WN and the LN have different stories and plots, Rio was made to take different options at given times on both versions, on the LN Rio's personality was made to evolve more and faster but in the WN Rio's personality didn't change at all since the moment he met Miharu until the last published chapter, that all of it.

A lot of people thinks Rio is someone dense, but it's the opposite, Rio is really good at grasping someone's state of mind and emotions, but he kept ignoring the signals related to romance on purpose due to several reasons.

1. Fear of betrayal, since Lucius' betrayal and his time at the slums it became impossible for Rio to trust on others, that's why he never took the initiative when befriending someone and even after becoming acquainted with someone he always drew a line between him and the rest as a precaution against a possible betrayal, in fact Rio acknowleged  to Celia on both versions hat without recovering Haruto's memories he wouldn't have befriended Celia or the ones he met after her. 2. Haruto's persistent feelings for Miharu, everytime that Rio received a love letter at the academy or when Sayo confessed to him, everytime that the ocassion forced him to imagine someone as his girlfriend then the one who appeared on Rio's head was Miharu. 3. Fear to lose his loved ones, the sight of Lucius killing his mother without him being able of doing anything for saving her made Rio incredibly scared of losing again the ones important for him without him being able of doing nothing again, and in consecuence scared of even having people who are important for him just for losing them too. 4. This changed since volume 10, but Rio acknowleged in front of Miharu, Latifa, Aisia, Sara, Ouphia and Alma on the prologue of volume 14 that until then he planned to cut ties with everyone for the sake of not having nothing to lose, expecting that would make him stronger and that that strength would it make easier for him to fullfill his revenge. 5. The lack of selfconfidence, there're two reasons for this. In the first place the thrauma of losing his mother, and in the second place recovering his memories as Haruto and his values, this makes Rio think about all the crimes that he comitted during his time at the slums and the fact that he wished for revenge and fulfilled it as great minuses for him in the eyes of those important for him, on his opinion, this is why he delayed so much to speak about his revenge with the girls, because he was scared of what they would think of him after that, but neither the Rio of the LN or the Rio of the WN thought of stopping looking for revenge if they were told to, if someone had really said to Rio to choose between the revenge and that person the Rio of both version would choose the revenge even if it hurt, he was already planning of cutting all of his ties anyway, even now that he fulfilled his revenge and the he saw that the girls' impression of him didn't worsen he still thinks of these things as something that lowers his qualification for trying to make someone happy, in both the LN and the WN.

The Rio of the LN:

1. Rio doesn't fear the betrayal anymore from the heroines, the people from the spirit folk's village, his family and Gouki's group. 2. Haruto's feelings for Miharu are still there but she isn't the only one on his mind anymore, even if the rest of the girls aren't as important for him as her. After killing Lucius, Rio decided that from then on he would live for the sake of answering the feelings of those important for him and for protecting his happyness alongside them. He included on this Miharu, Celia, Aisia, Latifa, Sara, Ouphia and Alma. Rio also thinks of this group of girls right now as the place he wants to return to and he told it to them, he told them too that from now he wants to be closer to them and to spent more time with them. The Rio of the last volumes gave me the impression of him being on the middle of gathering his guts for asking Miharu, Celia, Aisia, Latifa, Sara, Ouphia and Alma to be his harem, I think Satsuki, Liselotte, Christina and Flora aren't seen romantically yet but he opened to them quite a bit so I don't think they can be discarded yet. 4. Rio already told to the girls on the prologue of volume 14 that thanks to Satsuki, Miharu and Masato he discarded this way of thinking. 3 and 5. On volume 16 Christina asked Rio if he was against poligamy,he answered that he was, Christina asked him if the reason was that he already loved someone, Rio answered that his different fears and lack of selfconfidence make him really doubtful about him being able of having a romantic relationship with someone or him being able of making someone happy while he still has those feelings on him, Rio is concious of these of feelings being the last thing preventing from being happy and is trying to get rid of them.

The Rio of the WN:

1.The only ones that look like Rio really opened up to them are his family Latifa, Aisia, Celia, Gouki and the people from the spirit folk's village.

2. The only heroine he showed signs of having romantical feling for was Miharu and just Miharu, something that it can't be helped either, on the WN the quantity of presence that heroines had and how many time it was used just for the sake of deepning their bonds with Rio can't be compared to the LN, now he denies his feeling for Miharu to himself and everyone else but nobody believes him.

4. Rio just began to think about of letting go of this thought when he went back to the spirit folk's village on the chapter 191 of the WN.

3 and 5. Rio hasn't reallly reflected yet about his fear and insecurities so he didn't begin to work on letting go of them.

This are the differences between the Rio of the LN and Rio on the WN.