Questions about the ending(SPOILERS AHEAD)

Oct 21, 2024 6:42 PM

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I just finished the manga recently and I've got some questions still on my mind:
1. How did Rafal survive? Was it shown at all? It's not really important but if there's a clear answer I'd like to know.
2. Why did the author decide to make him a cold blooded murderer in the end? I don't get the purpose behind that. How does it tie in with the themes of the story?
3. Who was the priest in the confession booth? Is it someone we're supposed to know?

Oct 26, 2024 1:57 AM

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I think that the fact that he became a "cold-blooded killer" is part of the coexisting duality that they talk about in the confessional. It seems that the priest is also Rafal, since he mentions the same scene. However, I can't connect that event of his salvation from the death by burning either. From being a martyr to committing a stupid, immature murder, it seems unfaire, he was practically the perfect character.

Nov 5, 2024 9:47 PM

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Yosakusan said:
I just finished the manga recently and I've got some questions still on my mind:
1. How did Rafal survive? Was it shown at all? It's not really important but if there's a clear answer I'd like to know.
2. Why did the author decide to make him a cold blooded murderer in the end? I don't get the purpose behind that. How does it tie in with the themes of the story?
3. Who was the priest in the confession booth? Is it someone we're supposed to know?

He is not Rafal, they are different people

Nov 6, 2024 7:41 AM

Yosakusan

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ShiroHachi said:

He is not Rafal, they are different people

What makes u think that?

Nov 8, 2024 11:27 PM

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The first three arcs and the last arc are set in two different paralell universes. First Rafal is in "P Kindom", and second Rafal is in "Poland".

I think Rafal showing up in the last arc is some kind of symbolism. Rafal becomes a symbol of "people excessively pursue knowledge and abandon sensibility."

ddddannNov 8, 2024 11:41 PM

Nov 9, 2024 3:29 AM

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ddddann said:
The first three arcs and the last arc are set in two different paralell universes. First Rafal is in "P Kindom", and second Rafal is in "Poland".

I think Rafal showing up in the last arc is some kind of symbolism. Rafal becomes a symbol of "people excessively pursue knowledge and abandon sensibility."

If this is the case that's cool but also very random and confusing.

Jan 13, 6:51 PM

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1. How did Rafal survive?

Rafal died at the age of 12 in Chapter 3.

2. How does it tie in with the themes of the story?

'Conviction can be a curse. Morality is something you find when you're lost.' — Jolenta (Chapter 46).
This quote underscores the theme of conviction as a double-edged sword: a force that demands great sacrifice and can obscure one’s moral compass.

'Sacrifices must be made for the sake of the beauty of this world' — (Chapter 62)
The final chapter presents a what-if scenario—a Rafal lookalike who loses sense of morality due to an unrelenting, blinding conviction. Or rather, it is his refusal to waver in that conviction caused him to become an immoral cold blooded murderer.

'The greater the conviction, the more you must sacrifice for it.' — Schmitt (Chapter 49).
This notion of conviction, with its inherent cost, indirectly led to the tragic murders of those participated in Rafal's chest.

3. Who was the priest in the confession booth?

The priest was likely the young inquisitor from Chapter 24, who was later reintroduced as 'Bishop Damian'. His colleague was burned after helping Jolenta escape. That being said, I don't think his identity what matters, but the fact he stopped turning away from that tragic history was a 'step forward'.

'At times, rather than reducing evil to an abstraction, a greater good can be born from acknowledgment and confronting it. Good and evil are not two paths. All is connected along a single line. Viewed in this way, the miseries he have undergone no longer seem meaningless. But if we're cut off from our history, we lose sight of this. To look at history is to see the direction God points. To ignore that past is to be lost.' — Jolenta (Chapter 48).

DeagoJan 13, 7:12 PM

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