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  Chapter 116. The Highest Respect for an Enemy is to Kill Them All

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  The Pilr Men are monsters! They are aberrations! They are the enemies of humanity that must be eradicated!

  Even now, the viewers of "Battle Tendency" still believe this. But when one of the Pilr Men, Wamuu, accepts his defeat and impendih with suposure, and in his final moments, fights to protect Joseph, his former enemy, from vampires with nothing but his remaining head—all because of the promise of their duel— the viewers still hold onto that belief?

  This isn't to say that they have ged their minds, thinking that the Pilr Men are no longer enemies of humanity. It's more like how among humans, there are both good people and bad people.

  Especially uhe dire of Akiyuki Shinbo, who is no longer serving as assistant director but has taken up the role of chief director for this project.

  Now that he has full creative trol, he doesn't just highlight Joseph's cleverness as in the inal manga. Instead, he employs a teique akin to subliminal messaging, using a barrage of freeze frames and bold text to pnt the intended messages into the subscious of every viewer!

  Simply put, when a video fshes a picture you didn't quite catch, wouldn't you want to rewind and pause it until you see that image clearly?

  You would! And definitely, you would! After all, there's a good ce it might be somethiig!

  Even before pausing the video to catch the image, the viewers' minds have already been affected by their innate desires!

  ...This is something Shinbo learned from his own experieer delving into certain genres.

  Simirly, as the duel between Joseph and Wamuu is portrayed using these teiques, it naturally veys Wamuu's pure resolve to the audience.

  With the ag of the chosen actors, Joseph's matg resolve, and this almost amplifier-like filmihod, the bined effect makes the viewers feel genuine sadness a for Wamuu's death.

  Of course, this is partly because Joseph ultimately defeated Wamuu.

  One person's hero is another person's enemy.

  It's precisely because the Pilr Men were unpreted foes, and Wamuu was a warrior so formidable that even his enemies had to admire him, that after his total annihition, the human viewers could afford the luxury of showing him the highest respect they could offer an enemy.

  "Who would have thought Wamuu was actually quite admirable."

  Even the older Joseph, who had mao take another break, couldn't help but remark after watg this se, "At first, I thought he was just another cold-hearted guy like DIO."

  "But it turns out that pared to DIO, who was a human turned vampire, Wamuu, who wasn't even human, seemed more like a person who wouldn't bully the weak a his promises."

  "And then there's Kars. Even though he bmed Wamuu for being too soft-hearted and losing to 'me' in the end, when he heard the vampires badmouthing Wamuu, he killed them without hesitation."

  And it's not just Wamuu and Kars.

  Even Esidisi, the first to battle Joseph after a proper warm-up, was like that. He willingly let Joseph destroy his body, leaving only his brain to steal the Super Aja to help Kars secure it.

  In the end, he even sacrificed himself to buy time after achieving his goal.

  Such loyalty and righteousness in them...

  If Kars and the others weren't Pilr Men.

  If Kars and the others didn't feed on humans.

  Then perhaps the flict between Kars and Joseph might never have escated to this point.

  But if Kars and the others weren't Pilr Men, they would have died naturally in aimes, being fossils or oil buried underground, rather than reviving in the modero bee enemies of humanity.

  So, it's best that such loyal, righteous, and powerful Pilr Men are dead!

  Yes, although many viewers, influenced by Shinbo's dire, couldn't help but hold a certain respect for the deceased Wamuu, perhaps due to how Pucd the others cast Nobuo Tobita as Stroheim and made Stroheim's character more simir to the Major from "Hellsing" to suit Tobita's persona...

  This respect for the Pilr Men instead heighteheir hostility towards them!

  A of our race must have a differe!

  The version of Stroheim portrayed by Tobita, a "chosen actor," was interpreted as a human ed in a monster's skin!

  Especially wheurned as a cyb, his synization with this cept dramatically increased, and he eled the speech-giving talents ied from a certain failed art student to deeply engrain this idea into the minds of all viewers!

  So, sooing aside their respect, Sora and Shiro began pting how to kill Kars, the st of the Pilr Men, saying, "Based on previous performances, Kars' ability is undoubtedly the Light Mode."

  "pared to Wind Mode or Fme Mode, which manipute wind a and have great power, the Light Mode, whily maniputes and reflects light, seems quite ordinary."

  "And judging by Esidisi's and Wamuu's performan battle, the Pilr Men's hierarchy doesn't necessarily correte with their bat power. Kars might not everohan Wamuu."

  "Which means..."

  Kars' ces of winning are almost zero.

  And more importantly, Joseph and the others just happeo grasp Kars' Achilles' heel—the Super Aja.

  As long as the Super Aja emains in Joseph's hands, even if Kars mao defeat them, it will be difficult for him to seize the stone.

  And this is what Sora couldn't his head around.

  Acc to the OP of "BLOODY STREAM," Kars should succeed in obtaining the Super Aja and bee the Ultimate Life Form.

  But by the rules, that shouldn't be possible!

  Which means...

  "Cheating!!" they both excimed in unison, as Sora and Shiro nearly simultaneously came to this clusion.