By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting​

I’ve had a chance to catch up on chapters lately and there are a few things I’ve noticed now that confirmed things I suspected when I watched the anime a long time ago. 

Firstly, I believe that the “demon” personality that comes out when Yuuri uses his powers is his first incarnation. I suspect he has two past lives because of that scene with the twins that Sara is caring for–the ones that hints at two past lives that were both important. I think that they were correct. Some of my friends think that Murata/his Excellency disproved the idea of multiple past lives for Yuuri with his questions about his own past lives. I disagree, for one primary reason: Murata has lived a lot of them over the last 4,000 years. The twins–young as they are–who can see all of those lives layered atop each other (I assume) probably have difficulty deciphering the order for Murata. Especially if they can see that Murata has lived in another world and in another dimension that they have never encountered. If they see the past lives, even vaguely, it could account for their distress and confusion when Murata approaches them and asks such questions. Yuuri on the other hand, who likely only has two past lives, both of which are very likely to be in their world only, would be easier to decipher (especially if the twins can see a glimpse of the people that Murata and Yuuri once were). A glimpse could help them see, by dress or something else, that one life is more recent than another and they can make statements based on that. 

At the very least, I am glad to confirm that the second personality, which I call the “demon” persona, is a distinctly different persona from that of Yuuri, enough so that the other characters in the story recognize it as someone separate. When the demon persona talks, it often uses “We” instead of just “I” unless it is upset about something that the dominant personality of Yuuri isn’t upset about (see images below). The two are still one person, making up Yuuri Shibuya–but the difference between them, the slight separation between language and personality, allows for some amazing internal conflict that I can hardly wait to see. (Especially because I was really upset that, in the anime, Wolfram/Conrad/+Others do not notice a difference between that Yuri and the other one.)

The biggest difference is that the demon person seems to use the royal we and the personal “I” when something is closer to himself than the larger issue at hand. 

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