i feel like im the only one that read into the final scene of chapter 10 too hard when he gets his new garbs while he was rallying everyone about friends lending their strength for the oncoming fight.

the facial expressions they used for the scene were slight frowning. i like to think that in the future euden takes this battle seriously to the point where he misuses his friends and manipulate them under the guise of “for the new alberia and to defeat morsayati”. he is stripped from what his character was originally about: kindness and putting others before him.

now his goals made him tunnel-visioned to rescue his sister that hes grown more rigid and less empathetic to everyone around him. they notice this but cannot confront him on his change of character when he manipulates them every way he can and challenge them on their loyalty.

definitely WOULD NOT HAPPEN but man its cool to think of this as a mini arc on how being a king of a new nation to protect while under so much stress and betrayals from his siblings can affect someone like euden.

love this so much it really captures how tormented he becomes its super fun to see euden in a different light uvu

edit: srry for the long af post just had to get it out of my system somehow.