Talk:Arios Theoman/@comment-2405:4800:407F:42A:1895:3740:CFEA:CDA-20190520085356/@comment-27031093-20190521005233

This page in general needs a lot of reworking, but there are two main parts to Cola's last speech:

The first is that Arios chose to use a theoretical "future" (in the long run allowing half of humanity to die will save it) to ignore the present disaster in front of him (the war with the monsters) and fixate on his past mistakes (that he couldn't kill Miki when he had the chance). Even without knowledge of how the Demon King system works, it was widely known that Kayblis was leading the monsters, not Little Princess, so killing her wouldn't have had any real impact on the war at all (which we see to be true in the Truth of God end). Cola tries to say that Arios was too wrapped up in trying to redeem himself by killing Miki to notice how pointless what he was doing was.

The second is as you said; not only did Arios choose to go about saving "the future" in the least helpful way possible (killing Miki), he also did it in the least efficient way that he could: passively waiting for humanity to die instead of aiming for people in power to destabilize the human army and power up his sword as quickly as possible. For all his talk about needing half of humanity to be killed off to save it, he himself couldn't follow through with doing anything to make it happen besides idly waiting for the war to do it for him.

Basically, Cola calls him a misguided idiot and then tells him that he wasn't even a competent misguided idiot. The irony that he had too much humanity to be able to bring himself to save humanity is more the subtext of the speech than what the speech itself actually says.