@[Pcm](/user/show/10039396) I'm happy to see your story get recognised, Pcm. It was until the Ranger's Duty that I understand Eddie as a character, and rooted for him to be himself and escape the East. Certainly, you can borrow our ideas for the upcoming stories, and I along with many others would await your return from the series.

@[Pcm](/user/show/10039396) Still, what will happen if the demon overlord's power waned through some means? Will the reality change being weakened? How will that affect the demon overlords that Collin and his family have become? Will they feel pain from it and torture their minds with the human memories resurfacing from them? You can write it in another thread for explanation.

@Anonymous No, reality changes are permanent. Their power is not memory manipulation or illusion, the reality has really been changed independent of their predence. Only few demons can alter reality, and their alteration of reality is limited to expanding the Infer Realm somehow, i.e. adding new nativr demons to it. At this point, it is impossible to know if there are any demons in the Infernal Real that were actually born there without having their previous reality altered. Maybe alteration of reality was what created the Infernal Realm in the first place. Our demon family did not lose their memories at all. They have lived their entire lives knowing that Master had altered realities to make them always demons, and that never bothered them. Their human memories never really happened, so it was kinda a fun novel tgey were reading and sometimes teased each otger with it, maybe even for sex roleplay. They liked that they were always together as a family even as humans, and that's it. It's not something they make habit of thinkibg about. Collin and the others weren't demon overlord. They were demon princes, lieutenants of Overlord Sybarite. To be an Overlrod, a demon must be powerdul enough to alter reality. None of them can yet.

@[Pcm](/user/show/10039396) Ah, thank you for the clarification. It makes sense, maybe Sybarite was once a human long ago, but something happened and he become a demon overlord because he possessed a power to alter reality after becoming a demon? His identity have long gone, replaced by the memory of him always being born as a demon? Of course, this is just a speculation on my part. And from your perspective, what are the possible ways for a demon to experience true despair like a human did? Or even makes a demon question themselves? (It may not be likely since demon are being selfish here, but I want to know what you thought about it.)

@Anonymous @Pcm I wouldn't be surprised if sybarite was a person long ago. That would make him similar to the god hand of berserk- each of them was once human and then was demonized (made into an apostle). If the overlord essentially rewrote reality and that can't be reversed, then it's likely that such permanence is based on the overlord upholding the reality shift up. It may not be memory manipulation or illusion, it is very much a real thing, but it fundamentally is a distortion of what is. But maybe it will never change. However, such things in my mind are a form of manipulating the unseen, and thus are a form of sorcery. but, time and space can Flux and bend- they are dimensions on their own. What was warped may yet be repaired through some other means. If one can twist it like the overlords, it could be twisted again. More importantly, such a twisting would likely require a constant application of force to prevent things from being altered again. As long as the overlord is alright, I'm sure things can hold. But if he winds up dead or something... That might be a different story. Alternatively however, it might be that this can't be changed at all no matter what. But, even if that is true, I suspect that the demons could face despair. If Forlorn decides to go after Eddie, he may well partake of it. Since the old reality is essentially gone, any potential means of connection forlorn had with Eddie are gone too. After all, if they don't think much about their "fake" human lives....then why would forlorn ever bother with Eddie at all aside from being a standard potential target like anybody else? Ironically, this gives Eddie a greater chance at survival, which I am all for. For practical purposes however, the demons have kind of lost their memories- they don't think they are real and thus have no bearing on them. Akin to how for somebody who lost their memory, anything from before has no bearing on them. That's a more allegorical reading however. For a demon to experience despair, I think theyvwould need to be forced into a situation where pleasure is denied to them and they cannot have it, or worse because they are demons they cannot have it. Pleasure for demons is almost inevitably sexual, but pleasures are not always of the flesh, and I imagine they would want those too. One particularly terrifying scenario I have thought off is a demon looking to convert his family, only to find them dead as they fled for their lives- or worse, they died at their own hands to avoid being demonized (I could see some very zealous worshippers of the dawn and dusk doing this if they were unable to escape to avoid harming their loved ones). They cannot have what they want, and now they never will. I've written on this in the past. Should Eddie die, perhaps Collin will feel this. But since they don't care about their lives as humans- probably not. And keeling that in mind, forlorn would thus never really care for Eddie beyond sating his own pleasure. Eddie escaping from him is thus the best option. Let forlorn be miffed- it's not like he's going to care that much for Eddie anyway if he doesn't care much for his human life- he'll probably find some other distraction. Even if Eddie does wind up dying, tragic as that is- he dies as himself. I hope he survives but at this rate- death would be better than demonization.

@Anon True, but I need a confirmation from @[Pcm](/user/show/10039396): Does the feeling of love between Eddie and Collin passed through Forlorn? Reality could be altered, but what about feelings? Does it simply replace with something else? For example, even though the memory is fake to Forlorn, does he feel anything like love from it? Did he have a longing feeling to that person in his fake memories?

@Anonymous This is likely something @Pcm would only know. With how they describe the demons seeing their human life as not mportant....it really doesn't seem that forlorn would see Eddie in a particularly special light if no feelings were retained. They've mentioned forlorn remembers everything, but they've also mentioned the demons don't really care about their human lives and don't see them as real. In that light, it's hard to tell what forlorn view on this is. He could want Eddie by his side and being denied that could cause him to grow obsessive, or he could just outright see Eddie as little more than a potential conversion target like anybody else. Like you have mentioned however, only @Pcm would know the true answer to this. It all depends on weather not forlorn retained Collins love for Eddie. If he retained the memories but not the emotions, then it really won't matter, as the demons clearly don't care about those memories.

@Anon Yeah, you may be right. They become true demon and doesn't care one bit about being human, and without feelings from the human past of them, then they are just the same as other demons, only caring about turning people into demon without a care in the world. Worse, I think it's stand to reason that the East and West would like have a battle for a century, without any victor at the end, after all, there's never a true victory when it comes to war, only pain and suffering remained as a result. Maybe there's no end to it, that West didn't realise their mistake due to the reality change, and only keep on battling East to prevent Sybarite's army from invading their territory. And the demon will keep on trying until then, it's not gonna end until one side is completely surrendered.

@Anonymous If demons would feel true despiar, then the easy answer would be seeing their loved ones die. Demonification does not deprive them of tgeir prior affection. However, things are different when reality has itself been shifted. The old one became but a dream. Still, someimes love for some one is so very integral for someone's being and will leave a lingering impression on the reality shift, like how you grow so attaches to a character in a fictional sotry. With pthers' case, it might not be so difficult because all the people they have ever loved as humans are shifted with thdm into the new reality...except Forlorn. Well, there is nothing in particular stopping them from demonizing that person through normal mean if only to sate their interest would there? If given the chance to make your favourite fictional character real and spend time with them, wouldn't you? Does that equate true affection? I honestly don't know. Forlorn is invested in Collin amd Eddie' love story and sometimes even projects himself into the story as Collin. He sees Collin happy, and he wants to be happy. As long as he has the means to attain that, why wiouldn't he?

@[Pcm](/user/show/10039396) I see. That's a great explanation there. What do you have in mind about the upcoming war between East and West? Will the conflict ended and peace returned from both sides? Would you write a follow up series between the two's war, and concluded the series with an ending that makes everyone happy in the end?

@Anonymous Thag would be a spoiler. The next series in this universe would focus on a far away coutinent across the ocean. It will have a distinct military theme and focuses on another fetish of my, uniform. It is a gunpowder-esque fantasy.

@[ControlMe](/user/show/2615973) Love this idea!

@[ControlMe](/user/show/2615973) There's also a chance that Manuel could end up catching the himbovirus from Oliver this way, escalating things further. Or perhaps he's already caught it in that version of events...

@[Reader](/user/show/780823) I really love the out of the box ideas to Alex to work the curse to his advantage haha let's remember, he is seriously fatigued and in self-preservation mode. He is trying to collect himself, get through the day, and maintain that he has the confidence to get himself out of this mess. Maybe some of those strikes of inspiration will come later... if it's not too late. I'm sorry if the story is not going in the direction you'd hoped, but I appreciate your comment. I've made some comments about that under some other feedback provided. To your last comment - I know, right? How thoughtless of Rob!

@[Whisperlouder](/user/show/2186797) I see your point about Alex not being in the right mind to do this right now. I would still be very excited if it will be eventually implanted to the story and turn the "be careful what you wish for" trop on its head because in this case the "genie" is the victim and the wish maker is the villain. As for apologizing, there is definitely no need. My taste is my taste, and that doesn't mean that you need to betray your own just to suit me. I said it before and I'll say it again, your writing is top notch. I would've given the time to stay updated on the comments if I was so emotionally involved in the story. Speaking of, I know it's hard to separate an artist from their art so I can easily see how the comments here might hurt you. I'm glad to see that you are taking it so well. Be it by waiting for a binge or by staying tuned to the next chapter, I'm very curious to read what comes next... Unless it's more of Rob's vile disregard like the covers. If he, for example, uses all of the hot water leaving or drinks all the cild water (depends on the season) Alex with none, I will be left with no choice but using some very bad word.