Guren LN Resurrection at 19, Vol 2 Spoilers!! (immediate aftermath of the Catastrophe aka apocalypse) Big takeaways:
1) Shikamadouji/Progenitor controlled/planned a great deal of the course of history
The way Saitou explained it to Guren was that Shi was playing god, deciding which religion and kingdoms rose or fell. But he wasn’t god, he’s a vampire.
2) Ichinose and Hiiragi clan conflict
Big reveal was that the originator story of the split was due to SAITOU. He orchestrated the whole thing in order to weaken the Hiiragi clan that had the backing of the 1st Prog. Saitou founded the Hyakuya Sect to counter Hiiragi/Mikado no Oni so he also took the opportunity to create internal strife in the Hiiragi. The Progenitor didn’t pay attention to it because it was human emotions (love triangle) at play but it weakened the Hiiragi and gave space for Hyakuya to grow.
3) Ichinose heir had Saitou’s tissue
You must be like WHAT THE FUCK lol. Saitou revealed that he gave the baby that was born (after Hiiragi eldest son raped Ichinose daughter) his own tissue. So Ichinose descendants have Saitou’s DNA O_O so Saitou joked that he’s Guren’s dad.
Ferid later confirmed this when he drank Guren’s blood and commented that it tasted like Saitou. aaah
4) Saitou mentioned that Guren isn’t the Progenitor’s “child” in that Ichinose family didn’t exactly follow the path that Shi originally planned for them.
This is because Saitou meddled with the split and even gave the heir his tissue. They’re part of Saitou’s machinations. He also set up Mahiru and Guren’s first meeting (but not their love part, just the meeting).
However, Saitou doesn’t know if his interference was all part of the plan and if he’s still dancing in the palms of the Progenitor.
Like we suspected Saitou is pulling strings to counter whatever the Progenitor is doing. Aaaand Ferid is pulling strings to counter/meddle with Saitou’s plans (like he said in the manga) LOL
5) Guren got the info about Yuu and Mika from SAITOU.
Originally the manga in early chapters talked about a “prophecy” from Mahiru or some such. But that info/letter actually came from Saitou. I guess his plan was to have both Yuu AND Mika into Guren’s custody but later due to Ferid’s interference, only Yuu made it. :D
Saitou also placed Mika and Yuu together on purpose because Yuu was brought to the orphanage before the Catastrophe happened. Hmm
6) By the end of Vol 2, Guren and Ferid aren’t working together (yet).
Ferid went to see Guren in Shibuya (and thus their convo). I guess eventually we’ll find out how they started working together - if Guren is actually working toward Ferid’s goals or Saitou’s or his own or ???
7) Mahiru wanted to kill Ferid and took over Guren’s body.
There is doubt to this point too because Mahiru could’ve taken over and killed Ferid earlier in the chapter when he was more defenseless. So whoooo knows what Mahiru was planning. LN ended at a cliffhanger when the jig was up and JIDA found out Ferid was there.
but we did get a Ferid POV chapter out of it :3
Interesting tidbits:
- Mikado no Oni and also Mikado no Tsuki both do not believe in the existence of God and teaches disciples that god does not exist. Even though Shi who was the founder obviously knows the truth lol. They do recognize that Divine Punishment exists (due to the Catastrophe)
- Guren et al don’t catch colds anymore because of their demons XD (lore revealed in the Afterword)