Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20130929130231/@comment-6192846-20140613132306

From reading the chapter, the focus of the last chapter is sort of the quickly spiraling downfall of the Duke. He even refers to his harem as his "utopia" after he gets stabbed. All the scenes leading up to that are about his desperation to maintain what he has when his grasp over the situation is quickly slipping.

The same thing is what happened with Elluka. I.R.'s sudden departure and telling him he would inevitably fall in his current situation pushed him to try escaping that fate, and he got cocky in the belief that he did keep Elluka.

It's definitely stupidity, but I think the pathos is in the fact he can't maintain what he created. Earlier in the chapter there's Sateriasis freaking out because Gumina's drawing Cherubim.