Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140612134000/@comment-6192846-20140822131626

tl;dr: No way to say whether it's the Venom Sword one way or the other.

Take away the fact this is Evillious and what is The Last Revolver?

1) A hitman is killing people. A man is investigating her. They fall in love. She gets order to kill him. Tragedy ensues.

2) Hitman and lover meet under a Sakura tree in an urban area, like Japan. Their city has four distinct seasons, like Japan. They go to a summer fireworks festival, like Japan.

3) Lover carries katana. Hitman carries revolver. Lover's on the side of justice. Hitman is on the side of crime.

This song could literally apply to present-day story set in Japan, except we know it's Evillious and therefore must take place somewhere else.

When the singer actually says "You were on the side of justice", we get a medium shot pan down on our lover, before a brief extreme close up shot on the hilt of the katana.

When I think of katanas, I think of honor, a defined moral code/sense of justice, an ideal to law and authority, and a protection of order. Other Vocaloid producers have armed similar characters with katana (ex: Karakuri Burst). so the theme seems to be understood by it's main audience (Japanese listeners).

Based on that, the katana might just represent the side he's on and it has nothing to do with the vessels of sin. We have no idea where this is or who this man really is. Is he from Asmodean or the East? Does he wear it because of his culture? Is it mandated for his work? Does he use it just because?

Now, given the PV is one of the older ones in the series, it'll be hard to use it as any evidence. On the one hand, there are clearly no markings or indication it's a purple katana with foreign characters written on it. On the other hand, nothing would stop mothy from changing that (though Ichika does carry over the lover and hitman's devise into Muzzle).

I'm going to stand by the lack of logic to the current ideas behind the Lover being Nyoze. Sounds real far-fetched and shoe-horned imo. But hey, if it is him, maybe the Gift novel will answer it in the extra chapter (though so far, it seems we're going in chronological order).