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Next chapter is infomined ; some thoughts:


 * Meta's powers actually causing serious harm to her initially have some noteworthy implications for inheritors. Venomania, even when amnesiac, never once accidentally brainwashed Lukana (and his brainwashing always specifically made them subservient to him. There's definitely different levels being demonstrated here on how the power works on someone's mind, like how Meta and Venomania both seem able to also directly control people like puppets.) Presumably, being a contractor doesn't backfire that way as he's only borrowing Gilles' power (and Gilles obviously knows how to use it.) This also fits in with how Eve accidentally brainwashes herself via her incarnations as explored in Gift. That mothy brought this concept up here in the same novel as Moonlit Bear makes me think that he is going to head in that direction with Eve's bear hallucination, though we'll see.


 * Suddenly wondering if there's any relation between the Red Devotees and the Crimson Robed Masses. Probably just a color reference.


 * So the crying woman isn't Eve after all? >-> huh. Retconning of PV? That's disheartening.


 * It is interesting as well to see that the political situation in MKL had a massive upheaval from the first Project to the second one.


 * Since (as someone already leaked in the novel's comment section) we know that Pale turns into Kiril (and now it's pretty obvious that the reset is why,) I guess Pale being put into a child's body is mothy's way of explaining how Kiril is still similar in age to Elluka Chirclatia, who was also conveniently introduced as a child in this chapter. With new identity comes a new childhood.
 * Plot twist the reveal of the next book will be that Maria has bodyswapped into Gammon.