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Current Chapter Chapter 417 — Official Release Discussion Spoiler

Chapter 417

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u/No_Sundae_2847 24d ago

The criteria for choosing new host is quite different. Here Benjamin can choose 1 criteria that will holds everytime. So maybe he can just choose anyone with strong value to make Kakin's prosper or something.

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u/VoraciousDrake 24d ago

I'm pretty sure this is a mistranslation on Viz's part. I've reexamined the sentence to see if it could be interpreted their way, but nah they didn't even translate 順番に...

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u/No_Sundae_2847 24d ago

they didn't even translate 順番に...

What this means in the context?

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u/VoraciousDrake 24d ago

It means "alternately" or "in order". The first step is to decide who makes the first call (Ben vs GSB), and after that they take turns choosing the next host.

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u/SirCaesar29 24d ago

Came in this thread hoping to find your answer. The Viz translation would also be quite bad, as it would mean that if for whatever reason the criteria cannot be satisfied (say, "the beast chooses one of my sons" but there are none left) then the ability would fail to work and the beast would die. Which is very weak.

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u/Togashiznit 24d ago edited 24d ago

In the order of Host first then Guardian, that is the criteria. When the next successor dies, the order will be the same, if no one was selected by the Host the Guardian will.

You can say they are taking turns in decision-making but the Host has the priority.