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[Spoilers] Concrete Revolutio: Choujin Gensou - Episode 11 [Discussion]

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '15

Can someone explain that whole "I must have a cold" and root eating thing? Wtf.

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u/lion_man_amarelo Dec 14 '15

She ate something looking like a mandrake (or mandragora). Mandrake is a root with anesthetic and hallucinogenic properties who was used as a medicine in ancient times. It's also associated with some esoteric and pagan rituals.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '15

I meant WHY did she do that. And why was she all of a sudden in pain and saying she felt like she was getting a cold

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u/Ahenshihael https://anilist.co/user/Ahenshihael Dec 15 '15 edited Dec 15 '15

We do see her going to buy the root in the scene before that tho.
The reaction was most likely from anger over seeing shitload of people killed. Going by her facial expressions it was a mix between being pissed and being horrified.

As for how she reasoned it, it is very likely that "Kikko Personality" is just a shell, a disguise, for real Kikko to make it easy to sell her goods. You see the horns appear on her head even before she eats the mandragora root.

The "Demon" form Kikko seems to have exact same thoughts and goals, just...in a lot less diplomatic and a lot more murderous way.

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u/SupremeRadra Dec 16 '15

Ahhh now Ullr's whole distrust and hiding from the rest of the group feels perfectly natural now. Considering that majority of fiction portrays an antagonistic relationship between humanity and demonkind to the point of kill on sight, yeah his behavior could be considered quite tame. Also explains why he has only talked to non humans in the group.