Quote Originally Posted by MFauli View Post
Well, thereīs one more possibility (if you can call it that) that would also incorporate the 10 years jump.

In the episode where we got to see the imprisoned queerrat queen, we speculated about this kind of control over a superior being. That there might even be a clue to how he, Yakomaru, might gain control over a human being/Cantus user in the future. So, maybe, just maybe, Yakomaru indeed successfully turned the experience of controlling a queen into something that let him control a human. I mean, if this anime decides to become truly fucked up, maybe weīll get to see Maria kept captive in some dark hole, put in chains agianst a wall, her belly all swollen and big. And weīll learn that Yakomaru had her give birth to newly born human beings that Yakomaru then turned into his personal war machines. Could we make out how old the fiend in this latest episode was? If not, maybe it is indeed some 9-10 year old boy/girl.
But thatīs really the most disturbing "solution" I could come up with. Itīs probably something less provoking.
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@Kraco: Squealer might have been able to keep tabs on them during the last 10 years. One of them might have spontaneously died or turned into a fiend from some attack, and Yakomaru somehow convinced them that the attacks were from enemy queerats and that the entire human village is after them.

The labotomising technique might be able to detach things in the brain such that death feedback no longer occurs.