Maybe I’m slow on the uptake but I just realized with this chapter that if this series continues long enough, there could be and should be another entire arc coming in which everything comes apart.

Just as Emi wasn’t really Remilia, Pina isn’t really the Star Maiden.

(Or whatever her name is. Is Pina her original in-universe name? We knew that she was inhabited by an isekaied human, but have we learned her real name, like Emi to Remilia? I don’t recall that distinction being made explicitly, but I don’t remember the details…)

And this distinction between demons and devils sets up a situation in which the demons, who have been accepted into human society because all indications are that they’re not malevolent, could turn malevolent.

And Remilia’s thirst for revenge could well lead her further toward evil than Emi would’ve gone.

All of which sets up the possibility that the demons will begin to transform into devils and pose the threat they were originally thought to be and Remilia will end up, just as in the original version of events, leading an evil force. And it will be up to the Star Maiden, who quite possibly has been present all this time in the back of Pina’s mind, just as Remilia was in the back of Emi’s mind, to be the hero who sets things right.

And just as the trauma of being cast out was enough to overwhelm Emi and allow the original Remilia to take over, the experience of being publicly exposed and humiliated could be enough to overwhelm Pina and allow the original Star Maiden to take over (and just in time).

Huh…