Beyond Netero’s legal red herring (spoilers 412)
Like many readers I struggled to parse the true meaning behind those last couple of pages of 412. Was this a typical Togashi tangent to trace out more world building? I mean surely it must have plot relevance, this is such an important character. Why would he paint Beyond as some sort of humanitarian, when we have so much evidence of depravity? He seems to regard human life as expendable and worthless, at least for his own children. Overall it’s pretty out of left field and we just probably won’t have the context to really parse out what’s going on until many chapters later.
Here’s my theory: the distinction about legal rights for people vs the royalty is the red herring. Who is the most important non-royal member of the Kakin public that would be affected by this? That’s right, it’s BEYOND NETERO himself! I think he’s trying to prepare for some situation where he’s in a legal battle against a prince or a member of Kakinease royalty. This could be related to some sort of custody or succession issue with his secret prince of a child.