Actually, he wants both. Makoto still wants to fight the Goddess to give her a lesson and to do so, he want to get stronger. Makoto stopped training with his bow and arrow -which was his way to deal with stress- because Mio and Tomoe told him to stop doing it because he was "blending" his consciousness with the surroundings every time he fired an arrow which was akin to death. They were worried he might not be able to put his consciousness together at some point and die. Each time he blended his consciousness and put it back together, his mana pool pretty much doubled each time he shoot an arrow. This made Makoto's mana pool to stop increasing. She also said Makoto's current mana pool was about half of The Goddess. Hearing this, Makoto wanted a way to increase her mana pool to stand a chance at giving a lesson to The Goddess.... aaaaaaand after the fight with Sophia and Lancer, Makoto wanted to know how to use and access his mana pool more efficiently so there's that too.

What are you talking? He does love Rudeus and cares for him. So much so that he sent his 10-year-old prodigy son in both magic and sword to get a better life from such a young age. And before you mention Rudeus was only a kid, remember, Rudeus was acting not as a kid but as a grown-ass man. There were a few occasions Paul said to Rudeus he acted way over the 8-10 y/o kid he was and saw him more like a man than a child. Again Rudeus was an Imperator Magician at the age of 10.

Because of this and much more, Paul saw Rudeus not as a kid but as a man and expected him to behave like such and think of his family as a top priority rather than a yearlong sightseeing vacation trip to the Demon Continent... but no matter what his reasoning is, not from an omniscient reader point of view but as a spectator within that society, I cannot deny Paul expecting a 10 y/o kid to behave like a man is a dick move. He has his perks and his lows. He's a good character nonetheless, with very human-like behavior.

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Ah! The Prez! Was this before or after the Black Sabbat?

... not on my watch.

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It seems I got you bugged, dude

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When she realizes Makoto being the Red-Blue Demon who created the lake near Fort Stella... bricks will be shat

That's Shiki using illusion magic, not Makoto :v

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Yeah... will miss reading the coments of a lot of people. It seems this new comment section doesn't have the option to track comment replies as Disqus

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Makoto is not only prone to kill his enemies... he turns out to have some sort of sociopathy towards hyumans. In the Lybia Empire, he kills 3 assassins withough even flinching... later on everyone who witness it gets frozen in place due to the lack of emotions Makoto had at the moment of the kill, he had not even killing intent; he lust kill them as if bugs bothering him. Even Makoto himself starts thinking if there's something wrong in him.

Chapter 305 to be more specific. There was a whole week of celebration in Azure/Demi Plane because of that...