Damn. I see what you mean; narratively it's just a weird insert for the styling of the scene to drastically change, and it would be horrible writing if it was done solely for a suspense factor.
Then under that pretext imaging everything as genuine leaves very VERY little room for conspiracy. Obviously I don't think Najin is done here, the story is far from over, but without something really clever he/we lose alot of the build up from the past few chapters.
Guess I just wanted to justify my reading time, I acknowledge there's a multitude of ways this could go about but 7/10 times it's gonna be a plot convenient mess.

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I'm just providing an alternative POV. A comment section being one note is bland and boring, since there is no discussion.

No ill intent here, I just mean to say I don't feel it lines up with what we've seen in these characters, and I explain it more in detail (albeit probably poorly I write these on whims) above.

Would be more than glad for someone to correct me (eg with the lifeline thing, I'd love clarity there. Or the dragon name thing, wasn't that important ages ago? But most importantly if there's narrative severity to the "betrayal" that I'm missing, which could make this thought process more ingestible (the idea najin is in part screwed))

"Vegeta no!"
"VEGETA YES"
-GegeAkutami

chill guys it's just an awesome caption

Trust the process guys Shoko and Utahime are cooking trust.

Scorched, cremated, evaporated, ionized, photoionized, disintegrated, and maybe even used as fuel for another sukuB.S

Cooked is an understatement.
KASHIMO was cooked.
HIGARUMA was cooked.
A roided yuta and immortal yuji, was cooked.

Higuruma afaik is the miwa level of this arc, bro isn't cooked.
He is CLOBBERED.
He is genuine to god boutta be OBLITERATED.
If he ain't going further beyond right now he isn't even lasting a MICROSECOND man,
Look at maki. That's less than 2 chapters istg. LESS THAN TWO CHAPTERS, THIS WOMAN IS ON PAR WITH FUCKING TOJI FUSHIGURO OF ALL PEOPLE.

yeah needless to say he's in a bit of a pickle

honing sorcery is crazy when all he's doing is punching really hard
bro is just imitating what maki does on the day to day

who tf is the pitch black

is that fire? did we scorch maki? supposed to be yuji? or yuta? idek what's going on anymore

Process of elim is crazy man 💀😭

I get you're mad, jjk fans can't read but chill...

"On dragon ball Z-KAI!!!"

Man Akira was goated asf.

In copium we trust...

He must have some bg info on him through a supernatural means, if he knows about mc's background himself

you're confusing me here. who is what??

anyways I doubt the demon king could realistically live if he didn't have someway to confirm the race of an opponent, so maybe he already knows mc is his son, "kin" in the most literal sense, no?

no, toyotaro, a superfan of DB has long been hired, and will very likely pick up the works left behind.

This includes super installations, and probably daima.
Regardless, the sad truth is our GOAT Akira Toriyama is gone. I don't doubt the authenticity of the show, but it's kind of surreal since his works had such a wide influence over the lives of many.

I literally cannot imagine how I would play out my days if I wasn't in my room visualizing "cool ass" fight scenes with madeup chars in madeup forms.
Shi was next level...

MC can't be so retarded to try and betray a guy right infront of him while he can read minds

and he's done this before, remember when everyone thought the dragon bleeped him, and it tookm qilin to let them know it was just some fast travel shi

and the dragon uses supernatural prowess, why would he specifically stab with his hand? why not kill him in another way? can he even do that when najin is able to subjugate him or something with his name (maybe im misrememb ering), or the fact that najin is still his ONLY lifeline?

the kill here doesn't add up, there are easier aand more ruthless ways of killing him if it were real, this is jsut a show to entice elephant, see above

What are you on? They literally have mental communciation? Najin is well aware bro can read his mind, and he is well aware of how to block it, he wouldn't think stupid thoughts online.

The plausible idea is that najin explained the situation to dragon, and is falsifying a new scenario to even further fuck up the area

we see that elephant was about to side with the dragon descendants, which would even if decision wavered be unfavourable to the knights, to retain equalisation of terms najin has made the dragon descendants look antagonistic in terms of peace in warfare, as they are no longer defending themselves but adhering to ruthless violence

infront of elephant, this means she has to now stop the chaos

so, going against botht he descendants AND the knights equally
this is ideal because if elephant one handedly sided with either side, both morally (int erms of social repurcussions) and physically the other party would be inconventionally screwed

it's best because the dragon himself is a neutral party, and so neither side has a changed view of najin, which means the trust thing is still kept alongside the descendants, and (esp with the betrayal) he is still very reedeemable to the knights, it's the opportune scenario for fucking dragging this nonesense on

I mean at that point it's just bad writing.

you just KNOW ranpo is talking from experience