My guess, maybe he's trying to fill the spot of the "supreme" in order to prevent outside intervention?

Senbonzakura Kageyoshi, but coated in poison seems like it would be worlds of unfair.

He is.

You've almost certainly experienced flags that didn't end in the "opposite", but just like with human interaction, we often overlook positive outcomes and remember negative ones because of the emotion they instill. If every flag resulted in the opposite, then every story with "happily ever after" would end in tragedy. A flag is just to draw attention verbally in the same way Chekhov's Gun is used to draw attention visually. When will it be used, how will it be used and what the result will be builds tension and suspense. If every flag resulted in the exact opposite every single time, then the story in and of itself would be boring, because we know what will happen and there would be no tension. It would be the equivalent of narrative spoilers.

A flag doesn't necessarily mean the opposite is guaranteed to happen, it's just a means to draw the readers attention to a plot point to add suspense. Regardless, whether its going to happen or not is never known to the characters themselves. In this case, he knows full well that the event is going to happen. So it's not really a flag, but more him being brooding/sarcastic given his peaceful days are about to be over.

It isn't a flag, he knows it's coming.

Not that I don't enjoy it, but between the abyss gas, the taking of their undead, and now this suit of armor, Mc just keeps counter-picking this particular enemy group every single turn. Just about everything they've done has turned into a benefit to him, so much so that I would believe you if you told me the doctor set it up that way on purpose to help him from behind. Cause the alternative is that they are just that unlucky and it's almost depressing.

He's no dunce, he knows full damn well what he's doing. lol

You thought was scary boi
https://i.postimg.cc/7ZxvR90S/i.png
But was good boi all along!
https://i.postimg.cc/59vZNTmw/i.png

I wouldn't say he was necessarily smart, but that he had preliminary knowledge that allowed him to prepare endless counters. This boss is just one he didn't have much knowledge of before hand other than it being fire type. No attack patterns, phases or cool-downs. So we're watching him fight something with reaction alone.

This series always has such odd ass stopping points.

He's been depicted as an ancient demonic entity this whole time, turns out he's been a manhwa chad all along.

Keep my brothers name out your fucking mouth!

I'm lost. The start of the chapter, she's heading right towards him, but he says he can feel her heading in a different direction?

If I'm not mistaken, it's been on every one of the trial floors. They've had to defend it each time so far, so my guess is that it's gonna be a flood of enemies trying to enter the building, so one team has to find the keys while the rest defend, maybe?

So much happened in the first few months of him being there, they expect us to believe it went quiet for to years?

lol, "He" has some tig ol bitties.

Didn't he already have a commander type summon? or is that it and he just upgraded it?

I honestly don't understand the whole argument. They severely injured a non-combatant to begin with while grouping up on him, why the hell are they being treated as the victims? If there's laws against awakeners hurting fellow awakeners, how is there not stricter laws against awakeners hurting civilians?

That green team leader must be a summoned being. Their tactics reek of gamer exploits. Got Rimuru going into dev mode.