Richt can revive the dead. Why keep him working as an adventurer?
1. Does the protagonist even need to be an adventurer?
Execute Richt, and his own skill brings him back. He does not even need a corpse to revive someone. In チートスキル「死者蘇生」が覚醒して、いにしえの魔王軍を復活させてしまいました, this S-rank adventurer can restore both other people and himself.
Should someone with that power really spend his days doing ordinary adventurer work?
Sending him into dungeons with a sword is like owning a power plant and taking a part-time job replacing batteries.
2. A ¥50,000 monthly “revive me if I die” subscription is absurdly strong
Now imagine a fictional service: “Revival Plan — ¥50,000 per month.”
Ordinary life insurance pays money after a subscriber dies. Richt Life Insurance has a slightly more aggressive business model.
Normal insurer: We confirmed the death. We will pay the benefit. Richt Life: We confirmed the death. We will now cancel the death itself.
That product is unfair.
A flat fee would probably fail if adventurers, soldiers, miners and other high-risk customers all paid the same price. So price by risk: ¥50,000 for ordinary customers, ¥200,000 for adventurers, royal households by quotation, and emergency revival for non-members at several million yen per case.
The harder question is how many people one man can bring back. If a war or disaster kills thousands in a day, can he help them all? Does he have enough mana? Can he reach distant people? Do souls or time since death matter? When does he get to rest? Before anyone finishes the price list, the kingdom is arguing about the queue of people waiting to come back to life.
3. The kingdom does not have to lose its most experienced people forever
For a state, the value becomes even larger.
A veteran commander dies in battle: restore him. A master craftsperson dies in an accident: restore her. A rare researcher, diplomat, physician, mage or royal dies: restore them.
Normal states spend years educating people and letting them accumulate experience, then permanently lose that investment to accidents and war. A state with Richt may be able to reverse the final loss.
So even “national weapon” is too narrow. Used properly, the skill would support defense, disaster response, medicine and preservation of critical expertise. It is closer to a national backup device for people.
He is not merely the strongest healer. He is the administrator of the kingdom’s save files.
4. The king should have recruited and protected him, not executed him
The official introduction says the king feared Richt’s power and moved to have him executed. The fear itself is understandable. A person who can restore the dead can rewrite the rules of war, succession, assassination and rebellion.
But that is exactly why the first move should not be elimination.
Give him status, pay, autonomy, protection for people close to him, state security, consent-based research into the skill, and defenses against kidnapping by other states. Whether he is formally a state officer matters less than making the country a place he genuinely wants to remain.
The principle is simple: not “he is dangerous, so kill him,” but “he is dangerous, so never give him a reason to become our enemy.”
This is a case where the people who defend the country, hire staff and decide their benefits all need to attend the same meeting.
5. “Execute him → he self-revives → he joins the enemy” is a historic HR failure
There is another problem: Richt can revive himself. The execution does not solve the execution problem.
The state’s sequence becomes:
- Identify a rare S-rank asset as dangerous.
- Try to kill him.
- Discover that killing him does not work.
- Give him a very good reason to hate the state.
- Watch his resurrection ability operate on the opposing side.
Free SSR strategic unit for the enemy faction.
If the state executes someone because he “might become hostile someday,” and the execution is what makes him hostile, that is a disaster the state created for itself.
It is the national-scale version of bullying a skilled employee who would be hard to replace into quitting and then discovering that he joined a competitor. The only unusual part is that this employee can bring dead coworkers back.
6. A resurrection society breaks inheritance, succession, warfare and insurance
If resurrection becomes a permanent social institution, the legal questions may become more entertaining than the battles.
A king dies, an heir takes the throne, and the old king returns the next morning. Who is king? An estate is distributed and the deceased returns. Who owns the property? Life insurance pays out and the policyholder comes back. Is the benefit refunded? Is murder still murder when the victim is restored? Does a death certificate become a temporary suspension notice?
If only the rich can afford revival, class inequality becomes literal inequality in lifespan. If the state provides it broadly, medicine, labor, religion, population policy and the military all change.
The mistake is treating Richt as an “adventurer problem.” Once society truly integrates him, the world itself has to be redesigned around the existence of Richt.
7. Why Rose and Dorothy look like the strongest heroine candidates
On the romance side, Rose and Dorothy currently look especially strong.
Rose is obvious. When Richt says he is entrusting his “side” to her in a combat sense, she becomes conscious of the literal physical position beside him. When he tells her to value her own life, her emotional reaction spikes. She is the type whose affection appears on screen as a visible event.
Dorothy works differently. Her strength is everyday compatibility. When Richt is exhausted by Aria’s latest idea, Dorothy is the person he goes to complain to. Their conversational rhythm and practical outlook feel close. She is the type who quietly occupies the permanent “person I talk to” seat.
Rose raises romance flags. Dorothy is the person he talks to day to day. Both positions are powerful.
Feiris is physically close too, but Richt’s side of the relationship still contains a large dose of “I cannot tell what she is thinking and that is scary,” so for now she is also a formidable comedy weapon.
8. Aria feels less like a conventional heroine and more like “boss plus natural disaster”
Aria is central to the story, but her romantic distance from Richt feels different from Rose or Dorothy.
The reason is simple: Aria is too powerful. She is the Demon Lord, the superior officer, the decision-maker and someone who can handle almost anything herself. There is less room for Richt to protect her, and more room for Richt to process the consequences of “Aria started something again.”
Their dynamic often feels less like two people gradually approaching one another and more like a natural-disaster-class boss plus the capable employee left to sort out the mess.
Rose has vulnerability that invites protection. Dorothy has a daily life in which complaints can be shared. Aria has a law of physics saying resistance is probably futile.
It is not merely emotional distance. The gravity is different.
9. “Spatial Domination” has the same kind of unfair-game feeling as Gojo
According to the official character notes, Aria’s skill “Spatial Domination” slows opponents inside her space and, once active, means attacks basically do not hit her.
That is not the same mechanism as Gojo Satoru’s Unlimited Void in Jujutsu Kaisen. Unlimited Void overwhelms a target with information. Aria instead controls the local combat conditions through space itself.
But the viewer’s reaction is similar:
“The moment you enter that space, only one side is still allowed to play a normal game.”
In Gojo terms, it has some of the annoyance of attacks failing to reach him combined with the “this area runs on my rules” feeling of a domain.
And next to Aria stands Richt, who returns after death.
Aria: you cannot hit her.
Richt: you cannot keep him dead.
Enemy: may we go home now?
10. Conclusion: when the undying man teams up with the untouchable Demon Lord, institutions die first
The fun of this series is not simply that its abilities are strong. The moment you think about them seriously, social systems begin to glitch.
Using Richt merely as an adventurer undersells the skill. A revival subscription could become a huge industry. State adoption could transform defense, medicine and disaster management. Law would have to be rewritten. The king’s fear is understandable, but recruitment and containment may have been far more rational than elimination.
Meanwhile, Rose carries visible romantic momentum, Dorothy has natural everyday compatibility, and Aria occupies the separate role of boss-plus-natural-disaster.
The worst position belongs to their enemies.
Kill him and he returns. Attack her and it misses. Meanwhile, they are still having ordinary conversations.
The enemy’s morale may die before anyone else does.
References (1)
The references for this article are Ichijinsha’s series introduction and Shosetsuka ni Naro episodes 132, 121 and 124. The introduction covers S-rank adventurer Richt’s execution and self-revival; episode 132, “Character Settings,” describes his Resurrection and Aria’s Spatial Domination; episodes 121 and 124 provide the conversations involving Dorothy and Rose.
- The ¥50,000 subscription, national policy, inheritance, insurance and succession questions are thought experiments built from those fictional rules, not official institutions in the story.
