Quote Originally Posted by KrayZ33 View Post
Big fat - nooooope.
He is acting on a fucking fairy-tale.
You are justifying the death of thousands of individuals for the 1% chance. It's really pathetic.

He is *taking* lives, not protecting them. He has no obligation to anyone or anything to do that.
He could've stopped the army without the loss of lives like that. It's really not a "what if" or "maybe not", he so obviously could.

Everyone should know that his actions are understandable. Everyone should equally know that his actions are wrong and the fact that people don't scares the shit out of me.
If he didn't need their lives for the resurrection magic, I imagine he would have only annihilated the leadership of the Falmuth army, possibly the knights of the strike force that killed his people, but let the thousands of grunts walk away. But then again, I guess that would have required that only a few people, and no named ones, would have died in the city. It would have made the whole first strike of the war look quite pitiful. If there was no resurrection option but Shion and all the others had still died, I reckon Rimuru could have still brought the hammer down on the Falmuth army quite heavily, to quench his wrath. However, he was shown to suppress his feelings in an earlier scene, so it's impossible to know for sure. He might have settled for killing the king, the commanders, the wizards, and so forth, while leaving most of the ordinary troops alive.

I don't blame you for finding war scary. That's a whole lot better than so many keyboard warriors all over the net glorifying it and acting like they would be real world Rambos if shit ever hit the fan.