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Originally Posted by GundamZZ
Shiro's unchanging may not tell the whole truth.
Not really. The story has one paradox. Shiro is not an "ultimate life form"(JoJo reference). Even an ultimate life form is dead. An "ultimate life form" can regenerate if he has a piece of body part left. Shiro can regenerate from wound, but red king basically vaporize Shiro. He doesn't have a flesh or bone for the lifecycle. Only his sword remains.
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The key detail is, from the explanation provided in Ep. 12, that he simply cannot cease to exist one way or another (the best word to use is indestructible or true immortal: no aging, cannot be destroyed). When Colorless took over his body, the soul of Weismann was not assimilated or blacked out, but pushed out. His very soul/power denies him the ability to be extinguished or quieted, and Colorless tried to hunt him down and kill him thrice over the fact (first toss him out of the blimp, second by stabbing him, third by trying to erase him again, and, heck, even the forth time he tried to take over the body but was quickly thwarted). So if you blow his body apart, his soul will simply be disembodied but it will never cease to be.
The fact that the soul made Shiro immortal, and that Weismann's original body was also immortal, would lead one to view that the entity known as Weismann is immortal so long as he remains king.
(Also is would just be painfully depressing if next season Neko is looking for a Shiro who truly is gone...)
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Originally Posted by GundamZZ
The paradox is Shiro's quote, "only a king can kill another king". His statement(or thoery) is refuted by former blue king's ending. The current blue king also refutes Shiro's statment. He says Kuro can kill a king with his sword, and Kuro is not a king.
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I think the quote is to a degree not completely literal, if you stab a king with a sword he will still die, so all it would take for Kuro's sword to break the *rule* would be if it can bypass the king's sanctuary... which isn't that farfetched as the sword belonged to the former Colorless king and, one could believe, that sword was special at least in some ways. Any sword would work if a king does nothing to stop you or if you get them by surprise but in general only a king has the power to kill a king in open battle ~ hence why Kuro would have been of no use in the final fight.
The ending is pretty well laid out though in that you cannot allow the Colorless king a chance to escape, and you cannot stab/kill Weismann so no matter how magical Kuro's sword is, it wouldn't have been able to kill Weismann. But, if you blow Weismann to little tiny bits, as per what Mikoto did, you can destroy the body chaining down the Colorless king, leaving it with no where to go but to be destroyed since, as we had seen before, Mikoto's flames could devour the little fox when it tried to usurp his body.