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Originally Posted by Kurohane

Merry Christmas, everyone!

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I don't think Gido has any interest in Cruz. If he is working with Saten, it is only due to interest coinciding but differ in key aspects. Saten if his declarration after Uten's defeat still holds true. Then, he still wants to end Blade's life. Of cpurse, I'm under the assumtion Gido doesn't want Blade and Eve to die. I believe explanations about Blade's body and Eve's quick adaptation to Doppleganger.

However, it is possible Saten wants to push Cruz into activating that power he awakened when Arclight attacked him. Seeing two comrades get devoured, an ally turn into your enemy, and the situation being further unchangeable will get to anyone. Yeah, Saten could be pushing Cruz to reach absolute hopelessness and despair, and then overcome it

However, the question remains if his amotions actually awakened the power. This not the first time Cruz has felt despair, lamenting his own powerlessness or showing resolve. What made that particular instance different?

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Well this time is different that the other.
Not only many thing have already happen(like you're self already point out)but all this thing happen in one day not like before.
No to mention that the strange eyes already have appeared once which means that whatever Yamada have inside have already start to awake.
Also,do not forget that Yamada is no longer like its past self in thi city arc we see him change the most.
how he has realized that it is a resident of the black spot and his will of survive before he active his needless power and that strange eyes. (you know again AA when he refuse his own thought to acept death that was fine) both these scene show a change in Yamada so we don't know how he will react if push enough.

Originally Posted by Yaluk

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As I've been lurking here, I thought of a possible reasoning for the military strike on the Black Spots.

As stated before, it's unlikely it's an attempt to destroy the gate. If brute force could've destroyed it, it would've been done long ago.

What we see is Needless' outside the black spot (Blade and Co. encouraged to do this at this exact time), preparations made to quarantine more territory already made, and possible Needless sprouting outside the Black Spot (Needless 1.5's Cain and his father origins were not specified but I find it unlikely they were allowed to emigrate from a Black Spot).

From this, I theorize that the effect of the gate has spread beyond current quarantines and the strike is a scheme to enlarge the current Black Spots without raising civilian suspicions about the control of the contamination.

The strike was timed to coincide with Blade Co. entering the city for this reason. The ships' mission meant they were already deployed and in place to quarantine the new boundaries of the Black Spot. The public would not question it since anything that came in contact with the Black Spot was seen to be contaminated.

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This is definitely a interesting thought and maybe other that for this reason they do this to eliminate needless too weak or/and who are not faithful to AA.