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You know, after going through all these episodes, I just realized that Beatrice/Battler is really...well sad in a way.

Beato is just Yasu's idea of what Battler's perfect woman is, with the looks of Kuwadorian Beatrice. Battler isn't in love with Yasu or Shannon as much as he is with the image they created. At the end of EP 8 we don't see Yasu or Shannon on the boat, we see Beato.

I know everyone thinks that George stole a letter meant to be given to Shannon, but wouldn't someone notice if he just slipped a letter into his pocket? Shannon was watching the entire time as he passed them around, there's no way she could miss that. The only one who could have taken it was Kyrie, but she has no reason to because she doesn't even care about Battler and what he does with his life.

Thinking about it I don't think I like the pairing anymore. While she didn't kill anybody, Yasu fully intended to set the bomb off and let everyone die. Kyrie and Rudolf just beat her to the punch when they found the gold. Her 'sad life' is being bullied for a couple years by the first servants she arrived with (the maids that looked like Mammon, Beelzebub and Asmodeus appeared to have been friendly with her) and being lovesick over a dumbass 12 year old, but otherwise she doesn't really appreciate the fact that she survived falling off a damn cliff and took her imagination way too seriously. I can't find pity in that.

Feels bad man. Ryukishi made me love this pairing and as he tried to develop it the only thing he showed was how sad it was. Yasu acts like a damsel looking for a white knight and Battler isn't in love with her, but with the image Yasu created to love him.