fujimoto will have to personally drag me kicking and screaming to a sped-up film of the process of decomposition taking over nayuta's corpse to convince me that she's permanently dead. especially for a horseman of the apocalypse (even if much weaker now), especially for one of kiga's sisters, especially with her character weight in relation to makima barely having scratched the surface. fujimoto is not gege in terms of character deaths, he works with death differently in his stories and I am deeply unconvinced that he'd let a character such as nayuta go like that.

I'm also very doubtful in people discussing nayuta as fodder for asaden, even with my current criticisms of part two's current writing. her character goes beyond them when it comes to the wider scheme of the storyline, and personally, I think nayuta's repeated expression of disinterest for humanity and growing curiosity for devils is going to take a more important focus soon, if her death is meant to symbolize her transition from humanity (tied down by denji, who abandoned her) to hell (guided by kiga, who offers her acceptance of her nature.) (contrasting conflict of family and what it means for the control devil)