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Originally Posted by henshinzero

You mean Rio & Mele?

Well probably not Nephalia as a villainess, but perhaps another female Bugnarak like her would be. Nephalia would probably be locked up by that new group, for refusing to help this cause.

But I guess Nephalia can play some role right after her romance with Jeramie's dad. If as an anti-villainess, as long as she's still a good person. But I'm still sticking to a new villainess to stick with Rcules.

As cool as Mele is, I definitely meant Rio and Long. After the Kenma were all defeated, Rio started training in the style of Gen Jyuken to catch up with Super Geki Red, not realizing that Long was manipulating him the whole time. This is kind of similar to the situation Racles is in right now, following his defeat by Gira, where his desperation to regain power could make him somebody else's puppet.

I'm skeptical about Nephalia's alignment, based on what little we know about her. Jeremy speaks highly of her and has sentimentality towards the Venomix Shooter she created, but his narration can be unreliable and biased sometimes. Like, we know that Nephalia totally made her son wear a cursed mask for 2000 years, so she's maybe not the best mother ever, despite her good intentions. It's possible she might want revenge on the five kingdoms, or justice, for discrediting the sixth hero of the legend and forcing their son to live in hiding. She might see Racles as a means to that end.

There's also the ongoing subplot about the truth behind the Fury of the Gods, which Karras faked her death to investigate. Whoever's behind it, I imagine they probably have beef against the five kingdoms and they definitely once possessed the souls of Scorpie and Guardian Cicada, the former Jeremy knew was buried under Gokkan and the latter being in his possession. From these details, it seems likely that the culprit was somebody affiliated with Jeremy, or at least aware of his existence and his closely guarded secrets, which should narrow it down quite a lot. Alternatively, if Nephalia is actually being held captive, then the culprit could simply interrogate that information out of her.