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Well, that's the big question, isn't it? Sekai was a pedophile (in the truest sense of the word), but we don't know enough to say she was just a pedophile. She clearly came from a broken family and was never able to find happiness before Akira (see "Something everyone knows and ignores"). If it ended there it'd be one thing, but she was also happy and even loved Ami more than him. That seems to suggest that there is a possibility she truly loved Akira, and if that is true, then it was also her first love.You know, something about Sekai i've never really understood is how she stuck with Akira as he grew up, from everything we know about her and her writing, she saw in him an opportunity to finally satisfy her pedophilic appetite... but she was still with him into adulthood... you'd think things would've gradually faded as he moved out of her interest range, the fact we know she first started lusting for him when he was less than 9 months old should suggest her interests were fully in the prepubescent zone so why didn't she groom a new victim? It's not like her appetite would go away even if she could still find satisfaction in adult Akira, she'd still lust for young boys... i feel like i could throw several arguments or hypothetical explanations in to plug the gaps but it's all just conjecture and again, regardless of what argument i use, she's still a pedo, she should still have pedo lusts that would be going unquenched and after having had years of that hunger being fed... could she really go on without looking for another?
In that regard i feel Sekai is underdeveloped as a character, she works in the story only as a mechanism to explain Akira and his pedophilic grooming behaviour, as a consequence she comes across as more of an Akira-sexual than a common pedo.
That's enough to theorize why she'd have stuck with him, out of genuine care and affection (albeit in a twisted and unhealthy way), or from a more perverse "keeping up with her project and solo-focused in her pedophilia/grooming him into another Sekai". We just don't know enough about her, and at the moment I don't believe in her affection tbh (even though she says if Akira had grown up she'd have left with him to go around the world - presumably leaving Nozomu - which I really don't believe).
Edit: In regards to Riolol, I don't believe she had anyone else while she was with Akira (other than Nozomu). That's half of the reason he was special to her, and would have become doubly so being the father of her child (the thing she loved most in the world). Might have been planning to have him become a Sekai by abusing Ami, and calling it love, wouldn't put it past her.
Edit2: NAO also says that both Sekai and Akira called what they felt "love" (see "Mother's milk"). And if NAO knows what she's saying, and if we take Akira as a measure for Sekai, then Sekai truly believed she loved him (which would indicate that maybe she wasn't acting perverse out of satisfaction for being perverse, but more so that she was twisted enough to feel she was doing a good thing, even though rationally she probably understood she wasn't, hence only preying on Akira, who she had more control over) - cause Akira truly thinks he loved her (even though rationally he's able to deduce why he shouldn't - see "Stomachache").
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