So, I am wondering why jake suddenly caused mia to bleed from her face instead of just forget. That was a very spectacular way for his powers to suddenly fail.
He has been trained by Elle for a while and was freely altering people's memories with no issue until that point.
So why the sudden explosive failure?
Also why did Ella order him to target the MC's roomate like that?
And Ella was literally there at the beach with the MC, Jake, Mia, and the roomate.
Maybe Jake failed due to his emotions running out of control or Mia being special.
But I have a hypothesis that Ella actually sabotaged things by using her own powers on mia and the roomate first because she wants to setup the MC and jake to fight each other. As she has clearly been doing before such as when she assumes the MC's form and insults and berates Jake.
I believe she is hoping one of them eats the other and combines both the physical and mental powers in a single individual.
This is based on the bad end where Ella finds out the MC mental powers and goes something like "so you were actually perfect all along!" and then takes you with her to go after some really high level monsters but ends up encountering monster gods who nom both of you.
Erm...think about it...why could ella want your best friend and roommate to submit to her will? Especially if that guy has access to the best lab and your dna?
He didnt fail...he evolved while breaking a friends mind...the difference to you was you embraced it in order to survive, but he was terrified and lost control, at least partially...i hope the dev decides to let her recover, right now it looks more like he crushed her brain instead of her memory...
And i dont think she tries to setup a fight, she spreads those pills to create more hybrids...its just not sure if she wants an army or if she wants to absorb them after developing useful features. We are more the physical fighting type, just like herself so pretty useless for her, jake is more the mentalist, much stronger than herself (otherwise she wouldnt make deals to get what she wants, she would just order them to to it and her excuse she would destroy him by reflex if he tried to force control over her mind is imho a lie to prevent him from doing it)...if she manages to control a stupid idiot that controls others, she gains a steady flow of testsubjects...and if the control stays after transformation she has a loyal army...the mission was loyalty to ella, not to him...and he was stupid enough to do it right away...
Fact is she cant control you, he cant control you either (yet) so she must make sure you dont team up against her...if he tells you ella trains him since months and what he can do...well, it could trigger the memories to come back, he stripped your girls, he messed with your memory more than once, ...and if she wants to absorb him it would be a bad idea to let him enrage you...i still hope to absorb that asshole for messing with my girls...