Cait boob missing for some reason when she is on top of Hiro in this update, at least on my end.
Yup, my end too. It was also an issue in an older build, so it has been for a few weeks now at least.
My crack theory is that Merrybelle is the real Demon King.
Now, I understand Merrybelle is a powerful Succubi and even referred to as a queen during the pageant but, she's simply too detached currently from the story (both in-universe and literally) to be the Demon King. Why would she be wandering around the Mossy Expanse? Why attend a pageant by herself and not have her stand-in appear instead? Why would someone who hasn't, if we're not entertaining the Meri Theory, appeared in Story Mode yet be the Demon King? It'd be nonsense, we're seeming near the end-game of story mode's map, having defeated the Dark Knight & Tentacle Witch.
Additionally, here's the biggest argument against it:
Merrybelle doesn't seem the sort to be subservient to a higher power, the Matriarch. She gives off way more of an opportunist/long-game schemer vibe, yet I've never read her stories beyond ToA so /shrug
I think Merrybelle even knows the true identities of the Demon King and the Matriarch, enough so that as Meri she'd send Hiro off to go face the Demon King with him believing they're the foe his mother couldn't defeat.
Either to play into the Demon King & Matriarch's plan OR to have Hiro actually defeat them and remove a potential obstacle in her position of infamy among the Demons.
It does seem damn odd that a powerful witch/mage that travelled with your mother just happens to be right next to Nadir, to teach you the magic you need to know to defeat the Ghost, yet she never even once talks about your Mother except to sow doubt in your mind or to tease Hiro. The Trainer seems to either genuinely try his best to remember, is bewitched to never give right answers or is a part of the big plan too.
Just what the hell happened all those years ago, to prove his Mother wasn't strong enough to defeat the Demon King, which no one seems to have a recollection of? Plus, unless this game actually wants to consider incest themes, the list of people Hiro's Dad or Second Mom or Enby Parent could be are dwindling down to characters we've heard of but haven't ever met.
AND WHO THE FUCK IS THE OGRE PRINCE?!?
WHERE'S TRUDY'S FORMER COMPANION!?!
WHAT DID THEY MEAN BY AN ENCHANTER BEING HIS MOTHER'S CLOSEST ALLY?!?
ARE WE EVER GOING TO FIND OUT ABOUT DREPNIR!?!
WHAT HAPPENED TO IRATHEL?!?
DID THE MOON LORD ACTUALLY DIE, WERE THEY ACTUALLY A DEMON, DID ANY OF THE MOONMEN SURVIVE!?!
IS ARACHNE A MOONMEN? IS ALMA? WHAT ABOUT CAIT AND JESS?
WILL WE DISCOVER THAT LURA'S FEY HOLDS ANY RELEVANCE BEYOND THAT GAME OVER?!?
WAS THERE A POINT TO THE DARK KNIGHT HAVING A METAL PLATE OVER HER HEART, EXPELLING HEAT, IN HER ORIGINAL CONCEPT ARTS!?!
AND WHY, JUST WHY, IS HIRO WEARING AN ENCHANTER'S UNIFORM BEFORE HE BECOMES ONE, BECAUSE A FRIEND TOLD ME MAJALIS GAVE AN ANSWER ON THE DISCORD AND IT EITHER ENTIRELY SPOILS THE SECONDARY PARENT OF HIRO OR IT'S A RETCON OF HIRO'S MOTHER BEING A WARRIOR.
PLUS, WHERE IS THE MOUNTAINMEN LORE?!?
Okah I'm done.
Selkie is the head of the shadow council of Ironia.
Their agenda: fuck butts and mouths