Talk:Izumi Akazawa/@comment-6052796-20140913190950/@comment-397235-20140917015416

See, I don't see Kouichi's survival as mercy.

If you think about it, the Calamity has nearly killed him three times:

Once, when he was born.

Again, when it nearly took he and Aya.

The third time, when it killed Izumi.

I don't count Tomohiko because his actions were those of a person, not a supernatural event.

No, I see Kouichi's lung collapsing as Death getting greedy. It wasn't enough to just take Yukari's mom; it had to have her too. Killing Aya wasn't satisfying; it took her whole family. It killed Yumi's brother and her; the same is true of Izumi. It drove Takako insane and used her as a tool to kill several others before taking her; sort of like test-driving a car, it wants to see how much fun it can have with her should it ever decide to send her back as the Extra. You could say the same with Tomohiko, albeit in a more direct way. And it killed Ritsuko and Reiko.

Death wanted Kouichi too; I mean, then it'd have a full set of Mikamis. But having already reclaimed Reiko, it wasn't strong enough to kill him too. So Kouichi survived, not due to being a good person, but because Death was satiated.