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Regulus Corneas occupied the role of Sin Archbishop of Greed in the Witch Cult for more than a century, embodying greed while paradoxically declaring himself the pinnacle of selflessness. His origins trace to a humble village beyond the Four Great Nations, where an alcoholic father, a perpetually discontented mother, and two sporadically charitable brothers formed his family unit. Upon acquiring the Witch Factor of Greed, he eradicated his family, then proceeded to slaughter his entire village, a neighboring town, and ultimately his homeland, convinced they pitied or scorned him. His childhood sweetheart became his first wife after he murdered her family and shattered her psyche; her suicide—staged as a final rebellion—left him profoundly traumatized. This event drove him to impose expressionless obedience on all subsequent wives, forbidding smiles, while reserving a gravesite solely for the first.
Physically, Regulus presented as a youth with alabaster skin, snow-white hair, and lethargic golden eyes that ignited during his verbose soliloquies. His wardrobe favored whites and golds: a white greca-patterned overcoat edged in gold, a deep-blue dress shirt, white trousers, and white shoes, punctuated by a single teardrop-shaped blue earring on his right ear. During his coercive marriage bid to Emilia, he donned a white tuxedo with a cape-like back, white gloves, and a striped undershirt.
His personality radiated extreme hypocrisy. He vehemently denounced violence while orchestrating massacres like the annihilation of Crusch Karsten’s convoy and the assault on Garkla. Minor inconveniences or kindnesses provoked disproportionate rage, interpreted as assaults on his "rights." His speech spiraled into rambling monologues glorifying himself as a "divine being" or "the most satisfied existence," a delusion born from his refusal to acknowledge criticism, change, or emotions like shame or solitude. He collected over 200 wives as emotionless possessions in his "little kingdom," demanding virginity and blank faces to avoid memories of his first wife’s death.
The Witch Factor of Greed granted him near-absolute invulnerability through dual authorities:
- **Stillness of an Object’s Time**: By halting time for himself or touched objects, he defied external forces—walking on water, nullifying gravity, or transforming pebbles into lethal projectiles. Exhaled air became destructive shockwaves, and he propelled himself at high speeds.
- **Lion’s Heart**: Freezing his heart’s time granted temporary invincibility, but risked cardiac arrest after five seconds. He circumvented this via **Little King**, sharing an artificial heart with his wives to offload strain. This required wives’ proximity and survival; if all died or strayed, his vulnerability resurged. Destroying the artificial heart internally disrupted his power.
Regulus shaped pivotal events, including the Permafrost of Elior Forest a century prior. Allying with Pandora, he targeted the elf Fortuna as his 79th wife and betrayed Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti—whom he reviled as "abominable"—to aid Pandora’s assault. During Arc 5, he besieged Priestella to forcibly wed Emilia. His downfall came when Natsuki Subaru unraveled his heart-sharing weakness, Emilia encased his wives in ice, and Subaru crushed his heart using the Unseen Hand. Reinhard van Astrea hurled him into collapsing waterways, where he drowned. In his finale, Regulus raged about undeserved pity and injustice, gasping that he had "done nothing wrong."
Relationships reflected transactional dominance. He deferred solely to Pandora as "Pandora-sama," dismissing others like Petelgeuse or Reinhard—mocked as "a moniker of some guy who knows of nothing but swinging a sword." His obsession with Emilia fixated purely on her appearance, devoid of genuine sentiment.
Regulus sustained a warped worldview where all interactions were intrusions or judgments. He framed his atrocities as righteous retaliation against a world "violating his rights," clinging to this delusion until death without remorse or insight.
Physically, Regulus presented as a youth with alabaster skin, snow-white hair, and lethargic golden eyes that ignited during his verbose soliloquies. His wardrobe favored whites and golds: a white greca-patterned overcoat edged in gold, a deep-blue dress shirt, white trousers, and white shoes, punctuated by a single teardrop-shaped blue earring on his right ear. During his coercive marriage bid to Emilia, he donned a white tuxedo with a cape-like back, white gloves, and a striped undershirt.
His personality radiated extreme hypocrisy. He vehemently denounced violence while orchestrating massacres like the annihilation of Crusch Karsten’s convoy and the assault on Garkla. Minor inconveniences or kindnesses provoked disproportionate rage, interpreted as assaults on his "rights." His speech spiraled into rambling monologues glorifying himself as a "divine being" or "the most satisfied existence," a delusion born from his refusal to acknowledge criticism, change, or emotions like shame or solitude. He collected over 200 wives as emotionless possessions in his "little kingdom," demanding virginity and blank faces to avoid memories of his first wife’s death.
The Witch Factor of Greed granted him near-absolute invulnerability through dual authorities:
- **Stillness of an Object’s Time**: By halting time for himself or touched objects, he defied external forces—walking on water, nullifying gravity, or transforming pebbles into lethal projectiles. Exhaled air became destructive shockwaves, and he propelled himself at high speeds.
- **Lion’s Heart**: Freezing his heart’s time granted temporary invincibility, but risked cardiac arrest after five seconds. He circumvented this via **Little King**, sharing an artificial heart with his wives to offload strain. This required wives’ proximity and survival; if all died or strayed, his vulnerability resurged. Destroying the artificial heart internally disrupted his power.
Regulus shaped pivotal events, including the Permafrost of Elior Forest a century prior. Allying with Pandora, he targeted the elf Fortuna as his 79th wife and betrayed Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti—whom he reviled as "abominable"—to aid Pandora’s assault. During Arc 5, he besieged Priestella to forcibly wed Emilia. His downfall came when Natsuki Subaru unraveled his heart-sharing weakness, Emilia encased his wives in ice, and Subaru crushed his heart using the Unseen Hand. Reinhard van Astrea hurled him into collapsing waterways, where he drowned. In his finale, Regulus raged about undeserved pity and injustice, gasping that he had "done nothing wrong."
Relationships reflected transactional dominance. He deferred solely to Pandora as "Pandora-sama," dismissing others like Petelgeuse or Reinhard—mocked as "a moniker of some guy who knows of nothing but swinging a sword." His obsession with Emilia fixated purely on her appearance, devoid of genuine sentiment.
Regulus sustained a warped worldview where all interactions were intrusions or judgments. He framed his atrocities as righteous retaliation against a world "violating his rights," clinging to this delusion until death without remorse or insight.