Sorry, Oda. You didn’t convince me Loki keeping Harald’s rampage a secret was a good idea.
Elbaph’s citizens not accepting Loki as their new king despite his justified killing of Harald? Sure. I’ll give you that.
Loki feeling undeserving to become king because of his past and genuine guilt from killing his own father? Yep. I get it.
Loki determined to make the World Government pay for putting the whammy on Harald? I’m with you, Oda-sensei.
So, why not just tell the people of Elbaph what happened, with Jarul and Gaban backing you up?!
Seriously. Why not? The citizens won’t want you as their king? Fine! You don’t want the job anyway! They’ll still blame you for it? Fine! You wanna leave and take on the World Government anyway, so it doesn’t matter!
It. Doesn’t. Matter.
Loki being imprisoned in The Underworld seems like an half-assed excuse to keep Loki’s true motivations secret from the readers until it was time for the action-packed back half of the arc. It feels so forced to me.
Mammoth Base Opera Castle 