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So what I can gather from this is that Devil summoners did look into orphanages for children with potential and took them aside for potential future training. As far as a place to look for them goes, orphans make sense as a place to find potentials.

Japans orphanages are overcrowded and understaffed, and extra hands with the kids are welcome. Sending kids with potential to a diffrent institute would make it easier to train them in some things, even if they don't grow up and become summoners, control of potential is probably appreciated.

From what I can tell, Arrow training as a devil summoner after he aged out of the system was a choice he made (he admired Raven)

In contrast Kaburagi was scouted by the Phantom Society

And taken there for training.

Arrow wonders what would have happened if Kaburagi had awakened first, would he have been taken by Yatagarasu?

And I'm thinking, no, it wouldn't have been as easy.

There is a diffrance between Arrow and Kaburagi, and that is Kaburagi has parents. Arrow does not. Kaburagi admits in Arrows memory that his is in there because he has abusive parents.

To try to keep this short, Kaburagi is still on his family registry." In Japan, biological family still retains legal custody of the children even if they have abandoned them, and although the birth child may be placed in the care of the state, the bio family has the ultimate say over the childs future and usually choose to send the child to an orphanage or institution rather then let them be adoptable. "

Why so few children get adopted in Japan | JobsInJapan.com

Only 693 children were adopted in Japan last year. That’s a little over 1% of the children living in Japan’s orphanages and institutions. Ev

Both of the kids were able to see ghosts at that time, but Arrow was easier to transfer, as he didn't have any relitives to go through/convince, otherwise he probably would have initally been placed with a relitive first. But he seems to not have any alternative guardians. He was easier to aquire.

In contrast Kaburagi's would have needed to be convinced, a process which may have alerted the Phantom Society, where they moved to make a more convincing offer, or otherwise deal with the parents in a way that made the other relitives back away.

On the flip side, they could have both ended up in the Phantom Society, though I don't think Arrow would have been a happier person for it. Food for AU thought I suppose

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Not really liking Arrow being a sealed covenant user. Not in the sense that they didn't do their buildup well, but in the sense that dying didn't draw his out in contrast to everyone else's.

Would Arrow staying dead with the sealed covenant be the equivalent to it dying, and that's why it was important to save him and save the world?

Personally I would have picked something a little diffrent. I would have had Mangetsu pick Arrow as his planned sucessor of the covenant, and had a way to pass his on to Arrow after his death, that he erased his memories of to fool the Phantom Society.

Yes still kind of complicated, but less so then his fake coveant gambit.

That way Arrow revives from the dead, and unkowingly becomes a bearer after Mangetsu dies.

Hmm, imagine an AU where Kaburagi inherits the covenant after Arrow dies. There could be some intresting possibilities there. After all, its one thing to idealize ending the world, but when it comes down to personally giving your life for it, could you really step forward to put yourself on the chopping block to do it? He talks about his ideals a lot, killed Arrow over them, but now that he has a covenant, what will he truely do? It's one thing to talk, but can he go through with this? Will he? It's not a decision to make in the dark either, as time is ticking. And Arrow coming back from the dead, and ready to fight him, throws complications of its own too.

Or at least, thats one direction I might go with it.