I don't if it's just me but I found the "conclusion" of Lisa/Imuri's relationship to be disturbing and oddly mean-spirited. I guess it depends on whether on not we'll see Lisa again and if that last page is meant to be seen as foreboding but idk Lisa's both lives end with her being infinitely forgiving/encouraging towards the person that got her killed (the second time on purpose), a person that just barely cares about her and seemingly never thought of her again after she burned at the stake. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Imuri's thoughts on Lisa are barely touched on and so surface level but it just feels disturbing to me, like Lisa's only purpose in life is to be a stepping stone. I don't know maybe that uncomfortable feeling could be mitigated if Lisa is somehow allowed to participate in the continuing chapters, but I have a feeling she will be quickly tossed away and forgotten about until her plan against Satan takes place and the quickly forgotten about, again.
It's definitely not just you. If this Lisa's conclusion is meant to be taken as beautiful and final it says something really unsettling about the work's view on women. It's not that there aren't problems here and there, mainly with how Imuri's character is handled, but it's salvageable depending on this specific arc. And it just goes destroying every other female character, and then has Imuri grow a little bit as a compensation. Lisa died as a stepping stone in every meaning of the word. The negotiation with her paints the pope as a virtuous martyr. Her revolution unites the Vergilius witch faction and the church against Satan. The battle with her elevates Marco Belphegor and Mikhail, two misogynists and an ignorant priest, completing the first two's character journey and fleshing out the latter's philosophy. Her uterus and plan for Satan are Chekhov's guns. Her status is a literal stepping stone for Satan's final boss. And in her dying moment, she doesn't even get to think about her revolution or the result of her hundreds of years of effort. We're supposed to accept that Lisa, who criticizes Joshua for choosing Imuri over the world and ultimately chooses to kill Imuri to take out Belphegor, accepts her end with the only accomplishment for women being Imuri accepting herself so she doesn't ruin her newest boyfriend. Imuri during the entire fight is rendered to the background, one panel to seem worry for Lisa, and her first thought in this chapter that compels her to act is still about Joshua. No self reflection on her treatment of Lisa in the past after literally walking through it, most of the reactions and effects of seeing Lisa's backstory are again from Joshua. Imuri comes out still insensitive to Lisa's suffering and barely understands or cares about Lisa at all, if she does then it's barely shown. Lisa is never her priority, she even lamented about it twice, and she remains never a priority till the end.
Imuri's sacrifice in "The Finale", JoshImuri's happy ending in "All's well that ends well" and Joshua's death in "The End" can be fake-outs but somehow "The Final Battle" where the main heroes consist of female members as supporters and the male members as leaders who take the main stage gathered with a redeemed villain to defeat the wicked witch with the help of the heroine's charm in the last moment and the hero dealing the final blow with a sword isn't, a fake-out? This is pure shounen slop I know this is a shounen but spending your entire manga subverting common tropes just to have your feminist strawman defeated in the most shounen battle to ever battle is insane. Please tell me this is all Satan's script because anything this guy explicitly meddles with feels superficial and fake like Joshua and Imuri's relationship.