It's impossible to become a higher life form and remain the same. Do you think that a cat would act the same if it were to ascend into a human? Of course not, that would be ridiculous.
Ascension and remaining the same is an oxymoron. The whole point of ascending is to become more that what you were.
If going to a higher plane is not evolution then I don't know what is.
I agree, last chapter mistranslation put me off but now that I understand better I find myself agreeing. Everyone here seems to cling to the notion that humanity shouldn't change or that everyone need to agree for it to happen, if that were true everyone would still be living on huts or would...
I wonder how Sinbad is gonna deal with Alibaba and Aladdin, everything short of lethal violence is gonna be useless and Sinbad is not the kind of guy to kill anyone. Which is funny considering that his current opponents have actually tried to kill somebody (Hakuryuu & Judar).
It tells something important character-wise. He was ready to "fight for real" against Sindria and we all know what Kou does to the losers. In other words he was ready to make his friends and teacher into slaves for the sake of his country.