Talk:Ten Covenants/@comment-180.252.77.128-20191123083543/@comment-29963364-20191126073232

1.) To answer your question, unless you challenge Tet for the Title of One True God and win, none of the Pledges can be changed.

2.) My copies of the light novel say "The above shall be absolute and immutable rules, in the name of God." (I'm not saying the wiki's translation is wrong, but considering the context and other info from the series so far, I think this is much closer to what the 9th rule actually means.)

Sora actually brings up the 9th rule and it's meaning in the anime (after the coin-flip with Miko). He asks "why would Tet make a rule that doesn't need to be followed?"

He's refering to how the 9th rule makes rules 1-8 unbreakable, but not rule 10 (let's all have fun!). It's just there.

Tet didn't want to "force" anyone to have fun. It has to be voluntary, or there's no point.

Sora is basically saying to Miko, and the audience, that everyone on Disboard is doing it all wrong. Tet literally made it impossible to kill and/or steal from each other without consent or condition (if you bet your personal rights in a game and lose, it's your own fault), yet the races are still treating each other as enemies and games as matters of life & death.

Everyone is just out to get what they want. During the Great War, violence was the method they used to do that. When Tet set the Pledges, the races went "that's just killing & stealing, but with extra steps," and continued trying to take things from each other like they did before (just less bloody).

Because the 10th rule isn't absolutely binding (like rules 1-9), the races just ignored it and used games to con, swindle, gouge, etc. each other out of their resources (the Dhampir were almost driven to extinction because they lost a game). Tet got tired of this and dropped Sora & Shiro into Disboard and basically said "show them how it's done."

In other words,

Everyone on Disboard: Tet says he's eliminated violence & suffering and made this world a paradise of fun & games? Ha! That bastard is a liar! Nothing's changed. People are still "killing & stealing" from each other like back in the Great War. Tet just made the process more tedious.

Sora & Shiro: B**ch!! That's your own damn fault!! Quit thinking about all that useless sh*t and just have fun!