I think both the headmaster and the dark magic guy are at fault here. You cant simply put the blame on one of them - they equally made their own bad decisions. Even though the author tried to convince us with fluff and how the headmaster built a school for his dead wife, it still doesn't change the fact that he put his wife into the experiment in the first place. The dark magic guy already had motives at the beginning of experiment to use Erina's and Alpheas's memories for his organisms or whatever, so he isn't completely innocent either. I guess it's up to the reader who they find to be in the better person is. I personally think that its alpheas because he at least tried to live up for his actions, and dark magic guys tried to twist the story to make Alpheas the villain. Thanks for reading my rant lol.
@have_mercy in my opinion it is not about one is strictly right and one is strictly wrong, it is about what they wanted to do with the research and how they accept their mistakes or not
They both fail miserably, yet the two choose completely different paths. The one who strives to not doing the same mistake all over again and the other who will make mistakes in order to achieve his selfish goal
Alpheas's fault for playing g** in the pretense of her wife, he abandoned his old self to serve the purpose of no one like his younger days (with her wife) walking the path he once walked
While the Alpheas' Master deceived Alpheas into playing g**, even in the present, he still plays g** himself by using Alpheas and his wife's memory as its base. The loyalty of her wife and the genius mind of the light mage
