Black Clover Just Debunked a Popular Fan-Theory About Asta's Magic
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Black Clover chapter 328!
A flashback of Asta's mother Licita and his current devil partner Liebe disproves a theory from a much older Black Clover chapter that suggested Asta could have been born with magical powers.
In the unofficial fan translation of chapter 328, Licita tells Liebe about her son Asta, saying she had no choice but to give him away because of her inherent power that sucks the life force and mana of those around her. While Licita's confession makes her situation all the more tragic, as she clearly loved Asta, what's particularly telling in this translation is that she fails to mention that keeping Asta in her life would have resulted in him losing mana. She just says that he would have lost his life force.
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It's also crucial to realize that she uses the word «eventually» to explain the amount of time it would have taken her to suck away Asta's life force. This creates the impression that the same would have happened to his mana if he had any to begin with. In other words, if Asta were born with mana, then he wouldn't have lost them immediately. So, it can be assumed that, seeing as Asta obviously didn't lose his life force, he wouldn't have lost all of his mana had he been born with any. What this means is that it's now highly unlikely that Asta could have either been conceived or born with magic. Fans first began speculating at this possibility when Black Clover first revealed way back in chapter 268 that Licita had been driven from her village because she sucked the mana and life force of those around her. It therefore made sense that Asta could have had powers but lost them because of his mother's
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