Talk:Vol.2 Ch.186: 38F - Hell Train: The Dallar Show (15)/@comment-26846012-20160125154852/@comment-26484417-20160126050959

I've mentioned this in one of the previous discussions, but let me try to push this theory again. I believe that White's main source of power are the souls, be it the original merger with his siblings, or all the souls he has eaten.

Since this was likely his main way of powering up as he originally ascended as well as for gaining more power as a Ranker, it is entirely possible that he never (or rarely) had to train like other Regulars / Rankers. Now, if the sealing process took away majority or all of the souls he has consumed[*], it would mean that he is basically running on an empty stomach these days. So even if he becomes White (Hoaqin+4) again right now, he would still need to eat lots of souls before he could compare to his former self... Of course, we know that the Hell Train curse is designed to solve this problem and supply more souls than he had before, but it sounds like the activation of this curse would kill everyone on board the Hell Train anyway.

Basically, if we assume this theory is true or at least partially true, it's entirely possible that White's (Hoaqin+4) current power would be somewhere between an A-Regular and a weak-ish Ranker. After all, he has been starving ever since his awakening except for a handful of B~C Regulars.

[*] I believe he lost the previously amassed souls because of how "weak" his individual fragments are, and because of how "little" power he appears to gain from merging back with them. The power I would expect him to possess prior to the sealing is not something that can be accounted for with 5 C-Regulars. Even more so when the power up from a single sibling appears to be far weaker than we originally estimated, be it the estimation of an exponential progression or of a linear one.