User blog comment:GoDai/GoDai's Translations: T.U.S., Exis, and Phantaminum (Pentaminum)/@comment-175.137.101.178-20140120235613/@comment-26854521-20151107183106

I don't support any theory that's based on things Phanta is unable to do. He is a joker and it was quite heavily implied that he could do just about anything as long as there is no higher rank Axis involved, which undoubtedly isn't the case especially considering Yuri was fine as well. Instead of wondering why he didn't kill him I think you should start thinking about why he went there in the first place.

Zahard may be the king of the tower but he is no god. He has a unique position in the tower but that didn't come out of nowhere. Guardian contracts almost always come with strings attached and Zahard first and foremost is probably the person inside the tower who is bound to them the most but who in the tower is to hold him responsible if he does break them?

If you think about ultimate rules of the tower number one would have to be: The tower is meant to be climbed. If you think about the role of Zahard and the floor rulers/test administration it is to conduct tests in the stead of the floor guardians. The rule to not interfere with the regulars is something somewhat loose when it comes to rankers (see FUG or even Yuri to some extent) but I think that rule is absolute when it comes to Zahard. There was a thread on batoto about why Zahard didn't destroy the hell train or the rice pot after going through revolution and that being a plot hole since he seemed somewhat worried about his life being in danger since irregulars are a danger to him (hinted by RED in season one and also by Evan in the 2nd chapter and as you can see Pedro is also using that towards Yuri) but I think that he is unable to do something like that, at the very least as long as he values his life/position within the tower. Zahard's role is to make sure people can climb and him directly keeping people (even irregulars) from climbing seems like a betrayal towards the promise/contract he must have made towards the guardians or maybe even the god of the tower himself, which could potentially be Phanta.

A different rule could also be for him to not have children as to not spread his power too much and potentially hindering the potential of the residents of the tower to climb it, since his 'invincibility' is like a cheat when it comes to confrontations between regulars/rankers but that probably doesn't work  towards the guardian tests further up the tower so it actually harms the progress of having a being able to completely climb the tower (for example someone like Ja Wagnan, who seems really weak but he might be immortal towards regulars and that might be the reason he feels entitled to become the new king).

You also talked about Phanta's power only working on people that were born in the tower but that isn't a restriction on Zahard's position within the tower. People already lived inside of the tower before Zahard and the 10 came and Zahard was made king over all of them. That's probably one of the reasons FUG was created. At the very beginning when talking about the size of each floor SIU said that it's about the size of the American continent but maybe that's not all there is to it. I think it's pretty easy to see similarities between the climb of Zahard and the colonization of the American continent. They just went there and split everything between each other taking what they wanted and while they might not have been extreme savages maybe because they went through revolution it's certain that that can't be said about each and every of their offsprings. Maybe that is the reason some of the 10 heads are refusing to have children or stopped having more after a few. But what did the inhabitants of the tower get for all the crimes committed towards them? An astronomically small chance for them to climb the tower and become a ranker and that's just the strong ones, but in the end all the conflict is probably in the interest of the guardians since all that despair certainly brings desire and that is what is unltimately being tested, at least according to Headon.

okay derailed quite a bit here though, that got nothing to do with Phanta since I don't think he a humanitarian