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Noru or 노루 is roe deer.

It’s essentially the written name for it. Normally when translating a story if something is used as a name or form of addressing someone, they don’t use direct translations and instead opt for the Korean written pronunciation. This is something I’ve observed often in fan translations for several series out there.

It’s kind of like how the name “Dokja” directly translated means reader. So if it was used in a sentence for example: “Wow you’re such a good reader.” They would directly translate it, but if it were used in a name sort of way like; “it’s nice to meet you Mr. Reader.” They would realize that reader is a name and should be instead used as directly written so the sentence now becomes; “it’s nice to meet you Mr. Dokja.”

In this case with Noru it was meant to stay as “roe deer” for the relevance to the story, but the translators felt that it being used in a name sense meant it had to be directly written based on Korean pronunciation.

I hope I explained that well and answered your question in an understandable manner.

Ooh thank you!! That definitely makes sense.

I was just confused because they do occasionally use the translation "Roe Deer" when referring to him. The other company worker codenames were also fully translated in those scenes as well. It wasn't terribly consistent and I didn't know the Korean word (maybe I missed a translator note ). But thanks for the clarification!

No problem at all; I’m glad I could help!

Personally, I believe he's likely half-demon (whether or not he's related to Derkila in some way or not). This idea stems even more since what we know about Ameri being half-human and having her father's bloodline ability. The magic thing is also what originally drew me into the idea that he might not have been completely human too, because Henri stated that human's aren't able to survive in the netherworld, and I feel like he meant it in more of a sense than what happened with Merize, human anatomy might not actually be able to withstand the magical presence of the netherworld, since they aren't used to being around so much mana, hence one reason why Merize began deteriorating after the birth of Ameri.

But the more recent chapters also are interesting too (outside of the Azazel fam drama), the idea that Iruma possesses Derkila's mana, which is strange considering the ring, devours Sullivan's mana. Sure it could simply be because the ring was somehow created by Derkila, but his massive presence in Iruma's time in the netherworld is strange in and of itself; because Derkila loved Sullivan, so why is he deadset on keeping his presence as Ali a secret from everyone? As well as the whole idea with the Change Loki scene, where Iruma seems to be becoming more demon like as the series goes on.

So honestly if this is the case, then we need to think about how Iruma ended up being raised by those shitty arse parents in the human world and not Derkila assuming Derkila is his father. Additionally, I would like to actually see the contract between Sullivan and Iruma's parents, because they could have sold Iruma when he was a baby with how money driven they are, so why wait until he was a teenager to do so? Not to mention how they even managed to pull off a summoning ritual to call someone so powerful like Sullivan in the first place, since humans are said to have no mana/magic? Plus, Sullivan himself is a little suspicious; not in an evil way, but he definitely knows that there's more to Iruma that he lets on and I would love to see how that played out.

I feel like you guys probably REALLY don't understand why this would be seen as so bad. From what I've seen and been told by people from Japan, reputation can play a massive role in so much, down to perception of dress. To a degree people will genuinely avoid you if they think you are too eccentric.
Unfortunately, I think some of the gravity is lost on a western audience because we are much kinder when it comes to public image. Japan is still very conservative.