Yeah, this show doesn't make a lot of sense. I thought that the arc back in the first volume with the "
Warning: Spoiler!book eater
" was going to be interesting, but then it was resolved in an
extremely cliche manner (which didn't even make sense) and concluded with the key players in that arc going out in a blaze of WTF.
Riddle me this, oh great pundits of anime

:
Warning: Spoiler!Why was the kid who could shoot lightning, the first kid absorbed by the book eater, able to "be himself" inside the book eater's mind and retain his lightning powers while everyone else was impotent and made of drooping green mud?