User blog comment:B214/General discussion/@comment-31987335-20200319145007/@comment-2089817-20200408052241

That would honestly be an insult to Ikki's characterization. The entire point of his character is that he was born with nothing and treated like worthless trash, so he had to build his own strength. His own way. Finding out later that he was just born with some special ability allowing him to steal people's powers is exactly the kind of cliche shonen nonsense that Rakudai Kishi avoids doing. I'm sorry but that theory is honestly dumb.