Talk:Itori/@comment-185.217.68.197-20171111080553/@comment-3444885-20171111165006

Not the first time that King/Prince/other "male title" hasn't actually been indicative of gender. For instance in Game of Thrones, "The Prince That Was Promised" is a title of a person believed to be part of a prophecy, but many people both in-universe and in the fandom speculate it to be one of the heroines -- and the story does nothing to assert that she couldn't be it because she's a woman.

In fact, in real life multiple women have been crowned King for various reasons, such as Jadwiga of Poland.

Ishida naming it the king could be an intentional red herring to throw off fans like you, to be honest.