lazycoconut
I liked him when he wasn't a god
Wait... Wasn't it assumed that the Golden Fruit can actually revive a dead person, but consumed afterwards? As far as I remember, Roshuo wanted to revive his wife by using Earth's apple, but Redyue offered him an alternative way so that she can get the apple in exchange, right? And considering that there's a new golden fruit on the planet that Kouta is, I don't see why he couldn't pull off the same thought as Roshuo, but actually executing it.
We don't really know whether that machine would have worked; it was killing the humans who were attached to it, but we never got to see whether it would actually have brought Overlord Queen back. It was pretty much always presented that she would not and was never meant to be revived. The show does give death a sense of finality, it's not something where characters can just be brought back randomly as they are in (for instance) Sentai Vs Movies or the ending of Fourze when Kengo was resurrected. That's why Takatora choosing to return and help Micchy was such a big deal, he would probably have been happier to die (even Kouta acknowledged that) but he'd never be able to come back