>>90705684Not sure if that has already been deftly answered but it's pretty obvious.
Firstly Jack knows Aku's masculine, if a male showed up who just happened to look like Aku that would more or less kill the deception there and then. The female element adds a layer of doubt.
Furthermore a very traditional, chivalrous guy like Jack is obviously more likely to feel immediate sympathy and concern for a woman than a guy, something Aku himself even mocks at the end.
As for the quicksand matter if you think about it for a second it makes obvious sense, Aku forgot about sending Jack into the future before and he starts causing trouble for him. He didn't want Jack to somehow survive and get the gem since showing up later after abandoning him would make Jack less likely to trust him. Aku needed to make sure Jack was good and dead, but fighting him was not a sound plan with the sword. He may have also needed Jack to find where the gem was to make sure that was destroyed too.
>But how would Jack survive?You ask? Well
>Contrary to popular belief, quicksand itself is harmless: a human or animal is unlikely to sink entirely into quicksand and drown at all due to the higher density of the fluid (assuming the quicksand is on dry ground and not under water, but even if underwater, sinking is still impractical).Go check wiki yourself. Obviously I can't ascertain most writers and animators know this since most of them use it as a death trap to begin with, but still those are the facts. Had Aku left Jack to sink he'd have eventually waded his way out and knew Ikra was not to be trusted. He'd get the gem, get his wish, get back in time and so Aku would have lost by default then after all that setup.
Keeping Jack close is what let him win in the end.
