She's still stuck in the hospital fighting for her life. We would have guaranteed gotten a chapter if she died or was genuinely dying and couldn't fight anymore.
The real oof is knowing that Itsuki has kinda always been like that.
In this instance, the cursed weapon is breaking his mind, even more so than the other heroes... yes, this even includes Spear boi and the lust series, it's that bad.
Honestly, it's kinda wacky just how fast they went through knight commanders. Rei's most recent position as knight commander was the 13th, while Lienna was the 17th. In the time she met Rei the elf as a kid and trainee (she was still commander while she was in knight academy), they managed to...
I mean, it ISN'T just him. He just had the highest authority. They did also note that stuff the subordinates were supposed to do were also getting pushed onto her. Everyone in the knights genuinely shat the bed on their work ethic, and she was there literally holding up the pillars and keeping...
In this instance? Like the other 2 heroes, he broke when he slammed against the Spirit Tortoise and failed. In the case of Itsuki, Bitch managed to ALSO manipulate him when he was weak (yeah, I am still baffled she managed to find time to manipulate every hero) and played on his fragile sense of...
When you never see a person ever fight, you tend to forget how strong they are. Also, implication is that she literally never got to pull her sword ever since she was promoted to Knight Commander, and a decent amount of them were recruited AFTER she was promoted, so there hasn't been a single...
In a straight physical match-up, it honestly looks like Elf-knight might actually be weaker... but not by much.
She would probably win in a fight because she is very physically capable and knows magic, so she can force a lot of unfavorable situations.
Being fair? He eventually figured out that it wasn't taking about mothers and children HE made.
And really, the message from the oracle that could be understood? There would be too many interpretations for it that it's understandable he wouldn't be able to figure it out until it was too late...
Well, an important one that people seem to be forgetting was that we did get to see a small image of his past before, which was his older brother (presumably the bad guy under helmet in this chapter) telling him that at least one of them had to get out and see the world. Honestly, that's enough...