Wasn't sure how the school setting would hold up long term but we are already shaking things up in ch. 5. And that "burying the hero panel"... Sorachi still got it!
I find the way Saphia fetishizes demi-humans kind of problematic. Imagine instead of demi-humans it was "Asians" and it was narrow eyes (or dunno, "westerners" with big noses or something) coupled with treating them as a pet.
He needs to get one volume out per year and he already lamented that he started later than he wanted. We'll get more soon(ish). Probably in ~2-3 months.
Protect it from whom? They are past the point of no return. On their last dive. Pretty sure that's a huge reason why the group hasn't been "dealt with" yet.