I mean that the Garback platoon's rite of passage implemented by Grey was also what Salsa got through, getting raped by men. It's written in the novel...
Next chapter is gonna be a huge turning point, also where the first volume of the novel stopped, currently, we only read like (20/200 novel chapters), I don't know if the manga artists are gonna draw more than this but I hope so because we barely scratched the surface of this peak
This is a story that happens right when guns were invented, no tanks, no geneva codes, only blood baths.
Somewhat of a spoiler/world building: wars before that era were only about territory since you couldn't really do a lot of damage/kill a lot of people with just swords so wars would only be...
I actually remember this happening to salsa and don't remember what happened with rodri, I thing he ran away but I may have confused with a different character