Author just wants an excuse to include firearms, but forgot to bake it into the original setting, so it's "invented" as a form of convenience and exclusivity.
A fair bit of unresolved plot points.
The outcome of the forced survival game? What did Elly and the rest of the guild think of him dying?
How about the murderer boy and the brainwashed japanese girl?
And the 4 other japanese he left buried?
I didn't expect Karim to be killed off.
Was he too smart for the author to keep around?
I feel like he was half-baked. His shaken belief in the cause he stood for could have been developed into a source of strength.
Either in complete acceptance of the things he's done, reluctantly or...