I had joked last chapter that the wound the new guy spoke of was on his heart, rather than his eye, and I can see I wasn't too far off. He's kind of annoying though, we'll see how he is in a couple of chapters though.
Sometimes the right name makes all the difference. There's this one bad isekai manga that I wouldn't be reading except the MC's name is Flick and then it with the all caps typesetting it looks like everyone is calling him FUCK-SAMA and yelliing FUCK! at him constantly which makes it a much better manga.