Surprising to see how thick people are. The manga clearly never took itself too seriously, they formed a party after randomly getting drunk in a pub while coincidentally cursing the same thing. Similarly the main thrust of the narrative was that none of them could trust in humans but could minimally trust one another, a trust that grew as things went on. "Friendship" was always a central theme of the narrative. The manga didnt change, it just make things so explicit even the painfully oblivious readers noticed.