But more importantly, the plot will finally move on at a steady pace once again. And I have this dreadful feeling that in order to give Guts the impetus to go and finish his business with Griffith, something horrible must happen. Possibly to Casca herself, as if to mock Guts's efforts. I'm hoping that I'm wrong, but she and Guts are both tragic characters, thus trapped by the causality in their own metatextual way.