lmao
still waiting for the big reveal. This whole story has ALWAYS had EXTREMELY prominent elements of not judging people by initial impressions (whether good or bad), but this arc has really doubled down on layering the mystery of any given character's true nature, and this chapter in particular
really doubled down even further on nobody behaving in the way you expect... but there's still plenty of time for Sadi to reveal that all that stabbing and blood was all just tomatoes. But first! We need to go through the big reveal of this faceless-goon character being revealed to not be who we expected. Because of course we do.
And for reference I'm not saying I have the truth on Sadi's character. Could go either way. He's definitely been shown in previous scenes to both have "noble intentions" AND absolute "sadistic impulses" (drooling in excitement when hurting people) so I've been figuring that he's just a complicated guy who's ultimately on the right side and will ultimately pull off doing the right thing. And he can still turn out to be this way, if this was all a triple tomato-cross and the one getting backstabbed all along was the bad guys.
Of course, it could still turn out that the bandits themselves are secretly the good guys, and the kingdom are secretly the bad guys.
![Stick out tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)