The path to the Elf reunion grows further and further away. They always do this now, best girl introduced early to hook people, but gotta shove her out of the story so she doesn't overshadow new characters. Now we get bits of info on her current situation between arcs as the MC goes through more and more filler arcs, because nothing really starts happening until the party is assembled. We traded older sister elf girl for a little girl and older brother wolf guy. I do like the wolf bro tho, he's cool and I see the potential in the little girl. I get that for stories the party can't always stick together and there's usually some backstory to why they are gone, but in this case it's literally just to shove the elf girl from the spotlight.