you know, i thought introducing a sidekick character like isabelle made sense in the beginning when the MC was just a broody, stoic edgelord, but now I can tell they have no fucking clue how to adapt the plot to include her. From now on there's gonna be a shit ton of new characters and a shit ton of convoluted plot devices that really have no need for a blank-slate character like her.
They actually managed to screw themselves into an unscrewable position