Just started reading this today. And dear god, am I thankful I hadn't seen this until Ch 19 was released. This first battle took a whole year to be available. All that yapping sure took up a ton of pages. Guess I've gotta hide this for at least another year for the next arc. Guessing it'll be his best friend.
For having 16 years prior notice, Erik isn't really well prepared to handle this stuff.
And the dilemma... now that Grazio is dead, how's he going to meet his "former princess Irene" when... she's still the princess.