I liked the parallel with the old man. It reminded me of black swordsman arc guts trying to prove that that guy who got tortured that he wasn’t like him. Also learning he needs to resolve himself to kill people was good development. But you can’t compare the little time he was focused on to Schierke who stole the show to the point where she’s always around (Guts and Skeleton knight going to meet the guy who made the armour and Schierke somehow got from where Isidro was to where he was in a matter of panels to pull the armour off. Or Isidro meets Isma and Schierke gets there bc Isidro can’t learn about the Merrows on his own) or Farnese who kept developing