If you can't free someone else with your points, that means the little boy is basically doomed. Poor thing.
Seeing Katou back feels almost unnatural and it will be fun to see how he will react to the new improved Kurono. Now that Kaze is will to use his points for Kurono, that Kei girl will come back (and be useless all over again while drooling over Katou) and after that it's probably the Lara Croft-ish girl's turn.
It's fun to see a real big team shaping up now with great characters. Much better than the first three or so hunting games where the group was filled with ignorant throwaway people.