That feeling when I remembered that the translators mistook Rickert for Roderick in the profiles in the beginning of each volume but still kept the sea captain's character profile beside Rickert's picture in there for two volumes in a row lmaooo
Rickert really could build just about any contraption when he puts his mind into it. It just goes for show that he was the guy who built most of Guts' Post-Eclipse gear alongside Godo.
Daiba and Luca, along with that not-so-subtle Rape-Horse reference, vaguely talking about Guts like the demon-slaying Black Swordman with a giant sword in his back's name is on the tip of their tongues but not remembering him was surprising. It probably might be a tease from Miura but it does seem a bit suspicious that they barely remember him.
I had a bad feeling that Locus would pull off something over Rickert because he was aware of his intentions to question the Hawk and taking him to Pandemonium didn't really help. That attempt to shine a brighter light towards Griffith by telling him that by unleashing a bigger threat onto the world, all of mankind banding together with even those hideous apostles fighting by their side was a good thing is pretty sly. To be fair, if the world's population can fit in there, I guess the destination's pretty much heaven already.