good guts

Chapter 178, page 13.

With the advent of Guts and his party seized by Kushans, I don't believe Guts will go down this path.

Guts, the slayer of Apostles, human to the core. What purpose would it serve to surrender his humanity, sacrifice his remaining comrades, and face Griffith as an inhuman?

That is the one defining narrative between the two. Griffith, who when faced with despair, rejected his humanity. Guts, who faces nothing but despair nearly every day, continues to tread down the same path.

Griffith, fated to posses the Egg of the King, ended up becoming part of the Godhand. Guts, fated to die, lives.

They are opposites. Guts cannot become an Apostle as it will make him the same as Griffith.

Sure, Guts is certainly at his lowest point.

But he's not completely powerless. It took this many men just to drag him out of the ship's hold.

Elfhelm is gone. Guts and Casca's life of peace was not fated to last long.

The Kushans are also Griffith's enemy, and the most powerful ones at that. This is Guts and his friends' best shot at defeating Griffith, even if they were taken by force.

Plus, General Daiba is pretty chill now. It'll be fine.