Why weird reading? Guts doesn't fall for her, else I would've mentioned that because that'd be a larger issue. But it IS accurate that she's a cute lil' wizard girl falling in love with Guts and there's no way that anyone can tell me that there isn't a tonal difference between the Golden Age arc and the rest. I mean Puck alone does amusing reaction faces all the time and once Schierke joins, with her own funny elf no less, that only amplifies.
But you say it yourself, Guts eventually contrasts with the rest of the group he's working with - some group you could find in any generic adventure story,
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