>>5306265"Provided the hear is killed in Eliza's town, the Mandragorans there should be eradicated, turned back into their human forms. We believe that once their original progenitors cease to be, the other branches soon lose their grip on their hosts, bearing so much attachment to their creator that they follow suit."
"Why didn't you tell Guts about this, then? Now he-- We are killing humans without knowing they could be saved."
"He doesn't seem the type to mind of what type of blood smears his sword, much like me. What difference would that make?" Bolzack implies that all along, the Mandragoras and their possessed would have done absolutely nothing if they just left them alone or just managed to kill their main heart, yet deliberately angered them to wage war on their people, on the promise that they would eventually fuse into one and be a stable army.
This man makes Barnham sound like a master strategist...
"Still, if we ended the Mandragoran curse with both your Mandragora and the swordsman's, killing both of them would only make them be able to heal a single person per heart." Bolzack explains, still thinking on how the powerful heart serum could be stronger than the average extract they've pulled before, but given the side effects, you wager that one day isn't enough time to consider it safe for consumption.
"I believe that even if I told all of this to Guts, he would still obey me as long as I gave him the medicine, yet I am not sure what you will do with this knowledge. Who do you think should be our first subject, in this supposed test phase of our mixture, provided it does work?"
>Casca. That woman is all Guts lives for, and he would kill us both if we deny his share.>You, Bolzack, you've suffered long enough with your sickly wife.>Me. My body is falling apart, maybe if I recover, I can help you find more Mandragoras.>Zhafira, I only brought her here on the off chance that she could regain her sanity.>I can't say who deserves it the most. (Lie, he can't do this without you now.) 