The Casca storyline continues, and continues to suck.
And the edgelord BS continues as well in the Assassin storyline. In this, Guts is asked by Griffith to assassinate Prince Julian, one of his rivals for the eye of the King of Midland. There’s collateral damage and it’s terribly sad.
Really, these couple of stories are sort of shitty and don’t add much but shock value. There are other ways to grow Guts’ character and his relationship with Casca, and I’d be fine if there was something completely different used to advance the story. It is what it is though, and Berserk remains mixed bag I can only recommend to so many people as a result.