Isidro
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Isidro is a thief and a runaway who was rescued by Guts when he is surrounded by a clan of Bakiraka warriors spearheading the Kushan invasion. Witnessing Guts's strength and sword skills, Isidro decided to follow him and 'steal' his techniques while not having to call Guts his master. Guts eventually accepted him along with Farnese and Serpico due to his inability of protecting Casca while fighting evil spirits by himself at night.
Eventually, it was discovered he always dreamt to be, if not a soldier, the best mercenary warrior of his times. He is spurred to this dream by the legend of a once legendary captain, slayer of one hundred soldiers, who fought in the first Band of the Hawk. Guts never revealed to him who he was in the past, encouraging his dream nonetheless.
Being the youngest member of the group, Isidro really looks up to Guts as a father figure, although he insisted it is not so. He is training under Guts, hoping to achieve his dream to be the greatest swordsman in the world. Rather than teaching Isidro his moves, Guts told him to learn to fight using his own style, as each person has different strength, speed, height, and arm-reach. Isidro developed his spinning move using a cutlass, given to him by Morgan, and the Salamander dagger, given by Schierke.
Despite being small and weak, Isidro managed to hold his own against monsters, such as killing a Trolls chief. Isidro is also very good at rock throwing, and was given a bag of mini-bombs which he used to great effect.
In a fight with the pirates, Mule accused Isidro of not taking the fight serious enough: he did not use any move that seriously injures or kills the opponent. Isidro also has significant friction with Schierke, who considers him a monkey. However, the apparently cynical Isidro has shown to care, at times, for the young witch. In fact Sonia, upon hearing Schierke talking about her bond with Guts, and witnessing Isidro fighting the Pirate Boss for her sake, asked gleefully if the swordsman Schierke was attracted to was Isidro himself.
As the story evolves Isidro becomes more and more of a comic relive character, and is often shown paired with Puck which he starts to develop a close friendship with.
Even considering his character flaws, Guts shows to have some degree of faith in Isidro's qualities, encouraging him into finding a style suited to him more than Gambino did for him in the past. Even if refusing to label him as such, Guts has found in Isidro an apprentice, to whom has always words of wisdom and words of encouragement.
[edit] The Tower of Conviction
Isidro meets Guts when a group of Kushan's solders attack his village, luckily for Isidro Guts just happens to pass by, and takes down all the Kushan's solders in just one swing. Unaware that Isidro is even present, Guts marches on. Isidro becomes so impressed with Guts sword skills, that he decides to spy on Guts in hope of learning some high ranked sword moves.
