Too much talk during fights is a real shounen show characteristic. I guess you get used to it after watching n shounen shows... I suppose it's a way to save money as talking isn't expensive to animate, and on the other hand it could be a (little questionable) way of advancing the story.

Man, I'm missing the wind. I don't know what the old geezer exactly wants Zed to do, but I'm just wishing before each and every episode that Zed would again climb to some high place to find the wind anew. And then do what he wants to do and not concern himself what all those lazy old idiots in the town want him to do yet are at the same time unable to get out of their mouths.

The old geezer said one good thing in this ep: That Roia is fine because she has found her own place. I wonder how long it will take for Zed to achieve that; only then could he become a real badass and a worthy opponent to the innumerable villains in this series.