Shikabane Hime

[Munsu]

He didn't ask the most obvious person, though, did he? Minai herself. She should have known how it happens since she had already gone through it once.

Everybody treats him like a fool, and I don't see him doing much about it. He is too innocent to walk in such shadows. Unless it's precisely because of that that even corpses find him somehow interesting. Perhaps being used as a weapon against Kensei will open his eyes now. The things you have been listing are mainly situational common sense or simple ad hoc solutions, and not any long term planning or getting better at fighting the corruption of the corpses in general. And of course trying to "help" Makina (and other corpses) as if they could still be "healed".

Minai didn't know it was possible (and if she knew she didn't have the state of mind to realize it)... it was explained to her by the assault team. That's why she gained hope. The other Shikabane Hime there didn't know it was possible either.

Also, I wasn't suggesting that he has been getting better in battles. I was simply listing situations to argue against the idea that his presence during all these fights has been getting in the way of what Makina and the others are doing... that he's been slowing them down. Which is untrue. His pressence in all these fights have helped them in some instances even if purely by coincidence, or when his pressence has acted against the wishes of Makina and the others, he was on the right. As useless has he has been his pressence has been a positive, so he hasn't been "only getting in the way of others trying to do their job".

If it was true that he was getting in the way of this people, and wrongfully so, then no doubt about it he would be pissing me off. But again, he hasn't been getting in their way and the few instances in which he has, he was the one with the correct decision.