The new Witch Hat Atelier chapter has lots of great stuff in it but I wanna appreciate some deft characterization for Utowin, who, all things considered, we don’t really know that well.
It feels to me like he’s taking everything really personally and that says something about his morals and his priorities.
In this panel, it seems like what he’s MOST upset about, isn’t just that what Easthies did was wrong, but that he would be included in the people who would be hurt.
Similarly in this panel, when he and Lulucy can tell that Vinanna and Easthies are keeping secrets from them, he’s less concerned with Knowing The Truth and more concerned with feeling like they don’t trust him. The betrayal comes not from being against keeping secrets in general and more from feeling like he should be part of the inner circle who is in the know.
Maybe this is obvious to people already since it has already been strongly implied he has more loyalty to Easthies than he does to the pact, but this very much paints him as someone whose moral compass revolves around loyalty between people.
Like harm might be okay, but not between the knights, not between him and Easthies, who are supposed to have each others backs
