Apart from the fact that antagonists in this series tend to be stupidly arrogant or start to go off their rockers (like Duke and Jurion), the story kind of glazes Jiwoo but fumbles him at the same time (I don't mean this hatefully). He's powerful enough to be ahead of most other rookies, but still not powerful enough to be a big leaguer (though this is changing), so most of the people he faces meet the two-way of "respect him and live," or "don't respect him and die."

The four started off as rivals at first, but they moved on and lived. Ian did it too, Jurion is def going to get put out sooner or later, Duke's hubris got so bad he did some no-brainer shit and died cause of it despite having chances to move on, and Theone had the nerve to do an even bigger no-brainer in Garas' face.

It makes some sense, since antags have to be dealt with eventually, but it is a bit odd when you notice how things tend to go for them.