
The world building of this story is set up so that Crochetta is doomed to fail, so she's just trying to go against the current in her own way.
Running away with Roger? Really? Running from the guy who literally set his house on fire, killed his mom, and has an entire army + shadow mercenaries at his control? Setting bro up to get killed and then Crochetta would get confined just like she is now but just faster.
Staying with Roger even though she was explicitly told if she stayed with him he would be brutally murdered??????

i really like the zombie theme this story has. Having the whole "zombies eat you and bites infect you" gets really old quickly.
I'm betting that the original owners of the town were apart of some scientific research for immortality (more likely investors in this than actual researchers). Maybe Guwon was a successful test subject. They spread the virus that made people revive again and caused those explosions/doomsday events to potentially find more people like Guwon but it seemingly backfired.
Guwons obsession with usefulness probably stems from something a researcher probably told him to brainwash him.
idk just a thought
This is just a theory but I think the male leads are incapable of killing each other. Or their obsession with Crochetta is so intense that they don't care about anyone else.
if you think about it, Ethian has the means and time to kill Roger and Arnold but he hasnt done so, same goes vice versa. Roger was just within killing point of Ethian and did nothing. There's always *something* that stops them.
Some ppl might bring up Ethian causing the fire, but in Chapter 51 they make it clear that the plan was only to separate Roger and Crochetta. (Also they hired basic mercs for a legendary swordsman lol yeah the intent was never to kill)
This is an interesting theory