Hikari Chapter 3 Wellgrove - Arms Deal

Just finished Hikari Chapter 3 and it was quite an experience as everything seems to line up for the final confrontation against Mugen in Ku. Hikari manages to defeat the general of Ku in one-to-one combat and retrieve the weapons they were trying to buy. This should give Kazan's forces enough equipment to begin the final battle to take back the kingdom, especially considering Mugen used lots of his troops to defeat a neighbor country called Sa, but didn't accept to take in any survivors to bolster his forces.

Ritsu was there when the battle between Hikari and the general happened and used the opportunity to betray the general and try to raise up in ranks even more within the kingdom. Mugen didn't believe him of course, but he was amused by how bold he was by trying to use even the death of an ally as a way to gain more power. His past was surely sad as his father was killed without reason by a soldier, but he's now becoming pretty much the same as the people that caused that.

Mugen is definitely going down in the next chapter, but there are many questions that are still unknown. Why does Hikari's bloodline have these absurd tendencies and split personalities? They refer to it as cursed blood, but can such a thing exist?
Will Ritsu survive or become another casualty of the war? I'm leaning on survive and change, but who knows at this point.