Recurring this arc particularly with Sommers seems to be the unkillable nature of the Holy Knights which I think will ultimately be required to defeat Imu as he seems to take damage from them.
So I’m thinking the ultimate challenge that the SHs and Elbaf have this arc is prolly killimg Sommers & Kiringham.
When they are able to do that then Imu will prolly increase the level by deploying soldiers with CoC coating to defend against those that can kill immortals 🤔
At this point regardless of how shite Sommers & Kiringham are their defeats are of no consequence to Imu so he doesn’t really need to deploy new soldiers to Elbaf. With that in mind, it computes why Sommers is being recycled.
But man these two holy knights are so fcking shite

so hopefully they get some kind of buffs with Imu’s descent on Elbaf.
Can see Kiringham getting lose with Imu’s help tbh.
That said only problem with this line of thought is the fact that Oda barely kills in this series. So is he really going to draw 13 of Imu’s knights getting killed? 💀