User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 553 - Frozen Cross/@comment-7079377-20131017232010/@comment-11051098-20131018182751

Looking at it that way, Shaz Domino was presumably killed right after we first saw him, and Berenice Gabrielli, Loyd Lloyd and Jerome Guizbatt was killed off-screen, we didn't even see any action with them. So if Cang Du is defeated and the next chapter shows the ice cross breaking and killing him, it won't be the first Sternritter who's killed too soon without proper character development.