>>527546837
No he doesn't
The easiest moves to resolve the crisis involve being a bracer and leaveraging his knowledge and friends as a whole person and bringing them to bear against oroborous
Instead, because he is afraid of them getting hurt he turns himself back into a weapon and tries to wedge himself into oroborous side. During this time, we see wiessmann and the bladelord play him like a fiddle because he is still being the black fang. He does the exact opposite of everything he should and could have done if he had believed more in himself and estelle but he didn't, and therefore every move he makes is not only handing time to his opponents but also encouraging him to dig deeper and deeper into the hole estelle has to waste time dragging him out of.

If you don't believe me because you are a fucking retard and stubborn just look at the only halfway decent thing that happens in sc end game: Joshua takes on the bladelord 1v1 and wins without being a sneaky shit but just fightan. Although the game throws everything that came before and after this it perfectly encapsulates everything estelle does as correct: believing in herself and fighting more straightforwardly.