Option. Like, we need some kind of warrior, in case the others get wiped out, but he's really useless, I don't know how he can help. Beata is at least a ranged attacker, but even that's questionable, she can't seem to kite him. And she's in the dungeon right now.
While everyone was preparing for the hunt, Merel sat at the table and pondered. It hadn't even been a week since he arrived in this city, and he was already preparing to capture a mad, murderous maniac capable of killing everyone present. And how did it come to this? Why him? This wasn't at all what the guest from another world wanted to do. Where's the maniac, and where's Merel? Seemingly incompatible things that suddenly came together. This situation didn't make sense, but it required a solution.