CnC said:I don't pretend to know a lot of japanese, but I'm fairly certain that doesn't prove anything about the rest of the sentence or speech. Guts could have ended it right there or gone on in a lengthy diatribe about the average wingspan of the African swallow.
Its important to note that while its nice to wonder what Guts would have said about his relation to Casca, it wasn't narratively important at that time. What was meant and what happened was how Guts would have possibly (note: not definitely) shown affection towards Casca and that was something Farnese couldn't really handle to hear. Had it been important for Roderick (or the audience) to hear it we would have.
It could. I ask because if it ended the brief sentence in a verb it could've changed the sentence from "she is" to "she was".
It's probably not the case, I could just picture Guts saying something in past tense because that's when she was truely significant to him.