Listen, no. You're having a flashback to The Good Times to justify not killing someone and the best thing you can think of is her as a baby? Before she had a personality? Death.
Enemy whose only offence is its 2 arms.
Breaks one off like its nothing.
Then spends 2 pages figuring out what to do, as if its a desperate situation...instead of removing its other arm? That thing he did effortlessly, just do it again? No? Ok.
So this guy is being used to set up the reader with a vague image of the world until someone actually likeable comes around, right?
They can't possibly expect people to care about a kidnapper who's acting like he acquired a convenient item rather than a person.
And why would he ask "what if I...
Timing of the post aside, why would you post a partial chapter that goes EXACTLY to the same point the other translation did? Just happened to have precisely this many pages done?