From what i know (many ppl talk about this manhwa so much in the tiktok) For your question is a No. Well, atleast they're not kill the priest (golden hair Jio) for fun or hater but because starving, cmiiw
I say its the people that killed him, People tortured Giovanni, the one that ate him was isseur (because he was left starving and he thought gio was already a corpse SO NOT HIS FAULT PLS DONT BLAME HIM, HE'S ALREADY BLAMING HIMSELF)
did the mermaid kill yellow guy or sumn