“…Yes, exactly.”
Mizari relaxed from her fighting pose, and dropped her shoulders as she agreed with Yuugo.
Yuugo also undid the Blaster transformation, and as he walked towards her, spoke to Phi.
“Do you get it, Phi? Mizari’s weakness is a lack of attack power that comes from low magic energy.”
“Yes… And the simple fighting style and magic item means that weakness has a big effect…”
“That’s right. The magic swords my Seward Ring creates are pretty fragile, but since they’re made for long range attacks, they’re a lot different from Mizari’s. And the biggest difference is that when the big move that’s supposed to end the fight fails, it’s very easy for the tables to be turned on her.”
Mizari’s weakness was easy to see, because her fighting style of strengthening her magic item with magic energy, creating an opening with light hits, and then ending it with a big one, was very simple.
Phi then spoke to her, trying to be nice in face of the cruel reality of the hit that she had been building towards ending in failure.
“But isn’t that because my big brother is a bad match for you? Not many people wear armor, not to mention a magic knight will be mostly fighting monster armor beasts. You don’t have to worry about it that much.”
“Yes, it wouldn’t be a problem against the average monster armor beast, like arachlaw or toad stingers, but… What about enemies like those black crabs that have hard shells, and other monsters that are all about physical attacks?”
Phi was right, there were plenty of enemies that would fall to Mizari’s attacks. But conversely, there were also plenty of enemies that would be completely unbothered by them.
If she was going to fight as a magic knight, running away because her attacks did not work was unacceptable.
And since she knew she was going to have trouble with monster armor beasts that had high defense, she had to conquer that weakness.
Also, Yuugo noticed another big weakness of hers.
“I think this is an issue of lack of firepower, but you’re too specialized in one to one fighting. If you were fighting multiple opponents, you would have a pretty hard time.”
“…Yes. I have noticed that.”
Another weakness of Mizari, fighting more than one opponent.
To fight as fast as she did, Mizari had to focus on one opponent. It also took a long time for her to execute her light attacks and finish it off with a strong one.
It was fine when fighting one opponent, but monster armor beasts tended to come in groups a lot. In fact, most fights against them would most likely be against multiple enemies.
And if Mizari took that long and her special move lacked power, she would have to spend even longer on a single opponent.
“I don’t have techniques fit for fighting multiple opponents, and lack power. Those are my weaknesses.”
“Hm, yes…”
It was pretty rough. To sum it all up, Mizari’s weaknesses could be described as a lack of basic abilities.
Now, it was a question of how to solve that problem… And they presented the solutions they came up with.
“What if you keep infusing magic energy into Wasp Needle, and fight with the needle always extended? It would be like fighting with a sword…”
“No, that’d be rough. An actual sword and one made with magic energy are not the same in terms of strength. It’d be very difficult to exchange blows like that. And she wouldn’t be able to use her trademark light blows.”
“But there’s a good chance they wouldn’t work on any monster armor beast with a body tougher than a human’s. That would ruin her fighting style, so I think there’s merit to Phi’s suggestion.”
An said to Melt.
“What about changing her fighting style to long distance… I guess that would be hard too. That’s just a technique she uses to get close, and maybe it would be crazy to make that her main fighting style.”
They kept tossing ideas around, but felt neither was right.
Yuugo thought about it for a while, and asked Mizari a question while facing down.
“Hey Mizari, I think you’re open to changing your fighting style, but how far would you go?”
“Change my fighting style…”
“Yes, I think we should try out different things, to look for different possibilities. I want to test some things through trial and error, but… What do you think?”
Mizari pondered it for a moment before responding.
“I… Want to keep this fighting style if I can. I don’t think I am anywhere near good enough, but this fighting style is packed with my dreams…”
“…I see, I get it. Then let’s lean into that and train!”
Yuugo heard Mizari’s answer, and respected her wishes.
But… There was little doubt that this was a reckless challenge.
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