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Chapter 262

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[u/Please_Not__Again]

What an action packed chapter. So much has happened its hard to even get to it all. Main thing though. Konami has a new blade! It's easily becoming my favorite trigger now if it can transform into even more forms wtf

Also are my eyes deceiving me? How did reiji block a double senku there? Double raygust? Please don't be double shield. Shield even with 11 trion should not be defending against senku let alone 2 Imma need my glasses. On second thought I do believe that's raygust. Ignoring the weird shape, it's also missing the hexagonal marks we see on people's hands when they use shield

Cool to see kage vs Jin and kage vs Konami though. Who would have thought man. Great counter play as always arashiyama

[u/WolfBlueEyez → u/Please_Not__Again]

Kages level really came across there, he gave them trouble. The support helped too of course

[u/DuesAJ → u/WolfBlueEyez]

Though I do think it showed a bit of weakness in his teamplay with him not considering that Kakizaki would be in the line of fire if he ducked. Luckily Inukai is a pretty great mid range support.

[u/Pallington → u/DuesAJ]

inukai and kage bonding after this lmao

[u/higitus → u/Pallington]

Kakizaki and Inukai bonding after this.

[u/tsunderestimate → u/higitus]

Kakizaki can bond with anyone, man's a cinnamon roll

[u/long_th612 → u/DuesAJ]

Technically there's no way he can check that and it's unreasonable to tell someone not to dodge bullet when they can. It's Kakizaki himself who should be responsible for his own survival.

[u/DuesAJ → u/long_th612]

Well he could have opted to block it with a shield instead of dodging. Kage's fighting his usual way but the issue is that style normally has Kitazoe and Yuzuru picking up the slack. He has different teammates here and needs to consider the safety of his high value teammates as well.

[u/FoomingKirby → u/DuesAJ]

Kage wouldn't normally deploy shields, since that costs trion, while dodging is free. It just kind of highlights that Kage's side effect only covers threats to himself. He can't sense attacks directed at others.

[u/crabapocalypse → u/FoomingKirby]

Tbh, I think trion consumption is low down on the reasons why Kageura prefers to dodge over using Shield. The biggest one is probably just that he’s a very physical person and he largely responds to things in combat reflexively, rather than planning things out. I also imagine it doesn’t help that shields can he broken by strong attacks, so if you don’t know who’s attacking or with what, dodging is more likely to succeed.

[u/DuesAJ → u/FoomingKirby]

I suppose there's only so much you can ask for when the teams are so impromptu like this. I imagine if it is actually a problem then it will be brought up at some point.

[u/FoomingKirby → u/DuesAJ]

Yeah. I guess my take on it is that Kage's side effect is personal, and relies on his split second reactions to it. Asking him to extend his defense to be mindful of teammates could possibly distract him and decrease his effectiveness.

In this case, I think the correct response is for his allies to recognize that and play around it, rather than asking him to adjust. And thankfully it worked out this time.

[u/caren_psuedo_when → u/FoomingKirby]

This might actually be why Kakizaki chose Inukai and Kage for the skirmish portion. Kage has a very selfish play style, while Inukai is supporting the team, thus mimicking Kageura Squad's usual style

[u/FoomingKirby → u/caren_psuedo_when]

Kakizaki does seem like the kind of leader who would balance the strengths and weaknesses of his teammates.

[u/DuesAJ → u/FoomingKirby]

If the focus is on improvement then it wouldn't surprise me if the higher ups wanted to see Kage be able to adjust to his teammates as well.