From This Day Forward, You Are My Lord, the One I Serve

"Sakura! Do you know what your greatest weakness is?" Allen asked, easily blocking the girl's incoming fist with his palm.

"Combat experience?" Sakura asked uncertainly.

Allen smiled and shook his head. "No! Experience is certainly important, but it has never been a weakness. As you fight more battles, it naturally accumulates over time. What you truly lack is the courage and resolve to risk your life at critical moments. Remember, there are many times in battle when being stronger does not guarantee victory. On the contrary, before the difference in strength reaches a certain threshold, whoever dares to fight harder is the one who wins."

"But haven't you always taught me to stay rational in battle and not be swayed by my emotions?" Sakura suddenly raised her right leg and unleashed Rankyaku, one of the Six Powers.

In an instant!

The muscles in her leg rapidly contracted and expanded, sending out a brutal kick at supersonic speed, too fast for the naked eye to follow. It compressed the air at high speed, ultimately forming an incomparably sharp vacuum slash.

Bang!

Allen directly blocked it with his left arm coated in Armament Haki. Then he grabbed the girl's ankle and replied meaningfully, "The rationality I told you to maintain means observing and predicting your opponent's movements in the most scientific way possible, not estimating things and directly drawing a conclusion. It is like two people fighting. Everyone instinctively assumes the bigger one will win, so when a smaller person comes into conflict with someone stronger, they instinctively choose to run or avoid the fight. But in reality? Cases of the weak defeating the strong are everywhere. So the first thing you need to do is break the subconscious suggestions and restraints you have placed upon yourself."

"You mean... my subconscious has