But the course of the battle completely exceeded Mousse's expectations. Charlotte Custard fully exploited her height, long reach, and the greater attack range granted by her exceptionally long rapier, landing multiple successful strikes.
Her opponent desperately tried to close in, but he could not keep up with the high-speed movement of Rokushiki's Soru. In his panic, he could only unleash a Flying Slash for a ranged attack.
Yet he had not expected Castard to have been waiting for precisely that opportunity. Using the reflection from her blade as cover, she quietly fired off a Shigan, taking him out in one blow and easily claiming victory.
Because the fight had been so uneventful, only scattered applause rose from the stands.
Mousse, however, might have been young, but he knew quality when he saw it. Before the referee could even announce his sister's victory, he was already applauding. "Just like Sister Amande said, before you've fully mastered it, a Flying Slash is practically useless. It makes too much of a commotion and has no concealment. An experienced enemy can easily predict it, and it takes too much effort, leaving you unable to defend or observe at the same time. Unless the distance is very great, it just gives the enemy a chance to counterattack."
For Mousse himself, though, the greatest gain from this battle was correcting the prejudice against tall people that had just begun to form in his mind. "Sister Castard may be taller, but she was no less agile than her opponent. It seems that unless the height difference is enormous, you can't simply conclude that shorter people are necessarily more nimble. And the natural advantages brought by being tall aren't merely greater strength. Longer attack range and a larger control area are equally impossible to ignore."
*Before I transmigrated,