[Mordred's in much the same boat. She's got an opal jewel, she got the intro jewel infodump so she's not going to accidentally explode herself or whatever it does, but she hasn't actually put much time into figuring out how to use it beyond not...doing that. Maybe someday she'll do something with some of those things for the jewel page, but for now she's just relying on her own skills as much as she can.]
Eh?!
[She wasn't expecting a sweep, but she's not going to move. She doesn't cede ground if she can help it. So instead, she'll slam her blade into the ground, between her leg and Zero's hoping that sweep will be blocked by the flat of the blade. And then she's going to kick at that bent knee, trying to drop her sparring partner.
This isn't the best strategy because if Zero can take out her sword, Mordred's still getting knocked on her ass. And if she can't, she's got to pull the sword out of the ground before she can use it again. But she's not really thinking about that so much as she's thinking about not getting her legs kicked out from under her. That's way more important.]
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Eh?!
[She wasn't expecting a sweep, but she's not going to move. She doesn't cede ground if she can help it. So instead, she'll slam her blade into the ground, between her leg and Zero's hoping that sweep will be blocked by the flat of the blade. And then she's going to kick at that bent knee, trying to drop her sparring partner.
This isn't the best strategy because if Zero can take out her sword, Mordred's still getting knocked on her ass. And if she can't, she's got to pull the sword out of the ground before she can use it again. But she's not really thinking about that so much as she's thinking about not getting her legs kicked out from under her. That's way more important.]