@Gilith @Cynic But here is the thing. We the readers are not meant to take it seriously. They take it semi-seriously, but there is no real consequence. It's just to make the joke that she's supposed to be scary.
But if it was actually real, he'd be way more wounded, way more damaged and way more harmed.
If it was meant to be taken too seriously, then it would not last to this point and nobody would allow it.
It is made to look serious enough so she seems scary, but it's not actually serious so we shouldn't actually worry about him
But he was told not to hit a girl because that was meant to be a real hit. He was planning on protecting his girl with violence.
Now, if you don't like the joke or the fact that the author uses it as a device... I can actually sort of agree with that. If you think the author is going too far. Then that's fine.
But Hori herself shouldn't be blamed. Her violence is exaggerated for comedy as are his wounds.
Honestly, I personally like this kind of comic violence. I just don't like that it's not always done equally (okay, there is violence towards females in shoujo, but that seems to be real violence rather than comic). I mean, I get that most of the writers of the comic violence are males themselves, so they'd feel uncomfortable writing violence towards females as often (though Fairy Tail still has that).
I feel that it just sucks that females are left out.
I get there is the fear of it because people worry about female abuse more... but still... I feel that shouldn't be an excuse to leave them out of the fun.