I'm pretty sure it's meant to be closer to "What will I do if you evade the attack halfway".I think there's a mistranslation? Otherwise what that gramps said doesn't make sense.
That was quite confusing indeed. But I'd like assume Seo Haryeong is a girl, as she was called the heroine of the novel. I hope she can be a female friend of the same age for Yeon, but who knows.Now that I think about it, I believe the redhead's pronouns are wrong in this chapter too.
Exactly what you would expect from MF....their TL's are always medicore at best."Ah, she is the heroine"
*TL immediatly proceed to use masculine pronouns for her for half the chapter, until they finally write "she is the daughter of...". You'd think, after this last sentence, they'll notice their mistake and take 10 seconds to fix it, but nah...