i wonder if her copying techniques also unconsciously copy the spirit of the target. maybe some small sliver of honor from eisen prevented her from killing stark? who knows tbh. the whole "overconfidence" explanation doesn't really make sense. stark and fern managed to get some hits on them back in the castle, and he'd already gotten up from the demon's blows at least a couple times before. at that point, i don't give a damn how haughty you are; you're finishing the guy off just because he's annoying. fortunately for us, stark has that dawg in him (and the mangaka wanted him around for future stories), so he ended up winning.Gotta say I don't understand why the Loli always waited for him to get back up, wasn't her goal to kill him?