Perhaps she's not quite sure of it, and tried to make him spill some beans. Every one of them can sense Athena has a lot of unused potential, and Mirialia obviously would know her own potential. Frey simply isn't using properly even the strength she openly displays, and likely has more untapped. Daru, however, is the real question. He's older, so his pure physical strength and resilience will start to wane. He stated straightforwardly he beat Frey thanks to his experience. So, it's quite reasonable to suspect Daru is the one who can't actually get any stronger anymore, although he might have some skills he hasn't displayed. But after revealing those, that might be it for him. I reckon to figure that out was Mirialia's reason for this discussion. If Daru is still hiding a whole lot, there's no problem, but if it's only a little bit, he will fall behind when the others grow a lot stronger.Mirialia, if you're so ready to admit it, why're you getting on his ass about the exact same thing, when you're doing it even harder?
Forget the fact that he saw a misunderstanding on Daru, Daru knows this and mf says sht to her and to Est, this mf thinks all is ok and don't clean that now EST think she prefer Daru and become turbo *ssholeyeah just found this today and while I don't dislike what this story is doing, honestly I think at its core if Est had just been fired from his party while being told "the fact that you can't enchant yourself puts you in enormous danger so we can't keep you working with us because chances are you'll just die one of these days" and then had Est go turbo asshole regardless because he just wouldn't accept that as the reason would make this story work in a way that it kind of just doesn't as long as Est was thrown out without being given the reason why.
Yeah it sure feels like Athena had good intentions but massively miscommunication due to PLOT REASONS. And then the other two just wanted to show off how much they're "tch barely using one percent of their power" so they didn't say anything when Athena was agonizing over kicking Est out because she well and truly could not protect him anymore and thought the other two couldn't either."It feels like Frey has finally become one of us"
But Est was never one of you guys, right?
Today we learned that both Daru and the annoying lesbian elf (oh my god, how can you make a LESBIAN ELF so hard to like!?) were holding back their true abilities all this time, meaning they both COULD HAVE SAVED EST FROM BEING HURT IN THE FIRST PALCE, WHICH WAS THEIR ONLY REASONING FOR KICKING HIM OUT OF THEIR PARTY!!!!
"Est, you are too weak to defend yourself and we are not strong enough to protect you, so you have to go."
AND NOW THEY ARE REVEALING THAT THEY ARE ALL GOLD RANK MONSTERS HIDING THEIR TRUE STRENGTH!? THEY WOULD RATHER RISK EST DIE BY THEIR COMPANY OR DIE ALONE, BUT REFUSE TO REVEAL THEIR TRUE STRENGTH TO PROTECT HIM!?
AND I'M SUPPOSED TO ROOT FOR THESE ASSHOLES!?
Now they are officially the most unlikable party ever."It feels like Frey has finally become one of us"
But Est was never one of you guys, right?
Today we learned that both Daru and the annoying lesbian elf (oh my god, how can you make a LESBIAN ELF so hard to like!?) were holding back their true abilities all this time, meaning they both COULD HAVE SAVED EST FROM BEING HURT IN THE FIRST PALCE, WHICH WAS THEIR ONLY REASONING FOR KICKING HIM OUT OF THEIR PARTY!!!!
"Est, you are too weak to defend yourself and we are not strong enough to protect you, so you have to go."
AND NOW THEY ARE REVEALING THAT THEY ARE ALL GOLD RANK MONSTERS HIDING THEIR TRUE STRENGTH!? THEY WOULD RATHER RISK EST DIE BY THEIR COMPANY OR DIE ALONE, BUT REFUSE TO REVEAL THEIR TRUE STRENGTH TO PROTECT HIM!?
AND I'M SUPPOSED TO ROOT FOR THESE ASSHOLES!?
If you have to pretend that some major events in the story happened differently to make it readable it's far away from close to being good. There are so many bad and provoking scenes that it seems like the author and the mangaka intended to create shitstorms to attract readers. That's sad because, as you mentioned, you could have written a pretty good story with the initial idea (banishers' perspective).It's so close to being good, and I'm going to keep reading unless it bungles again. But god do you really have to pretend that they kicked Est out like the reason we're being given was ultimately true (which due to Mirailia "I'm hiding my powers" it isn't) and you have to pretend like Athena actuallly gave Est her reasons rather than giving him nothing at all.