If that woman is in a fighting tournament and totally serious about it, my money is on her thinking the two of them exchanged plenty of words ... by communicating through their fists.
They interact plenty and it involves him repeatedly receiving physical pain. This can be reframed as a person trying to avoid a life of domestic violence so I don’t really give a damn about any objections over him not having enough tact for this scenario. Sure he flunked on the research, but he’s also not leaving a paper trail unlike what would have happened if he went through the guild and he has no reason to know any extenuating circumstances since he doesn’t strike me as a person anyone’s bothered to explain anything to in the first place.
See, the impression I've got of him is that people tried to teach him and he's never bothered to listen to anyone.
If an hour or so of practical experience taught him better than actual years of everyone else trying to teach him, that feels like an indictment of his family and teachers more than an indictment of him to me.
He's also dangerously incompetent and a total pain in the ass, besides having offended the girls on multiple occasions. The party wants nothing to do with him after the trouble he caused them last time.
He's open to learning, does so fairly quickly, the "trouble" was barely a blip and he'll be getting power either way 'cause blood inheritance is funny like that.
The emotion is tangible and the leaves dancing in to wind and the slight glow the protag gives off has a sense of loneliness. I rather like it.Kind of off-topic but I tried to draw a manga panel for the first time, what do you all think?
