After getting hit by Reiner when he was barely conscious, Erika quickly understood that Reiner was actually unconsciously holding back. She wanted to see how powerful Reiner truly was.
Erika did not have any great strategy in mind and was going to use the single thing she had practiced since she was young, the downward slash. Even someone like Ichika had been hurt by her downward slash.
The Capell family had no fancy techniques most of their techniques were rather simple and crude, but each of those techniques had devastating power. Still, among all their techniques there was one that they could call the very essence of their family, and it was the simple downward slash that became the essence of all their other techniques.
