If not, a battle instinct without an understanding of one's skills is like a blade without a handle. You would only injure yourself if you aren't careful.
And meanwhile, a battle instinct without encountering a life and death situation is like a dull blade left sharpened. Each apart held its disadvantages, but together, they were like a well-seasoned dish.
So this didn't come as a surprise to Elijah because apart from ingraining various dangerous fighting techniques in his body, he had spent one and a half months in one of the most famous dangerous lands in the underworld.
Even if he was a 12-year-old, he would still have known how to fight without prior knowledge if he had survived up to this point. So with his current resources, it was only something that was going to happen in a matter of time.
Meanwhile, Cahira looked at Elijah as she couldn't accept the level of disparity between them.