It was something not intended to happen.
Even without the interjection of Truth, I could tell that much.
On one side, there was a clear victor.
Yet, he did not celebrate.
"A-ah..."
Saburou could only let out small sounds of exclamation; as if he wanted to say something but the words were trapped at the base of his throat.
At this point, everyone's turn to fight had come to an end.
Although I couldn't take note of everything that was going on, I did what I could to observe.
For some of them, it was their first real experience of 'fighting', after all, so I had to use the rare opportunity to make a judgement on how they could improve.
Sophie, for example, possessed the necessary ability without a shadow of a doubt, but she didn't quite have the required experience to hurt a person without hesitation or adapt on the fly.
She got flustered easily and the result of that was a great deal of pain.