"I'm not fighting anymore, I'm going to retreat!"
"Exactly, exactly, that person might not even end up in my space. Once I get back, I'll close the Spatial Passage, and that should guarantee safety, right!"
"Right, we never really needed to have a Desperate Fight with that person."
"..."
As the number of demigods voicing such self-hypnotizing statements increased, a large portion of the demigods present actually came to believe that reasoning. As a result, once they embraced such thoughts, their subsequent responses were predictably aligned.
