Even with his fancy niello wings, Genau still has to get up close and personal against a demon armed with four swords. Sure, the mage starts the fight off with a few projectiles, but what happened to the rest of his spells? Didn’t he nuke a demon a couple of episodes ago with a ranged attack? Meanwhile, Stark can’t keep up with Revolte, so he falls back on a familiar strategy: taking a direct hit to distract his opponent. In fact, he later invokes the same exact lesson that helped him overcome Linie back in season one. The more things change, the more things stay the same. There’s always a bigger fish out there, though. At some point, he’s going to meet someone who can take him down in a single blow. You can’t meat-tank everything. But I guess in that scenario, he’d probably just run.
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