Ple-Sen
Throughout the entire battle, Alaria acted cautiously. Not so much as to cower in a corner — you certainly won't hone your martial skills that way — but she didn't waste her strength needlessly either. Alas, this was precisely her main mistake. Where she relied on the prudence of an opponent who considered it more important to bring down the titan that weathered blows and swept aside knights standing in its path in a single stroke, he chose to shoot her in the back. Experience and a lesson as well — apparently, even in a melee, the heat of the moment clouded the eyes of seasoned warriors. Let it be a lesson to her.
Leaving the battlefield and soon finding herself in the stands, after the diligent doctors had tended to her fresh wounds, Catharsis looked down upon the ongoing circus and pondered the course of the competition. The obvious favorite was Stefania Valentine — denying that would be foolish and naive — but the reason for this was not skill or cunning tactics, but rather the clear advantage of having a pegasus and the mistakes of other players. It felt as though both sides of the conflict were competing to sabotage their own chances of victory. There was no clever exploitation of weaknesses that Wind might have demonstrated. Not even close. She simply had no room left for error, thanks to the efforts of others. An interesting fight, but in some ways even instructive. If anyone would learn from this experience, it was Alaria herself, who would certainly take it into account in the future. And she reminded herself once again to either learn how to shoot a bow, acquire a means of flight, or at least get some kind of protection against arrows.
After that, having lost particular interest in the shooting of defenseless pedestrians, she finished her essay and, finding Yin, shared the resulting text with him.