Talk:Mercury Black/@comment-190.218.41.34-20151214164206

So... Does anyone else think he was purposefully throwing out the match against Yang on purpose? I mean, in Volume 2 we first see Mercury fight against Pyrrha, but she's fighting him seriously to an extent while he was just toying with her to learn more about her Semblance and fighting style, and succeeded. Then, we finally get to see Mercury's true skills in effortlessly fighting both, Coco and Yatsuhashi at the same time and even manages to block one of Yatsuhashi's attacks, an attack that was so powerful that devastated the whole arena, and even still he was able to easily defeat Yatsuhashi, who is a whole foot and three inches taller, and way wider than Yang, meaning he must have at least double the physical strength of Yang.

But then, in his fight against Yang, he takes six of Yang's punches and he's immediately completely depleted from Aura while Yang took a little over 100 (I actually counted the shells, so yes, over 100) bullets directly and she had enough Aura to keep on fighting? What makes me think he was throwing the match purposefully though is that he should've known the fight was not over until the buzzer rings, but still he did not acknowledged this even though we know he's surprisingly observant and smart enough to figure out something as simple as that. I'm not sure if he lost on purpose to incriminate Yang, or if he legitimately was trying to fight seriously and lost. If he was fighting seriously though, it makes no sense for someone who managed to effortlessly fight two Second-Year Students at the same time while only taking one single hit from Yatsuhashi to suddenly lose to a First-Year Student, and not even the strongest first-year student, which is Pyrrha, but Yang.

I don't really get this, I guess I'll just have to wait for the next episode, but what do you guys think? Do you believe he lost on purpose and was holding back? Or that he actually lost to Yang?