Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24994749-20160305171950/@comment-4010415-20160305195034

MetallicArcher wrote: That's how I understood it, too.

But it's still nice to have a semi-canon example of people bleeding while their aura is still up. (I'm not counting Yang getting her arm chopped off because there was apparently something else going with Adam's move.)

I mean, technically the White Trailer already gave us that, but up until this manga chapter we didn't know how much of the WT was real and how much metaphorical. There was actually nothing special going on with Adam's move.

Miles explained it as Adam's attack being so powerful that Yang's Aura couldn't protect from the entire blow, so he instantly took her Aura down to 0% and the remainder of the damage done cut her arm off. Kerry pointed out that Yang had already been fighting before she got there, so she wasn't at 100%.

So, basically, it's just that Adam hit her really fucking hard.

Miles: The Aura is, y'know it's like, we establish in the [...] tournament fights that, like... Yeah, every hit can drop it and some hits can break it. It just so happens that Adam's attack was so badass that, in one hit, it managed to break it and do damage all at once, it was so powerful.

Kerry: Yang had also been fighting off-screen.

Miles: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that girl, that girl had been through some things! It's not necessarily a sword thing, more just like "Oh, he's strong! Oh, he's a scary man!"

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