User blog comment:Jkphantom9/Volume 3 Episode 9 Preview/@comment-26389992-20160114030502/@comment-1292715-20160114044536

Still, Ruby has been shown to be pretty useless without her scythe. Also Mercury killed his own father, who was apparently an assassin. That feat is definitely nothing to sneeze at. Even with her scythe, I doubt Ruby would've had an easy fight.