User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 377 & 378: Imperial Wrath of the Heavenly Dragon & With Friends, Always, Review./@comment-17764746-20140329001023/@comment-24066070-20140329093714

After giving it some thought, I agree Carla writing that rune could be pure bullshit.

Her predictions of the future were based on actions she took in said possible future, but it was nowhere stated that Carla had the ability to draw runes or symbols, let alone ones with destructive effects.

But how could she suddenly do something she had never done before?

If she would look at possible futures where she herself tries to stop face, she would see a future of her kicking it, then a future of her scratching it, then punching or headbutting it, since these are the things she can do as a non-combat character with no offensive spells or abilities.

However, she suddenly sees futures of her drawing runes or whatever it was.

So this makes it look like she either:

- Learned to draw runes out of the blue

- She resorted to an enormous amount of futures, even those where she just starts drawing runes on Face, due to having run out of other ideas.

And how much futures does she need to look ahead before she gets to those where she is so desperate that she just draws random runes on face? Then she would still have to find the one effective rune out of all the possible runes out there, which should take very, very long and can not be pulled off while being bitten by Ezel and worrying about Wendy at the same time.

If she should be able to process all these possible futures, while watching Wendy fight, then her brain is the world's strongest computer or something.

But perhaps she learned a rune by watching or hanging around Freed or Levy.

It may also be possible that she is capable of searching for a specific event, without said event having any relation to her own abilities. Like just searching for possible ways to stop Face and she encountered several, one where it was completely destroyed by brute force (she realized this would not be possible to do), the next where Face was stopped by a specific command and this command is written as a rune, thus she instantly finds the right rune.

However, if her ability is to search for a desired event and instantly get the information she needs to bring about said event, then her ability is arguebly even more hax than scanning through infinite futures until she has the correct one.

So I would really like it if she just learned the rune from Freed or Levy, even if this is quite ass-pull in it's own right.

The best thing would be if she somehow lost the ability to "predict", since all these alternative timelines get confusing and the GMG arc already showed the author should not go near alternative timelines ever again.