User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Chapter 502 Review/@comment-24102956-20160919112456/@comment-7418318-20160919155553

Lol... Brandish is to blame for not putting in her very best to do something that went against her will? oO

Come on, even without using her magic on August she could have easily made sure he was dead, if she really wanted to. She stabbed August and enlarged the knife while it was inside of him to make a bigger wound. She could have just kept doing that until August's body was literally split in half, or stabbed him in the heart or head instead of the belly.

That she didn't do any of that could well be a sign that she subconsciously resisted Mest's manipulations, or that she was too powerful for the manipulation to properly work and Mest only achived a partial success and thus only got a half-hearted attempt for it.

Or Mest messed up not just in choosing to attack at that moment, but also in failing to do it properly.