That's how it should be
No sudden power ups into something Melida isn't
Just a good plan, good training, good help, fighting to her strengths and against her weakness, and no mercy
Granted, the LN did a (relatively) longer segment on how Kufa trained Melida in hand to hand and advice on how to...
@HOOfan_1 Rin said it like the rivalry for being the Queen made the sisters unfriendly to each other
And Alice isn't excited to meet her older sister (even as a excuse to not do paperwork for a bit!), and here isn't trying very hard to get her younger sister to cut it out with the cold looks...
@Reimans even 300 meters away without line of sight is a very good distance, there’s no question she could be a vastly threatening spy. And whether the Empire knew or didn’t, they still treated her as a serious enemy despite her appearance.
This all still sidesteps the question: how and why did...
So the question is, how did such a powerful but weak girl (combat power ????) get caught by the Empire?
Intelligence wise, she can spy literally everything about the military, there’s absolutely no question she’s a threat. But if her mom had known, why not insist on sending the guards with her...
To add on to this convo, I will explain some very very minor LN spoilers (that we have not yet gotten to in the manga, and no I will not talk about whether Melida is legitimate or not)
Hostility in regards to Fergus's side of the family:
As far as we have seen within in the manga, it's Melida's...
Another thing to note is that the grand mission of protecting humanity doesn't mean a whole lot to people who are generally divorced from the masses of humanity they are supposed to protect
Not much skin in that game stuck up in the Canvells away from the laborers and farmers and miners