There are only manly tears after Sequence 10.
Anyway, this is the first time you can use the Materials IIRC. And that U-D battle has a lot of bs to it. You have to deplete her magic to start damaging her and she doesn't flinch until you do so. Not complicated with Stern, her version of the Buster helps, but with Levi is pretty difficult since all of her long range attacks eat magic, more so in her sprite form.