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It's actually not the same. You can turn around even if you have only one leg but you can't run or even make sudden movements can you? Turning around is a lot different then walking/running let alone dodging something.
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Try it. Try turning your entire body (nothing exempted) 180 degrees seamlessly (ie, no jerking movements, no sudden stop, must turn in only one direction all throughout, no loss of balance or trying to compensate for loss of balance, etc) with only one leg on the ground without resulting to hopping. Also, yes, you can run and/or make sudden movements with one leg. It won't be called
running though, since you're technically hopping.
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And actually if she was able to move, going around singing would have been the best idea. I doubt the nuns that were incapacitated by her song would recover 10 seconds after she moved away and that's plenty of time for some of her allies to knock them unconscious/ disarm them or something of the sort. So it's a great idea actually.
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How so? Did you not remember all those nuns that got thrown away the moment Index started her chant? Those that got outside hearing range immediately recovered and fell back behind Tatemiya.
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In this case you can't support from a distance. They were clearly not holding a perimeter if the nuns were able to practically stand on top of Index. And no I didn't see any ranged attacks going through because no one was using ranged attacks there to begin with. I'm pretty sure they would have gone through with ease considering the nuns got so close.
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Tell that to Stiyl. And nope. This will be discussed below. Do you not have any idea about elevation discrepancies and the resulting LoS advantage/disadvantage? This is the reason why Stiyl and Tatemiya took the roof later on. Right before Index started the chant, Stiyl was on the roof, while Tatemiya was on the ground. Then right before and during the ear-stabbing scene, both of them took the high ground once again. This implies that they had already cleared the lower ground. And again, you don't need to worry about ranged attacks when there is no one in range to make an attack. This is what holding a perimeter is about.
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Soo...they can zerg everyone else thus leaving index completely vulnerable to all sort of range attacks? And it's not a friendly perimeter if only she can stay in it. Sure safe for her maybe, but not for everyone else.
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You misunderstand. I was talking about the Agnese Forces' nuns. They are free to zerg everyone else aside from Index. The point is that we don't care about the other nuns fighting with the Amakusa or chasing after Orsola in this argument.
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The nuns are about 5 -6 metres from the ground and around 4 and a half metres from Index. let's say 5 just to be sure. So after she turned to face them before they punctured their eardrums they were unable to hear her. There was no indication of wind thus that's out of the equation. Acoustics won't play a large role here due to the small distance between them. Overall there is no reason for them not to be able to hear her.
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It will, and it does. And, small distance? I don't think so. Refer to the image below for this.
Anyway,
ever tried to talk to someone in an open space approximately 2 floors below you using your regular talking voice?
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At that distance they could simply throw the tiles on the roof at her and there were more than enough of those.
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A futile, short-term tactic with no strategic value.
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Sorry, but I refrained from using that particular scene to measure the size of the pen due to it belonging to an unknown nun. As you might have noticed, the fountain pens the nuns use do not look exactly alike. They have minor differences, like the location of the golden ring, the size of the nib, the presence of a black band in between two golden rings right before the nib, etc. The particular pen that nun is holding in that particular hand in the second shot does not have the golden ring you described at all, else it would be visible in that shot since her fingers are never obscuring the entire circumference of the cylinder at any one location. This means that my approximation of 2.5-3 cm is more accurate.
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Well the ear canal itself is pointed slightly upwards thus if you insert an object it will go slightly upwards as well. Even if you don't damage the vestibule system directly just right after your eardrum gets punctured it results in very sharp pain, vertigo (meaning your balance is compromised) and sometimes even "ringing" in your ear which further serves to compromise your sense of balance.
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See the images below. The encircled part in the first image is where the inner ear is located. It is labeled as the vestibule in the second image, since the cochlea is located to the front and the semicircular canals to the back. As we can see, the inner ear is located a fair distance and angle away from the angle of insertion. And remember, we're fighting against bone and cartilage here. Also,
vertigo is only a symptom of eardrum rupture when there is an accompanying infection or inflammation within the inner ear that caused the rupture, specifically around or within the vestibular system (labyrinthitis, vestibular neuritis, etc; source:
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2). Pain is almost a non-issue for these nuns at this stage (remember Lucia's order?), and this should be apparent by the next episode.
As an aside, this episode had lots of QUALITY moments and a few deviations from the novel (the portrayal of Index's Sheol Fear, the number of nuns that surrounded Index, and the Amakusa's fighting style and battle strength being the major ones). It's unknown whether both these aspects will carry over to the next episode, so it's best to hold up until then.
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