Bro already planned this shit but I suspect he was a coward and possibly abandoned Gitae which led to what he is today

Dialogue:

Gap: My son's name is Kim Ki..

Baekho: Please take care of yourself

I wish the choreography will be this good in Gen 0 arc it will be crazy, imagine a hulking figure moving that agile

3 masteries (strength, speed, technique) + amazing at a weapon

This was my theory from a month ago

If they really need to set the hierarchy how will they approach the problem and assert that one is better than the other without fighting or through a short fight?

Personally I would definitely think that this will be the final straw of PTJ'S BS writing. It just won't make any sense considering how PTJ already said Path > Pathless while using Tom to convey it.

what do y'all think?

There are tons of possibilities here:

One of them is Mid Diffing the other:

This can happen if one of them underestimates the other and gets caught off guard by either suddenly going all out from the start.

One of them is High Diffing the other:

We see either of them closing in on their full power, possibly through a path battle, and one turns out to be a bad matchup for the other. For instance, if James cannot penetrate Gitae's defenses and Gitae manages to grab hold of his shirt or Gitae's speed is actually on par with James, then Gitae wins. On the other hand, if James actually has the power to punch through Gitae's defense and Gitae is simply too slow to catch him, then James wins.

One of them is Extreme Diffing the other:

This is highly unlikely to happen during their fight, at least for now, because neither of them would risk going that far given the situation at hand and the fact that both of them are vulnerable.

One thing to consider is that Changsu's role started as the unintentional instigator and will shift into that of a mediator between the two once the fight breaks out, which will likely be what stops it.

Whatever happens during their fight, if it even happens, it will split the fandom even further apart and have people either questioning PTJ's writing, given the notable amount of writing blunders, character regressions, and plot holes already present in this arc, or praising him for how it plays out.

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posting this in advanced

James takes strength though(his ceiling is higher)