

In Part 4 of _Black Lagoon: Roberta's Blood Trail_ , Shenhua attacks Roberta
and is swiftly backed up by Sawyer and Rotton. Roberta breaks Sawyer's
chainsaw and one of Shenhua's kukris, has the two held at gunpoint... then
just kicks Rotton in the balls and walks away, sparing all three of them.

I haven't watched Part 5 yet, but so far this is the only time Roberta has
shown mercy in the entire OVA. Later on in Part 4, she reacts to Eda _helping
her_ by promising to kill her painlessly, yet here she spares three random
strangers who were trying to kill her, two-thirds of whom were still armed in
some capacity. I don't understand why.

It could be that Roberta's just trying to catch up to the American soldiers
and/or Garcia, and doesn't want to waste time killing them, but she doesn't
seem to be in that much of a hurry - as I noted, she _walks_ away from the
incident in question. It could also just be that she's gone completely insane
at this point, and trying to analyse her actions is a waste of time. But I'd
like to try anyway.

**Why didn't Roberta kill Shenhua, Sawyer, and Rotton?**

To repeat: I haven't seen Part 5 yet, so I don't want to Google anything in
case I stumble across any spoilers. If the answer is "watch Part 5", so be it.


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Why didn't Roberta kill these characters?