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"Fiends" have tremendous killing potential, because they actively try to kill
humans who cannot retaliate due to psychological and genetic safeguards
against violence.

However, I have not seen anything that indicates that they have a particularly
powerful Cantus. Is their ability not the same as that of a regular human?

I am raising this doubt, because

> Maria and Mamoru's daughter could defeat the strongest Cantus user in the
> village at such a young age.

Did I perhaps miss some information that indicates that Fiends are much
stronger for some reason?


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Where do "fiends" get their abnormal strength?


There's actually two parts to your question:

> Do Akkis (fiends/ogres) have abnormal strength?

There's a bit of a disconnect here. Maria and Mamoru's child is not actually
an Akki as mentioned in the last episode. The akki "K" in the flashback is
actually a grown up teenager. So he could very well be that strong in the
first place.

So the real question is: "Why is Maria and Mamoru's child so strong?"

This assertion does seem to be true since the kid is able to do precision
kills while normal children of the same age have trouble levitating a ball.

A speculative answer would be to go back to the fact that Cantus is a power of
the imagination. It's possible that Maria and Mamoru's child, having grown up
outside the village and influence of humans, has a completely different
mindset and thus different imaginative potential.

> Why was Maria and Mamoru's child able to defeat Shisei Kaburagi (the
> strongest Cantus user) at such a young age?

This is simply because Shisei, a normal human Cantus user, is restricted by
attack inhibition.

So regardless of how powerful he is, he cannot hurt the child. On the other
hand, the child can freely attack Shisei. Note Shisei does attempt to defend
himself since he manages to protect himself against the rocks that the child
threw at him. But once the child used his/her Cantus directly on Shisei,
Shisei was as good as dead.

_In other words, if you tied a 200 pound wrestler against a wall and let a
10-year-old kick him in the balls repeatedly, eventually the kid is gonna
win._


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