One has to question HOW Kanako would ever win in a straight fight. She only beat Suwako through trickery.

WatcherCCG said:
One has to question HOW Kanako would ever win in a straight fight. She only beat Suwako through trickery.

I wouldn't call disarming 'trickery', it's a perfectly legitimate tactic. Hell, if someone came at me with a knife, first thing I'd do would be to disarm the attacker, and only then push the attack.
Then again, somewhere I read that Suwako was already looking to hand over the shrine, but wanted to go about it in an honorable way, hence the "staged" battle.

WatcherCCG said:
One has to question HOW Kanako would ever win in a straight fight. She only beat Suwako through trickery.

I've always read it that it wasn't so much that Suwako would have lost the god-battle as much as much as her forces would have been destroyed by Kanako's forces.

ThunderBird said:
Somewhere I read that Suwako was already looking to hand over the shrine, but wanted to go about it in an honorable way, hence the "staged" battle.

Suwako throwing the fight after putting on a show makes a lot more sense. She just wanted retirement, heh.