Why didn't Nana...? (spoiler from ep13)

skysurf said:
Nana is a trained assassin. Is there any confirmed reason on why she didn't tried to fight the knife off the ghost dude? Not saying she would win the fight, but if the plan was just to make some time for Kyoya to find the real body, she might as well have tried to fight instead of just letting herself be stabbed to death.

She's supposed to be very smart when it comes to this kind of stuff, so why would she choose the option that would lead to an almost certain death instead of trying to fight for a bit of increased chance of survival?

Even if the ghost is invisible and can't be damaged with physical attacks, he's holding a regular knife that can be seen and grabbed. Did I miss something?

Obviously you can't avoid the death of the character that the writer wants to delete for plot reasons, but since this is a detective-like story, I expected a situation that really couldn't have been avoided by Nana.

skysurf said:
Nana is a trained assassin. Is there any confirmed reason on why she didn't tried to fight the knife off the ghost dude? Not saying she would win the fight, but if the plan was just to make some time for Kyoya to find the real body, she might as well have tried to fight instead of just letting herself be stabbed to death.

She's supposed to be very smart when it comes to this kind of stuff, so why would she choose the option that would lead to an almost certain death instead of trying to fight for a bit of increased chance of survival?

Even if the ghost is invisible and can't be damaged with physical attacks, he's holding a regular knife that can be seen and grabbed. Did I miss something?

Obviously you can't avoid the death of the character that the writer wants to delete for plot reasons, but since this is a detective-like story, I expected a situation that really couldn't have been avoided by Nana.

Strykeryno said:


You can't expect people to be act always 100% smart, especially when they are emotional.
Whole episode she leaned more towards betraying her mission, rather then carry on with it. Since the last ep she is starting to have a moral dilemma if her killings were truly justified, if it is a right thing to do. Call from Tsuruoka sent her back at the moral crossroads, putting her in tough spot, making her decide to either follow her orders or her heart.
Nana may be a trained assassin, but she is still young traumatized girl who after a really long time found somebody she truly cares about. That's why shielding Michiru felt more natural for her imo.
Even she did admit, that it was stupid of her to rush in like that, and even her ending up dying would be fitting for her.
Even if she would be faster and dodged that attack with Michiru, she would most likely get stabbed anyway since disarming a floating knife is well not something anyone could do since you must grab the knife directly unlike when you're disarming a normal person where you would mostly target his/her's arm. I don't think that bit of a combat training she possesses would help her in that situation anyway.