Quote Originally Posted by Remember_The_Name View Post
Your beloved father is about to get murdered by a madman who has clearly cheated the rules of dueling

If not for the thiccest coat of plot armor that only gave him cracked glasses, we would've had the singular Dawnservant once again. He may be smart and a machnist, but getting hit by such creature at such speed should incapacitate a person real good, if not killing them outright.
Is he, though? Is anyone in Dawntrail?
I dare anyone to point out one moment where we actually SEE him being smart. Not solving things off-screen and hearing about it later, not suddenly turning up with a solution to a problem from somewhere, not characters saying "Koana is smart". Actually doing or saying something that shows us he is smart.

Or better yet, try to do the same with any supposedly smart character in Dawntrail.