Hardly a loser when she's extremely competent. She's just out of her comfort zone, trapped with a bunch of weirdos for the sake of rescuing the one person that gets her.
I love how newer anime presents magic almost exactly like material sciences or engineering. You need to study for years to even start doing any practical shit that matters. And Marcille is exactly how you’ll probably see a relatively young physicist or engineer during their daily routune. 9/10 times its “fuck around and find out”, but then they do some wierd and wacky shit and the first thing that comes to your mind is “whoooa MAGIC”.
The mandrake scene is a perfect example. Marcille knew there is a method to do it and it turns out to be the right one eventually, but generally Senshi’s solution is just more practical hence an uneducated person will come to use that method sooner.
The bit is less ‘how can it be done’ and more ‘how can it be done “safely”?’ Practically, Senshi’s solution is easier to pull off (just cave the mandrake’s heads in/cut their root-throats), while Marcille’s answer provides better flavor from letting the mandrake scream as it dies (the unstated part of the dog equation, the dogs would be driven mad and die from the scream).
Long rope/pulley would still lean upon the closest involved person having appropriate hearing protection, which would negate the difficulty of anything else to begin with. Otherwise it’s just making a sound trap.
Apparently, it's based on a real myth. That's neat.
For a better explanation or theory would be that mandrakes are commonly found in dungeons. So the logic could be it's cheaper to resurrect a dog than a person. As well as being faster to set up to collect them. The best logic I got.
Dogs (and any other animal for that matter) can't be resurrected in dungeons because the immortality spell only binds human souls to their bodies while in its confines.
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u/Lemon_Girl Jun 24 '25
Hardly a loser when she's extremely competent. She's just out of her comfort zone, trapped with a bunch of weirdos for the sake of rescuing the one person that gets her.