Talk:Tsuchimikado Motoharu/@comment-10601551-20150216214529/@comment-5230978-20150217001524

Attacks considered illegal in martial arts are a valid excuse in tournament but a very poor one a fist fight or in a battle as they have no rules. Even Touma is not a pride knight in battle as he can't take the liberty to not exploit what could be useful to win (obviosuly without killing, taking hostages, and other bad things). Tsuchi is the same. Touma admitted he is no match for him, proved by him being completely unable to read and react to Tsuchi's attacks and so defeated in less than three seconds, and also the novel refers to Tsuchi as an expert and to Touma as an amateur. Even without so-called dirty attacks it's unlikely Touma could win in a cateris paribus fight with Motoharu.