Magna Swing Quotes

Magna thinks it while Asta is bloodied, a panel before the ice mage Heath asks him why he doesn't give up. It is the most reasonable voice on the page. Magna has just remembered his own village cheering him as its pride for getting into the Magic Knights at all, and he silently offers Asta the same consolation. He has cause to want the fight over: a few pages earlier he thinks that he has almost no magic power left and silently apologizes to Mister Yami. The objection comes on the same page, out loud. Asta tells Heath this isn't just to keep a promise, because if he gives up, nobody will protect the villagers watching behind him. Magna's permission to stop was kind. It answered a question about Asta's record, when the fight was about the villagers.

The turnaround is sincere, and the line borrows most of its force from the chapter's momentum rather than from what it says. Two pages earlier Magna privately decided Asta had done enough. Asta then gave a reason he cannot stop: if he gives up, who protects the villagers? Magna converts that reason into a compliment about manhood. It praises the stance and drops the argument, which is the better half of the scene. His actions say more than the line does. On the next page he steps in front of Asta and tells Heath to get through Asta's superior first; then he spends all the magic he has left on one attack, which Heath meets with an ice shield, calling it much too wasteful. The rebuttal to that, "It's not a waste!!", is given to Asta, not Magna.