Next, with Lefiya's cooperation, everyone conducted a lot of tests on her.
For example, it was still a stick to the head, but the executor was Takumi.
Another example was animal testing, where the attacker was replaced by various animals.
The last step was the monster test. Riveria asked Tiona to go outside and borrow a tamed monster from another Familia.
In addition to being tied to the pillar, several people also tried letting Lefiya move freely in order to observe her different reactions to various situations.
As for the test results, they could only be described as terrible.
In addition to animal testing, where Lefiya would fight back against some cute animals, in other tests, Lefiya would act very frightened, completely forgetting to resist or fight back, and would only be beaten passively or run away.
"How about it? Did you see any problems?" Riveria frowned and asked Takumi, who made the suggestion.
Takumi nodded, "Well, I can see a little bit."
"Then hurry up and say it, don't be too pretentious." Tiona urged after hearing this.
Ais on the side and Lefiya, who was a little embarrassed after being tormented, also looked over. Especially Lefiya, her eyes were very eager. After all, she didn't want to be tormented for so long and gain nothing at all; otherwise, wouldn't it have been in vain?
Takumi scratched his head. "How should I put it? First of all, it is certain that Lefiya can actually counterattack when faced with being approached by an enemy."
"But the problem is that in most cases, she doesn't dare, or in other words, doesn't have the courage to fight back."
"Well, there may be other reasons, but in short, Lefiya is very resistant to close contact with most enemies."
"You are not talking nonsense; we can see this too." Tiona curled her lips. What kind of nonsense was this? Lefiya had always behaved like this, so did he need to say it?
Takumi didn't care about Tiona's argument and continued, "Then the important point..."
"Through the test just now, we can see that there is a pattern for the enemies Lefiya dares to fight back against." Riveria heard the words and looked at the test records thoughtfully.
Tiona didn't understand directly and asked, "What's the pattern?"
"This is it." Takumi smiled awkwardly. "It may be because of appearance, or it may be strength."
Then Takumi picked up a test record, showed it to several people, and pointed out certain records in it.
"These are all cases in which Lefiya has fought back, and the test subjects in these cases are, without exception, cute little animals that are generally thought to be harmless."
"And some other large animals are even originally very gentle. When an animal goes crazy and attacks Lefiya, Lefiya will also be frightened and forget to fight back."
"Therefore, it can be seen that Lefiya has her own set of criteria for determining danger."
"Once the enemy exceeds this criterion and enters her attack range, Lefiya will subconsciously escape instead of counterattacking to eliminate the danger."
"However, the upper limit of her standard is too low."
It's not that low? She obviously had great strength and could lift about five tons of weight, but she was scared to death of even an ordinary buffalo that went crazy. It really made people not know what to say.
Takumi concluded, "Cowardice and lack of understanding of one's own strength are the fundamental reasons for Lefiya's problem."
"If she wants to improve, in addition to being braver, she must also have a clear understanding of her own strength and do some training to build confidence in close combat."
After hearing this, Tiona couldn't help but roll her eyes. "To put it bluntly, your method is to let Lefiya learn melee combat. We have already tried this problem, and it will not be of much use."
In order for Lefiya to improve this problem, everyone in the Loki Familia had been making various attempts. It wasn't like they hadn't tried to let Lefiya learn melee skills, but even after learning them, it seemed like she hadn't learned them at all. At the critical moment, Lefiya's claws would still be numb.
"Learning to fight in close combat is not the point at all, right?" Takumi explained speechlessly. "The key point is to build self-confidence. It's not about whether you can fight in close combat, but whether you dare to fight in close combat."
Riveria also nodded in agreement. "Yes, judging from Lefiya's previous counterattack performances in the test, it is not difficult to see that she has actually learned some melee skills, but she just doesn't dare to use them most of the time."
"So, what difference does it make?" Tiona scratched her head irritably, not understanding what the two of them meant. She just thought, aren't these two plans the same?
"As I said, it's a difference in direction."
Takumi took the trouble to explain. "Your training is just to see if she can fight back. You have not considered whether she dares to do so."
"Now after testing, it has been confirmed that Lefiya can fight back."
"So the next thing to do is to make her dare to fight back, do you understand?"
Tiona suddenly realized. "That's it."
"So, what can be done to build her confidence?"
"This is actually easy to do. You just need to do it more and slowly increase the intensity bit by bit."
The so-called self-confidence training was actually a lesson that all recruits in a modern army would experience.
The content was also very simple. Set a goal, let the trainee complete it, and give praise and praise after completion. Then, increase the intensity and try again, time after time. By repeating this step, the trainee's self-confidence is built up bit by bit.
However, this is only a smooth situation.
If the trainee fails when completing a certain goal, some psychological counseling needs to be carried out to get them back on their feet and keep trying until they achieve their goals.
In a nutshell, that's...
"Need to practice more."
"Start from the basics and go step by step to reach the ultimate goal."
After coming to the conclusion, Riveria did not delay and directly took Lefiya to start training.
The first target was the small animals that Lefiya fought back against in the previous test. Only this time, the weapon in Lefiya's hand was replaced by a real one, with the goal of killing these small animals.
At first, Lefiya was a little hesitant; after all, these little animals were so cute. But after being hurt by the little animals several times, Lefiya became fierce and fought back, finishing the little animals in two or three strokes.
Riveria, who was supervising on the side, saw this and gave timely encouragement: "Look, you can do it, come on! Keep up this motivation!"
"Well, I will." Lefiya nodded and responded with enthusiasm.
At the same time, she also felt relieved. Suddenly she felt that close combat was not that difficult after all.