Hearing Kiki's panicked cry, I was confused.
After all, they were successfully avoiding popping the blisters until now. There should be no way for her Plague's progress to increase so suddenly.
"Wait...!"
Only then did I notice one minor detail.
It was the fact that, as Kiki fought with her fists, her proximity to the monsters was a lot higher than anyone else's. This allowed the rats to damage her more frequently. Since the damage couldn't overcome my flag's regeneration, we had simply let it be.
But the scratches and bites from the Plague Rats, even if they barely did damage at all...
'The rat's attacks can inflict us with Plague too?!'
Of course, this wasn't such a surprising "property" for monsters like these. However, the ones in this beginner area shouldn't be that vicious. The past Kiki would've grumbled about it otherwise.
This meant this change was definitely part of the "correction" that Kay talked about before.
