'Her weakness... is being drunk?' Caster sounds terribly skeptical of your sudden revelation, but isn't the sort of person to disbelieve something just based on how odd of place it might sound. 'I understand that many heroic spirits may have had a fondness for alcohol, but an actual weakness?' Well in a way, Medea is correct. Shuten's weakness for alcohol is her fondness for the stuff.

'In a sense, yes. While it was the consumption of poisoned alcohol that was the thing that lead to Shuten Dōji's downfall, her fondness for alcohol was the thing that lead her to that outcome. Even though she knew that the alcohol was poisoned, she decided to drink it regardless, allowing herself to be weakened enough to be slain as a result.'

Part 11