I find this kind of timidity really frustrating and persistently out of character. We're meant to be a bold warrior, and we should logically be exhilarated at the opportunity to watch legendary experts fighting, it's like a guitar player being offered the chance to watch Jimi Hendrix, the Stones, and the Beatles doing a sound check at once. But instead the quest generally chooses to play Halla like an actuary whenever we are not essentially forced by the narrative to be proactive. Ultimately that's people's right, but I personally find it frustrating due to the disconnect with the character.
We're clearly standing away from the scrum and just watching the fight, so whilst an element of risk exists, I think it's a limited one, and at most would present a moderate challenge in where we have to dodge crossfire in exchange for gaining a Hugareida rank-up or something. (The more likely scenario is it's just scenery.) But instead we kneejerk towards the most extreme possibilities of peril - and this becomes basically impossible to argue against because the most remote disaster scenarios are treated as certainties, despite this objectively not being how Fister writes the quest.
