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The Abnormal Journey of a (Mostly) Normal Guy [Medaka Box/???/Journal]

Go for both, dude.
He's obviously trying to get you to go for only him, and whenever someone says "I want to fight you", while acting that confident, you need to be very careful about how you fight them.

...Also, get with the remaining girl already.
This is a test, so this is the best chance you've got for a calm and relatively-safe place to learn how to fight with her.
The future opponents you'd face could very well not have an interest in letting you learn, so take the chance now while you've got it.
 
fight him yourself alone, while he does have some ability himself, since he is a weapon, he has more practive being weilded than anything else. He should be lower than your fighting level.
 
My advice roughly is, do what you feel is right or logical. Because either way, you're most likely outgunned here.

It's a test though, so I doubt they'd aim to kill you THAT much...
 
....crap

Spirit is THE Death Scythe. As in, the strongest of the current Death Scythes, who actually has the form of a scythe. Death's personal Weapon.

As for his known abilities, they are as follows:
  1. Absurd resistance to damage in Weapon form.
  2. Absurd blade sharpness.
  3. Absurd soul wavelength control. One of his tricks when working with Stein (his original Meister) is to control Stein's wavelength after a Soul Authority attack (basically, forcing your soul wavelength into the other person to damage them internally during a physical strike) and use it to stitch people to walls.
  4. He can be used by ANYONE, and regardless of their training or ability to control their soul wavelength he can use it to unleash wave-based slash attacks and fire frikkin' laser beams.
  5. He commonly retracts his blade during a fight, leaving his weapon form as simply a pole with cross-piece near the end. The reason for this is unknown, but he's only been seen firing lasers in this form.
  6. He can transform his arms into blades or the pole of his weapon form.
  7. Witch Hunter: the signature soul resonance ability of scythe Weapons. This has been seen used in three ways- leaving a solid trail behind a slash, transforming his scythe blade into much larger blade and creating a second one that extends from the back of the original (a bit like a double headed ax), and both combined.
Please note that as you are not in the canon S.E. verse, this list may not be 100% accurate, but it should serve as a good baseline for what he's capable of.

As for Sid:
  1. Uses several attacks that involve him burrowing into the ground and either digging through it to move/shield himself, or attacking out of the ground as an ambush.
  2. Generally all round physically capable and competent.
  3. Normally uses a knife Weapon.
Although again, the accuracy of this for this reality cannot be confirmed.

As for which option to take... Sid probably isn't used to fighting with a scythe, so that's an advantage if you take that option. But on the other hand, Spirit can be used ridiculously effectively by random nameless soldiers.

So... I'm not sure which option is better. I'll leave the suggesting options to somebody else.
 
The real weak point here is Sid, anyway - since we're not getting the option to fight only Sid, we need to fight them both so we at least have some weak point in the team to focus on.
Combined with what you all can do, this is the best option.
 
Ridiculously Average Guy said:
guys, he's a death scythe who's specialty is using others people's wavelengths. What happens if he fights alone?
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I certainly wouldn't put it past him to be able to hijack the wavelengths of the group. He can use the wavelengths of soldiers with no training in using their wavelength to fire massively powerful attacks, without any input or decision or permission from them.
 
I'm pretty sure the disappearing blade trick is a simple misdirection ploy. It helps keep an opponent from getting a read on his length and reach, as well as lightening the physical load on his wielder.

Outside that... I'd actually have to say, fighting him alone might be the better choice. Even if he does go weapon, a scythe isn't exactly Sid's weapon of choice, and there is the off choice that the 'obvious' choice is in fact so obvious as to become the less obvious choice. Everyone expects the trick, I mean it's so blatant it's hard to actually believe it is a trick.

Ether way, you're in for 'fun times'. I wish you luck.

Also we had a moment there where we saw from other people's POV. Not to much learned. Fran is effectively a testube baby (The details are a bit more macabre, but it doesn't really matter), her father seems to acknowledge her status as his daughter though. As a note, she was explicitly trained and couched towards being a doctor first. Her being a mister apparently was an independent choice. Not sure how useful this information will be for you, but it might be an in socially if she's feeling down about something.

Nagisa's previous superior Keel Lorenz apparently didn't want him here, or at the least put up a good fight about not 'letting him go'. This could be a good thing, or a bad thing. Again, unsure how useful it is, but more information for you.

Claudia is from one of the European divisions, with a mention to a Doctor Gia being highlighted... This could be trouble as it ups the probability of her having some analogue to the ValkyrieTrace system (the thing that drives her berserk and kills her). They are also under the assumption she's a muti form weapon, rather then powered armor (I'm still leaning to the later).

This is all the information I can at the current moment disclose of use to you. Sorry it's not to much.

Oh wait. One last bit of advice. It's not much, but about scythes in general. A scythe is a momentum based weapon, so you can normally see the lineup of an attack coming a mile away, but if it hits, it'll hit like a dump truck. Also be wary of the wide striking range it'll offer. No matter how unconventional, a pole arm will always have the reach advantage on hand to hand techniques. However, when you combine these factors, with that disappearing blade trick, you're going to have to keep a very close eye on the weapon itself, rather then footwork (which I know can be rather debilitating), because Sid will likely be able to change the weight (and hence speed) of a swing on the drop of a hat.

I'd recommend going for the legs when you can. Scythe techniques while striking primarily from the hips to upper body, rely heavily on having a proper footing, because they're basically exclusively heavy blows. If you can keep them off balance, then they will become even more debilitated then most spear fighters.
 
If he goes weapon, he'll get into Sid's hands.
And Sid is a much better opponent to be facing, than Mr Deathscythe Weapon of Death Himself on his own.
You need to make Mister Deathscythe put himself in the hands of someone who frankly isn't as good as himself, so you have someone to attack.

...I'm almost tempted you should say something about daughters and how they like their fathers to act, just to see if you can make him pause in an attack in order to get one in on your own.
But that'd probably get Stein curious and you do not want that.
 
To fight the Weapon alone or to fight the Weapon and the Wielder.
From what I can remember, Sid is mainly a knife or ranged weapon user.
He could possibly stalemate you in unarmed hand to hand. More so with a weapon despite it not being his specialty.
Especially with a living weapon. He's good. Together both of them are better.
Fight off the Weapon one on one. He can't hijack your buddies cause you're alone. But he will be difficult. VERY DIFFICULT!
Fight off Weapon and Wielder. They could possibly double-team you. Without Soul turning completely into a weapon. What? Nobody ever said anything about him being wielded. That's just assumptions. And you know what happens when you assume. It makes an ass out of u and me. But it might be easier if you guys have teamwork.
Take on the one.
 
*Sigh* No need for overly dramatic thinking. He's offering you to fight him one-on-one, take it. This isn't a test for you to win anyway, its a test to prove your worth. Do that.
 
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