Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20151223075113/@comment-4188031-20160128222145

143.85.96.18 wrote: Random thought.

Back in OSS, Irina was described as a "jealous girl" (quoting Survival Ma) and in this story, after the Swap Technique was used, the narrator says that Kayo wasn't herself anymore. Now, with Mei's murder, we find out that the narrator is suspicious about her martial ability being passed on from Ma via the Swap Technique. Maybe when Ma used the Swap Technique, she also passed the part of her soul composed of Irina, and Irina is once again using her ability to surpress Kayo's soul? After all, out of Irina, Eve, and Levia, Irina is the only one (that I can remember) who stabbed somebody to death, and she was also one of the first envious characters in the story.

Just my own personal theory while I eagerly await the rest of the story. If my knowledge of how the Swap Technique orks is correct, certain abilities are retained by the body even if a new soul inhabots it. I believe the narrator was asking if Ma had, at some point, learned martial arts which Kayo would have then gained the ability to do upon inheriting Lukana's body.