"I'm willing to bet he's not all he's cracked up to be." Pressing his lips together, he turns back to the coffee. The alternative, after all—that Amada is truly undefeatable, and that they should all linger in some perpetual stalemate with him—isn't worth considering.

"Do you think Igor would tell us? If we had no prospect of beating him?" Goro is betting not. Better to watch them all die in the attempt, probably.