[After]
The less you wish it, the more you should be willing to embrace it. [He says it in such a nonchalant way, but she should tell he is not being careless.]
The more you understand them, the better you can counter them and survive without injury to yourself and possibly to them. It takes little effort to kill an opponent one does not know. To predict their movements to the point you can disable them and leave them alive, it takes skill and understanding.