User blog comment:B214/General discussion/@comment-27180505-20151226021459/@comment-24421137-20151226042401

Well she is a hagun academy student and was the strongest knight, so it would be hard not to write her in, especially as a coach for Stella to have and basically an obstacle to beat before going to the seven sword festival. So its very understandable for her to be kept in the story for a while.

Well I would put it as Ikki's victory as i remember Kuraudo had collapsed and was unconcious while Ikki wasn't able to stand but remained concscious, so Ikki won that one, by a narrow margin if we look at it like that.

Yea i agree Kuraudo would probably settle the score with Sara before going against Ikki again although it would probably need to be something show extrodinary power since Ikki has broken new ground in power and was able to defeat Stella.