Honestly, I don’t think the way the numbers seem to have difficulty in facing 003 was necessarily for the plot. If my memories are correct: 1. After 001 “not-so” betrayal, the numbers kinda on stand by. The mad dog and the camp was put on hold and the forest will send their own mercenary or only tasking 1 number per mission. This means the chance they’ll go to battle every other week was kinda slim. 2. While 003, after betraying the numbers, choose to make her own mercenary and supposedly working really hard to make “her team” more known in that world. 3. Just like 001 who has his family and friends to back/support him (mentally or physically), the numbers also have each other to backing/supporting. While 003, as you can see in this chapter, think that they should have not be chummy/friendly with each other because it’s a world where the strong preyed on the weak. She could never ask even her own team to back her up (because she was a bitter bitch and her team could quietly hate her and kill her.)
From this little information, I think it makes sense that 003 is just slighttttly better that the others. She needs to always be on guard, keeps all her senses turned-on 24/7, and believes she could die in a span of second. Her days always soooo tense even as she sleep. While the other, with their better skill-set, is less burdened because—at the very least, they know no one would try to put bullet in each other head.
Honestly, I don’t think the way the numbers seem to have difficulty in facing 003 was necessarily for the plot.
If my memories are correct:
1. After 001 “not-so” betrayal, the numbers kinda on stand by. The mad dog and the camp was put on hold and the forest will send their own mercenary or only tasking 1 number per mission. This means the chance they’ll go to battle every other week was kinda slim.
2. While 003, after betraying the numbers, choose to make her own mercenary and supposedly working really hard to make “her team” more known in that world.
3. Just like 001 who has his family and friends to back/support him (mentally or physically), the numbers also have each other to backing/supporting. While 003, as you can see in this chapter, think that they should have not be chummy/friendly with each other because it’s a world where the strong preyed on the weak. She could never ask even her own team to back her up (because she was a bitter bitch and her team could quietly hate her and kill her.)
From this little information, I think it makes sense that 003 is just slighttttly better that the others.
She needs to always be on guard, keeps all her senses turned-on 24/7, and believes she could die in a span of second. Her days always soooo tense even as she sleep.
While the other, with their better skill-set, is less burdened because—at the very least, they know no one would try to put bullet in each other head.