I'll try not to draw any conclusions until it all unfolds, but I'll say I had a completely different reading of what Kan Ki's weakness was.
It was my long held belief - from the moment it was revealed Kan Ki had one - that his weakness was his cruelty. It was my reading that the hatred Kan Ki held for the world around him was a double-edge sword. It made him adept at finding ways to hurt his enemies the most in ways that would be advantageous - the psychological warfare, guerilla warfare, torture, etc. - but it also exposed him. Kan Ki waged war that way because of his burning hatred. And perhaps he suffered of tunnel vision when he was being effective, because he derived such sick pleasure from the pain of others, and perhaps this was a weakness RBK would come to exploit.
What RBK actually reveals to be his weakness though - aside from it being fucking
hilariously disrespectful, it's not something that I'm surprised by, but also not something I was considering.
In essence, it sounds like he's saying Kan Ki isn't cut from the same cloth as true Great Generals of the Heavens. That thing Mou Ten spoke of to Ou Hon about 6GG selfishly viewing themselves and acting like heroes that can shape the flow of battle on their own - what that is, whatever it is that awoke in Shin at Kankoku Pass, Shukai, and now in Gian, that quality that allowed Ou Ki to inspire inhuman strength and resilience from his men when he led from the front - none of this applies to Kan Ki, if Ri Boku is to be believed.
I have so many questions.
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It was stated that Kanki never formerly studied strategy and when he is in front of Genpou, the two had a brief conversation when Genpou told him that what Kanki was doing wasn't strategy/tactic and Kanki replicated to him like "What the hell is that". He's lethal in his own, very unorthodox way but yeah there's that.
I like to think that Kan Ki has absolutely 0 formal education in strategy or tactics and is not even remotely well read in it.
He is simply a) a once born in a generation genius of warfare, and b) a depraved soul with a gift for finding weaknesses to exploit in his prey.
In my mind, had Ko Chou mentioned Su Bin to Kan Ki, he would have simply laughed and flippantly asked, "Who is that?"
I don't believe Kan Ki has ever even heard of Su Bin, he is simply so gifted.
But he's met his match because he never resolved his burning hatred of the world and it left him vulnerable to the eyes of an even rarer breed of genius - Ri Boku.
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