>>Why does Gryphon let Reimu pick this fight with him?
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>Everyone's patience has its limits is how I read it. The man had
>things to be doing that Reimu was interrupting, which by itself
>wouldn't be enough, but her rather dire remarks about Remilia likely
>tipped the scales from 'benefit of the doubt' to 'the hard way it is'.
>Her smugness of 'when I defeat you' is also an attitude that
>screams for a large helping of humble pie. Maybe a full on Jedi
>master would have still tried to keep the peace until the absolute
>last possible moment, but G would be the first to tell folks he's no
>Jedi.

The above is pretty much correct, and also: he was reasonably sure by that point that it would be wasted effort anyway, and he didn't want her teeing off inside the hangar, where all the important breakable things were. By conceding pre-emptively that The Violence was going to happen whatever he did, he was able to control the venue enough that he would at least not have to build ANOTHER modified Kohbu-kai psychomagical steam plant by hand from memory.

--G.
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