But I don't think they are filler scenes tho?
I think these are important details that'll come into play later on so that we can fully understand WHY things led to what.
The end, in a story, often makes less sense & has less impact if we don't understand the process that led to it.
Also, just because WE can surmise where things will lead to, characters can't do so at the same capacity that we can ('coz they don't have the omniscient viewpoint that we have)
Moreover, the context & reason as to why the events we think will happen may not be what we expect & that can greatly affect how we perceive the progress of the story.
Lastly, based on the other stories I read that didn't have these "filler scenea", the pacinf ended up wonky since everything ended up happening behinde the scenes
You may be right, although I have to admit, if I remember this fighting scene after two more chapters, I'm gonna be dead honest here. :/ I'm gonna color myself surprised, if this fighting scene holds any sort of value to the following story.
Context clues.
Tia agreed to help the brown family.
The brown family glory was their swordsmanship.
The brown girl had an important role in Tia past life.
If Tia is going to take the challenge her grandfather gave her to restore the brown family she’s going to use the only person in that family that already proved themselves worthy (even if this was in past life).
Which meant that this fight scene is shown so we could see Tia evaluate the girl strength and decide how to go from there.
That’s way Tia ask the twins and Perez to come/ they didn’t just pull up to casually fight they were asked to come.
(Also- for all we know the brown girl might pull a move next chapter that is a family secret or something and this was the preparation for it)
What is up with those filler scenes? I don't care about those sword fights. We know who's going to win and going to lose. We know, Perez isn't going to fall in love with Ramona all of a sudden bc of one sword fight they had, he doesn't care about her. We don't need half a chapter of the empress making one stupid choice after another and the rest of the chapter being a sword fight without any relevance. Give us story development and not stuff we don't need to see...