Connection:: 相手's connected w/ Mal by fate
Learner: Mal quickly copies 相手 w/ swordsmanship
Ambiguous: Mal slowly copies 相手's personality
Gen. Growth: Mal's personality gets better than 相手
Usurper: Eventually, Mal truly usurps 相手's role
In a past battle, 相手's soul was split
This split soul reincarnated into Mal
Thus, Mal is 相手's son
& Mal, connected to 相手 through a kinship of fate, eventually met 相手, & only after meeting 相手 did Mal's talents come to bloom
Until at the very end of their confrontation, by observing 相手's finisher, Mal creates a new technique [Mirrored Soul Lotus Blade], causing 相手's finisher to careen to 相手