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It's true that the speed gap isn't double, but Manabu has a fully-haxxed analytical prediction from a feat where he predicted someone's attack fully while having his eyes covered with snow, this someone scales to a speed roughly equal to what Dexter does and Manabu had never fought this person or seen them do an attack ever, he simply predicted it via a large range of stuff which is narratively unrevealed.

Plus, Manabu is a highly skilled fighter, in fact, above the level of a genius, he has 5th dan in karate (requires like 15-20 years at least) and 4th dan in aikido (requires like 10-15 years at least) at the age of just 17-18. This should probably indicate that he isn't really that dumb to actually be hit by Dexter's any of the attacks for the most part.

And Manabu also has a higher stamina advantage, which should help him to restore energy for attacks much faster.

And in my opinion, 1.6x speed gap is still a notable gap, anything above 1.5x is kind of crazy honestly. I personally draw the line at 1.1-1.2x of speed. Dexter still has a notable gap to overcome in their speeds. I would have probably disagreed and said that Manabu shouldn't be able to dodge every attack here if the speeds were roughly equal, but 1.6x is a gap where it helps him a lot, even if he can't readily blitz Dexter.
What answers does Dexter have? The AP difference doesn't seem like enough given that Manabu's large speed advantage and ANPR will allow him to avoid being hit. He should be able to keep this up with his stamina advantage as well. Worst case can't Manabu just wait for Dexter to get tired before going for the finishing blow?

Then combined with the skill stomp I just don't see Dexter being able to hit him. I think Manabu's skills are kind of underrated so I'll just elaborate to explain why this is a skill stomp. Manabu is a 4th Dan in Aikido and 5th Dan in Karate. Each of these should take between 15-20 years of training to accomplish and he did both by age 14. I really don't see how anything Dexter does will be able to reach him given how advanced his fighting skills are. To my knowledge Dexter has never fought anyone even close to this skilled either.

I'll go ahead and vote Manabu.
 
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