Talk:Kebiishi/@comment-222.127.94.3-20161201162903/@comment-28858912-20161201164310

Swords will only break if you enter a battle when their health is in the red. If they are not in red when the battle starts, their HP will just go down to 1 and they will be pushed back and cannot attack for the rest of the battle.

There is no option to retreat a battle once you enter a node or once you are on the map screen. You can only retreat from the map after a battle.

Although your other swords are in range for the Kebiishi pattern, I recommend you bring swords lv. 20+ like your Kunihiro (Yamanbagiri?).