Character Scenario/Distressed Putra

Putra consulted me while staring at a stream in the middle of the mountain. Putra is always joking around, but this time she is unusually serious.
Putra	"Lately, I feel like I'm dragging everyone down in battle..."
Putra chimed in.
Putra	"I thought I'm moving as usual, but I feel like I'm one step behind everyone else."
Putra	"Yesterday's battle was really awful. I couldn't do anything because everyone had to wait for me. I've never been like this before."
Putra	"I can't think of any reason for it. I'm training harder than usual and I got all A's in my medical exams."
Putra	"If this is going to continue in the future... I wonder, if I can keep fighting with everyone else anymore?"
Conductor	-I see. I understand what you're saying.
Conductor	What you're in at the moment, Putra, is probably a typical 'slump'.
Putra	"Slump... you say?"
Conductor	Actually, I have some ideas. Not so long ago, you had some formation lessons at the Knight Academy, yes? I recall it was a training exercise where everyone was given a role and had to think about how they would move in combat.
Putra	"Yes, there was, there was. I was the only one who's absolutely clueless that I just stare at everything at the end."
Conductor	That's probably why you're uncomfortable. Because that involved using your head, which you don't normally use at all. I've heard of cases where there are so-called genius-type warriors who move their bodies before they think, and if they try instead to think before they move, everything goes wrong.
Putra	"Um... wait. Didn't you just say something that's plain rude? As if you're implying I usually don't use my head at all or something."
Conductor	Listen, Putra, I know you're a fellow human being, and you don't want to cause trouble. But for now, you should take it easy and have your friends cover you. I'm sure that your discomfort will soon be resolved.
Conductor	We're only a team when we can cover each other when we're not in good shape, right? You shouldn't think too much about it.
Putra	"But, I'm...".
Putra suddenly breaks off. She stopped moving and started starting somewhere.
Putra	"Conductor. There's something wrong with this wind... I have a very bad feeling about it."
Putra	"Ha... No way!"
Putra jumped onto a large rock and started to climb. I rushed after her.
Putra	"I knew it! Look, Conductor. A Phantom Mist is approaching us. It's slowly rising on the wind!"
Conductor	--What did you say?
As I climbed up on the rock and looking down below, I could visually confirm that the Mist was coming towards us, slowly but surely, just as Putra said it would.
Children playing in the shallows of the stream seem completely unaware of the approaching Phantom Mist.
Putra	"If this continues, those children will be swallowed by the Mist too."
Putra	"There are roughly ten of them. I can protect at most two ~ three of them while fighting... That's a bit too many."
Putra	"Then... there's only one way to go."
Putra pointed straight towards the summit.
Putra	"If we can't go down, we have to climb up. We have to take everyone over the mountain. Let's go, Conductor!"
Two rows of children zipped along the mountain path. Putra was at the head of the line and I was walking at the tail end, keeping a watchful eye behind.
Putra	"Hi, is everyone good children? Walk side-by-side with big sis here and pay attention!"
Putra called out to the children as she walked backwards.
Putra	"Are you enjoying the tag~? The It could be closing in on you even as we do this, you know? Let's walk hard so It doesn't catch up with us♪"
It was Putra who suggested setting the children in a game of tag so as not to scare them more than necessary.
This would be the right answer. If we had told them that Phantom Mist was approaching, there would definitely have been a panic.
Putra	"By the way, do you all like sweets?"
'We like~!' and several cute voices raised.
Putra	"Right! Big sis likes it too-♪ If you can escape successfully and make it over the mountain, I'll give winners some tasty presents. Let's all do our best!"
Putra got the children excited. She's like a school teacher.
While walking at the end of the line, I casually look behind me. There still seems to be plenty of distance between us and the Phantom Mist. The journey is going well. If we keep up this pace, we should be able to get away safely.
It was at that moment when I was relieved. Putra, who was walking at the front, slowed down and stopped. The children also manage to stop, almost crashing into the child in front of them.
Putra	"...No way."
Putra	"The bridge is... broken. We can't go on with this."
Putra muttered in dismay.
Ahead of us, was a valley so deep that one can only see the bottom if you look long enough.
And the suspension bridge that should have connected this side of the river to the other side had collapsed...