Paine's been doing quite well, considering her absence from the DL. Surely she can continue her streak against a frail young woman like Alice, yes? Alice has plenty of MP for healing, but sadly lacks durability. Paine should easily be able to keep her healing away with Assault. Luckily, instead of being a long, long struggle, Alice's low SP should ensure that before too long she enters Beserk state. With this debilitating status, Paine can quickly seize the advantage and deal a finishing blow to the unawares Alice. With this strategy in mind, anything else Alice can do becomes fairly moot, as she won't have much time to attack, stat buff, etc. Things have been going smoothly so far, and it seems highly unlike that Alice will get in the way of Paine's trip to the Middle Finals!