Even given Chaldea's weaker version of command spells, the authority they represented doubtless counted for something. Not to mention the simple status of a Master in the first place.

In any case, Ritsuka has to mentally chew on that some more, still but for the occasional twitch of a tail.

"I don't know if it really feels that way, though..."

All of it. She'd never really seen herself as some kind of hero or warrior or whatever, just someone desperately doing her best to survive.