Talk:Clementine/@comment-30468100-20180308045656

Idk if it's neccesary r not, but shoudn't something be included about Ainz's feelings towards Clemantine. At multiple points in the LN, he has time and again expressed in thoughts his honest gratitude for meeting Clemantine (Vol 10 even states he feels nothing but gratitude towards her). It was only through fighting her and seeing her abilities up close that he learnt the gap in abilities that exist between him and New World humans, and just how it is that he lacks as a frontline fighter.

He's even stated that if he had never fought Clemantine, he would have lost against Shalltear. Learning of his deficiences as a fighter compared to her taught him the need to refine his skills and learn new ways to fight. While it's not covered in the anime, in the LN he employs specific combat stances against Shalltear during his use of Perfect Warrior because he now comprehended the gap that would exist between Shalltears understanding of combat and his (one is shown in the anime partially, the overhead power slash/feint to stab combo that destroyed Shalltear's arm was something he adapted from Clemantine, a combination feint trick that NPC's had never fought against before).

So....yeah, Ainz very specifically feels a great amount of gratitude and thankfulness towards her, both for inspiring him on how he would develop himself when he realised he would never go beyond lvl 100 (after the Katse Plains), and for indirectly teaching him the means to face Shalltear evenly in close range combat and subdue her without dying himself. He even keeps her Stilletto's within his inventory load-out, and used them later on (again, Vol.10), having trained himself to emulate something similar to her combat style and meshing it with his Racial abilities.