There is no real incentive to kill Verdugo in this type of run, but as with the Chainsaw Man I just felt like doing so. This plays out kind of sloppy since I'm not used to fighting Verdugo this way. Doing it without damage is actually easy enough. It's rare that you will be hit by him as long as you keep moving. Especially if you abuse that one room where you loop him around the center object. I did this fight a few times for experimentation purposes. The best results I got were with using the Red9 only. It definitely makes me question my choice of investing in the Matilda. It turns out you can't get the stock for it until immediately after this fight, which is unfortunate. Hopefully this investment will still pay off in the end. I've also been wishing I went with the Punisher over the SG as the Red9 has been outperforming that 5x critical rate. I think the Blacktail would have been more worthwhile than I realize too. With how things are going this is basically a Red9/knife only run at this point. Regardless, I will commit to my choices and see how things unravel.