The usually ruthless and lethal Cicada continues to be "conveniently" lenient/sloppy in his fights against just the heroes of the show in comparison to how efficiently and directly he disposes of his other opponents/victims. This time around it's particularly obvious, when he goes through the trouble of using a far more complicated maneuver than needed in order to use the _back_ of his knife to hit Nora, rather than simply stabbing her to death and be done with it! Another instance of his "conveniently" inconsistent sloppiness against just those selected few, is also evident in a fight against Flash, where he clearly gets multiple chances to stab his opponent but inexplicably doesn't.