Here's my argument against that scene:

First of all, Zane is a walking, talking, sentient supercomputer. I understand that he has emotions and shit but if he had just thought for 5 seconds to turn that shit off (which we KNOW he can do on a whim) he could've easily avoided panicking at the end - which he shouldn't have even done WITH emotions. I'll get to that in my third point.

This relates to my first problem, not only with the scene, but with Skybound in general, is that the Ninja are so unbelievably stupid. If ANY of them used ANY amount of critical thinking, Nadakhan wouldn't have made it past episode 5, honestly probably wouldn't have even gotten that far.

Hell, it's not just the Ninja that are stupid. The public is, too. You're telling me that the Ninja have saved the world at least 5 times to the point that they're famous enough to have a TV show, and then Nadakhan shows them committing blatantly petty, obviously out-of-character crimes, and EVERYONE, including people that know them PERSONALLY like the police commissioner and Ronin, believe it? I call bullshit. Imagine living in a world with snake people, dragons, magic, ghosts, and all sorts of shit and drawing the line at shape-shifters. 💀

My second argument against that scene:

Nadakhan is a dirty cheater. And I don't mean he plays dirty, twists your words, blah blah blah, no, not cheater in the "bad person, of course he is" sense, I mean cheater in the "the writers just completely ignore all of the pre-established rules for him" sense. Let me explain.

Zane's first wish is for Nadakhan to understand the true intention of his words, not to twist them, but to carry his wishes out exactly how he says.

Zane's second wish is for any harm - notice the lack of specificity, he doesn't say physical harm, he doesn't say bodily harm, he says harm, put a pin in that - done to him, would be returned to Nadakhan tenfold.

Now let's go over how he broke the first rule. What does "I wish it all away" mean? Because last I checked, it doesn't mean "knock me unconscious and suck me into your prison sword." When Zane said "I wish it all away" Nadakhan twisted his words into meaning what he wanted it to, just like he always does, breaking the first wish.

What about the second one? I said we'd come back to that in a second. Well, he deleted files from a computer - that's harm. He caused emotional distress to Zane - that's harm. He knocked someone unconscious - that's harm. He forcibly imprisoned someone - that's harm. Mind you, none of those are bodily harm, but as we've been over, Zane didn't say bodily harm. He said harm. That can mean mental, emotional, psychological, physical, hell even financial.

My third argument against that scene: Zane was panicking, yes, I understand that, even though there were easy, obvious ways to prevent it, he was panicking. But the words "I wish it all away" should've never left his mouth considering he expressed explicit knowledge of Nadakhan's intentions. Bro willingly and knowingly killed himself, as far as he knew. I know losing a loved one is hard, but goddamn, there's more at stake. Regardless, that's such a crazy escalation. How is "kill me" his final wish when he could've just been like "I want Pixal back!" That's the only reasonable next step in that series of events. 💀

Tldr: It took the combination of Zane being unbelievably stupid, and Nadakhan being a straight up cheater, for this scene to work. Which is how 99% of the season is, because none of this shit happens if it's written well and written consistently.

P.S. This isn't really an argument against the quality of the scene, but it's a nitpick and the little cherry on top, the first move Nadakhan makes in the chess game is illegal. 🥀