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This one middle page in between these three
([link](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dGzi6.jpg)) has been weighing on my mind for
a good while. The character would seem to be commenting on a brave/chivalrous
aerial battle going on overhead, and it's the only line he has in the chapter.

However I haven't been able to come up with an interpretation of his lines
there that satisfies me, mainly as I can't figure out how the これ程とはね、認めよう and
...空、 空か segments are interacting. Is he acknowledging/認めよう'ing the
fighters/their bravery himself? If so what is the 空、 空か bit meant to convey?
Or is he saying the sky itself is acknowledging them? Though 空が instead of か
would make much more sense then. Or is it something else entirely I'm missing?

Also the characters often speak in literary/slightly archaic Japanese, so that
認めよう may possibly be the conjectural sense (認めるだろう) instead of the usual
volitional sense I guess, still leaves me confused then though.

Thanks for any help.
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grammar meaning
Usage of 認めよう and 空 on this page?
認めよう sounds like it is spoken from a point of superiority - "I'll acknowledge
(you)." or "I'll give you credit for it."referring back to his first words of
これ程とはね

I would interpret the middle character's words simple as "The sky...the sky,
huh" as the character ponderings on aviation possibilities - what can we do in
the sky? This, because the pictures before it seem to indicate aerial
action/scene(?) where one of the characters was trying to stop the plane (or
whatever he is flying) from burning up when they go higher and the pictures
after seem to indicate that the plane crashes.

Although the character fails, the middle picture indicates the person there
acknowledges the other character's potential because of this and perhaps
wonders what else might be possible in the sky.
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