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Notice he does not break the Boulder, it’s cut in half.
And your analogy is bad. In the example you have that barbarian can kill that monster. He’s doing reduced damage, but he’s still damaging it. Now, two things. Reddit is saying that ryuko has been injured by a sword. So which is it? Does it really need to be a sword or scissors or just something really sharp? And can she survive the destruction of time and space? Cause shadow has.
Ryuko has been injured by a sword, but those injuries isntatnyl healed.

And no, the Barbarian is dealing no damage whatsoever.

In Dungeons and dragons, when a target has "Damage Reduction" it means that, whenever they re attacked with a weapon, they instantly regenerate a certain amount of that damage unless the weapon includes their specific weakness. Just like Ryuko.

In m given example, the Barbarian with str 18 making normal attacks with his great club(which does 1d10 damage+4 frm strength) can only do a maximum of 14 damage per attack.

The mosnter regenerates 15 points of damage instantly. From each attack.

The Barbarian cannot harm the monster, unless he picks up a sword, which, dealing slashing damage, the specific weakness of this monster, ignores its damage reduction.

Which s what happens with Ryuko, once her Life Fiber powers manifest, she can only suffer lasting injuries from having her life fibers cut in a specific manner.

We're talking about a girl who ripped off her own skin becuase she didn't want to wait to have the thing that was sewn to it removed the hard way. And her only comment on it was "that fricking hurt" in the same tone of voice as a kid getting a spinter pulled out of their foot.