Brave Blade or Chicken Knife?

Haven't done this in a while, which did you choose?

Brave Blade. It's pretty easy to go through the game w/o having to run from a battle.

I always WANT to get the Brave Blade, but I end up running from those damn Jackanapes early on in the game and so take the Chicken Knife.

Chick chick chick chick chicky, lay a little blade for me :)

I always get the Brave Blade, I like the challenge of never running from a fight so it's usually pretty powerful.