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"I mean, sure." Kane shrugged.

"Good, hear me out." Rui moved closer to him and began whispering his plan, he knew the Squire had sharp senses, so he took all the precautions he could, to avoid letting her in on the plan.

Meanwhile, Fae launched a flurry of powerful palm attacks, each one with incredible force. Yet Kyrie managed to parry all of them handily.

WHOOSH

Felix lunged towards her from the other side, looking for a takedown, but she simply evaded his attack with a summersault, cleanly dodging the shooting maneuver. This resulted in Fae's and Felix's attacks heading towards each other.

"Not this time!" Fae narrowly avoided Felix's charge while diverting her attack away from Felix.

"Looks like the same trick won't work too many times, eh?" Kyrie noted blankly. Yet four Apprentices attempted to dogpile her from four sides, while three more were circling around ready to pounce the moment they failed.

All eleven of them couldn't attack her simultaneously. It was almost physically impossible, there was limited space around a person through which they could be attacked. Even if it were physically possible, it could only be achieved through practiced and rehearsed well-timed and well-placed attacks. Such a thing was, of course, impossible in this sparring session, which was why no more than five people ever attacked Squire Kyrie.

BOOM

Kyrie blew away the last of her attackers with blitz kick, dusting her attire as the Apprentices recuperated.

Suddenly a commotion of the other side of the ring grabbed her attention.

"NO NO NO! That's a stupid plan!" Kane shouted at Rui. "That's not gonna work!"

"HUH?" Rui snarled. "You think you can do better?!"

The two of them started bickering loudly, uncaring for their opponent, who simply gazed at them blankly before sighing.

arguing in the middle of a fight.') She facepalmed. ('They're the type to die young in the field.

of you have much

Apprentice-level techniques, throwing speedy jabs. She responded by throwing a long straight kick into his gut,

and power than you, is a

who glanced back at her with a fearful expression, earning

you're afraid of a sparring session, you're not cut out to be

his legs and ran away from her as fast as he could, nearing the edge of the ring, all while still facing her, using Elastic Shift and

more. She forbade blatant escapism in her sparring sessions. Her sparring sessions were meant to push the Apprentices beyond their limits, to have them get used to fighting losing battles under extreme pressure and exhaustion, yet Rui was merely running

greater speed, reaching the

of line." She announced, yet Rui immediately turned around with a grappling stance standing at the very edge of the ring, making his intentions very

ring.') She mused. It wasn't an original idea, but at the very least it was better than running away. She intended to beat him up a bit before throwing him back in the center of

her core, generating torque, launching an uppercut to Rui's solar

could be seen on Rui's face. He rushed in for an upper takedown simultaneously. The uppercut reached Rui faster than the takedown reached Squire Kyrie,

WHOOSH

upper takedown was an illusion, and

the

yet just as he began the shoot, Kyrie halted her missed uppercut, and swung down her elbow, aiming

the Mirage Dive technique; to throw counters that could very easily be diverted

CLASP

limbs, using the Binding Lash technique, the sudden shifts in center of gravity was dangerous at the edge of the ring. But she was not

destabilize my center of gravity temporarily.') She

incredibly fast, in just an instant, it

so fast that every Apprentice, including

used in his fight with Fae! It was an incredibly high-efficiency Apprentice-level technique with extremely low flexibility; it could only be used in one way. But in that one scenario, when used, it

of several milliseconds, he had

Martial Squire. But she had limited herself to peak Apprentice-level speed and power. Furthermore, Rui had brought her to the very edge of the ring, and had destabilized her center of

center of gravity destabilized towards the edge of the