"You feeling better?" Rui asked.
Karura nodded as she finished consuming her rejuvenation potion. When she had collapsed, the match had ended and a team of paramedics had immediately rushed to the ring and had administered a healing potion to her.
"Glad to hear that." Rui replied.
He said as he extended an open hand out to her, which she promptly accepted, standing up. "Good fight, you're incredibly strong."
"You're quite good yourself." Rui replied.
"Hmph." She snorted mildly. "That's not very convincing coming from someone who defeated me with a single attack."
"I mean it." Rui scratched his cheek awkwardly. "I won because I exploited a weakness in your battle approach."
"Weakness?" She squinted her eyes with curiosity.
Rui nodded. "In exchange for being formidable at super-close-range combat, the natural and obvious weakness that your fighting style has is that you cannot fight well outside super-close-combat."
that I was close-range fighter,
was dumb.
"..."
compensate for this weakness by boosting your maneuvering capabilities so that you could chase down your opponents
"..."
shortcoming. It can be dealt with the way I dealt with it. Instead of running away, I turned and charged straight at you, we both attacked at the same time, yet my attack landed first." He paused, before
have greater range." She
long as my attacks have greater range, I can always ensure you are unable to attack me, by attacking you before you are close enough to strike me. That is why chasing people is not
tell this was problem that had been bugging her
you what to do, though
vigorously.
attacks with significantly greater range than your attacks can be effectively used to keep you at a distance. Things like hooks or short jabs are
that help me?" She frowned, not
user and their opponent." Rui mentioned. "If you can find techniques like that, you better purchase and master them. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if the offense section of the Apprentice library has techniques that are specifically meant to inflict damage on strikes and attacks
she realized the solutions he considered 'suggestions' could be the key to erasing the range weakness of her Martial Art. "Thank you for your suggestion! I'll take that into
at her
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