"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

looked at her like she was dumb. "Because it was

"..."

to compensate for this weakness by boosting your maneuvering capabilities so that you could chase

"..."

your shortcoming. It can be dealt with the way I dealt with it. Instead of running

greater range." She

Rui nodded. "As 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 a real solution. You'll just be barricaded and restricted to a distance by attacks with greater

I do?" She sighed with frustration. Rui could tell

you what to do, though I could

vigorously. "Please

you at a distance." Rui said. "Only 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 too short, your opponents can only really keep you out of range with straight punches and kicks. This

that help me?" She frowned, not

surprised if the maneuvering section of the library has Apprentice-level techniques that allow the user to evade straight attacks and close the distance between the 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 optimally. Thus, every time they attack you to push you out of range, their limbs endure damage. Something like that could also work." He

could be the key to erasing the range weakness of her Martial Art. "Thank you for your suggestion! I'll take that into consideration." She said

at her

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