The Martial Unity

"There's no doubt about you," She sighed, before turning to Kane. "But it's your turn now."

She needed first-hand knowledge of both of them, and that meant fighting Kane as well. Kane nodded, acquiescing, and the two of them quickly stood some distance apart from each other, before taking their stances.

Kane, as always, took his light-footed stance, while Squire Ferilwal took her shoot stance.

Rui watched with interest as he analyzed the battle.

('Their win conditions is straightforward,') Rui mused. ('If Kane gets caught, he loses, if he can keep away for long enough, he'll be able to win.')

Rui suddenly recalled something as he narrowed his eyes exerting some pressure on Kane to draw his attention. Kane glanced at Rui with a raised eyebrow.

Rui simply shook his head once.

Kane stared at his him, nodding once, before turning back.

Soon enough, the battle began.

DASH!

She shot forward, as was predictable aiming for Kane with her arms. Much to Rui's relief, he casually evaded with visible ease.

Rui sighed in relief. He wasn't worried that Kane wouldn't be able to evade her initial glance, he was just happy that Kane didn't go all out.

He didn't use Void Step.

technique. Regardless, if Kane used it here, he would be expected to use it on the battlefield against the surrounding nations. It would expose his technique on a wide scale and thus, it would increase the likelihood that their identities

it was just not worth it even if it would grant him the victory in this case most

was smart enough to understand what Rui was referring to at that moment with that gesture, and also mature enough to agree. He

out against Kane again, lashing out at his

wasn't

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by leaping into

POW!

her gut, allowing him to push

annoyed by his speed. However, Kane could see that his attack had essentially

he was only just barely grade two as far as striking power went. Unlike Rui, he did not possess the ability to inflict major

maintain a huge amount of distance between himself and Rui in order to avoid her shoots, he could be much closer, and avoid her much more narrowly than Rui could hope to

Martial Artist, Squire Ferilwal abandoned her aggressive shooting strategy the second she saw that it wasn't

bad, she's clever,')

losing strategy that would only drain her stamina

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gap between herself and Kane. Rather than aggressively shooting in his direction, she chose to systematically close off the space he had in all three directions to make it

is greater than mine as a way to close the distance between herself and her opponent. She's not

grew more strained as he too realized that. He was faster than her, but not to the degree where he could run circles around her. Furthermore, with her remarkably large wingspan, she was able to cover a lot of area at any given point

of tag, as Kane quickly realized that he was slowly but steadily

Rui's approval, he eventually stopped running away and faced her

instant, his jab shot forward to her solar plexus