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.

she would be able to recognize the sheer potency of the grade-ten technique. Regardless, if Kane used it here, he would be expected to use it on the battlefield against the

if it

moment with that gesture, and also mature enough to agree. He wasn't driven by

thoughts were interrupted as she lashed out against Kane again, lashing out at his lower

she wasn't

WHOOSH

evaded by leaping into

POW!

kick landed on her gut, allowing him to push himself away from

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

barely grade two as far as striking power went. Unlike Rui, he did not

himself and Rui in order to avoid her shoots, he could be much closer, and

Ferilwal abandoned her aggressive shooting strategy the second she saw that it wasn't as effective as she had hoped it would be. The way forward was

she's clever,')

to a losing strategy that would

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in his direction, she chose to systematically close off the space

as a way to close the distance between herself and her opponent. She's not going to be as easy to avoid as I

was faster than her, but not to the degree where he could run circles around her. Furthermore, with her remarkably

be a strange game of tag, as Kane quickly realized that he was slowly but steadily

away and faced her head-on,

shot forward to her solar plexus in