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.

recognize the sheer potency of the grade-ten technique. Regardless, if Kane used it here, he would be expected

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

enough to understand what Rui was referring to at that moment with that gesture, and also mature enough to agree. He wasn't driven by colossal pride or a

out against Kane again,

wasn't

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by leaping into

POW!

kick landed on her gut, allowing

his speed. However, Kane could see that

Rui, he did not possess the ability to

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

a decently powerful Martial Artist, Squire 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 not

bad, she's clever,')

that would only drain her stamina faster than Kane drained

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progress as she slowly covered the gap between herself and Kane. Rather than aggressively shooting in his direction, she chose to systematically close off

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

where he could run circles around her. Furthermore, with her remarkably large wingspan, she was able to cover

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

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

jab shot forward to her solar plexus