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.

sure that 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 surrounding nations. It would expose his technique on a

it even if it would grant him the victory in this

smart 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

against Kane again, lashing

wasn't quick

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leaping into the

POW!

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

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

not possess the ability to inflict major damage on her

Rui in order to avoid her shoots, he could be much closer, and avoid her much more narrowly than Rui could hope

was still dealing with a decently powerful Martial Artist, Squire Ferilwal abandoned her aggressive shooting strategy the second she saw that it wasn't as effective as she

she's

to a losing strategy that would only drain

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stood her ground this time, making slower progress as she slowly covered the gap between herself and Kane. Rather than aggressively shooting in his direction, she chose to systematically close off the space he had in

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

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

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

to Rui's approval, he eventually stopped running away and faced her head-on, preparing

an instant, his jab shot forward