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.

Squire Ferilwal's senses were. He wasn't 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 wide scale and

it was just not worth it even if it

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

against Kane again, lashing out at his lower half, looking for

she wasn't quick

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evaded by leaping into

POW!

her gut, allowing him

She tutted with irritation, annoyed by his speed. However, Kane

not possess the ability to inflict major damage on her with every attack. The best

a huge amount of distance between himself and Rui in order to avoid her shoots,

her aggressive shooting strategy the second she saw that it wasn't as effective as she had hoped it would be.

bad, she's clever,')

stubbornly stick to a losing strategy that would only

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

mused. ('Her maneuvering is greater than mine as a way to close the distance between herself and

not to the degree where he could run circles around her. Furthermore, with her remarkably large wingspan, she was

into what appeared to be a strange game of tag, as

and faced her head-on, preparing his palm

his jab shot forward