She smiled at those words. "You're this mature. At your age too, interesting."
"Everyone matures eventually," Rui modestly remarked.
"I wasn't talking about that, though there is that too, I suppose."
Rui glanced at her quizzically.
"Your Martial Art possesses a depth that I have never seen from any Martial Squire in my entire life," She murmured as she stepped closer, circling around him as she sized him up despite her closed eyes. "Intriguing, really."
She reached forward, clasping Rui's arm, lifting it up as she dropped it, almost like he were a toy.
Rui, on the other hand, was unsure whether to feel awkward or amused.
"Your Martial Art is formless," She remarked. "Yet you aren't an all-rounder. Your combat style changes and changes, like the water in an ebbing river."
"…"
"What is your Martial Path?" She asked with a hint of curiosity, as her soft yet deeply potent voice poured into his body.
"…I believe I am not obligated to divulge that," Rui steadied his nerves as he refused her question in the least confrontational way possible.
"That is true," She smiled, much to his relief. It appeared that she wasn't the egotistical type. "Most Martial Squires would readily divulge their Martial Path regardless."
to keep my Martial Art hidden, I'm afraid,"
if you don't tell me, I can tell that it is a particularly potent Martial
an
nodded, deep
something like
reactions. She still hadn't opened
draw her attention. "Is there
here. For the most part, it appeared as
at him, knitting her eyebrows "Don't call me that. It makes me feel
would you like me to
see…You can call me big
"…Right."
do with what you can do for me," She smiled softly. "But
Rui raised an eyebrow.
can have on
his eyebrows.
She replied, turning toward him with
him normal strikes. His mental breakdown at the fight was not as a
murmured. "No technique can
"I did no
of it," She murmured. "It looks like it was a good thing to bring it up to you. As a leader of the Floating Sect, I cannot
he stared at her with incredulity.
from her, washing over him. "I
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