"Wait you're Henrex's daughter?! [Mitsuyo and Yoriko]

Upon hearing her words, he smiled but give a slightly condescending head nod as he raised an eyebrow to acknowledge her voice and stature. He agreed with what she said, and there was nothing wrong with it, but his defeated attitude lingered for longer than he wanted to upon her pep talk.

"Yeah, you're right. Plus... i don't even know what her release is going to be... and knowing my luck it's going to be gauntlets...So-sigh-... let's get this thing rolling." He spoke as he rolled his shoulders back and stood taller. His arm lifted up to having the back of his hand face towards Yoriko, as he held it about 2 or 3 feet away from his face, with his elbow flexed on an angle.

His arms did not assume any particular stance, as usually his fighting tends to be very improvisational, he usually never sets up a string of techniques until seeing how the opponent moves themselves. His grin continued as now he angled his head downward to make it look so that his eyebrows began to furrow in a cynical fashion. This angle with his grin made him look slightly insane, yet it was obvious he was slowly becoming more hyped up to fight.

As he saw Yoriko move forward, his look faded instantaneously as he was swept onto his back by Yoriko, and on his way down he shouted.

"Wait, I thought restrictive was ONLY use the limb called out!... Sh--!"

He spoke as he felt his back slam onto the ground, and although he fell over, Yoriko did not look like she planned to check if he was alright, as she began knocking her left arm backwards to go in for a strike that surely would leave him down on the ground for sometime if he didn't move fast.

Upon seeing her charging up the strike, he used the opportunity to remind himself of the ruling in place and look for an opening, "So... Do everything except use the right arm... hmmm... in that case...", he thought as he looked at where his legs were positioned on the bridge, then to her...then he focused on where his left arm was, and even though his right arm was exposed he couldn't use it. He sat there laying on his left arm which was folded behind his back and sprung an idea. He reached around until he found a gap between the planks of wood that connected the bridge together, and pushed himself forward, launching himself backward and away from Yoriko as the strike began to come downwards to where he would have been.

As he lost his speed, he then grabbed another gap and used his current momentum to swing his legs upward to upright himself, though if Yoriko would have lost balance due to the missed downward strike, because of his legs swinging upward, it would be possible for Yoriko to be kicked in the face as he started to push up. Regardless of whether kick connects or not, he would still have enough momentum to swing himself up right to performing a one-arm handstand on his left hand. As the handstand occured, he looked up to Yoriko and squinted his eyes, still holding onto his grin.

"You sly fox...", he spoke as gravity completed his momentum to upright himself onto his feet, "Using my tiny brain against me!" He chuckled after, feeling embarrassed at not being careful of the rules. Now that he knew what the fight entailed, he regained confidence. He paused for a quick second to regain his balance and then darted forward, by pivoting on his left foot, loading his momentum onto that leg and pushing himself forward, keeping his right leg bent in, as if he were performing a flying knee as opposed to trying to land the kick.

As Yoriko's comment was heard, he continued an internal conversation with his spirit, smiling confidently as the conversation ensued.

"See Suzy, I knew someone out here would think I have braincells!"

"I will offer the credit of you having at least one. Now, humble your hubris, she is retaliating!"

"Huh?!"



Was his last interjection, as he was forceably ejected out of his own mind, to focus on the fight that was occuring in front of him. As he begun to pay attention, he noticed Yoriko's foot jet itself outward to stop his knee from connecting to her. He thought that momentum stop would occur, but as he was rearing up his next swing with the still continuing momentum, he noticed Yoriko's hand daggering forward, which not only worked as a good counter, but ensured that any momentum that he gained would have to be lost otherwise he would be chopped up.


"Oh yeah... She's Henry's daughter... Why on Earth would I think she doesn't know how to counter...?"

"Amazing... You seemed to have lost that braincell pretty quickly." Sumire rebuttaled sarcastically

"Not now, Suzy... You're definitely not helping..."



He felt as though he had no choice but to take the strike that she aimed to his head. He elongated his posture enough so that his neck moved upwards enough to tank the shot without any issues. The hault in momentum stunned him as he figured out what was going to be his next move. Although she was wide open for a punch, his morality kicked in, making him veto the obvious next move.

His eyes shifted around rapidly until realizing that they were on a bridge at the moment. Although he didn't know what was under the bridge, he assumed the fall was short enough not to hurt if there were any repercussions to be had. With this being noted, he grabbed Yoriko's waist and pivoted on his feet, using that energy from his twist, he let go and gave a slight nudge, hoping the twist would knock her off balance enough to reset himself, and the push taking advantage of the loss of balance to hopefully knock her off the bridge.