A Good Return for Their Labor [Rafaela, Yugiri]

Time to visit Erchanhardt now that her business was over, it had been sometime hadn't it? It dawned on her that maybe she ought to have brought Ira along and introduce them but it was out of the way to go and pick her up, Yugiri trusted that she was big enough to take care of herself. If she was still a child then Yugiri might've arranged to see if Ada would be willing to take care of her.

Adjusting her red scarf and bringing it just a bit higher while making her way to Konigsburg with her jacket on. It was cold, huh? It's a good thing she wasn't a little chicken when it came to a bit of harsh living, she'd dealt with far worse before Erchanhardt took her in.

She honestly had not considered anything might be different, Yugiri always just walked on up as if she owned the place because in some way... she most certainly knew him well before he took up this mantle of Holy Roman Emperor.

"Firstly yes, and secondly that's me. The next flash goddess upcoming."

She said, cocking her hip and putting her hand on it with no small amount of spunk as she retorted to the woman shorter than her. Hey, it was nice not being smaller than another girl, Rafaela made her feel just that little better about herself and the fact she was a bit on the runt side with her height.

Yugiri smirked a bit while she waited for the woman's response, she sure had just said that this little woman couldn't stop her if she wanted to get to her closest friend. The dull copper eyes full of confidence at her declaration.

"I'm in no rush, unless you'd try to interfere with that goal then it might put a little bit of a tailwind behind me... if you could keep up to pressure me that is."

Now she was just being a little bit ungracious wasn't she? It was ever so fun though to tease but at the expense of Erchanhardt's followers' morale? Maybe she ought not to be so rowdy towards them, it wasn't like she knew them like she knew him. On the other hand...

Yugiri tapped her foot on the ground behind her a couple of times, a light touch of her toe like it was a countdown and then she acted to utilise Fuurinbungo. A couple of moments where the foot remained still and then the cast-off afterimage disappeared and Yugiri tried to give Rafaela a light flick on her exposed thigh as she passed and came out of a spin in a crouched over position. A light gust of wind blowing on Rafaela's face and a brief sound like a bell chime in her ear like the air was catching up to Yugiri's action.

Might as well test if Erchanhardt kept good company or not though, she didn't want her friend's guards to be underwhelming when the world was filled with incredible threats and he had become a prolific entity in it.

Yugiri took the compliment when it was presented, it was nice when your hard work paid off right? Though something was up and as soon as Rafaela showed her body beginning to glow, Yugiri's heel came up slightly if barely noticeable. It was however the faintest hint to the nature of the technique, it was like preparing a step where it was already partly in motion rather than starting outright. As soon as Rafaela moved, Yugiri responded in kind and made a graceful arc that was a sidestep of the launch.

"You got the speed but you seem to launch yourself forward like a cannonball rather than anything graceful, stepping is about precision. You should ask Erchanhardt about it sometime."

She teased to Rafaela, having been able to give the current emperor a bit in the way of lessons when it came to footwork back in the day. Assuming she had no little tricks to immediately follow up, Yugiri leaned back with more smugness than she intended to convey by the gesture.

"You want to see something really cool?"

How many times nowadays did she really get to pull out her Shikko? It was a painfully hard thing to try and refine into a perfected form like how she had heard rumours of greater levels of Shunko. Maybe Rafaela wanted to get a peek at her neat skills to the highest degree?

It was such a small comment that Yugiri hardly considered that Rafaela meant it quite literally, though it did make her hesitate since it did stir her own childhood memories of being chairbound and spending so many days longing for more, just for that simple ability to walk and crying over every little thing that happened. It was brief and something she didn't linger on but it was noticeable.

"Alright. This is what I call Shikko, I made it myself and once I perfect it I'll leave Yoruichi Shihoin in the dust! I'll be the fastest person to ever exist."

She declared while leaning back a little bit, centering her energy and letting it flood through her body with the humming sound that filled the air around them. The sound that made her name it after crickets' singing.

Once it was active she tapped her foot, it was an unnecessary gesture in this state as her body phased away. Appearing to just vanish and it would feel like Rafaela was hit by gusts of wind from six different directions at the same time. Six touches, each limb, her forehead and her back. As if Yugiri had done Fuurinbungo six times simultaneously although with her target's senses she might've have noticed a tiny delay between the touches that most probably would miss that proved there was a path that she had taken.

And then she was back opposite Rafaela with a grin, though a Yugiri did wince a little bit. She had to fix this stupid pressure that it put on her body if she wanted it to be perfected. It quickly dispelled afterwards to conserve her energy and avoid damaging herself beyond a bit of pain.

"Honestly, not the best. It's a work in progress and I probably couldn't do that many if you weren't standing still for me."