Nice to met You! [Igen, Shaoling]

Igen blinked twice for a moment as she finally turned and faced him. Seeing her look him up and down he gave a sheepish smile. Yea, Igen didn't really look, or probably feel like much. At least in her frame of reference. At least as far as guys went. No doubt even Yuujin would look like a manly man next to Igen. However, when she spoke up about Shunko, he paused. He was dense, but he knew when he was being offered a fight. Which, frankly, was probably a REALLY bad idea.

In the Gotei? Sure! With you know, people to jump in if things got out of hand, or if someone needed medical attention. Out here? A whole lot could go wrong!

However. His mind flitted back to his fight with Lady Ai. And he remembered that feeling. Of just flat out being unmatched. Truth be told, Igen didn't LIKE people who couldn't hold back. Seeing some of those snooty rich noble types just try to bully and show off over rukongai applicants really had tailored his expectations. Or at least.... he thought it had.

But Lady Ai had sortof ...challenged that. Naturally, she hadn't been TRYING to kill him. But she also hadn't been holding back either. It had been....conflicting. If Igen had WATCHED that fight from the outside, he might have flat out just shaken his head a bit. But being in it in the moment. It made him.....curious. As he remembered being in the thick of it. Not quite the ....thrill. But . Being pushed like that. It made him feel like he was back out in the further rukongai districts again.

"That's fine! No pain, no cocaine right? ....Er...Wait..." He frowned, what was that human expression again? "Well uh... anyway. I don't mind getting my hands a little dirty." He chimed, smiling from ear to ear, before his expression got a bit more serious as he widened his stance a bit and raised his hands, a bit more....intensity slipping into his expression. A bit of excitement.

Igen couldn't help but chuckle a bit as she offered the courtesy. His eyes briefly scanning her stance, remdinign himself that the woman was very proficient in Kido as well as direct combat. "I feel like that's just as dangerous." He chuckled, pondering to himself. Would he have time to use Jinjashō? But there was also the fact that he wasn't sure where she'd hit him. He'd probably not be able to react.... no, he'd just have to plan for the long game.

His frame flickered, a sudden shunpo closing the distance between them as he promptly pumped Reiryoku through his body, hardening his frame especially pouring extra into his fist as he went for a straight punch to the center of her chest, a jab more than anything, not wanting to give her any momentum to throw him, before promptly twisting into a full roundhouse kick, packing force into his leg. The motion itself was more focused on speed than strength, but using Hakuda, he packed enough force in it that someone around his own level would be sent skidding along the ground from the impact.

The first move was always a dangerous one, especially if someone was well-versed in counters. And so, his plan was to try and bait a counter. After all, this was all about learning right? If you were stronger than your opponent, then your goal was to end the fight as quickly and decisively as possible. But if you were weaker, then your objective was to find a weakness to exploit. Easy peasy right?

He expcted the effortless counter to his punch, but the sudden blocking of his entire leg and body with just a single finger had his eyes widening in sheer surprise. Just one finger?! THAT WAS AWESOME! And even amidst this dangerous fight, a big grin spread out across his face! But one thing was clear: She didn't seem to be using Shunko. Which was what this was all about! Recovering from the attack he blinked for a moment and gave a chuckle.

"I dunno. But let's find out!" He chimed before promptly lowering his leg and rushing in! It was a simple rush. Scooting closer, attempting to put pressure on her with a flurry of hand strikes. Jabs, chops, and back punches executed in quick succession! Of course he didn't really HAVE any ...special techniques. Igen didn't have anything.... great about him. No shunpo specialty, no zanpaku'to. He honestly wasn't that special of a guy. What DID he have to use. But then again, it wasn't like he was trying to win.

He just needed to push her! Shunko... a special type of hakuda and kido combination. The art of extending and flowing reiryoku through the body and the environment. He knew how to do both, but just not at the same time. There was no way he could just figure that out on the spot out of nowhere. HE had no special main character powers. All he was really good at...was Kaido.

And well, may as well go with that right? Each and very hit would be increadibly easy for her to dodge or block. But every time that she made contact, she'd likely feel it. A little jolt of his own healing Reiryoku being pumped into her body. Bruises. Scuffs. Small little things she might have accrued during training, would start to hurt less and less.

It was a bluff! OF course. HE wasn't some kinda Kaido master, he couldn't surgically cut muscle or tendons or anything like that. Honestly the best he could do was inject her with a bit of healing energy. BUT! Maybe that unexpected flow of Reiryoku would be enough to distract her enough for her concentration to slip. He just had to focus, waiting to see any sign of slippage!

It didn't come in the form that he quite expected. He expected some sort of retaliation and as she deftly blocked, parried, dodged, and shifted out of his grasp, he couldn't help btu wonder if she had even noticed his actions?! Was he really THAT weak? Hahah, probably. HE wondered if he'd have to change things up, and that was when that flidck suddenly was executed.

FAR too fast for him to react to, or have even anticipated. Some small part of him had considered where she might hit him. But well, he couldn't juggle his little kaido punched AND his Jijanshō at the same time. That was why he had been focusing his Hakuda not really on putting force behind his attacks, but by hardening his frame. So when that flick came to his chest, he was INDEED sent flying. Barely keeping from the air being knocked out of his lungs thanks to his controlled breathing and ...well...sheer luck that he'd been between breaths when she'd hit him.

Igen flew a solid twenty meters before he slammed into one of the slabs of rock nearby, possibly even one that she had been striking for training not that long ago, and CRACKED it's surface as he was thrown into it. BWUH, alright, that DID caost him a bit of his breath. Any normal shinigami likely would have been KO'd on the spot! But if nothing else, Igen WAS a tough boy. And that had only further been amplified by his use of Hakuda.

"H-holy shit. THAT WAS AWESOME!" Igen's voice carried through the dust, and he'd be seen walking out of the dust, a hand over his chest, as the welt she'd left on his chest promptly vanished with a more direct use of Kaido. But his eyes were still shining as he emerged, smiling from ear to ear. "Again! I got it this time!" He insisted, and his spiritual energy would WELL up. A noise almost like a snarling tiger or lion coursed out from his frame. It wasn't a lot of energy, but he was clearly getting fired up.

But well... there would still be signs. His breathing was a bit deeper now. Even just hardening his body did take a bit of energy and well...Igen didn't have a ton. An assassin like Shaoling would practically see them a mile away. slight wavers in that defense of his. Kill points. As enthusiastic as the young man was, he probably couldn't take too many more of those. But even though she could see the strain this put on his Reiryoku, she wouldn't see any of that on his face. He was grinning, ready for her to hit him again.

He noticed that she was surveying him, at least sortof. His eyes were open, but he honestly wasn't even looking directly at her. His eyes were squarely on the space between them. Not because he was trying to catch sight of her motion, but because he flat out wasn't even paying attention to what he saw. Rather, he focused his Reikaku. But that wasn't focused on her either. There was no way even his Reikaku would be able to follow the woman before him. Shaoling, formerly known as Soi Feng.

But then again, he wasn't really interested in how she got to him. His interest, was in shunko, and what SHE was DOING to him. And so, his Reikaku was focused entirely upon his immediate surroundings. For all the speed that Shaoling would muster, there was one thing. She would, upon impact with him, however briefly, stop moving when all of her momentum was transferred into him. It wasn't something he really scientifically understood. There was no math. It was just instinct. Once he was hit, he'd know exactly where she was. And so he focused, expecting another hit to his chest, and he was prepared this time. His chest pumped full of Kaido energy, as she made impact and just like before, he was shoved. But this time, there was nowhere to go. He was already RIGHT up against the rock, and in spectactular fashion, she hit him, he hit the rock almost instantly, and the rock exploded behind him, taking all of the energy as his chest promptly endured the hit.

Even between his natural durability and his hakuda, it was still HARD, and for an instant, blood vessels ruptured from the impact and a bruise flourished across his back and along his chest as he didn't have the luxury of going flying and losing energy to the air. But just as quickly, the bruising vanished as that prep-prepped kaido healed him on the spot, keeping the injury from becoming more severe through cascade effects, and even though he GASPED as the air was driven from his lungs, and he promptly crumpled to his Knees, he got what he wanted.

Just one moment. Using that same personal, close-range Reikaku that one would use on a patient. To sense intimately what was going on. For just one moment, he sensed ....fuzzily, what was going on. Of course, with Kaido, you had your hands on the person, and things were stationary. Just because you threw someone at an x ray machine as it went off didn't mean you'd get everything you needed. But it was still something! And Igen GASPED a bit for Air, still on his knees, before he clutched his chest and sucked in air. Yea, he didn't look cool or anything. Frankly he looked like he was about to pass out! She'd even wiped the smile off that face of his.

But after a moment, he smiled shakily up at her and grinned. "Hokhay.... I'mhalright....thwo is ghood." He croaked out, his whole body beet red as his blood pounded through im to try and make up for the brief loss of air. An excellent guise as Igen promptly realized that looking up at the shorter woman leering down at him was..... kinda hot.