Seaside Fight Night: Yumichika vs. Reida

Ah, but Reida's style of fighting was reckless. It was, one might even say, outright suicidal. Do anything to win, no matter what it took. She'd picked it up back during her militia days, but it'd served her real well here in the Vandenreich, too. Her grin only stayed firmly in place as she maintained her offensive, seemingly outright unconcerned with Yumichika's attacks as she ate most of them with her already-damaged arm. Did it hurt? Oh, hell yeah it did, like hell. But she could fix it if she needed to.

Besides, for now she could keep on moving, hirenkyaku once again carrying her forward as blut reinforced her right knee, aiming it squarely for her opponent's midsection with an almost animalistic leap.

"C'mon, fella, don't be rude. Ya gotta lead the lady in any dance, right? If I'm inelegant, it's just 'cause I'm matchin' my partner."

Reida didn't really care one way or the other, but it was all too easy for her to try and needle at his ego.

"Picked up on that, didja? Well, doctors say I'm not normal, but it ain't the end of the world."

Reida was hardly concerned about him noticing her hollow energy. It was unusual, certainly, but she wasn't nearly so self-conscious as to care. If anything, she was glad he'd noticed. It hardly mattered all that much, but she knew it would probably introduce any number of potential variables into the mix that he'd have to account for.

"Litany: Vainglory."

Pulling in a great deal of spiritual energy from the surrounding area, Reida could feel her body tense as it was packed with reishi. She was pretty much a walking bomb now, and realistically, a move like this was suicide for anybody that couldn't do what she did. Hell, she'd only tested it a couple times herself, but she hadn't died from it yet. Besides, she'd started sparklin' something fierce, and she had to imagine getting all that attention would really grind her opponent's gears. She stepped toward him yet again with Hirenkyaku, fully intent on being hit this time as she swung her fist toward that ladyboy face of his. Regardless of which of them actually made impact, energy was gonna explode out of her like a bomb as soon as they struck.

While Reida had certainly been moving quickly, she hadn't been anticipating a different release. That wasn't normal, was it? Well, it was something to keep in mind for her reports when all this was over. Sure, this was supposed to be a diplomatic thing, but that didn't mean she was gonna avoid filling out her personal notes.

She could get closer, certainly, but her plan hadn't accounted for this, and in the end Reida was still a bit further away than she'd have liked. But, hey, they'd already been plenty close, and that was just fine for her. Did this fruitcup think she was plannin' on some little explosion or something?

"Sorry, bud, my eye was closed."

Grinning before biting down on her tongue, Reida's energy still exploded outward, directed broadly down and forward. Sure, it blew off her entire lower jaw, but it was still aimed at both the zanpakuto and the shinigami holding it, so most of her head was still intact. She could fix something like this, and she shifted herself into Join, Or Die to start doing that, her previous minor injuries already starting to cover themselves. The jaw, though, would take a little more time.

Now this was bad. Reida didn't quite have a fully formed mouth yet to properly throw out a spell name, so anything she did was going to be weaker. Well, she was already squarely on defense now, so she shifted her blut from arterie to vene. But that didn't solve much in the way of her situation, and so she could do little more than raise an insignificant barrier.

Damn. This was bad.

But if nothing else, Reida sure wasn't going to show that. She kept up her cocky grin even now, maintaining her blut despite the fact that she was pretty much in the worst possible situation here. Oughta at least keep giving him a problem, eh? And her wounds were already making great time healing.

"Yeah, I think I might."

Reida could probably have lasted a while longer in here if she wanted to, keeping up her blut and healing through the injuries, but this wasn't just a test of endurance. This was a fight, and Reida didn't have any plan to lose it. Taking a sharp breath inward to prepare herself for the strain of her next move, she gritted her teeth and released Tecumseh.

As she did so, her hair shifted to a bleached white, and her single eye changed to a dull yellow. At the same time, her ability to draw in reishi skyrocketed, and the burn of her own soul being cannibalized was sharp in her chest. She probably wouldn't need long, though. Drawing in the kido that bound her, she quickly reinforced her whole body with Blut Arterie once more, at the same time whipping herself around with a wide, malicious grin as her hand pointed directly toward Yumichika.

"Catechism: Agony and Bloody Sweat!"

Reishi tore itself out of the air around them, and even out of Reida's own body, before forming into a large line of spikes that surrounded her hand in a ring. Each one then shot toward Yumichika with extreme speed, fully intent on simply pinning him to the floor by impalement. She didn't have long, so she'd have to make this count. She wasn't aiming to kill, of course. That'd be against the rules.