Sick burn, brah [Hannah/Kokuto]

"Getting people out of the way is an important part of any disaster or crisis. Sure, you can imagine one of the EMTs in Jefferson feeling pretty inadequate as the Walking Catastrophe that was Lady Auber fought the Volcano spewing madman that destroyed that place, but every person rescued from that place is a person saved. The life of one person is a completely fine addition to any situation"

Hannah would then, stop for a moment and look about.

"Though, appearance of knowing what I am doing aside, I realize I don't actually know where the training ground is....Would you guide me, Kokuto?"

"Getting people out of the way" had been a nice way to put it. Most of what that had entailed was quite literally throwing the other members of the Vandenreich out of the way of Ichigo's attacks.

Considerably less heroic, but, it did do something at least. Even if he wasn't obsessed with being the best, saving everyone and all of that, there still was something that he felt was wrong with the idea that even saving one person was enough. Maybe that was just a normal thing.

However, as Hannah stopped, Kokuto stopped as well, turning to look at her. He probably should have figured she didn't exactly know where she was going. So, with a quiet chuckle, Kokuto gave her a light nudge.

"Sure, no problem. Want me to hold your hand?"

It was a light jest, not a particularly great one, but, hey, maybe it'd lighten the air. Things had gotten pretty heavy, after all. Regardless of the answer, Kokuto would lead the way for her to the City of Light's training grounds.

"Thank would be appreciated, thank you" Hannah would reply, not taking it as a jest for a single moment. Leading off to the training ground, she would admire her surroundings as she did so, until they would arrive. A nice place, though could always be stronger. As she was intending on stretching his muscles quite a bit, the surroundings would need to be reinforced a bit.

"Adamant Kiss" she would state, spreading a dome around her and Kokuto. It was a good forty foot, so there was plenty of space to manoeuvre. It covered the ground and the walls, so there was no risk of damaging them. And then she would look inwards for a moment. Kokuto would want to launch his shit out without worrying about hurting her, so Hannah would ponder a moment, and then flick her hands.

"Kasai-Kunshu Kyōkai" Her words would be followed by a soft orange beam of light that shot into the ground at four points, and then filled in with a screen of the same colour.

"It is not helpful to just hit a dummy, so I shall shoot back, though I shall restrain myself in power so as not to hurt you too much. Do tell me if you do get hurt, however. I can heal you" She would then give him a nod, to begin.

As they arrived, Kokuto raised an eyebrow at what she said, turning to look at the dome as it spread around the grounds. Reinforcing the place, huh? Well, that certainly made him feel a bit better about cutting loose. It was big enough to give them plenty of room to work with when it came to mobility and overall destructive potency.

As she cast another barrier spell, Kokuto stretched for a moment, before a flash of red energy coiled around his body and his Devil Steel activated. If she was gonna be firing back at him, he needed to be sure that he could take the damage just as well. When she nodded, Kokuto took a breath, before suddenly launching forward, his body pushed at greater speeds than he normally was capable of as flames erupted from behind him.

Despite the distance, he was able to cover it quickly, and as he closed in on her, a small, white orb of fire manifested in his hand before he released a stream of white flames toward her.

"Tenran"

Hannah decided not to take the man's rushing headlong at a prepared opponent very well, and so with a simple word, caused a gale to erupt from her palm and blast out at him. Not only would it serve to cripple his forward momentum and hit him like a brick, but it would play double duty in blowing his fire back at him, risking a relapse into burned frankenstein again unless he pulled some cool shit to avoid such a fate.

"Is rush forward wildly really the peak of your tactical prowess?"

Instinctual reaction made him suddenly unleash a column of flames underneath him, sending him upward and avoiding Hannah's Kido in response. Frankly, it wouldn't have been a problem for him to just sit there and take the hits, but, he didn't want to lose the distance between them.

Columns of fire kept him suspended in the air as the chains on his shackles suddenly elongated and ignited, and Kokuto lashed out with them to try and force her to move, or at least keep her attention from himself. One of the chains slithered back and returned to him as he summoned Rakshasa's Claw.

"Powers might be simple, but I ain't stupid."

The chain attached to the pommel of the sword, and Kokuto was quick to swing it, sending thin, burning sword slashes toward her that could potentially risk putting strain against her barriers. Even in the swings of his sword, he was still a powerhouse.

Thinning out the columns of fire across the barrier with the gale and forcing Kokuto to expend a lot more energy to maintain them than normal, Hannah would give a smirk. It was cute that he was just hovering there, after first rushing in headlong at her. This was turning out to be more like a lesson than a spar.

"Haien" Hannah would state, sweeping her arm and launching a purple blaze at the columns of fire. While one might laugh at the idea, Haien was more than just fire. Were it to hit Kokuto's columns, it would begin to, against logic, burn them. In reality, it was more burning everything that was within the fire, but the visual was still impressive.

The sudden and abrupt loss of his upwards momentum and the suddenly rapidly accelerating floor - sped up by a light touch of Hannah's Anima Mea - would no doubt throw off the trajectory of his attacks wildly and ensure Hannah need not worry about them.

Gut instinct ordered Kokuto to move, and, holding his arm out to the side, caused another burst of concentrated flames to erupt, pushing him over and out of the way of the purple blaze. Keeping the momentum, Kokuto quickly surged forward, hurling his sword like a spear with power comparable to a tank round.

Not long after, however, flames came to life in his palm, and with a swing of his arm, the demon unleashed a flurry of large, white fireballs that rained down on Hannah, each having a similar level of physicality behind them. As he threw them, he dismissed the flame jets at his feet, falling to the ground and pulling his sword back to him.

For now, he'd stick to using those jets to move quicker on the ground. He couldn't just stay in the air through the entire fight while literally burning energy to do so.

"You definitely need a new tactic" Hannah would exclaim as he jetted around the room on his flames. She didn't think he had stopped using them for a second since the beginning. Along with the lashing and the swords and the plethora of fireballs launched at her, he was burning through his energy at a rapid rate - no pun intended.

The blows landed on the barrier and roared around it, but found no purchase. It's name was an implication of it's capabilities, after all; custom-tooled specifically to deal with Kokuto.

"The easiest way to lose a fight is to be the first to bottom out on Spiritual Energy. Going hard at the start, jetting about constantly, and launching a lot of high powered attacks against an unknown target is a great way to be caught off guard and unable to muster the power to counteract an enemy once they grasp what your capabilities are. Like so"

Hannah would hold out her hand and a rage of energy built up beneath it.

"Kōri joō-hō" Hannah incanted, modifying a Hyōga Seiran to blast a 360 wave of frigid, frozen air. With little room to retreat because of the barrier, and no way around it due to the omnidirectional nature, he would have to meet it head on.

He wasn't all that surprised with the durability of her barriers, given her healing was skilled enough to make his mug look more palatable. It was a bit irritating for his strength to have virtually no effect, but, it just meant that he needed to just keep getting stronger. He didn't listen all that much to what she was saying -- he wasn't anywhere close to his limits yet, though, maybe he did need a new tactic.

What that would be, he didn't know. As Rakshasa's Claw landed in his hand, Kokuto prepared to kick off the ground and surge forward, only to stop as she unleashed a colossal wave of ice. Judging from her skill in presumably Shinigami magic, he had a feeling that this wasn't something to just sneeze at. But, there was still the thing -- it was ice.

As the frozen air began to surround him, a sudden blast of heat erupted from his body, and silver-white flames turned blue as they coated him, expanding to the space around him. The icy air quickly heated up, melting and evaporating long before it would touch him.

He could feel his body, both internally and externally, heating up as he unleashed the highest level of his flames, but, as the ice faded, the flames would subside, keeping himself ready for another attack. His skin had turned pink, compared to the apricot-like color his skin had before, and steam emitted from him, a constant, suffocating heat encompassing the space inside the barrier.

"Got any suggestions, then? Ain't a whole lot of tactics for someone like me."