>"I hope my mettle exceeds your expectations."
->Roll our shoulders to stretch
>Head towards the clearing
> "If I am to be honest, the bar is not too high, considering what you said."
>You start to both mentally and physically prepare yourself. Okay, no problem. You should be able to handle this. You don't know this woman, but you do know yourself enough to understand you are no pushover.
> Both you and Luciela descended, the latter demanifesting her wings upon a graceful landing from you both. No one and nothing around... except for what seems to be a statue? It was near the treeline, seemingly forgotten.
> Phil
> Dear... How rusty are we, again...?
> Can we actually beat Kurumi if we had to fight...?
> When it comes to ACTUAL battles? Well, you'd say you haven't had a proper one in a long time, since the intrusion of those two. You have been, however, training with Kurumi to keep each other in proper shape, which works for you to evade a repetition of those days from lack of recent experience. You wouldn't call yourself rusty... You have made progress, you are sure.
> You also don't believe that, with brutal honesty, Kurumi could beat you if you went with everything at each other. The lack of intruders and whatnot must speak about the Vampire's own skills, but even then you don't believe she is THAT strong.
> It makes you wonder why Lucy said Kurumi was 'dangerous'. A broken instrument is not a feat that could make someone think an individual is such, if it's not to say they will attack others on sight like it seemingly happened with... that girl. Did she had a name, now...? So, unless Kurumi was practicing her own 'special' kind of skill, just like you have been doing so for your Black Coach in private...
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