Just as Takao have completed his business, a crazy guy fell through the same trapdoor and started screaming. "Took you a long time, what happened?" He asked as he turned around to look, realizing that that person isn't someone he know, instead its a someone who seemed like he had been beaten out of shape and it seems to him that he's looking for a duel. "Oh well, I've stranded from my group, just like you haha" Takao drew his sword out on his ready, typical stance of his sword pointing forward. "So, its getting boring down here, so lets duel to pass the time~"

Takao smiled, approaching to his engaging distance, has the tip of the sword positioned lower than his opponent's. He charged in, raising his sword just slightly above his opponent's sword tip, and with a slight twist of his right wrist, he uses the slight curvature of his sword to jeer his opponent's sword away from his center, creating a good opening, then making a small swing downwards, cutting towards his opponent's hand. 

This is his favourite technique of initiating a swordfight , because its easy to leave his opponent alive & also that pattern would be good enough to tell apart good opponent. He hoped that his opponent would be worthy enough to counter his strike so that his duel would last longer ~.