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With another smirk, Rio flew back a little but flipped in the air to stop herself, landing and standing straight with her Zanpakuto pointed downwards while still in the air. She ordered, preparing herself both physically and mentally. Now was her time to see how he is on the more offensive side of battles, how he would prefer to fight. Close ranged or long ranged? Rio felt that she already had an answer in mind, but she kept her mind free from expectations. She believed Shou had the potential to go far and maybe even master all areas of fighting so she wasn't going to add expected limitations to his power, that would be a foolish thing to do... This was the first time that Rio ever had a student instead of being the student... She was going to invest as much time into Shou's improvement as she could but would make sure she had time to train herself for the inevitable event that will occur in the future....
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Shou watched as Rio jumped back, she then gave him the order to attack her and instantly Shou's mind began to work, attacking was never as simple as it could sound and if you wanted to make every attack count you'd have to be smart about it, Shou then crouched down quickly and put his left palm down, pointing it to the ground as it glew red then suddenly and explosion of red smoke erupted from Shou's location, a second after a tumble weed then flew out of the smoke, flying above Rio, then Another flew out the smoke, this time flying to her right, Shou then used Shunpo to get to her left side, hoping the tumble weeds would confuse her, this would create an opening to which he would take advantage of, however it lay heavy on the fact that she were to get distracted by the Tumble weed. Shou now behind Rio, just off to her left was moving his Zanpakuto in for a single slash to her left side and back, Shou did have to accept that if this didn't work he could be stuffed