[center][U][B]Mayonaka, Seisui[/B] - [I]The Tranquil Lotus[/I][/U][/center]

5 meters, the Yagami was ready; 4 meters, Nazo's body tensed and eyes focused; 3 meters, the man's muscles and blade began to move; 2.5 meters, Seisui's dash was interrupted by a shift in movement. Whilst he had run the tip of his blade had been aimed forwards from with hands near his right hip. However, the blade was at an angle so as to be pointing at Nazo's left side (from Seisui's perspective). This was the same side that Nazo's sheath was located and thus the starting location for any attack that the samurai would begin in reaction to Seisui's rush, which had been utilized for two reasons.

First, Seisui had utilized a rush to quickly close distance and to obscure his actual choice of attack.

Second, he had employed the movement as a strategy to instigate Nazo to attack him, rather than Seisui make the true first move, which might open him up for a counter on Nazo's end.

Thus the dash had served its purpose so as Nazo's first slash began, Seisui's heel pushed forwards and made it look as if he were going to slide to a stop. However, rather than his knee be straight to create more stopping power, he kept it ever so slightly bent. This was totally imperceptible to Nazo due to the clothing that covered Seisui's body. As such Nazo's attacks were more likely to continue as the man had likely planned for them two. At this point already three more slashes had been utilized in differing directions, none of which were relevant to him. [I]An omnidirectional attack...with a blade, utilizing chakra,[/I] Seisui's brain thought faster even than Nazo's attacks even as it continued to analyze the movement. [I]Effective against multiple opponents, ineffective against a single individual,[/I] he surmised even as the first chakra blade neared him. His knee bent and he stepped forwards propelling his blade in a forwards and slightly upwards thrust, hitting the very center of the slightly arced chakratic blade. The reaction to the precise action, which was followed by a lightning fast, but tiny, downward cut with the blade's tip, resulted in Seisui totally disrupting the flow of chakra in the attack.

In short, the blade of chakra dispersed and as Nazo would begin realizing his error, Seisui's movement continued with smoothness, no slower than his dash, but far more measured and dangerous as he initiated another technique with a tiny flux of chakra. [I]Menimienai jokyo(目に見えない除去 'Unseen removal')[/I] thus applying a thin layer of chakra just over the surface of the apparently cylindrical chakra construct that overlaid Chinmoku's surface. This would act as a sheath as Seisui's slight upwards slash --created by the mere flick of his wrist-- would move the blade across his body from his right side to his left. At no point did he stop moving to allow any leeway and thus as his blade moved, so did his body, before the now chakraticly sheathed blade made contact with Nazo's own as he attempted a slash as he had been doing prior.

The blade's momentum would cease entirely as it met with Seisui's being culled by the precision of its master's movements even as it flashed forwards and across in the second technique of the chain.

It would be as if Seisui had preformed an iaido technique, but entirely without a sheath as he executed Menimienai shunji(目に見えない瞬时 'Unseen flash') to slash downwards across Nazo's sword arm, chest, and just above the hip. Movements from there would vary depending on the man's reaction