While Kyang wondered if it was her shout that gave the bandit warning enough to parry her glaive, she had to work with what she had. The man was agile, that much was clear as Kyang's follow-up slice only cut through air as her opponent tumbled away. She stomped into a guarding stance with her blade forward and eyed down the man. She did not come all this way to talk trash.

[i]"KYEEEE!"[/i] Kyang skipped forward and swung her blade up and to her left, wheeling it behind herself and striking out to cut the bandit at his left elbow. [i]"HA!"[/i] With the weight and length of the weapon, she intended to keep the bandit off balance and out of reach respectively by transitioning into a combo of whirling cuts coming in from diagonals. The blade blurred around to the left shoulder, [i]"HA!"[/i] it span around to the bandit's bottom-right, [i]"HA!"[/i] Kyang struck at the bandit three more times in quick succession before breaking off, [i]"DA! DA! KYA!"[/i]

In an instant, Kyang had stepped back and was back in her guard again. Her heart was racing, but she was not giving up any time soon. She knew a counter-attack would ensue. She intended to check and feint off all that she could. She would be paying more attention to flaws in the bandit's fighting, but she was counting on Torako to exploit openings, or force ones that Kyang could exploit herself.