[h1][CENTER][i][b][color=steelblue]Henry[/color] | [color=a2d39c]Miyu[/color][/b][/i][/CENTER][/h1]

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Henry rode the Leviathan and laughed as it shrugged off all of the damage done to it, even capturing a few torpedos with the Gates of Tartarus for himself. He started to laugh a little less when he saw Leviathan heading straight for the Contender. [Color=steelblue]"Hey, I think we should stop now buddy. Like, right now. God damnit you dumb fucking fish stop!"[/color] Henry yelled as he let go before the Leviathan breached the surface, latching onto the Contender. He started cursing under his breath as he decided to swim away and avoid the ensuing battle. Besides, he still needed to find his personal goal.

He headed over to Sector Alpha and smiled when he saw Miyu throwing up shields to stop an attack. [Color=steelblue]"Aww, you think that would stop me. That's absolutely adorable."[/color] As he said this a portal opened beneath his feet and a slab of iron rose underneath him, giving him something to stand on. [Color=steelblue]"I'll tell ya what, you step out of the Machina and swim to your base as fast as you can, I'll only chop off a hand or two.[/color] Henry smiled as he said that, subtly tending up and preparing to draw his sword when she inevitably declined.

Miyu flicked her shields full to forward. She lowered the cockpit. She raised both her hands, the palms facing herself, fingers closed. The middle finger of each hand rose. She raised and lowered each hand independently, as the cockpit slowly resealed.

[color=a2d39c]"In case that wasn't clear enough for you, come and get some."[/color] The footing of the mech shifted, as she turned her side to face Henry, shifting the shields as necessary, obscuring much of her sword from him, perhaps to hide some maneuver or preparation. 

Henry laughed as the Angel flipped him off and prepared for battle. [Color=steelblue]"I like you Angel. You're going to regret that though."[/color] With that being said he drew his sword and cut directly in front of himself, creating a vacuum blade that headed straight for Miyu. After that he pushed off of the iron slab and letting it sink back into the Gates before reclosing them.

He landed on the ground and began circling Miyu to find a good spot to strike from. Finally he stopped a few yards behind her and jumped to strike at her back.

The vacuum slash smashed across the shields, hexagonal panels of hard light becoming visible as the impact rippled across them. Miyu's shields were designed to shield infantry from artillery barrages, and a plain ranged attack would not pierce, though he could still impair her vision with it.  As Henry maneuvered at her back, she kept her movements slow, to try and convince him she didn't have enough speed to keep up. Which, to be fair, she couldn't.

But as Henry struck forward, Miyu hardened a portion the shields behind him, and jumped backwards, aiming to crush him between the shields and the sheer weight of the mech. If Henry managed to dodge, she had her sword ready, held in a half-swording grip for fine control of the tip. That said, no matter how this plan went, she'd be smacking off a decent portion of her shields with the impact of the maneuver. 

Henry watched her jump towards him hoping to crush him and responded by jumping straight up about 5 feet. He then opened up the Gates and released a steel bar from his collection, using that as a foot hold to jump up an additional 7 feet and letting it fall to his previous position. He landed on Miyu's upper back and poised his sword to stab directly into her. He wasn't really holding on, so any real attempt to throw him off would easily get him off.

Miyu thrust upward, her point aimed between Henry's legs, such that the blade would cut him in an uncomfortable place as the point slipped past him. Her left hand stayed relatively still stabilizing the thrust, as the right hand provided the motive force. This would end with her left hand on the back of the blade, just above the hilt. 

Henry abandoned his assault after Miyu attempted to chop off his unmentionables, jumping off before she could slice him. 

The point of Miyu's thrust had been behind him, meaning that the blow would have only done minor (albeit embarrassing) damage if it had completed as straightforwardly shown. This was because Miyu had already guessed Henry would jump forward to dodge, this being her feint swordsmanship in action. The grip on her sword was such so that her main hand could pull back while her left hand pushed forward to create an incredibly fast swing of the blade, to attempt to slice him in half during his jump. Miyu knew she was slower than Henry and so her only option had been to predict his action before he even started it.

Henry had only been glanced though due to his armor created by the various charms he wore. His armor absorbed most of the blow, Henry only having felt some minor brute force from his own jump. He landed on the ground and began circling her once more, stopping a few yards away from her front. [Color=steelblue]"You're not too shabby in the swordfighting department. This is going to make my conquest all the more satisfying."[/color] Henry licked his lips and cracked his neck with a psychotic grin plastered onto his face.

Henry began the assault again, dashing straight for her this time while moving left and right in unpredictable patterns. He moved fast enough that he was a veritable blur, finally appearing from her right to slash at her leg.

[color=a2d39c]"Will it? You fight like you've never had to fight someone stronger than you in your whole life. You rely on your body's speed, your eye's reactions, your gear's power, there's no yomi in your blade, only straightforward skill and brute power. Sounds about as satisfying a conquest as vanilla."[/color] As Henry approached,  Miyu abused her reach advantage and swept her sword out in a meter high horizontal arc, her blade starting from her absolulte left she could reach to her absolute right, no amount of lateral movement would dodge this unless Henry could get all the way to her backside in the time of a single attack. Miyu was with her left hand picking up her sheath, wielding it like the wakazashi in a daisho set, albeit, clumsier as it was a sheath and not a blade. She had intended to strike down vertically with it as Henry likely either jumped over or slid under the horizontal swing (with another layer of prediction and trickery beyond even that for good measure), but Henry's final approach being from the right prevented her from being able to strike effectively with the left hand. Miyu simply had to hope that what had been intended to be her feint had enough power to buy her enough time to turn and fight.

[Color=steelblue]"I fight like that because I don't have to fight someone stronger than me! Just you!"[/color] Henry vaulted over Miyu's sword strike and lost no momentum, instead landing in a roll and continuing to run as he rolled to his feet. He circled behind her and cut through the leg completely, knowing he would have to get that welded together later for his trophy room.

[color=a2d39c]~Shit, that cut straight through my spell... Well, no point keeping it online then.~[/color] Miyu though as she staggered to one knee, her right hand falling to catch her mech's fall, at least slightly. Henry was in position to strike the killing blow, but also close in, and there wasn't any point to her shields and spell anymore... So she burned them out, activing the Holy Hand Grenade mode, the holy magic and shields blowing up in an omni-directional fragmentation blast of holy hard light. Miyu gritted her teeth, expecting Henry to survive that, what with how he handled the earlier sword blow. If a two-handed downward strike hadn't damaged him, with a leg out and the fragmentation ability popped, the Daimyo didn't have any powerful enough attack options left unless Henry was polite enough to lay under it Miyu to fall on him. [color=a2d39c]"Tch, can't deny that. With our fearless commander fleeing the field, and the rest of us getting one shot by that fish of yours, it's just a matter of how many times I can flip you off before the demon's take the field. I think I'm betting I'm two for three."[/color]

Henry just took a step back and opened The Gates to let a ornate wall covered in Angel wings fall in front of him, the Angel wings facing towards the explosion. His reasoning was maybe they would absorb light mana, if not the wall would certainly protect him. It was an idea he had wanted to test. The explosion was blocked and he then let the wall sink back into the Gates. [Color=steelblue]"I can appreciate that way of thinking. If I was going to die then I would probably just fuck over everyone else as hard as possible as well. This was fun."[/color] Henry walked around the Machina and started opening up a portal to release a large steel beam. With that he actually propped up the Machina from the front, just to make sure it didn't crush him.

[Color=steelblue]"Its funny, I started this battle wanting the Machina, but I don't really want it anymore. I think I want the pilot. Good bodyguards are so hard to come by nowadays ya know?"[/color] Henry reached into a portal and pulled out a crowbar and a choker adorned with red spikes, holding them with his left hand and his sword with his right. [Color=steelblue]"So here's how it'll work. Either you get out now and put on the choker, signifying your allegiance to me, or I take this crowbar and this sword and begin chopping up the Machina until I get you out by force. And then I torture you until you work for me. Any thoughts?"[/color] Henry spoke all this with a pleasant smile on his face and a tight grip on his sword. He kinda hoped it would be the second option.

[color=a2d39c]"Pffft... Hah![/color] The mech stumbled as Miyu pressed a button or two on accident, the auto-calibration obviously not adjusting to having a steel beam instead of a leg, and it fell over onto it's side. [color=a2d39c]"And I was just wondering if you wanted to go on a date on Thursday, what with the interesting straightforward honesty and my own limited dating prospects as a machina obsessed angel. But now you tell me you only want me for my body-guarding? When you're literally stronger and more flexible than me in every way? I don't believe it."[/color]

[Color=steelblue]"What can I say? Sometimes it's nice to have a bodyguard on hand so I don't have to deal with the boring threats."[/color] Henry shrugged at this statement and continued his nonchalant smiling.

The mech rolled over onto its back, and the cockpit started opening. Miyu started strolling forward and circling Henry, while sloooowly unbuckling one of her swords and dropping it to the ground, before starting to do the same with her rifle. [color=a2d39c]"So, before we get into a commited relationship, I'm thinking I should tell you something about me. My favorite prayer. 'Yea, and though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am driving a house sized mass of fuck you.' Humans came up with it. It's also the command code for self-destruct."[/color] Hoping she had bought enough time, Miyu fired her rifle at Henry, while on the opposite side of him as the explosion occured, jumping back to hopefully fall in the water before getting incinerated, hoping that this two pronged attack might at least distract him. She didn't have much hope it'd stop him permanently, and clenched her other sword in her teeth, and started arming a micromissile she had snatched from the ammo of the Daimyo before jumping out.

[Color=steelblue]"Well that's just rude, I wanted to quote my favorite quote from the Demonic Bible."[/color] Henry began to chase after Miyu when she pulled a rifle on him. He continued to run after her, either dodging the bullets or just deflecting them with his sword. Any that did hit were mostly absorbed by his invisible armor. He dived into the water just as the explosion rushed past him, swimming towards Miyu as she armed what appeared to be a missile. Henry shook his head at her and continued to swim anyways, confident in his ability to negate the missiles.

Henry's far superior speed, and the fact that he was actually swimming made him catch up with Miyu almost immediately. If it wasn't for her nigh unhealthy lack of bodyfat, she would have barely been below the surface by the time Henry caught her. Miyu's missile tactic was pretty unusual. She attempted to slam it into him with a reverse knife grip to the chest, while grabbing her sword out of her teeth with her right hand. Whether or not Miyu was trying to kill herself and deal maybe a sliver of damage, or just hadn't actually had time to perform rocket surgery was unknown to Henry.

Henry let go of the crowbar and choker using his left hand to grab the missile and pull it into a small gate he opened in front of his chest, yanking it out of her hands and closing the portal as soon as it went in. As for the sword, he used his own blade to slice cleanly through it, reducing it to a quarter of its length.

Miyu finally got to use her strategy she had intended for earlier in the fight when she was going to use the scabbard, and stab at his neck with the broken blade, predicting that her blade wouldn't stand up to Henry's. But... After that probably failed, Miyu really didn't have much left other than flailing like a child.

Henry let the broken blade glance off his armor by moving his body slightly, and then grabbed the blade out of her hands tossing it into a portal. [Color=steelblue]"Say night night."[/color] Henry mocked her one last time as he grabbed her by the wrist and hit her on the face with the pommel of his blade, attempting to knock her out.

[color=a2d39c]"Fu.."[/color] Miyu was attempting to curse at him one last time before being rudely interrupted by bleeding concussion wound to the face and ocean. Miyu didn't seem to be 100% out of it... she went limp enough that she probably wasn't going anywhere, and would have certainly fallen over if she wasn't currently drowning, but she seemed to be more staggered and in shock than unconscious. Getting the exact force right for unconsciousness and not death was difficult when your opponent was this much weaker than you. That said, whether she'd recover eventually or slip into unconsciousness momentarily was up in the air.

Henry dragged her up to the surface once more and laid her out on the beach of the island they jumped off of. Henry got up on dry land as well and kneeled down next to her. [I][Color=steelblue]'She was drowning right? How do you get water out of lungs again? You do the mouth to mouth thing right?'[/color][/I] Henry looked at her lips for a moment.

Miyu's reaction was a bit of cross-eyed panic before coughing up some water and lolling backwards into unconsciousness.

He then shook his head. That doesn't sound right. She'll probably be fine. With this Henry reached into a portal and pulled out a pair of hand cuffs with a chain leading out to be held by a guard. He attached the handcuffs to her, grabbed the chain and sat down on the beach, wondering how the rest of the demons were doing. He should get her to some sort of holding cell soon so he can rejoin the fight.