Yuki spits and it isn't pretty. She likes curry, but that was vile. More like acid reflux than spicy food. But then, well then there are dancers and as the whip taste fades, there is a moment of exultation as well. Yuki, the lumberjack knight doesn't have the worst ring to it, right? And she's still in control of herself, and she's inflicted some damage and and and...it's time to keep going.

Because Yuki knows how to fence and how to dance. She's not a rhythm game pro like Hazel, but her family dances at all the big gatherings, and she's gotten past being afraid of this kind of thing over the course of high school and the last round of Thellamie. 

And so after that first whip, as the music goes wild, there is a dance of axe and whip that Alcideo would be proud of, even though if anything it's getting further away from him. The second attempt meets the pole of Yuki's axe and she twists with it, pulling Walking Elm close to her and into a spin of her own, which Yuki then pushes into a hip check as she sways with the frantic music. 

And as Walking Elm stumbles and tries to regain her footing, Yuki has moved after her, step and lock arm in arm too close to swing a whip as she dips Walking Elm into a low bow. Only, her other hand, still holding the axe pole, brings the axe head crashing into Walking Elm's head in that bow, dropping her limp and low, so that she's barely conscious. And then they twirl and twirl, Yuki guiding the helpless body of Walking Elm all the way to the door as she swirls amid the maidstaff. 

And as she opens the doors and tosses the limp tree to Aria Thendragon, she offers her own final bow. "Trees aren't welcome here at the moment, we're still cleaning up after the party. Next time, send the star, I owe her a rematch."

That was a bluff, but then again, the heady swirls of a fox dance can make some lies greater than the truth, can't they?

[Yuki will axe dance her way to a second fight, 6+6+1+1=14. She will inflict another condition on Walking Elm, she will take Angry on herself from the prior move, she will take a string on Walking Elm, and she will create a superior position of kicking the tree out of the party.]