Yumeko charged again, and the story was much the same... Except, this time, the golden fox did not aim to try and reach the dark fox herself, but rather, re-angled her spear so that Miyuki's retaliation missed the former's weapon.

As the golden fox had thought, even with the speed Miyuki possessed, she wasn't immune to the laws of motion, and her glaive sailed through the air with nothing to strike or stop it. This brief window gave the goddess the opportunity she'd needed, and with a quick motion, her crescent moon spear bit down and pinned Miyuki's glaive to the ground.

A brilliant display! And the golden fox kept on moving ahead, prepared to get closer to Miyuki to land a blow!

... Except...

For the first time since Miyuki had held a wepon, at least as far as Yumeko had seen, the dark fox's face was no longer a stoic, statue-like mask of brutal, unfeeling cold efficiency. Instead, the moment Yumeko pinned her weapon to the floor of the arena, a... Really frightening grin spread across Miyuki's face, and it almost looked small flames had been lit in her eyes... Giving the dark haired one a very uncany, sinister and - predictably - malevolent appearance.

... Had she been doing these repeated, predictable and repetetive movements as a bait...?

Without even flinching or blinking, Miyuki's hands let go off her now pinned, and useless glaive, and with the sae speed she'd used to move to the dinner table and to catch YUmeko, she now moved [i]towards[/i] the blonde... But... Not to eat her cooking or catch her in a fainting spell... No... There was something.. Wrong... Somehting dark and menacing... Miyuki looked like she was about to do somehting to [i]harm[/i], Yumeko.

The golden fox had pinned the glaive and was moving towards Miyuki. Miyuki had dropped her glaive, and zoomed at Yumeko. The stance the dark fox had been in allowed her to push off without any need to readjust her posture, like a taut, wound and ready-to-go spring.

Yumeko had only mere moments, or perhaps a mere instance of time, to do... Something... To not be reached by Miyuki... And... Whatever it was she'd done [i]if[/i] she reached the Goddess...