Vincento...that was the name she had spotted on a lot of challenge slips. She had none, but that was only to be expected. She was a complete unknown for this sort of thing, so if anyone was to write her name down then he or she must be a fan of kendo who's keeping up to date on the various dojos around Japan and their upcoming stars. It was unlikely that any such people would have already run over here to sign up. She wasn't jealous of this difference between him and her or anything...probably. Maybe she was just a tad irritated with what could be considered his bragging about it. Or maybe she was just reading too much into this. He probably meant nothing by his word choice and was just trying to make casual conversation. He took getting bumped into pretty well so he couldn't be that bad of a guy.

She extended her hand in return. 

"My name is Hikaru Tsukuda, and I'm also a first year," she said, her english almost sounding fluent with a only a tad accent. Her father was an American so she had learned english while growing up...at least while he was still alive. 

She didn't bother to include her rank of D3. She wasn't exactly hiding it, but he didn't ask so why bother spouting off your rank the first chance you get?

She let go of his hand and let it fall back to her side.

"Well anyways, guess I better get going," she said, turning around to begin walking to the dor.