Teshiko Maki
VS
~Schwertleite~
Teshiko replied to Suisei as he handed her the oyakodon. Despite the venom in his words and the lethal glare he gave her while passing her the breakfast plate, the angel refused to drop to his level of pettiness and accepted the gift of food with grace. Though, once the former yakuza had walked away, she did check for possible sabotage, half-expecting to find he had spit into it or done some other unsavory act to punish her. Only after she was absolutely sure there was nothing wrong with it would she finally take a bite. A small smile crossed her face as the taste of the oyakodon passed over her tongue.
Suesei may be a brute, but he certainly knows where to find great tasting food. The Angel would continue to enjoy her meal until she heard the voice of their leader, Camael. She had great respect for the man and not only due to his skill in combat, but also for his willingness to look past her history. Even several years later, she would hear her fellow angels gossip and rumor about what she had done with Kiyoshi whenever she visited Heaven, which was why she often avoided spending more time than necessary there.
Ah yes, Camael. Best to stop letting my mind wander and focus on what he’s saying. With the knowledge of who her rival would be in this morning’s mock battle, Teshiko rose to her feet and approached the former valkyrie.
”Schwertleite, it is an honor to be chosen as your opponent for today’s match. I promise to show my respect to you as a warrior by doing everything I can to win and I hope that you will grant me the same privilege. Please do not hold back in any way.”, she told the woman with her usual neutral expression.
Schwertleite, whom had finished her own meal by this point, put down whatever crumbs she had left as she brushed her hands neatly against each other in order to clean off any mess that remained, wanting her hands as clean as possible before the fight.
“Likewise Teshiko,” Schwertleite said as she drew herself to her full height taking an assigned position as far away from Camael as effectively possible so her hand was touching the back wall in order to give her the most range to begin with.
“So, Teshiko, are we going to stand here all day or are we going to fight?” she asked, brushing her hair to the side. It was a valkyrie’s duty to fight almost as it was an angel’s duty to defend.
In response, Teshiko closed her eyes and nodded, turning her back on her opponent to make her way to the opposite wall. Once in position, the angel would turn back to Schwertleite and raise her hand to begin casting her first spell of battle, waiting until it was fully charged before unfurling the eight wings on her back to signal her willingness to begin their fight. Despite how fast the former valkyrie may be, she could not cross the room in time before being struck by Supportive Gust, further slowing her down.
Schwertleite took her opponent’s spell charging as an invitation to charge her own. Waiting too, until her first spell had been charged before unfurling her 6 white wings, revealing her angelic halo too. A bidding warrior of heaven. At least she hoped so. She wouldn’t come to her opponent. No. She’s seen enough of what Teshiko can do from the years. Simply put. She just had to stand her ground.
With Schwertleite staying at range, Teshiko took this opportunity to do some damage. If the valkyrie had decided to charge her, somehow avoiding her initial spell and getting close enough for hand to hand fighting, the veteran angel would be at a major disadvantage. By comparison, unless she wanted to risk severely injuring or possibly killing her sparring partner, the white haired woman could only use her kamas when they had a range of several meters in between her and her target, which she now fortunately had. Taking several swings with her sickle-like weapons, Schwertleite would feel the blades striking at her armor.
As razor sharp gusts of wind began to fall upon her body, the woman raised her arms to protect her more vital parts like her face. With little options left to her, Schwertleite lowered herself to the ground, crouching as she used one of her spells to create a layer of ice over the floor, effectively freezing her opponent’s feet in place. With Teshiko now unable to move or dodge, the valkyrie next used her light projection to create a javelin that she launched toward her fellow angel.
With the spear of light coming towards her, Teshiko would instinctively cast Whirlwind Blast to send it veering off in any other direction that wasn’t towards her person, dropping Supportive Gust in order to do so. Immediately, she would realize her mistake and put her kamas in a defensive posture, crossing the blades over each other, to avoid the next attack that inevitably came.
No longer being held back by Teshiko’s magic, Schwertleite rushed toward her, doing an overhead swing with her sword, Fragarach, in the hopes that a single strike from the mighty weapon would put a quick end to the fight.
Had the white haired angel been a second slower, her rival’s attack would certainly have done some serious damage. Not enough to kill her of course, both women were holding back so that such a thing didn’t occur, but enough to most likely take her out of their match. Holding up the sword above her head with the blades of her kamas, Teshiko used all of her strength to keep the thing from cleaving through her, leaving herself open for the next attack.
With her sword being deflected, Schwertleite counter-attacked by releasing one hand from her weapon’s hilt and sending a punch straight toward her opponent’s stomach. With her feet still trapped in the ice, she collapsed onto the ground, leaving her at an even larger disadvantage than before.
The warrior angel took a moment to readjust herself to her new surroundings, having become completely disoriented now that she was lying on the floor. When she looked back up though, she saw the Irish sword raised and ready to be thrust into her. With little time to think, she hacked at the ice keeping her stuck to the ground and rolled to the side, just avoiding the attack.
“By Odin’s beard, stop moving!” Schwertleite shouted in frustration, jumping back as her opponent got back on her feet. Summoning a bow of light, she pulled back it’s string as an arrow formed with it, nocked and ready to be fired in rapid succession.
Watching as her adversary began to fire a stream of countless arrows in an attempt to keep her from counterattacking, Teshiko let out a humph, before answering back,
“It’s time to end this.” Using Whirlwind Blast again, she began to deflect each group of arrows that closed in on her, walking slowly toward Schwertleite until she was close enough to rush the valkyrie.
Kamas pointed forward, she flew over her opponent, boosting her already incredible speed with Supportive Gust, and hooked the blades of her dual weapons around Schwertleite’s neck so they were a mere inch from cutting her skin.
”Yield.” The winner is Teshiko.
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