...Luckily, though, it turned out his target wasn't a doll, just had interesting makeup. Granted, the way he determined that was blocking a punch, so that didn't feel great. Still, it was expected, and Nix didn't spend all that time training to fight for nothing...so taking a hit on his arm didn't even slow him down a s he swung his other fist to ring doll boy's bell.
No time to look around at anything else in this moment, Nix was fully focused on what Mali did, and where he should land his own hits.
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