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Sayo continued her twirl, adding in a Shunpo so that her blade smacked aside each of the weapons as they came at her with enough force to tear them out of their owner's hands. She usually did this sort of thing with two blades instead of one, but she was proficient enough with her weaker style. "You don't even know what strength is." she answered mildly. Sayo did not believe herself to be particularly strong, since she had seen what real power was. When she was the Lieutenant of 10th Division, there had been three Shinigami who could truly be called strong. Despite her offensive power, she knew that she was not yet even in their shadow, much less able to stand beside them. A fight at this level was a joke, whoever won, compared to the battles she had witnessed and fought in.

Sayo's free hand came down and stopped the blade, the armor on it sufficient for the task; it was bound to her Zanpakuto somehow, and contained the same amount of defensive ability as her striking power. Speed, strength, and defense... a living tank, but faster, was a good description of the girl. The armor was enough to stop his weapon, certainly. "I don't have such power. And you, having never seen it, cannot even comprehend what true power is." the girl answered. Her blade came down inches from his face, unleashing another shockwave. Dodging that would not be nearly so easy, not from this range.

When the other Shinigami came at her with a little more force, Sayo merely added in more of her own, twisting the blade aside and using that to protect herself and send his weapon off to the side of her shoulder instead. His work to use Bakudou on her was relatively entertaining, and not much help; the first binding she had broken earlier through brute force, the second would thus be doing nothing. The ground formed into a crater as she launched towards the man, using a little more striking power than before as she shot faster through the air at him for a simple ramming attack; not only was she starting with shunpo, but she was using raw physical force to increase her speed even more so for what Rednal called the Sayo-doken. This man was moderately good, but not quite good enough to be reacting fast enough to stop her, not unless he was secretly a speed-oriented fighter. Quantity, which in her case was faintly absurd amounts of strength, had a quality all its own.

(( Well, it IS a friendly fight... XD But I should note that she was going through the air faster than he would have been able to see. Not just a shunpo, but extra force simply from her physical abilities to accelerate her even faster. Speed, defense, and brute strength are her specialties. Aaand... getting off for today. So I suppose it's a good time to stop anyway. ))

The other man's blade scraped along the side of her armor as it tried to connect with her, but failed to penetrate as she simply shoved it aside in defiance of the power of the spell. The man just didn't have enough energy with those to overcome her version of protection against Bakudou, which was to simply push against it until it broke. Most Shinigami had the weakness of their clothes in combat; it wasn't really protection at all, and fairly easy to cut on top of that. Not so with the silvery armor and its deceptively weaker-looking white cloth segments; as tough as her weapon was and thus sufficient to stop his blade, and indeed push it aside when it tried to come in and hit her. If he couldn't cut into her sword, then he wouldn't be able to slice through her armor, and worse luck to him because of it. As she'd come in and his sword came out, though, one of the girl's arms had arced around his so she could get a nice, firm grip on it and as he was shoved backwards by the impact, one of the girl's feet connected with the ground and she used that to whirl around and throw him towards the side of the arena. The shields there would stop his flight, but it would be a bruising impact. "Really. I could do this all day; I've had harder warm-up sessions."

(( Her armor doesn't break quite THAT easily. ^^ And remember; your character is only an acting Captain, not a true one; even normally, Sayo outranks him. ))


"You couldn't if you tried." the girl answered, sheathing her sword. It was perhaps a pointed fact that she had used no technique other than shunpo, nor even released her own blade to Shikai. Not that she ever actually fought with her Shikai. She had yet to use it in battle in all her years. "The greatest difference between us is experience. You are young, and have no idea of the truth of things that have happened. You have not seen the great wars, nor fought in them. A few small-fry Adjuchas slain, if you have even that much, do not make you a true veteran." she was apparently unimpressed with the acting Captain. But then, she was unimpressed with nearly everyone after the people she'd known before.

"If you can tolerate a few limbs torn off..." the girl answered wryly. Her fighting style wasn't a terribly cautious one; mostly, it involved running up to the target and bashing it until it stopped moving. This didn't often take a very long time. To take somebody alive was... hmm... perhaps if she just aimed at the legs to start with and then let him take over once those were gone. The chances certainly were that the target would get injured somewhere. The girl didn't even know any spells to use on her own; the only real way for her to capture someone was to beat them senseless and physically drag them back to the Seireitei. It usually worked fairly well.

Sayo simply followed. As always, she wasn't around for the purpose of delicacy. Despite her appearance, it really wasn't in her nature; she was muscle, plain and simple, there for when somebody else wanted something broken. As far as she cared, that was as simple as it needed to be. Right now, she couldn't even see that man's shadow, much less his back; only when she could see that could she allow herself to be something more. Until then, it was simply follow orders and continue to hone her skills.

((Exit))