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The 6'3" standing Chimagin readied himself in the pit, clothed in custom black fitting clothes. His right foot was pointed forward, and left back in a slant. Kichiro's left knee bent and right foot extended with his right side forward, presenting a balanced lower stance. His right hand crossed over his chest down to the hilt of his katana, gripping nearest to the handguard. Kichiro's left hand gripped just below it, upside down.

After a quick unsheathing of the blade, both hands would be upright in their grip of the blade, as it was presented forward at level of his torso with the tip of the curvature raised about level of his solar plexus.

Kichiro was most known for his use of dual weapons, but he would try his hand with this 3' blade by itself, just to test his own diversity.

Kichiro was matched in height with his opponent, and he could only guess that their weight might've been similar. Just from their similar builds, but as his eyes glared from beneath his straw hat, the kensei was obviously intent on keeping his focus throughout this match.

Kichiro would than shuffle into a six foot range of his opponent, taking advantage of the reach of his blade and keeping it at the same level to the last moment, and going for a quick slash from left to right, going down towards the inside of Cyrus' left knee and down his calf to the outside, where he'd throw a counterclockwise rotation in his shoulders and bring the katana blade in a tight circle back towards Cyrus' legs.

The idea was to keep the sharp blade away from that one foot blade held so high, unless Kichiro could mark his movement where he'd take the strain out of that heavy blade crashing into his own.

The sharp edge of the katana would scrape against the flat of the machete, as Cyrus reached lower to block the slice. Kichiro's hands rotated as his feet shifted slightly forward, making the blade continue off the machete in a tight semi-circle and back from right to left, towards the inside of Cyrus' right calf.

The curvature of the blade would allow its swift movement off the block into the following cut, and Kichiro would be rotating his hips clockwise to add to the speed of the follow up slice, ending with a subtle rotation in his shoulders that followed through his hands down into the blade.

Kichiro was still nearly six foot from Cyrus, with his hands being a good three feet distance and wrists even further so. As Kichiro had only shifted slightly forward to meet Cyrus slight shift back. That was quite the lunge with Kichiro's blade moving freely between them.

Kicihro's shoulders moved in counter rotation, and both his elbows snapped up at his left, while drawing back both hands high by his left temple. The end result would be the blade coming back in a tight semi-circle ark like he'd wanted, but so that the sharp edge was presented to the incoming left hand. While Kichiro did this, his left knee bent further and right foot extended, allowing him to draw back in a balanced defensive stance.

The katana went from left shoulder down to past his right leg in a standard cross body block, that continued in a slice at the extended hand. All of it a fluid motion that'd happen off the returning arch of the light blade, powered by both hands.

Kichiro had snapped his elbows out left while the reach went into effect, and had started pulling both hands back up to the left of his head. He was standing perpendicular with his right side towards Cyrus, and had plenty of time to react to hands reaching passed three feet. Cyrus could not pass three feet before Kichiro retracted his hands even one foot.

Pushing on Kichiro's blade would not stop the tip from falling, which was all that was necessary for Kichiro to perform the cross body block, and that machete would go soaring over the tip to Cyrus' right.

Also with Kichiro having bent his left knee back and leaned back to add to the distance Cyrus would have to reach, he'd find himself having hand brought to blade before he crossed six feet to reach beside Kichiro's head.

Kichiro would be still prepared for a lower body strike, and Cyrus would be over extending himself. The end result was a stretching man grabbing air while deadlocking a two handed sword with leverage on one, by pushing it out to his right.



As Kichiro didn't continue his retreat, nor did he continually exert pressure on that sword.

Before Cyrus could completely correct the over extension while he advanced, Kichiro's right hand would drop from the hilt, and the pressure against Cyrus' deadlocked blade would suddenly drop. He'd be pushing air, causing his blade to go far to his right while he advanced as Kichiro's katana went wide left.

Now Cyrus would be recorrecting where his hand was, Kichiro had his right hand close over the head of the sheath at his left hip, and it'd come snapping out of the sash right into the bridge of Cyrus' nose as he advanced. The idea was not to give him any reaction time, and this was it.

Hard wood with a forceful snapping motion while advancing into it, after correcting an over extension, was not going to feel good. By closing the distance in half, the sheath would be at about the midpoint as it cracked on Cyrus' face, and in one hand, it had quite the shorter center of balance, exerting a lot of force with a lot of leverage.

Kendo lesson.

All the force on the katana is with the left hand, the right hand is merely a lever with the thumb. A katana is a one and a half hand weapon, able to be wielded with one, but more powerful with the extra lever.

After that sheath snapping out happened, Kichiro's left hand would take advantage of any stun that might occur, that blade coming to nearly beside him from suddenly snapping out at his left, would head back in over the machete into the man's neck at the right side.

That's where Kichiro would begin his continued retreat, drawing the sheath back into its sash, and then sliding the katana back along the man's neck to sever the artery, by drawing his hand to the right shoulder level before him.

After resashing the sheath, his right hand would go back over the left, and he'd be back into that six foot range with a circling out to the right, keeping his hips squared with his opponent.