Catching Up With The Queen (Kayen)

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“Practice makes perfect, you’re not doing too bad yourself” Kayen said with a smirk as she settled into a fighting stance curious what sort of new tactics the Konatsian might employ after his time in the Otherworld, according to the Shinjin who had paid her a visit he had received direct training from some sort of otherworldly bigwig so there was a very good chance that Typha had even more to offer than his current power implied, for now she felt fairly confident in her ability to keep him under control due to the disparity in power between them but she would need to wait and see how much his fighting style had evolved under a new teacher. 
 
Kayen was surprised when Typha actually answered her question about what the Otherworld was like, she had sort of assumed there was some sort of magic or just rules to prevent him from talking about it but evidently not as Typha was ready willing and able to explain its nature to her, apparently the concepts of ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’ were genuine though Hells reputation as a land of darkness and torture was evidently overblown, that or the bar for getting into Heaven was so low that there was nobody to be tormented for their ‘sins’.

“We can chat about your vacation later” Kayen said with a smirk as Typha eyed her clearly sizing her up to figure out how he would go about fighting her, perhaps looking for an opening to exploit to gain some leverage in spite of her power advantage, but Kayens stance only opened the ‘usual’ openings that the Konatsian would expect, the same openings that Kayen herself was accustomed to having to work around.

He ultimately decided on a straightforward, at least at first, attack rushing forward to close the distance before launching himself into the air, Kayen knew Typha was a tricky sort but her raw power advantage also allowed her a far faster reaction time, she raised Fateburn to block and even began to shift back to block his feint, and were things to have remained ‘normal’ Fateburn would have certainly found its way between Kayen and Typha’s attack…

But then Typha’s power spiked, very suddenly and with little room for Kayen to process it, the window was so perfectly slim that the hilt of Typha’s blade passed just under the flat of Fateburn’s blade “Kaio-wha?” Kayen was taken aback as Typha slipped past Fateburn calling the name of… his attack? She did not remember Typha being much for naming his attacks.

But she had little time to think about that as Typha’s attack struck true slamming directly into her stomach and winding the Queen as she stumbled back only keeping herself from flying away by digging her heel into the grooves of the gym arena’s flooring.

“Thats new” Kayen growled sounding just as impressed as she was annoyed “Is that something of yours or apart of the training you received?” curiosity got the better of the Queen as she dropped any pretense of not knowing more about Typha’s time in the Otherworld than she had shown so far, despite the question though the Queen was quick to maintain the pace of the fight, rolling her shoulders and rushing forward to close the distance Typha’s attack had created with Fateburn burning bright as she brought the massive cleaver down on Typha!

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Techniques: [A1] Demon Fang [902,880 PL]

Current KP: 2/3

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“I like the sound of that, I don’t imagine it’s something you could show me the technical aspects of so that I could use, is it?” Kayen questioned already more or less expecting the answer to be a resounding no, even if Typha COULD teach her their previous conversation and the events leading up to it would certainly put a damper on the Konatsian’s likelihood of being interested in teaching her much of anything, there was also the fact that she had no way of knowing if Typha even had the understanding of HOW to teach such a technique.

But she’d be a liar if she said she WAS NOT interested in it, even with the mentioned downsides it fit with her general style pretty perfectly, the ruby allowed her to sacrifice her durability in a fight for more raw power, this ‘Kaioken’ seemed to operate under similar if a bit more hefty principles, but who cared if a technique left you bloodied and exhausted if it ALSO outright won the fight?

Kayen growled as Fateburn cleaved through Typha easily, someone else might have assumed victory but Kayen knew better, Typha was presently FAR too strong to be so easily beaten even by a direct hit, and as well the strike lacked the ‘impact’ a brutal cleaving would have immediately had, leading Kayen to swing Fateburn around in a defensive manner as Typha called out the start of that damned technique again.

Kayen braced herself against Fateburn expecting a powerful attack only to be met by a barrage of far less impressive blows, blows that Fateburn was able to mitigate easily enough “Tricky” Kayen commented as she pulled back before his last strike wheeling Fateburn around to try to bring it down on Typha’s shoulder once again, thankfully for Typha the swing had far less power behind it than her last attack.

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Items: None

Techniques: None

Current KP: 3/3 (+1 from no KP use)

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“That’s no fun” Kayen shot back with a smirk as Typha claimed he would be unwilling to teach the secret technique out of respect for his teacher, the only thing keeping her from debating on pressing the idea was that Typha’s words also seemed to imply that he might also simply not be capable of teaching her it making her all the more interested in how exactly the technique functioned.

The bost he had gotten had felt relatively small from the brief window of time that Kayen could sense it but even a small boost like that could be a game changer, evident by the fact it had caught her off guard, she could just imagine all the applications for such an ability considering it felt roughly comparable to the boost in strength the Ruby offered her.

And that was without even thinking of the potential it had if it could do MORE than just a small boost, that it gave power in exchange for causing harm to your body might mean that if you were willing to take MORE pain it could offer more power which certainly fit with Typha’s hesitance on the concept of teaching it to her, in the state he had displayed it it was a useful technique but not one that felt really ‘worthy’ of being a secret technique taught only to the dead.

Kayen’s thoughts were interrupted as Fateburn clashed with Typha’s blade and drove it into Typha’s shoulder causing a burst of blood from the wound and earning another smirk from the Queen, Typha’s attempt at a defense had been good but not good enough, even with the fresh wound Typha was ready to keep going as he took a swipe at her trying to sweep her legs out from under her however the kick cracked against her shin and while it sent a burst of pain up her leg and elicited a grit of the teeth from the Queen she managed to keep her footing, the distraction of the pain however still provided Typha with the window he needed to pull back from her.

“Any chance they teach something like that down in hell?” Kayen inquired casually as she rolled her shoulders and resumed a fighting stance while Typha took a moment to recover, while she had not stated WHY she was asking the implication seemed clear enough to her, she possessed no illusions that she was a ‘good person’ and knowing that there WAS an afterlife and that it had the perceived division of ‘good people’ from ‘bad people’ she had a pretty strong hunch on where she would end up when her life eventually came to an end.

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Items: None

Techniques: None

Current KP: 3/3

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“You’d try” Kayen responded to Typha’s ‘threat’ with a smirk, she could sense the hint of seriousness in his voice and it earned the Konatsian a touch more respect from the Queen even if the statement DID suggest that Typha seemed to have a different sort of perspective on the kind of person she was compared to the presumably more realistic view Kayen had of herself.

His little tangent DID remind Kayen that the stories of the last war HAD suggested that Xylo had grown as powerful as he was thanks to his time in Hell, meaning perhaps either he had simply had the time to seriously train down there OR that he had received training like Typha had but simply from a darker force. What exactly he had been capable of and what of that was his own techniques versus what might have been taught by hell weren’t exactly well known.

Habana never got a chance to REALLY fight the Mazoku Lord, their first real opportunity was also the end of the war, the peaceful end. Kayen grinned as Typha approached and the two clashed blades first as Typha sent a flurry of strikes at her that Kayen fended off with a combination of using the flat of Fateburn and actively parrying the strikes and then finally he brought a stronger strike to bare causing the pair to perform a more prolonged clash.

“So the training you received what was it li-” Kayen cut herself off right before she finished asking the question as she pumped her power through Fateburn and attempted to let the surge of energy crash down on Typha’s blade and into Typha himself!

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Items: None

Techniques:[A1] Demon Fang [902,880 PL]

Current KP: 3/3

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There it was again, the ‘Kaioken’ and Typha revealed even more of how his training had developed his repitor of skills, firstly that the Kaioken was more than just a way to attack, now that Kayen had a slightly more time to witness it in action she could see what it was REALLY capable of, it boosted his power entirely unlike her Ruby which just increased damaging power.

Case in point it pushed his power just high enough to let him skirt his way around her Demon Fang, and even more curiously whatever he had done felt familiar, it appeared to cause no notable drain on his power and yet allowed him to avoid her attack entirely, she had seen that before, something Vocado was capable of, it was nothing short of an immense frustration during their last fight.

But even after that the power persisted lingered long enough to let Typha launch his counter attack. Kayen smirked at Typha’s assertion that her attack was ‘not good enough’ it might not have HIT but it DID have an impact on Typha, it forced him to use the Kaioken AND the low power dodge technique, the Kaioken she already knew caused him harm itself while the dodge technique… she at least assumed it was not something he could use constantly, Vocado had hit a limit so presumably and HOPEFULLY Typha would have a limit as well.

“Alright then lets try it AGAIN!” Kayen said with a laugh winding up with Fateburn and rushing to meet Typha her blade once again burning with golden energy as she took a swing his blades hilt to counter his attack and attempt to turn it back on him.

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Items: None

Techniques: [A1] Demon Fang [902,880 PL]

Current KP: 1/3



Demon Fang clashes with Typha's attack and wins, 283,487 attack incoming!