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Yomi Isayama With only one match left in her primary pool, Yomi is... a bit relieved, actually! She doesn't hate fighting, but exhibition matches are a bit different from real combat in the field, and it's been exhausting to have to avoid certain things. But today's match is at least someone she knows more about, as they're from the same place as Lexicon. She's never met Alea in person before, but she's heard stories... perhaps she'll get to confirm them today.

After leaving her sword's case by the side of the arena, Yomi strides toward the middle of the stage. She makes a polite bow toward Alea, then falls into a ready stance, hand resting on the handle of her sword. As soon as the signal is given, the exorcist charges forward, drawing Shishiou at the last second for a quick opening slash.
Alea     Alea's making her way in, the pillar of code surrounds her as she transforms into Emerald Soul. The bow is returned and she twirls her spear, smiling. "Good luck to you." she comments, striding towards the middle of the stage, at least until the sudden slash towards her direction. She ducks back, the sword knicking her and drawing some code out of her.

    There's a smirk, "Alright, no words, huh?" she bounces slightly and dashes herself in this time, coming in with a rapid flurry of spear stabs, nothing special with this one, a testing set of stabbings.
Yomi Isayama "Didn't want to distract you from the start." Yomi grins at her opponent as she takes a step back, and her sword quickly moves to deflect some of the incoming stabs. She doesn't fight polearm users very often, but she at least knows that she has to keep her distance when not coming in for an attack. Several of the stabs are deflected, though one scores a scratch along her arm, cutting through the sleeve of her uniform. "I'm sure you can tell me aaaaall about your rivalry with Lexicon when we're not fighting anymore."

Yomi waits for an opening, then reaches to push the spear aside with her hand, using the momentum to close in again. She raises her katana and continues her forward step into a spinning slash, then brings her sword back again for another strike, trying to land her hits before Alea can bring her spear back in against someone so close.
Alea     Emerald Soul is trying to get those stabs through but the deflections are actually quite annoying! "Fine fine, we'll just stab each other until we can't move, how boring we have a boss battle without dialogue!" she frowns, "It makes for poor sales." she mutters, a grin as one strike finally gets through, but the last deflection actually sets her up to get a retaliatory strike from a spinning swordswoman!

    The next strike from Yomi makes her skid back a couple feet, kicking up dust from the ground, her torso sporting some good gashes from the attempt... "Well, I would ask if you're serious but..." there's a green ring opening up behind her and she steps to the side, "Sylhet Spear!" she shouts, a giant spear made of intertwined tree trunks, sporting a metal point launches from the spell circle in an attempt to spear the swordswoman!
Yomi Isayama "Well, we -could-..." Yomi can't help but laugh at the pout, though. "What's this about sales now?" She knows these matches are being broadcast, but isn't really sure if banter between the combatants gets picked up by the cameras. "You can feel free to talk if you want, though. What's on your mind?"

As the portal to the spear dimension opens, Yomi takes half a step back, not knowing just what is going to come out. When she sees the giant spear launching forward, the exorcist leaps up at the very last moment, flipping up and over the spearhead and landing on the tree trunk shaft. With her sword out to one side, Yomi dashes along the spear shaft and jumps again, up and over Alea, to land in a crouch on the other side.

One hand presses against the ground for leverage as Yomi spins around, swinging her leg at Alea's ankles to try to knock her opponent right off her feet!
Alea     "I make games." she replies, as if it explains everything. Emerald Soul huffs a bit and bounces in place, then frowns as the exorcist starts running across her Sylhet Spear. "Hey, no wall running!" she shouts, the jump over her catches her off guard and the leg connects and sends her face first into the ground with a loud yelp. "Kyaaa, ow that... that was a good move." she compliments... slowly getting herself back up. "Well, maybe I may have had a few.... overnight sessions. Out of practice."

    Excuses, Alea, excuses...

    Emerald Soul floats up into the air and opens up a bunch of smaller portals, green energy spears start to shoot out towards Yomi, before a bigger energy spear shoots out towards the center of it, mostly to try and keep the exorcist on her toes.... and many spears are better than one!
Yomi Isayama "Games? Huh.. I've never really been one for games until I met Lexicon." She's still an amateur, despite having good reflexes and coordination. "What kind of games?"

Excuses! "You have to know how to use the environment to your advantage, even if part of the environment is your opponent's weapon!" She pauses a moment, glancing birefly toward the stands in confusion. "...you two have a lot of history, huh?" But then Alea is in the air, and more spears are on the way. Yomi swings her sword to deflect some, dodges quickly to avoid others. One of them still manages to catch her across the side, tearing through her uniform and drawing blood. That larger one looks like it might not be as kind to run on, so instead Yomi charges straight for it, diving forward to tumble beneath before hopping back up to her feet. "You really should be careful to pay attention to everything going on around you, though!" The air behind Alea begins to shimmer as the exorcist channels chi through her sword. "Ranguren!"

The form that solidifies is floating in the air, dangerously close to Alea, its steamy breath puffing on her back. The Divine Beast lets out a loud roar and lifts its paw, swiping it at Alea to try to knock her back out of the sky, then follows with a pounce to slam its weight down on her.
Alea     Emerald Soul nods, "We do have a lot of history. We mostly try to take the System Hub from each other or borrowing her Sisters." she nods, bouncing in the air once more, "It's a long history." a nod, then she readies herself for something, "Pay attention? I do, you're right there, and I'm making sure you don't leave my sight again!" she twirls her spear a bit until she feels the breath upon her back... "Ranguren?"

    She turns around a bit to see the Divine Beast, the roar stuns her and then the paw swipe slams right into her and knocks her into the ground, coupled with the pounce, it sends her into the ground even more, with a loud cry of pain... "Nnngh, get ... off me!" she shouts, reaching around to try and push that beast off of her.

    "Using summoned pets..." she coughs a bit and looks towards Yomi before knocking that Divine Beast off her with a few heavy swings of her spear. "You're a tough little one to crack, I like it. Better than some of my fights for sure."

    She hops back up into standing, bouncing even more just to taunt Lexicon. "Shall we dance?" she dashes in, spear first, and then runs right past.... eliciting a mass wind burst right around Yomi's position!
Yomi Isayama "Ranguren isn't a pet. It's my Guardian Beast." The nue growls, pressing down on Alea, but the spear manages to keep it from remaining too close. It hops back from Alea before the spear's tip can stab it, falling down into a forward crouch with its tails writhing behind it.

"I'm glad to see I'm keeping you on your toes." Yomi brings her sword up again, preparing for her opponent's dash. She manages to step away from the charging thrust, making a half spin away and bringing Shishiou's blade down toward the wind burst that follows. The air parts around her sword, buffeting her hair and uniform, and even making her stagger back despite deflecting most of the force.

The exorcist reaches onw hand up, sweeping some of her hair back from her forehead and eyes. "I'm not sure if you can call that dancing, but..." Before she finishes the sentence, Yomi darts forward with surprising speed, leaving a cloud of dust in her wake. She charges in for Alea's left flank, but then slams her foot down hard enough to crack the arena floor. It stops her movements instantly, sending her spinning the other direction, and she uses the momentum of her spin to bring the sword down on the opposite side from her initial approach.
Alea     Emerald Soul is definitely put upon her paces today, maybe her luck's run out from the last few battles she fought... or Yomi's just really good.

    She's leaning towards the latter...

    She braces herself for the incoming attack, bringing her spear up in a rare moment of trying to guard against the attack but the fake out actually works and sends the DCC flying towards the other end of the stage, tumbling and rolling into the wall.

    She coughs and slowly gets herself back up, not down and out as of yet... "Are you holding back?" she mutters, "Or you're just precise. Either way, it's annoying." She gives a minor shrug and points her spear towards Yomi, the tip starts to glow green as she charges up and she lets out a barrage of wind bolts towards the exorcist, trying to cover the arena in wind bullets!
Yomi Isayama "I'm not holding back. I just... don't usually fight people." Yomi hesitates for a moment. "I normally fight monsters." There's a big difference, both in scale and force, but the exorcist doesn't really have time to go into the finer poitns of it right now. Especially when Alea is launching ranged attacks toward her.

Raising her left hand to guard her face, Yomi charges across the arena toward her opponent. The wind bullets slam into her body as she runs, but she doesn't halt her advance despite the pain. "Ranguren!" The great Divine Beast lets out a roar and gallops toward Alea and leaps, paws extended not to pin, but to swipe, seeking to knock Alea up into the air.

At the same time, the exorcist leaps, sword held back as she arcs through the air. Once she's close enough, she slashes horizontally at Alea, continuing past and landing in a slight crouch, sword arm held out to one side.
Alea     "Then why did you join?" Emerald Soul mutters, "Don't fight, toy with your opponent... it's really undermining and not taking someone seriously." she chides, "But have it your way." She keeps herself still, dropping her transformation. Alea doesn't do anything when the Divine Beast comes up and throws her into the air and the horizontal slash connects and sends her down towards the ground once more, bouncing off the floor with a loud crack.

    Alea, at this point, just doesn't bother to get up, a white flag showing, "I'm done." she mutters, "You win." she rolls around towards her back, her spear dissapears and she just stares at the sky, "If you're going to fight, at least try to take it seriously against a person."
Yomi Isayama "If you think I'm not taking you seriously, then I'm afraid you're mistaken." Yomi presses her lips into a thin line and sheathes her sword, letting out a slow breath as she releases her focused chi. Ranguren vanishes into the shimmering air, and the exorcist turns back to face Alea. "If I entered this tournament to toy with my opponents, I wouldn't have brought Shisihou at all."

Yomi takes a deep breath... then pauses. "I'm sure we'll talk again later." She gives a polite bow to Alea, then turns and walks to retrieve her sword's carrying case.