Chapter 6.2

Emilie got into a boxer's stance and slowly made her way to him.

She took small steps forward, while keeping her arms up and ready to swing at him.

Tozue recognized this too, instinctively moving into ap-sogi, the walking stance for Taekwondo.

The hive mind that Tozue had dominated starting walking as well, centering around them.

As they approached each other, she asked something else of him.

She was trying to give him a little hint.

Even if he didn't understand what was happening, or what she was saying.

Emilie wanted to continue their "game", as it was a long time since she had fun fighting, at least knowing one of her weaknesses could help prolong the battle.

She wanted to see if she could tease him, even in his nearly-brainless form.

"What do you think I gave up for my abilities?"

The tenseness of it made it seem like the grey concrete and asphalt was ready to give out from underneath them.

The two met at a crosswalk, in front of an arcade, which was closed for the night.

Tozue's grotesque form clashed with the childish design of the arcade, which had a clown as its mascot.

The arcade was family-owned, because the faces of two children were pressed against the glass, from the apartment above, to watch the showdown.

Tozue moved into hakdari-sogi, the crane stance.

On the defensive, he waited for her to begin the attack.

After seeing him move into the strange position, Emilie remarked:

"You know some weird ass martial arts, huh?"

Lunging forward with her left leg, she swung at his face again.

But he evaded it.

Gliding his head along her arm, he planted his right leg into the ground, bringing his left up.

It went through her again, like she wasn't there.

As she went to moved in to punch again, she was actually struck this time.

Tozue went for a double roundhouse kick.

Sent flying into the bay, she wondered if he finally figured out the secret to her invulnerability.

While shooting through the air, despite being drowned out by the wind, she remarked in Norwegian:

"Merkelig kampstil."

Bleeding from her ears and eyes due to the strength of the hit she took from Tozue, she crashed into the water.

She started to regenerate shortly before falling in.

One of the black suits received the damage in her stead, as his face caved in, with blood gushing out of his eyes and nose, dirtying his suit.

His body crashed into other people in the crowd, as he fell to the floor.

After spending a few seconds under, she came up.

Wading in the water, she saw Tozue standing at the railing, looking down.

Pulling her blonde hair away from her face, and with a smile, she said:

"You're hurting innocent bystanders, Amakusa Tozue… don't you have a heart?"