A Good Lesson

Everyone then picks up his weapon, it's a sort of katana with a blade more than a metre long. Both take their marks in the soft ground. They look at each other, analyse the slightest gesture and each takes a defensive posture. Yangebe remains on the defensive with the blade towards the sky and the handle close to the chest. While Elise is in profile, the blade backwards, ready to go forwards.

-There is going to be some sport Hirion. I tell her.

-Gloups. Hirion swallows her saliva and doesn't say a word, I think I can even hear her heart beating from here.

Elise stands up straight and takes her weapon upside down with the blade in her back.

-And you don't even know how to hold a gun. It's going to be even simpler. Yangebe is having fun.

-So come closer if you dare. She says, waving to him to move forward.

-I don't go along with your little childish provocations.

-Then get ready to lose Yangebe.

She runs towards him, always keeping the blade behind her, then she jumps forward, spinning horizontally. Her blow is just adorned by her opponent who bends his legs so as not to melt under the power of her blow. She throws herself backwards, swirling again by simply falling back on her legs.

-It was hard to see it coming. Wasn't it Yangebe? Get ready for this one!

She goes for it again but this time she jumps to the side, twirling her body and hitting it with the tip of her blade. Once again, he barely parries and the blade stops in his hair. But she continues to attack him, twirling and jumping as she turns around him. He can only parry the blows with difficulty as she comes closer and closer to her goal. Yangebe decides to jump backwards to stop this incessant assault that has sorely hurt his arms. He makes a few movements with his arms to fight against the aching muscles while Elise takes a very strange posture. She leans forward to her left side and slowly starts to raise her left leg bent backwards.

-Come on, instead of taking yourself for a dancer! Yangebe screams.

-As you like.

So she finishes raising her leg and leans forward, chaining the wheels towards him. For his part, Yangebe prepares to attack and this time he too decides to run towards her. Their blades meet when Elise finishes her wheel in the air while Yangebe tries a horizontal shot. Elise's blade sinks into the ground while she is holding on to the pommel of the pommel with one hand.

-Species of macaque.

-Oh, but he's starting to get rude, the naughty rascal.

She pulls her blade out of the ground and hits him violently on the head and starts running again in the air. Yangebe takes the part and tries to hit her in the back but her blade only touches her. Elise falls back on her feet and turns around to face him. He is dripping with sweat while she seems fresh.

-No matter how much you move around, you can't touch me.

-Wrong. I touched you just below your left shoulder when I swirled over you and it shouldn't be long before you feel the pain.

As soon as she finishes her sentence Yangebe bends in half because of the pain and grabs her left shoulder.

-I won. she said as she greeted the crowd.

-Not yet. he grunts.

-A sore loser, my favourite. Do you want to lose again? she asks, laughing at him.

Yangebe screams and rushes at her. He makes a rain of attacks that Elise leaves or dodges, almost dancing around him.

-You wonder why you can't anticipate my attacks, don't you? Why was it so simple with the others but it doesn't work with me? Simply because someone as full of himself as you are will never be able to fully realise his power.

-Shut up!

-I understood immediately what kind of guy you were at first glance. You're the kind of guy who believes that everyone is inferior to him because he thinks he has blood that has more value than others.

-Shut the fuck up!

-But the truth is he's worthless. He means nothing more than a little money and tasteless favours.

-I told you to shut up!

-You're right. The truth is too painful to hear, so it's better to get it over with.

She parries one last attack and rolls to the side to hit him in the knee. He falls to the ground and still tries to deliver a horizontal sweep. But she dodges him by jumping over it and sends her foot in his face and he falls to the ground. Lying on the ground, defeated and without honour.

Everybody applauds and Yangebe's friends don't even dare to go and see how he is doing, so many people give Elise a standing ovation in front of this man without honour who has been defeated, what's more, by a girl, not a noble one.