[Seireitei, Soul Society]
[Practice Ring, Combat Division HQ]
Quote Originally Posted by Kuroimaken View Post
"Calculated risk. For a Combat Division head honcho, much less a two-weapon swordsman, you've been playing more defensive than I expected. If that were an attack, rushing out against you would have been double the faux pas.

Kudos on switching the battlefield to your advantage though."

Again, the voice seems to be coming from nowhere. Masaru's tactic seems to have succeeded at least in part. He can feel his strikes poking and prodding at what seems like three distinct presences in the arena, though only one of them seems to have been trying to put up a defense against his assault. All three seem to be resisting somewhat well, like suits of armor, but then again Masaru probably isn't trying very hard to harm them.
Masaru makes no verbal response, and his movements about the arena are whisper-quiet; moving silently in darkness is old hat to him at this point. He keeps moving around, not yet drawing close to any of the 3 presences he feels.

However, the shadows and darkness around them surges, great ropes of it reaching up to bind them, and columns of it rising beneath their feet to unbalance them, to try and cause them to fall upon the blunted spikes. Masaru does not trust that this is not some elaborate shell game, so all 3 "armor suits" receive equal attention.