Still training. Still need to be alone.

Yuri felt the need to exercise her skill after long periods of idling in the village, nothing particular is happening. As usual, the able-bodied ones are working in factories to produce the needed necessities daily. Along some streets where the shop owner takes care of their child at the same time, children can seen chasing each other around without having to worry on anything and just stay happy. It is their parents who are the one having the real headache having to deal with customers and the safety of their darlings when shouting can be here to tell them not to wander off too far. Arguments are a common thing as well when customers do haggling at the prices of items, a match of both emotion and reasons, the one put to the test ultimately is always the owner.

Looking to the front, there was a commotion that got surrounded by a few dozens of bystanders, it struck to Yuri that she had seen this before, it was where she did put her might to test and she would not hesitate to try again, doubting that no one would remember her after the long absence, she heads up the roof and take a look. In the middle of the crowd, there is a fight going on with a decisive victory coming soon, behind the pair of fighters, the same banner stood, the "Fight Challenge Tour" banner. She wondered if its the same person starting the challenge again. As a victory concluded, she jump down right to the center of the crowd in front of the victor.

The tall opponent is front of her looks at her and paused for moment. His eyes widened and he grinned as though he remembered Yuri and he prepares his stance for a fight again. Yuri could tell that it was slightly different this time. Yuri signaled her state of readiness to begin the fight. The atmosphere of the crowd quite down for a few seconds. Yuri had no intention of starting the attack yet, tricks don't work twice! The man smirked as he rushes towards Yuri. She could tell that he improved over the course of time. However, Yuri improved as well though it only looked a moment slower to her relative to their previous encounter. Yuri moved a step to her right to avoid the charge but was caught off guard by his flex of muscles as his fist made contact with her face, sending her to the nearest wall on her fours. She could tell that this is not the end as she could feel his presence approaching. Getting her to strike in air is not a good idea since she could remember the power of grapple from him. Yuri decided to stand perpendicular to the ground but went against it because it might not be fair to him. However, she was already being unfair to him last time. She stood up from that wall and catches onto his shoulders, using him as a wall to swing herself to get behind him and adding a kick to the back. He moved a little from the attack and that was all. He turned around and grinned Is this all you can do? Yuri did not respond and he did not stop coming at her.

She would not allow her judgement to fail again like last time. She could clearly move faster than him this time. As he threw a punch on her again, she backed by a step and moved forward again to punch him at the head and kicking him in the gut to move away from him before he could gain the composure the catch her again. He shake his head to regain composure and was face with another punch onto the face, Yuri made sure that all her punches were targeted at his vision, he covered one of his eye and Yuri could tell that he is in pain. She quickly used the ram handseal to step up her movement and injure the other eye. Now the man could not see as clearly as he wanted and he became a sitting duck for her. Yuri tried to finish the fight with one last kick and realized that he still had the reflex t0 catch her by her leg and threw her to the side again. She could land safely this time. Both fighters were on their feet again but Yuri knew his opponent will have a harder time adjusting his vision.

Yuri knows that she needs to buck up as fight resumes when he comes charging again. Not letting any moments to waste this time, Yuri waited for his first attack against and he goes for her gut this time round. As his attacks landed, she uses both of her hands to grip onto his punch. Without regards to be thought as a diversion, the man had already grabbed her head from the back to let the attack follow up with his knees. Yuri got kneed on her face as she struggles to block it with the grabbed fist, dealing considerate damage to her face. She was waiting for this moment as her legs gripped his attacking leg with force and shoves in an attempt to break his foot. Yuri used all her might on this attack knowing that she wouldn't stand a chance against him head-on and loses balance purposely. The man changes his expression as he came to realize that this was a trap and loses balance as the other leg was out of condition to move. He desperately tried to elbow her on the back of her head to knock her out but was too late as Yuri forces herself to recover as she steps the injured foot and jumped a few feet away ending up being partially hit on the gut by the elbow.

Yuri had little problems getting up although the attacks cost her. Her opponent endured the pain of his fractured foot to get back on his feet. Yuri did not allowed the entire process to finish as she speeds towards him and did a leg sweep on him to seal the win. She was mistaken as the man grabbed her leg and tossed her up in the air right above him. The pain didn't get the better of him as he recovered and waits for her to land. Yuri had the make the landing count as failure will make let her taste broken limps.

There was a second for thought which Yuri fully used it to her advantage. While unbalanced, she knows that there is no way the man can move around given the time limit he had to get her and thought of a plan based on that. The time to get attacked is near, Yuri regains her composure for the final attack.

The moment she got within his reach, He uses both of his fist and hammers Yuri on her upper body and her thighs with his working knee prepared underneath. Just when everyone thought the man won again, Yuri grabs onto the wrist of the hand that first reaches her and used it as the center of her gravity. Before taking anymore damage, Yuri maneuver her body about the wrist and did a kick aimed at his temple. The guy's vision blurred immediately and fell to the ground. Knowing that he could still recover, Yuri quickly recovered her balance on the ground did a hard stomp on his temple again, knocking him out and sealing the win. The crowd applauded.

WC:1262
Claiming 6 stats
Claiming mastery for body flicker

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