Ryu hopped out from behind the lion spirit after sliding out from underneath it. He hopped to his feet with a swift agility, his head bending backward to just dodge out of the way of its whipping tail. Even as he did so, he sensed the lion spirit's body leaning forward, pressing its great weight onto its front paws.
Ryu understood what it was trying to do immediately, it was a double kick with its hind legs. It flowed smoothly from one failed attack to the next, its attempt with its tail not having stopped its follow up strike.
This thought quickly buried itself into Ryu's psyche.
In the state that he was in, leaning back, his knees bent, and his momentum swinging strongly in one direction, it didn't seem like he had the time to dodge at all. In addition, because he was moving, even if it was only by gravity, the burden of speeding up time within himself was far greater.
