"See this Pei Yuan? Isn't my skill better than yours?"
Ikasa asked the boy as they plopped on the ground, sweat dripping from their forehead.
The two of them were training in the grounds of their new Villa. Xin Ruo was watching them with a smile from the other side of the grounds.
She couldn't tell which was brighter; the morning sun's brilliant rays or the radiant joy on their faces.
The two resumed their spar after a short break. Pei Yuan used his mastery of Fast-Faster-Fastest to close the distance between him and Ikasa quickly. Using Swift Attack, his only offensive technique, he tried to catch Ikasa off guard.
Even though Ikasa's use of the Top Grade technique was unrefined, he still managed to mitigate the damage to a minimum. The attack that could have been a full-blown punch to his chest, glanced off his back causing little pain.
