While the remaining Losers Bracket matches continued, I finally agreed to experience the full spa treatment. After that, I came to an agreement with Shokoya that neither of us would reveal any techniques or strategies in our match that we hadn't used already.
When it came down to it, I knew it'd be hopeless if I went at him sword to sword like in our sparring matches, so I made heavy use of my bow and conjured arrows even when it would have been a detriment to do so against someone else. The decisive moment came when he tried to use the Spirit Sundering Strike on me. Somewhat unique to the Sky Serpent Eluding Heaven's Wrath movement technique was that it not only made me ridiculously hard to hit, certain aspects were even useful for offense, like a cobra moving in like lightning to bite. In the moments he was left open after I made his strike whiff by moving to the side, I connected with a Blossom Ray Thrust.
