>I'm fine, don't worry.
>"It wouldn't do for someone in the business of fighting Champions to give up this easily."
>Let's opt for the multi-angle Amber Lotus barrage instead of trying to mix them at this point and if we can put a bit more punch into it than we've done thus far - do it. Clearly we shouldn't be holding back here.
>Despite the inherant non-lethality of the duel, you still sense Rin's worry. Dear girl doesn't like to see you losing even a little.
>Kenyu's smile broadens, but the comment you hear comes from the tiger youkai. "She speaks!"
>"And here I thought she couldn't fight and talk at once." his tengu friend sneers at you.
>"You watch what you say about her!" White Rose says hotly to the two Blood.
>"Watch yourself, cat." Cynthia spits at her. "Or I'll give you some of what Kenyu's about to give your boss."
>Perhaps angered by the tengu's harsh words at Rin, you pour a great deal of punch into your Amber Lotus, conjuring forth well over a dozen blasts of radiant energy. But if anything, Kenyu seems even happier at the sight. "Okay, Lotus, you want to test your shield cracker? Try THIS." He punctuates his sentence with a surge of Rose energy, and the firefighter surrounds himself in bright blue flames, erupting with a sound like a gas explosion and an intense wave of heat. Your multi-angled missiles waver and weaken in their trajectories under that supernatural wave of heat, and have to hold your arm before your face to keep your eyes from closing of their own accord.