Suddenly the air began to feel a lot warmer. If it wasn’t the boiling rage bubbling in Elrena’s body, it was possibly the blood rushing to her face and making her cheeks an unusually endearing shade of dark pink. It wasn’t often Elrena ever regretted attacking someone directly, and rarer was her apologizing for it. And the one time she does, Aqua is completely unbothered and doesn’t even hold her against it. By doing so, Elrena’s only show of humility was proven useless.
Instead of celebrating this achievement alongside Aqua, Elrena crossed her arms, turned her face to the side, eyes shut and lips pouting outwards.
“Dunno what I was worrying about! I was holding back anyway, so there.” Alright enough of the act. Elrena sighed and would later try to rationalize her feelings. Instead she wanted to elaborate on something Aqua said, on how she could do it again. Though she didn’t change her stance, she spoke much more neutral and calm than previously, “Anyways… You know Leon? He said something about pulling off some super attack that could annihilate everyone in the room. That’s what went through my head when I used that. That give any ideas?”
Huh? Was she.. Blushing? Pfft. There’s a soft huff from her nose as she contains herself from the temptation to tease. Wouldn’t be constructive towards their progress, so rather she just use the time she has with her cooling down to focus. Her pouting didn’t help her case either, only made it more tempting but, she’s still technically in teacher mode, and a teacher does not mock (often). She hoped that singing her praise would elicit a different reaction but this IS Elrena, of course...
Aqua was straining a bit, still feeling shivers coursing through her body but nevertheless pushed herself up to stand, her Keyblade that was at some point detached from her hands now finally shining away in light. She offered a hand to Elrena to help her stand, even if she herself should be the one to be offered a hand, but her politeness and hospitality put those kind of hopeless ambitions to rest.
“Leon taught you that kind of mentality, huh? A last ditch effort tactic.” It makes sense. Maybe it was more reactionary of an attack than something completely on purpose. “You’ve been keeping your pace and improving in speed each time we spar, pushing yourself more and more, but not landing a direct hit on me must have pissed you off enough to not feel like losing.” Her methods were somewhat unorthodox, but effective. Aqua being a very skilled fighter, quick on her feet to keep up with the likes of Elrena, she was always formidable, and only had one rule when it came to training: ‘If you can land a hit on me even once, I’ll consider your training successful. Anything less will only ever be improvements, but a failure’. Harsh, but effective, as seen here. She can call this training session successful and is entirely intrigued in helping her hone her craft even more. Maybe she could even learn something from Elrena!
“What if...” She’s already brainstorming. “What if we honed that? You said you were holding back, which means if you can reach that once, you can do it again, but stronger and spend all your energy from that. But what if you went backwards? And extended it’s use? Could you perhaps use that pillar attack with redirection from your knives? You have so many, so with lightning at your behest, thro....” And she’s trailing off into silence, assuming a thinking posture as she brainstorms tactics Elrena could use. In her own little world again.
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