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As the two Lancers clash, you could feel a flood of information rushing into your mind, similar to when you were able to make a preliminary evaluation of Avenger’s strength. One odd difference sticks out to you though. It seems Truvietianne’s Lancer was given the classification “Lancer of Black”, and the other Lancer designated, “Kuro no Lancer”. That doesn’t make much sense. Those mean the same thing, don’t they? Just in different languages? And Avenger didn’t have a color-classification to begin with. Although, it couldn’t hurt to quickly glance over to her and verify…
Huh? Avenger of Red? You’re 100% sure that wasn’t there before. The hell is going on?
More importantly, this “Kuro no Lancer” is strong. REALLY strong. You can tell he’s barely putting effort into the fight and showing off at every opportunity, but even so, Truvietianne’s Lancer can’t seem to land a solid hit. The best he can seem to manage is a few glancing strikes off the bearded Lancer’s armor, which accomplish diddley-squat in terms of actual damage, all the while getting periodically peppered with fierce thrusts and strikes from his opponent’s quarterstaff.
“Khh!” Truvietianne grimaces, grinding her teeth and clenching her fists.
Sensing his superiority, Kuro no Lancer hops back to give his opponent some breathing room before turning to the café with a smirk and laughing, “How’s that for hot air, red-eyes?” Clearly he remembered your quip. And as much as you hated to admit it, it looks like he had the strength to back up his boasts and then some.
Turning back to Lancer of Black, he tosses his staff spinning into the air above him before announcing, “And for my next trick!” and falling forward onto his hands, cycling his legs forward into a handstand, and catching the staff in his FEET (which you just noticed were rather oddly-shaped), he continued, “I’ll give you a handicap, and fight without using my hands at all!”
Worse for wear, but at least having caught his breath, Truvietianne’s Lancer sighed, “Whatever. I’ll take what I can get.”
Despite the so-called “handicap”, Kuro no Lancer’s technique and power weren’t much lower than what they were before. Hopping around on his hands, he seems even to modestly improve his reach by switching his grip to his feet, though he clearly couldn’t hop around nearly as quickly as he could adjust his footing earlier. To his credit, Lancer of Black was holding his own a lot better in this bout, taking far fewer hits but still unable to land a clean one of his own.
