Kioca, fully engaged in "gottakillgottakillgottakill" mode, had no conscious thought as the stroke blew her, literally, off her feet. "Uh..." She fell back, unawares of her surroundings, except that she was falling.
...
Shit.
Heel catching the ground and skidding across it, Kioca fell into a somewhat awkward position, where she found one leg sweeping into a pillar of flame and the other falling out from behind her; ow. She fell with a thump, landing roughly on her taut behind, now fully aware and fully enraged.
Quote"Is it still too late to talk this over?"
Um... Well, she
was going to be nice, but given that her leg had great burns on it now, she didn't really feel like holding back. Drawing out Dosojin with one hand and, with the other (which held Nenriki) pushing against the ground, Kioca rose with only the strength of one leg, in much the same position as this fellow was. Being forced to field her two favorite daggers at once within the first few seconds of a battle was disheartening, but...
Dosojin came out to the front, held in an arced form, elbow bent, and blade extended flatly across the length of the air; Nenriki returned to the front, this time in a straight position.
"You've got some nerve, bumping into a poor, defenseless lady and then attacking her," exclaimed Kioca scoldingly, activating the shield of Dosojin; "Guess now's not the time to hold back... Buh-bye."
Boom.
The Mighty dagger, Nenriki, spurt back as if it were a fired pistol, and indeed, the air had broken from some invisible force as it had moved. This air-bullet was fast, and could probably hit an unlucky bystander in the back if straight in trajectory; not that it mattered. Two more shots, this time wider strokes, rippled through the air, as the Dosojin's shield remained erect, perfectly rounded and ready to disable another attack, should it come. If this guy could block the air bullets, then there might be a problem with having to bring out the big guns... Again, didn't matter; she wasn't letting him off these streets safely.
(( The air-bullets I described are about the strength and speed of a normal bullet fired from a pistol, while the shield is able to withstand, say, one-and-a-half times Kioca's body weight in cumulative damage; nothing fancy to start with. If it's too powerful, I can tone it down. ... I still don't know what I'm doing. >.> ))