Jack kept breaking his limits even more, reaching Rory, and all the attacks were nullified either through responding to her blows with his own blows, backing up enough or simply deflecting them, his body responding to his situation, waiting for the moment to counter.
Rory's blows proved impossibly difficult to deflect rather than block, her attacks instantly changing direction whenever he attempted to deflect them and moving at blinding speeds, her skill even without a sword making it nigh-impossible to properly deflect her attacks. Blocking was feasible though, so, that severely lessened the damage Jack would take from Rory's flurry of blows.
"......" Lance thought for a moment.
"A-alright" Ythala muttered quietly, her harp disappearing as he gripped the women's arms.
"Yeah, I'm just trying not to let my own trauma effect you too much." Raviathon said honestly, smiling a bit back
Jack continued to block and dodge then, adapting to the situation and his Opponent's fighting style, showing years of experience in every fiber of his being.
(Years of experience ain't gonna help ya with Rory-)
(Jack trains with Okita
"You don't need to hold anything back from me, Raviathon!" Ythala said, hugging her.
"I don't want to talk about it!" Raviathon said, her mood dropping like a stone again as she was reminded of it
Ythala continued to cling to her for a few moments before backing away, clearly noticing her shift in mood.
Rory was impressed, but, still mostly unphased by Jack's technique, her attacks continuing to speed up until she just sighed. "I'll end this now." In a burst of strength and speed, she moved barely faster than Jack could react, but that made all the difference as she circled around Jack and delivered a chop to his kneck, Rory using her innate physiology as a sword to have said chop do cutting damage which would make it dangerous to block, while also making the attack near impossible to dodge. And even if she did dodge, she'd circle around him again in another instant and sweep him off his feet, delivering three consecutive roundhouse kicks to his head.
But even moving faster than Jack would think was not something new, he could dodge much faster than he would think and since Rory seemed to want to finish the fight, Jack agreed, although he would not land the blow. In the end, he simply teleported to David's side.
"Thank you"
"Well erm...." Lance said. He thought for a moment, trying to put it into words. He decided just to be blunt.
"Eh?" David said, glancing at Jack.
"In a real battle one can't rest" he said bad mimicking Okita's voice and expression, before laughing at that.
Jack smiled and even with Gilgamesh he prepared himself for the H2H match since he wanted to start with that but could change it if he looks supersdo, he ran towards david using a series of quick but strong blows when he was in the right range to be able to hit precisely
"But I'm not a student..." Metatron said, "So you are saying I am to... treat him with the respect I'd show my lord and master...?" Metatron asked. He wasn't at all opposed to the fact that much was obvious, he was just confused and looking for confirmation.
"Wooo! You got this David! Kick his ass!" Kiara jokingly cheered from the background as she worked out.
And David was successful... but halfway through, when he knocked Jack to the ground instead of a heavy blow, thanks to Gilgamesh's back plate it bounced off the ground and hit David much harder than before.
David staggered back a step, not expecting the backplate to rebound the force of his throw, another bruise forming on his stomach. Yet, he wasn't stopped. He immediately went for another grapple, grabbing Jack by the head before quickly transitioning into an extremely tight headlock, putting pressure on his neck with his arms in hopes of knocking him unconscious, if successful. Should Jack pay attention to David, he could tell that he...was getting stronger, as if he was pulling power from somewhere else.
Lance nodded.
"Huh? O-Oh! I wasn't trying to do that, I forgot you get stronger when people cheer for you...! I wasn't trying to interfere!" Kiara said, chuckling awkwardly.
"I... Guess that makes a semblance of sense..." Metatron murmured, pondering Lance's words as he sat on the man's back, his wings gently flapping.
David is getting stronger, yes, but Jack's determination increased and with it his power, before David could finish headlocking Jack, the white hair forcefully kept his hold on the ground rigid and with his free hand he prevented the advance of David's Arm.
Lance nodded, smiling a bit.
David managed to throw Jack to the ground but before he could dislocate his arm, Jack's own arm disappeared along with the whole body, reappearing near to David to connect an energy explosion at close range
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Jack moved to the side dodging the blow, while looking at David, defensively, he performed several arm stretches, before preparing for the next attack.
David landed on the ground, quickly swerving around before dashing back toward Jack, his arms outstretched as he attempted to grab at his legs. Should this be successful, he would lift him slightly while knocking him off balance with his forward momentum, before slamming him onto the ground, delivering a fierce double leg takedown.
David in response, slammed his feet on the ground, before jumping upward at high speed. Should he reach Jack, he would immediately grab the man in mid-air, before quickly rotating his body so that he was headfirst towards the floor. David would proceed to fall to the ground, delivering a vicious piledriver as Jack was slammed against the floor at high speeds.
Ythala remained silent, gently wrapping an arm around her head pulling her into a hug against her chest, using the other hand to stroke her hair.
Lance hesitated for a moment, breathing out.
