"Call it that if you want," he replied. Benihime had made a decision to continue alternating between sword combat, and use of her body as a weapon. In doing so, she abandoned the use of her blade to use it as leverage and kicked at his sword, sending it through the air to land several meters away from him. Something about this moment was quite familiar, but the time he would have had to reminisce on this was instead spent raising his left hand against the incoming kick toward his person. Though he was still forced back by the power of this attack, he managed to shake his arm a few times to deal with the numbness. "Guess you got me. Maybe next time," he said.

Kenpachi was bothered that one of his strongest subordinates managed to be disarmed in such a way, but he was more intrigued by the potential of this 5th Seat. "Nah. We don't want these types with us. We want them somewhere else so we can have some fun," he commented while stepping toward the pair of combatants. When he next spoke, it would be to Benihime herself. "Oi. You're not bad."