[Miyabigaoka] Scrapyard

[Apollymi]

Chiyo watched as her hand passed through the place this man had been previously and she looked at him in a way which bordered upon disgust before closing her eyes and rubbing her thumb into the center of her forehead. The heat in this place was continuing to rise and the altered heat of her body was making her cranky, but beyond this the cheeky commentary provided to her by the Flame King was also a bit anger enticing. But she decided in this moment she wouldn't let that get to her, no instead she'd take a very deep breath and exhale. And when she opened her eyes again she shrugged in response to his question, instead of being upset she began a wide counterclockwise circle around him. "Fuck." was the first word out of her mouth, but each movement she made caused her ATs to pulse with cold, so much so that she was able to retain a more comfortable temperature around herself. This was perhaps simply a subconscious way of coping and keeping herself steady in her movements. "You are kinda cheeky and that's a bit annoying, anyone ever told ya' that?" asked the girl as she began thinking of the best way to tag him, aggression wasn't always the answer but it usually got the job done, though she did remember Mukuro mentioning that her normal methods didn't tend to work against people who were clever enough to figure her out. Still... there were a few more things to try before she gave up. Situations like this though, reminded her of what it was like when she couldn't fly at all, catching things out of reach, chasing people down... these were all things she'd given up on a while ago, as it generally required hyper-aggressive behavior from her and a distinct desire in mind which she didn't have right now. "I don't know if I can. So Mr. Advisor what do you suggest?" she asked continuing to circle but that circle beginning to take a spherical shape as she twisted and changed the degree of her pattern ever so slightly repeatedly upon each cycle until her movements were creating a bit of a bubbled around this man and herself in the space they occupied.

[Bloodedge]

"They never really stop," was the man's retort. He was actually a bit disturbed by the fact that Chiyo had not yet tagged him, but the way she was going about it, she never would. Having this train of thought caused the Flame King to sigh as Chiyo began moving around him in a three-dimensional space. "You're either thinking too hard, or not hard enough. You're only going to tag me by responding to my movements before I make them. You're never going to get anywhere against the movements I've already started making. Think of it this way: You can chase something that's faster than you all you want, but it's always going to outrun you. If your speed and stamina both put you at a disadvantage, it's your reactions to the movements made during the critical moment of a potential catch that will produce results. Our eyes give us the advantage of knowing what those movements will be an instant before they happen. We just have to be skillful enough to react in that time frame, and catch the opponent the moment they think they're avoiding us."

[Apollymi]

'Wonderful...' thought the girl at the man's initial response to her. She was always amazed by the sorts of people who were told about their behavior but continued it anyways. She herself was this sort of person so she supposed she couldn't really be mad about it, but it was still a bit annoying. Beyond this the man spent a lot of time explaining where he thought she was going wrong. And she listened to the entirety of his statement before closing her eyes and summarized it in her head. And when this happened she opened her eyes and exhaled. "Fuck, you say a lot. All you had to say was that I lacked follow through, fucking hell." and with that said the girl fully understood that she was simply stopping her own movements to soon, if she was forcing him to move then all she had to do was keep moving. She used to do that frequently and wondered when it had stopped, though on a much different scale she figured this was still just the same on routine and as such she launched herself at the man once more breaking away from her cold sphere with a spin that would launch her at him directly from an angle right to left and come from above to below as she reached out she aimed to touch the center of his body, but given a movement she was more than ready to react and reach either right or left or back depending on where he moved.

[Bloodedge]

"Neh, Chiyocchi, attitude isn't conducive to improvement," the Flame King commented. As he waited for the girl's next move, he slipped both hands into his pockets, feeling he no longer needed use of them. His plan for the next evasion was to give less of a handicap using flashy movements as possible, just to really force the use of Chiyo's ocular ability. His eyes followed her around the sphere until the moment she launched herself his way. Attacking from an angle was something he considered to be a strong assault on any normal opponent, but he knew how he would be reacting. His only hope was that Chiyo would be capable of tagging him anyway. There was only one way to find out. During her approach, Kurama kicked off the floor and utilized a technique he'd used earlier this day. He borrowed Wing Road principles and shifted his center of gravity in a way which allowed him to flip and turn during this jump. This would have him upside-down above Chiyo, facing the same direction as her after leaping and curving around her arm.

[Apollymi]

Chiyo seemed to find it amusing, that this man didn't like her attitude. No one ever did really, that was something she was used to, but she was now determined to show that she fully understood what he'd been getting at in the first place, since in general she refused apologies for anything. That being said as she aimed to tag the man she found his movement to not be at all what she expected of a rider of his type, actually it reminded her of someone else entirely a twitch at his core didn't say he was going any of the directions she'd initially anticipated. To go with this feeling she didn't assume the shift in any direction and follow her motion in a circular way so that she'd spin and her hand would make her turn so that she was facing the man in his upside down position with her hand placed lightly upon his chest. "Fuck, if my arms were longer I wouldn't have had to turn so far." she mentioned pulling back her hand.

[Bloodedge]

When a hand finally reached his body, Kurama felt able to relax at last. His muscle tension went away with an exhale, and a grin crossed his face. "Now we're in business. Congratulations. You've finished step one of phase one. You can relax now." With that said, the Flame King realigned himself with the ground, and pulled on the neck of his shirt. "Yare yare. I just remembered, I'm on vacation. You didn't have plans, did you? I realize I kinda let myself get caught up in the moment, and... sorta drafted you on this. Sorry."

[Apollymi]

Content that she'd finally managed to reach him, Chiyo let herself float a bit tucking her thumbs into the loops on her shorts to busy her hands. The Flame King seemed content with her developments and told her she could relax, beyond this point he seemed to just now remember that he was on vacation and seemed to be at least a bit concerned that he'd drafted the Ice Queen into this training session without really looking into what she was doing. The thought of this after the fact apology made her laugh from a place really deep inside. "Really? Don't apologize, that's weird." she said brushing it off and explaining. "I never really have plans. I like to keep myself as busy as possible, that is generally me making broad plans and filling in the downtime with other stuff. Since I broke my leg about a month ago, that simply meant picking up club activities and the like to do while I wasn't riding, I got my Regalia back and fixed up today... so my only real plans were school and then running until I felt content with what I'd done. Technically speaking you're helping me out, so no harm done. Though if you're on vacation, then isn't this considered a damper for your plans?"