The Meaning of Fire [private]

With Nenka trying to keep his focus on her, her bright fire did its job and temporarily robbed him of his sight as he saw white momentarily. He couldn't let his guard down on his surroundings; he had to be hyper aware of everything around him, not just his current opponent. With the opening she had gained, her kick would easily connect as well as her sword pommel, as he was easily pushed back, still keeping himself on two legs.

Nenka definitely felt her kick and the slam of her sword as he began to breathe heavily. He felt his body light up in pain and soreness. Thankfully she didn't break anything, so he was still in a good condition to keep fighting. Wouldn't be much of a hero if one kick floored him after all.

He didn't have long to recuperate from her kick as Kimitsuki would keep up the offensive by aiming to strike him with her fire blade; Nenka was able to feel her fire had gotten hotter. He knew he was able to resist flames to an extent but naturally with Kimitsuki's greater power, it might reach the point it could damage him despite him also being a fire user. Nenka was going to have to be careful of her fire if it kept heating up.

Trying his best to maintain focus, she would strike again with her firey blade and Nenka did his best to dodge; managing to avoid 2 of the 5 strikes with evasive manoeuvres; trying to step to the side and backstep; the strikes that did connect would burn through his clothing and leave burn marks on his chest. It did sting him, but wouldn't stop him.

As he was able to sense a big burst of her fire coming his way, he couldn't quite afford to get his whole body burned to a crisp so he took the defensive measure of surrounding himself in his own fire to mitigate her breath of fire. This way, he'd manage to mitigate much of the fire and wouldn't suffer any notable injury. Remembering what she said; he put the pieces together that this was intended to draw his attention so that she could follow with another blow.

Anticipating this, he moved himself swiftly out the way of her oncoming kick. Even though he expected it, her superior speed made it pretty close. Taking another one of those hits wouldn't have been good for him. Nenka wanted to immediately go on the counter offensive after dodging.

As Nenka dodged her kick, he clenched his fist aiming to strike her back; but it was not a simple punch. He coated his fist with a lot of fire, to the point it was like a gauntlet of fire surrounding his arm. Despite his slender build, his supernatural strength was definitely there as he struck with a powerful punch, cutting through the air towards Kimitsuki. If Kimitsuki managed to dodge the punch, it wouldn't be over just yet as Nenka set the fire surrounding his arm off, causing an explosion of strong force at the point of impact; so the likelihood is that she would get blown back even if she dodged the punch itself.

If this all went to plan, Nenka would have more space and he wasn't quite finished yet. He wanted to display the limit of his strength. If he gained the space he was hoping to get from his counterattack, he would use his Flame Creation skill to create a massive block of fire above her which was about the size of a two story house. Doing this expended a lot of energy, but he hoped to get a big hit here as he brought it crashing down on her, trying to engulf her in his flames as he then set it to explode, causing a powerful almighty explosion that left a crater in the area where she once stood, strong enough to blow everything close away; people in Saburo would have definitely felt that.

He started to gasp for air and breathe heavily after his massive counterattack. It took a big toll on him to go to the limit of his flame creation skills, he hoped it would gain him some advantage as the odds were stacked against him as it is. He kept his guard up and mentally prepared for what she'd throw at him next; it was far from over.