Training Battle.(Nozomi/Raphael)

Son of a bi- Nozomi said as he took the hits. Being sent careening by the attack and taking advantage of this to get into a combat roll.Summoning his tarot card into his mouth as he bit down on it during his roll. Allowing him to resummon rakshsa in the air above him 5 meters.As Rakshasa bathed Nozomi in a healing light. Allowing him to regain his senses as Rakshasa refaded forth again. Nozomi had rolled a good meter Combined with the distance Pierrots punch had sent him.

As Nozomi began to get up. He turned around and kicked up a slight amount of dirt with his foot to form a small cloud,Which covered a good majority of his figure behind it. Through which he threw Thorn directly At Raphaels Side/chest. The Soulbound itself coming in suddenly and surprisingly through the dust cloud.

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"Still not high enough." As soon as Nozomi kicked up the cloud of dirt, Raphael moved off to his right, Nozomi's left, and extended his hammer once again. Pierrot vanished as soon as his User started moving. Raphael saw the weapon get thrown where he was, but surely, if he couldn't see Nozomi through the cloud, he couldn't see him either, unless he had some kind of heat vision. Crouching down, Raphael repeated his previous move, jumping upwards into the air a full ten meters to advance further and faster along. He could see Nozomi's position from here, which made it a perfect spot to take this moment and snipe him. The User, taking this split moment, twirled his body to strike his tarot card, summoning Pierrot high above the field. At this point, Raphael started to fall, but the Persona, not faltering, dashed at Nozomi with blinding speed. If he looked at the Persona, he could see several figures' shadows reflected on the ground...


Small hammers fell down, covering a wide field around Nozomi, around ten meters all around him. Pierrot himself, seemed to manifest a pair of the same hammers, swinging his arms upwards and then doing a double-backflip as he fell onto Nozomi, both hammers extended straight to hit him straight in the head. If he tried to escape to his sides, he'd find that hammers would indeed fall on his head as well. It was possible to counterattack this skill, but it'd take quite some effort on Nozomi's part. Luckily for him, his Persona was out, however.

"Make sure a hazard you build for others isn't a hazard to yourself as well. Accuracy is greatly diminished when you can't see your opponent, that much is for certain." Raki seemed to just be giving a hint this time. It was up to Nozomi to figure out how to counter this one hit. Raphael, as he landed, seemed to be fairly close to the other User, though. The hammers, if Nozomi avoided all of them, would disappear harmlessly once falling on the ground.

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Dont doubt me. I'm a cut above the rest! Said Nozomi as he crushed the tarot card in hand. Rakshasa surging forth in a very agile and speedy manner delivering several strikes to cut through to stop Pierrots Assault on him. Cutting through and delivering a strike of his own at Raphaels Persona. Rakshasa .Then vanishing after dealing the blow.

As the hammers descended down Nozomi prepared himself. Waiting until they striked down in order to Get ready to stab at Raphael. Right when the Hammers and Raphael Landed at the same time. The hammers landing around Nozomi and not assaulting him providing him with no damage due to them. Nozomi surged forth at Raphael suddenly to catch him off guard. Blocking the initial strike With one side of Thorn and then skillfully Piercing Raphaels knee in order to do some damage.

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Nozomi has Rakshasa cast DeathBound to clash with Pierrots Akasha Arts. Breaking through due to 15% strength boost and dishing a hit.

Nozomi blocks n parries Raphaels first dex attack on him and skillfully delivers a stab on his knee(If it hits for 33 dmg)

As expected, Rakshasa's attack made Pierrot double back, floating backwards as he was hit. Right when he was, though, he snapped his fingers, making a pillar of dirt shoot up from underneath Raphael before he fell to the ground, carrying him upwards five meters. The pillar had a slight angle to it, pointing away from Nozomi. Raphael, preparing his strategy, used his skill to get extra distance, crouching on the pillar and propelling himself ten more meters away. The distance he would have gotten using this move was more than enough to make close-ranged attacks impossible.

"You're getting better, but don't try to predict an opponent's actions by parrying what you assume is going to be a strike. To throw your movement off its course, all your opponent needs to do is not take that first strike." Nozomi had the right idea, but assuming that an opponent will do nothing but attack can make a strategy erroneous. Raphael had more tricks in mind than simply attacking, after all, and unless he could figure those out, there wasn't much he could do to him. Though, it was obvious that Raphael was already starting to struggle getting a hit in. The distance between the two Users now was around 15 meters, what with the force from the pillar projecting Raphael away and his own skill adding to that. Pierrot, after his action, seemed to vanish and with him, his earth pile.

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Alright... Nozomi said as he took a long dash forward.As Nozomi ran a good distance of seven meters Unstopped. He casted his unique enhancement on himself. Figuring he could use this.

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That was certainly annoying...Said Nozomi as he crushed his hand,Crushing the tarot card in it with annoyance.Causing Rakshasa to come from above to deal a dastardly slash onto Pierrot now Exposed from the skill it had just attempted on him. Disappearing once again afterwards as Nozomi summoned his soul bound. Dashing forward to break 4 more meters in distance and getting ready in a guarding position for any form of attacks.

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Well, Pierrot certainly was in sight from that move... but was that all? Even as that finished and Nozomi summoned his own Persona, the clown moved to the right to evade the slash from above, landing on the ground before doing a twirl with his right leg outstretched. If he didn't find a way to quickly get away, Nozomi would certainly be hit with this move. Seeing as Rakshasa had just finished its own attack as Pierrot did his, it'd be very difficult to actually maneuver the Persona to block this strike. Pierrot's leg wasn't that long, however, at most a meter and not much more as the Persona was short, and with the short distance he had to move to strike the User, it wasn't hard to dodge this move.

"You're getting better at taking advantage of enemy attacks for your own good, but assuming that they are locked into place after finishing a skill isn't so beneficial. You should still attempt to trap the enemy, even if they're stuck in place as a countermeasure to anything that might happen. You're doing just fine, however." Raphael had to admit, Nozomi's skills were already above the average at the moment, even he had trouble evading and countering them some times. Regardless, the User just waited in his position, wondering whether they'd advance further or not. After all, if Nozomi as hit with Pierrot's attack, he wouldn't be able to move forward, right?

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As the Pierrot prepared to kick Nozomi. Given the distance,Nozomi preformed a combat roll evasivley backwards of about two meters. As he rolled back The tarot card formed under his back and got crushed during the roll. Causing Rakshasa to spring into the air and quickly Cast a healing wave upon his user before fading again.

Nozomi in a nutshell moves back 2 meters to avoid the attack and casts diarama.

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