The cheers and whispers of the crowd passed in one of Canopus’ ears and out the other. His entire focus was on the foxgirl eyeing him from the arena. He walked silently up the steps and crossed his arms, nearly glaring at her. His attitude didn’t seem to faze her in the least, as she neatly glared right back as he stopped on the other side of the arena.

He looked over her entire body, memorizing how she stood, what muscles she tensed, the movement allowed by her clothing, everything he could just from a rest stance. He nodded. “Are you planning on using that sword?”

“You’ll just have to wait and see won’t you?” she replied.

He shrugged. “Doesn’t matter for the result. I just wanted to give you an appropriate opponent.”

Her eyes narrowed even more, if that was even possible without them closing completely. “You’re right. Won’t change the results.”

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Apparently the pure freedom that now exists in my weekend has made it impossible for me to actually remember that Sunday is my update day. After three weeks of trying, I am now giving up and switching my update night to Tuesdays, which is a day I always spend a the local game store. Since I have my laptop here, and usually work on my writing, I should be able to remember to actually update.

Anyway, now for Canopus’ fight. Rilen is actually a character of mine from long long ago. Now she’s just a fight in this tournament. >.>

Kind of a little in-between post, but there you go.

I guess a failing of this website design is that if I do, do a double update, you have to click the little back button to see the first of the two. However, life goes on, and it ended up working really well as the second update gets you right into the first battle involving our heroes.