"Asura Phoenix, do not disappoint me. You have trained with Sigurd. There is no way you are this fragile."
"..."
He couldn't respond, before her attack continued, able to twist his hips and pull back his right leg to dodge the first strike. Then, lifting the sword that his father gifted him to protect his abdomen before she slashed his body with a hail of strikes.
The scent of flowers accompanied each blow, while her eyes revealed no weakness or determined her location of attack.