[Matoba gives no indication whether or not he's taking stock of whether she's picking up what he's putting down, politely and blithely smiling all the way regardless.]
[...Those are some interesting responses, though. Very... interesting...]
[He decides it would be more prudent to show, rather than tell what he means- and draws out a paper spell like the one that had been on the arrow shot into the puddle. He raises two fingers before himself again, and this time, as spiritual power sharply wells within him, its feeling is dry and hot like purifying fire- like something being scalded clean.]
[It releases as a sudden whirlwind of force that kicks up in the alleyway and threatens to blow Shenhe back a few feet, if she hasn't already sensed and guarded against it.]
... My clan does not practice martial techniques, but we have our own ways. [Although even that hardly told of them. He hopes it at least got the point across- the rewards here that mattered, as far as Matoba was concerned, were not physical.]
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[Matoba gives no indication whether or not he's taking stock of whether she's picking up what he's putting down, politely and blithely smiling all the way regardless.]
[...Those are some interesting responses, though. Very... interesting...]
[He decides it would be more prudent to show, rather than tell what he means- and draws out a paper spell like the one that had been on the arrow shot into the puddle. He raises two fingers before himself again, and this time, as spiritual power sharply wells within him, its feeling is dry and hot like purifying fire- like something being scalded clean.]
[It releases as a sudden whirlwind of force that kicks up in the alleyway and threatens to blow Shenhe back a few feet, if she hasn't already sensed and guarded against it.]
... My clan does not practice martial techniques, but we have our own ways. [Although even that hardly told of them. He hopes it at least got the point across- the rewards here that mattered, as far as Matoba was concerned, were not physical.]