The girl certainly had some interesting tricks, that was for sure! That clone decoy was quite clever! He couldn’t even tell difference between her and the clone when they split up, something that actually caught him off guard for a moment. However the distraction didn’t last long as he vectored one of his two crystals towards each of the signatures he was sensing. Both took hits, but only one continued to persist after the strike.

That decoy technique was remarkable. It genuinely impressed him that she had come up with such a technique on her own! While most cultures develop and understand the concept of decoys it is exceptionally rare for martial cultures to develop techniques based on the use of decoys. More so for individuals to consider the idea. The Fury had their own line of techniques based on the concept, with the Orgone Mirage, for both offence and defence, but the girl had done so seemingly without any outside influence.

The young man couldn’t help but crack a smile.

Then he felt her energy signature start to shrink considerably. For a moment he panicked, wondering if he’d accidentally landed a lethal blow. His Knightly side lamented the lose of an innocent life and started to consider how to atone for the act. His Demon side started thinking of where to dig the hole. The Saiyan side pointed out that she could be suppressing her energy, earning indignation from the other two. But, sure enough, her energy did stabilise, bringing some relief to the youth.

How was he still able to track her energy? It wasn’t easy, but Liek was used to tracking energy signatures measured in the decimal range as part of his daily routine from his youth. Rabbits where not known for their high power levels, but they did make for good eating. They where also fast. This had forced Liek to learn to track the faintest signatures as they travelled quickly through foliage.

In so doing Liek had applied a selective pressure on the local rabbit population for the last fourteen years that had gradually meant only the fastest bunnies could evade being eaten. Driving the average speed of local rabbits higher and higher.

But she didn’t know any of that, did she?

Deciding to play along the young hybrid started to look around as if searching for the girl, turning his back to her in his feigned inability to find her. An opening for her to show her offensive abilities.

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WC: 422
TWC: 4,063