Kazuha's body lay distorted on the stairs, Excruciating pain coming from his left wrist and a presumable broken nose from when he slammed into the rock. Bloody and bruised, He stood up and looked at the 6 meter high geo construct that had obstructed him, whilst analysing the situation Kazuha heard her. "How about we exchange information? I'm quite curious as to how the outside world has changed since then." Lumine's eyes drift towards the faraway shores of Ritou. Perplexed, Kazuha responds "Information?" his eyes still scan her body for any hostility. "Yes, You will tell me what happened outside and I will tell you what happened inside, Although I'll still kill you." Kazuha scoffed, quickly dashing at her and stretching his arm ready to unleash a downward slash, Lumine remained in place. Lumine's lips moved with the weight of waves, pushing back any attack through words alone. "I came here to revive my brother." Kazuha's blade stopped before it could even graze her shoulder. About to sink in this revelation he felt a wet sensation beneath his feet, on instinct alone he jumps back as a jet of water rises upwards cutting the air. The water falls back down as droplets upon Lumine as she narrows her eyes and smirks bearing her teeth. "Now its my turn." her voice resonates in the desolate stair case. Kazuha's vision is suddenly engulfed by Lumine's figure, after he sees her he hears a loud crash of electro energy from where she stood. She had closed the distance of about 6 meters in a single instant. Kazuha understood completely that Lumine had only just now became serious.

She had now used elemental abilities in all aspects of combat, her speed, strength and sense were all in sync with her elemental moves. Narrowly avoiding fatal blows, Kazuha becomes riddled with holes and gashes. He blocked a single swing engulfed in a yellowish energy and suddenly flew in the opposite direction, smashing into the wooden stairs of where the vision hunt ceremony was once held. The wood splintered his back as the sheer force snapped the timber, Kazuha momentarily closed his eyes and again all he could see was Lumines blood lusting frame in front of him, her arm arched over her head as she prepared to deal a finishing blow. Kazuha knew he couldn't move in time, The sword swung through the air, Lumine's cold eyes stared keenly at Kazuha's mouth. He decided to play along, opening his mouth as the blade was about to penetrate his head. "The fatui have amassed 6 gnosis." Kazuha almost felt defeated to resort to this silly game. Lumine rubbed her chin in thought and to any warriors eye appeared to be off guard, but Kazuha was no fool. As Lumine was deep in thought Kazuha checked if he had lost any of his belongings in the fight, reaching for his pocket as he begins to rummage through it, He feels it. Kazuha kept the ace in his deck as close to his chest as possible.

"They always were pretty persistent about that stuff, Guess I'll ponder it more later." Lumine reverted from her soft sweet expression back to the freezing stare of a wicked fighter. Although it was Kazuha's ''turn'' the idea of getting even close to endangering Lumines life for information seemed far-fetched in her current state. She still stuck to a defensive stance to attend to her role in the game. In a moment of desperation Kazuha moves purely on intuition as his mind flutters to a younger time. Kazuha remembers his old friend and is reminded of the sweet atmosphere that was now bitter in the taste of the present. Could Lumine feel the same? Did she really mean what she said about her brother? Kazuha snaps back to the present. He reaches for his back pocket with his left arm, all other muscles in his body still devoted to the upkeep of the fight, the sound of blades clashing and the wind crying as the swords swing. But before Kazuha could have his moment of triumph Lumine's sigh paused the fight as she stood back. "We really aren't getting anywhere, so I guess I'll forfeit this turn. Baal with the help of that shrewd shrine lady sealed me just as soon as I figured how to bring him back, Of course everyone in Inazuma sacrificed themselves just to seal me, It seems pretty silly-" Lumine's sentence is cut off by an internal realisation, Her eyes broadened in fact of that. She throws her head to the far off Mt. Yougou. Lumine grinded her teeth as she said one final thing. "Maybe not everyone." Her silent rage stirred an emotion Kazuha hadn't felt in a long time. Fear.

It wasn't her speed, her sword technique nor her physical power that had changed. It was her methods. Lumine was now silently in a fit of rage, She used much more brutal and underhanded techniques. Materializing geo energy into her hands to throw dust at Kazuha's eyes, Ruthlessly burning his clothes and used hand to hand combat in tow with her sword. Each exchange left Kazuha with various injuries. Lumine was no longer playing by her own unspoken rules of the ''game''. As each movement of Lumine became more and more brutal, Kazuha once again reached for his pocket. But before he could pull anything off, He felt history repeating itself. The archon statue facing both of them as the wooden planks beneath their feet creak, the motionless world didn't stir. Lumines figure flooded his sight when her arm arched over her own head as she prepared to deal a finishing blow. Kazuha opened his mouth. Lumines blade stopped, but no words came.

A purple light emanated from his left hand that had just searched his pocket, Kazuha's dominant arm makes a right angle as his blade goes behind his head. His muscles stretch and contort as his refined blade begins to lacerate the breeze. undetected by any eye on earth, His motion is not of man.

Kazuha grasped his new vision as his arm was now straight and to his side, not even nature itself could keep up with the movement.

"Musou no Hitotachi: Kazuha style"

Thunder roared and overwhelmed the noise of the bellow and bawling of the defeated, The flash of violet had blinded and obscured what had actually happened to any onlooker. It swiftly faded and Kazuha could see the remnants of electro energy evaporating the leaking blood. Kazuha in that moment did not feel like him, but rather a marionette. Returning to his body he feels the piercing stare of a lone fox, only for it to vanish as he catches a glimpse of it. "B-B-brother.." Lumines eyes were flooded with tears with a reddish discolouration. Her face developed wrinkles from sheer shock as the tears flowed through them like an estuary. Kazuha was disgusted by his own thoughts, Even though he had just witnessed a sister of his once dear friend dying, All Kazuha could feel was an implanted alien feeling of newfound patriotism for his homeland. He was ready to succumb to the puppet show.