The girl was never gonna survive if no one taught her how to fight. So I offered to do it. The rest of us couldn't protect her all the time.
"You? Train me?" I almostalmost thought she was laughing. Almost. "Are you serious?"
"Yeah I'm serious." Was she stupid or something? "You'll never survive if you don't know how to fight."
She smiled. "All right." She pulled 2 daggers out of her shoes. Yep. Her shoes. That's a little weird if you ask me. Then she did some weird thing with the daggers where she twirled them between her fingers and suddenly they were charged with electricity. "Let's go."
"Now?" I stared at her in disbelief. Was she crazy? Was she trying to get herself killed? Not that I would actually kill her in some stupid practice fight.
"Why not?" she asked. "Unless you're scared."
I was never one to refuse a challenge. So we fought. Even though she was bound to loose, her 2 daggers against my endless bullets.
So what if I was wrong?
Turns out her daggers were endless too. She could summon them out of nowhere. And she only used them to block my bullets. She fought hand-to-hand. Something I wasn't used to. But I could deal with it.
So what if I underestimated her?
This is where my whole levitating upside down thing comes in handy. But it didn't seem to phase her one bit. "If that's the way you want to play," she jumped up, continuing to hit and kick and dodge my attacks. God that girl could stay in the air for a long time. She finally fell back down, catching herself with both hands and both feet. "Screw gravity," she said, jumping up again.
So what if I lost?
She stood up and began to walk away. She paused, turned, and said in her sweetest, most innocent voice, "You'll never survive if you don't know how to fight, Xigbar." She continued walking.
Damn that girl was good. I would never forgive myself for underestimating her.
Never.