The Dragon and the Lotus

[ClockwerkSamurai12]

Tianhuo is shown in the gym practicing on a wooden dummy, barely breaking a sweat.

Tianhuo: *Thinking* It’s been a while since my last match, I must be prepared for my next opponent!

@ReticentCone

[ReticentCone]

Chao-Xing had concluded her work out routine awhile ago and had mostly stuck around to observe the woman who'd be her next opponent as she 'excercised'. If it could be called that, even. It looked as though she was barely exterting herself, which was contray to the entire point of working out in a gym.

Well, as long as if one considered self improvement to be the point of being in the gym. If there's one thing she knew for certain in her long career in combat sports, is that there were plenty of people in it that were more interested in preening than showing engaging in any amount of substance.

Usually that'd eventually catch up with people, but it didn't have to, really. With the right luck and favoritism, any losing practice could be made a winner.

[ClockwerkSamurai12]

Tianhuo: *Stops for a bit before noticing Chao-Xing* So, you must be the Crimson Lotus.

[ReticentCone]

"Yes, I am. What of it?" Chao-Xing responded with a sneer.

[ClockwerkSamurai12]

Tianhuo: I heard a lot about you, how you target the vital organs of your opponents..

[ReticentCone]

"Experience has taught me that I should. Makes my opponents more likely to give up fighting or lose the ability to keep fighting. Either works." Chao-Xing responded, with finishing with a smirk.

[ClockwerkSamurai12]

Tianhuo: Clearly you don’t know a thing about honor..

[ReticentCone]

"Oh, honour? its dishonourable to punch someone in the kidney? The liver? I'm not eye gouging. Doing anything within confines of the rules of a bout to get an advantage is not only acceptable, to not do so is what is dishonourable, to not take an opponent seriously enough to do everything permissibleto win. If I kick someone in the head, is that also dishonourable? Is the brain not a vital organ?" Chao-Xing responded, though an insult like this scarcely deserved words, so she took some steps closer to the woman.

"I suppose it isn't, for a woman as dim as you."

[ClockwerkSamurai12]

Tianhuo: I am the captain of the Longma’s Imperial Guard, I have vast knowledge of the martial arts from my homeland.. I am anything but weak minded!

[ReticentCone]

"If you weren't weakminded, you'd know better than to insult me before we have our match. Not that its matter of victory or defeat for you, but if you don't want me to leave with damage to remember me by, you'd do well to apologize, right now." Chao-Xing, said as she stared into the woman's eyes.