"---We have been doing well, training to change the course of our 'records'. I do not know if you've noticed-"
"I already have."
"I did notice."
but we are at the mercy of the clock. I presume we have several more losses to take and then---OOF---this career of ours is finished with a paltry conclusion."
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Hiroyuki, instead of turning Sydney onto her partner, found himself taking her place as he crashed into Kimmy. Unfortunately for her, it was a similar result to his intention. She smashed into the wall, crumpling to the floor like a sack of potatoes. The attacks he lashed out with did not meet a target, but the engagement suddenly changed for Hiro. They did not continue. They hesitated. How fine for him. Hiroyuki rolled his shoulders and coiled his thighs, remaining standing in a low stance rather than resting on his back like the woman behind him.
"Five or one, it does not change my intention. It is a MATTER of standards, that's all." Cassidy complaining struck him as amusing since he had not included her in the count since she had enough obedience to take him on one-on-one and only turned sour when the outcome did not end with her winning. While he derived enjoyment from this competition, the goal the eight all shared was to win in some form or another. Hiroyuki sprinted at Linda, landing the two strikes - the kick and then the straight punch - mentioned before she engaged him in a lock-up. Her fingers wrapped around his shoulders, while his hands did the same since his body could not get into the proper posture for a perfect punch. One of the smaller girls, Tommi, who he had not been introduced to, got a running start to leap onto his back but did not bother going for a choke or some such. Just act as a weight. While he could have fended Linda off with some time, her sister-in-arms getting involved changed the balance of the scales. Hiroyuki's hair swung this way and that with some locks settling over his battle-focused expression. Cassidy's yell drew his gaze to split itself between Linda and the leader of the pack. Senji and Imai. The tension between the two had already been thickening over whether to leave Hiro be as he wished. Sydney, strung along by his assertion, chose to force them into the match anyway. When Cassidy came to rush, Hiroyuki twisted on his heels just as he saw her get close to jump. When she leapt, he tried to hit the Scarlet Harlot using Tommi as a weapon by forcing her timing off-course. The indulgence she allotted him to partake in was tempting, but his rationale won out. He could afford to worry about Tommi later if she tried to lock in a strangle. As a contingency, he remembered the practical advantage of the black, sharp edge of the table inside the kitchen area. But he was rooted in his spot by a thought. Tommi would hurt her spine if he backed into it.
Given that, Hiroyuki tried to raise his knee in a curved arc and slam it into Linda's belly to break the lock-up with her or just damage her stomach with blows.
Over to Senji and Imai, Senji stumbled back when the cheap material of the door gave way to open inwards. His eyes settled on the brunette, as she acquired a target and secured a takedown on the floor due to his surprise. Senji scrambled beneath Sydney, trying to wrap his legs around her waist to get her into the closed guard position where his ankles were locked behind her back before she got into a full mount.
"GAH-" Senji yelped, his eyes squinting from the sharpness of the pain in his belly. In an attempt to go for a submission, Senji tried to wrap his left arm around the back of Syd's neck and pull her down under his armpit for a Guillotine choke complete with a YANK to put pressure on the bigger woman's throat. His arms and legs squeezed around her in perfect unison, while his other hand locked with the choking arm's fingers to establish a palm-in-palm grip. Imai, on the other hand, snapped in action quicker to defend their "weak link" as Tommi or Kimmy might be considered to Red Nation. He dashed at Kimmy when she came barging in to help her sister, moving to stick his left arm out similar to a clothesline. A natural movement, akin to the flowing of water in a stream, instead of coercing a move into fruition. This would result in him pushing his arm into the front of her throat but wrapping around it for a standing chokehold. To support it, his flexed left arm worked to catch her by the head, NOT the hair, and push her chin up to aid in the strangle. She'd be walking into her own submission, when put in another way.