"If I've learned anything from you, it's that if I give you a second to breath you'll make me regret it!"

Her attacks continued relentlessly, but there was the tiniest bit of hesitation to them. Perhaps, just perhaps, the months that had passed since last they met have let a touch of human empathy dull her blade with familial love. After all she doesn't ACTUALLY want to chop Ako's head off, does she?