With permission, she was allowed to create some rudimentary clones for the purpose of practicing this particular technique within her chosen style. Wielding her staff, she had been steadily practicing in what almost seemed like a dance of sorts. Each time one of her own self got closer, she would give it a firm tap, not enough to dissipate it but enough to force it back. Subconsciously, her feet carried her around, adjusting and moving on the fly, occasionally stopping hard and giving a pivot to present threat right in time before any of her clones were allowed to get close. All the while, in the back her mind, she was thinking about the people who were forced to supervise her, making sure she didn't go overboard as she didn't want to get interrupted in the middle of training something that was requiring a great deal of work to commit to muscle memory.
This particular training ground wasn't empty but it felt it with how quiet it was. People ignored her as they should and yet, she persisted nevertheless. Sooner than she realized though, her movements had sped up, her strength had started to show as each clone was now struggling to even get close in the first place and the strikes came with a thunderous crack to them, as if she was staring at the source of her own anger and in a way, she was. There was a mild amount of fury in her eyes, her staff whirling and whipping around. Soon, she stopped hard and swung with vicious force, the connecting with the clone before wheeling around and crushing the others. It was all in service to keep herself at the proper distance where her staff was at is strongest and her opponents with far shorter weapons were weaker than her, but she still needed a lot more practice with this technique before she truly began to nail it.
Standing there among the slight puffs of smoke from the disappearing clones, still heaving, she leaned on her staff. "Fuck... I'm out of it... But I think I got it... Those folks in Towers know a thing or two..." She was muttering to herself, recalling the small amount of time she spent there to learn their particular style of fighting and finding how comfortable it was for her choice of weaponry.
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* Kushou・Unfolding the Fan
C-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
While rare for a practitioner of Kushou-ryu to be on the defensive, this technique is designed to facilitate effective defence against other close ranged opponents. The user of this technique is constantly aware of distancing between the opponent and themselves, and therefore will aim all of their strikes to prevent the opponent from closing the gap using their long weapon. This will make it extremely difficult for those with less skill than them to get close to the user safely without somehow neutralizing the user’s weapon.
* Kushou・Unfolding the Fan
C-Ranked Taijutsu Discipline
While rare for a practitioner of Kushou-ryu to be on the defensive, this technique is designed to facilitate effective defence against other close ranged opponents. The user of this technique is constantly aware of distancing between the opponent and themselves, and therefore will aim all of their strikes to prevent the opponent from closing the gap using their long weapon. This will make it extremely difficult for those with less skill than them to get close to the user safely without somehow neutralizing the user’s weapon.