A sparing match with Lady Asune

You activate your magic as soon as you ready your sword. Remembering how this went the last time you dueled someone you walked over to her, still keeping your guard up but much more relaxed. As you near you look at what she was wearing. Unlike you she wasn't wearing a uniform. She was wearing something resembling a skin tight tank top that cut off at her mid-drift. Her bottom half was clad in a pair of shorts that didn't even reach her mid thigh. The white of her clothes blending with the colour of her skin. Somewhat against your wishes your eyes lifted to her chest and you did your best to not acknowledge the two handfuls stretching her top.

When you were in striking range Lady Asune's sword moved. You dodged back as the sword passed between you. She wasn't as fast as you were but she significantly faster the Cynthia. You looked at her face and saw her eyes tracking you. With a new found wariness you circled her a little. Her eyes trailed behind. You approached her side and she swung at your again, faster than she had the first time. Again it wasn't fast enough to touch you but it made it she was baiting you.

You circled around behind her and took a cautious step in. She was turning but you'd moved around her free hand so a sword swing would be easy to see and block. As you closed on her your eyes glanced down at her ass. Much like her chest it was well confined in it clothing. Your glance turned into something lingering as you compared it to Edin's. You weren't intending to but Edin's ass was the most recent one you'd groped so the visual comparisons was out of your control.

You perving was enough for Lady Asune to have turned. Unlike the last two time you moved your sword to deflect. The slow motion sparks that came from the metal's meeting was distractingly pretty. The moment after your sword connected she reacted.

You watched with sudden horror as she imbued her sword with magic. The line slowly running through it captivated you for a moment. It was like watching a lighting strike in slow motion, a solid line splitting off into branches that wrapped around the metal.

You watched as those lines reached the point where your swords were touching. Her sword moved forwards, digging though the heated metal with ease.

You pulled back out of her range as the imbuing completed. Her sword, seething with magic glowing brightly as she stepped forwards to press her advantage. The moment reminded you of when you had first seen her spar with Stephanie. She left the same opening, except you were fast enough to not risk her blade connecting.

As you swung your sword you hesitated. Lady Asune was really creep, but she hadn't actually done anything to you. Invading your personal space wasn't exactly an action that only she had taken so you couldn't bring yourself to hold that against her. You pulled your swing as you hesitation had taken away your advantage.

Darting back her blade sung through the air as the imbued magic extended its reach. The tip of her magic almost grazing your chest. You pushed in behind her swing, with her sword out of position it was easy for you to get in close. You again brought your sword up for a swing at her exposed self but again your hesitated.

As difficult as it was for you to accept you didn't want to hurt her. Creep she may be but you just couldn't find enough dislike to want to hurt her. Instead you put your sword to her neck and slowed yourself down enough to talk. It was a problem with speeding up as you did, it made talking utterly impossible. Either you spoke too fast for anyone to understand or you spoke so fast your voice was too high for anyone to hear.

"Yield?" You ask her. Your sword wasn't touching her because it still had a healthy red glow. This whole fight had taken a few seconds and the speed you'd move at had heated the metal a bit more.

"No." She answered throwing her head back and swinging at your midsection. You jumped over her making her backward lean look up at your face. You reached up and gently grabbed her hair putting your sword back against her neck.

With a slight grin your ask, "How about now?"

"Make me." She responded pushing he head up bringing your sword closer to her neck. You pulled the sword back so the red metal didn't touch her. She could heal from a burn, at least you assumed she could, but burning her seemed way too far.

You strengthened your grip on her hair a little annoyed at her refusal. Before you could ask again she swung her sword up to your neck.

You lean back and rolled the hand holding her hair flipping her over with your strength. You roll with her body and in a move so smooth you were actually proud of yourself, she ended up on her stomach with her head pulled off the ground by your hand and you were kneeling on top of her your legs either side of her body.

"Yield yet?" You ask as you grabbed the wrist that was holding her sword and keeping it still.

"Make me." She said again. The frustration at her refusal made you consider bringing your red hot sword closer to her neck. You were stopped when you felt something beneath your hips. Lady Asune had raised her hips and moved them back and forth a few time.

The implication was hard to ignore and it made you feel incredibly awkward. "I ..." You had no response to this, she had been coming onto you for the last few days being the in control of the situation, kind of, felt weird.

"I know how it feels, looking down at someone." Her breathing was speeding up and you suddenly wondered if Stephanie was going to round the corner and catch the two of you. "That feeling when you want to be yours." She moved her ass again and you felt your lower half respond. "Hmmm, you could make me. Make up for what you didn't like over the last few days."

'Wait what.' You looked down at her suspiciously. She knew she couldn't beat you she wanted things to go like this. "You know you're taking all the catharses out of this cathartic moment." You comment standing up away from her.

"Want to fight some more." She asked raising her sword with a smile.

"Not really." You answer feeling like this had been a waste of both of your times.

"But I haven't yielded." She moved her arm to show her chest off pushing her shoulders back to further reinforce the temptation.

"Then I do." You say as you turn around realising that engaging was just making this harder for you.

"Wait. But I don't understand." Lady Asune said actually hurry over to you. "Why would you walk away? Just make me yield."

"Why?" You ask turning around with an exasperated sigh.

She looked really confused by this and you felt tingles as her aura wrapped around you. "Because we're the same." She answered then looked a little conflicted. "And I thought that meant we were supposed to be together. Everyone said that when I find someone like we'd be together." She looked like she was trying her hardest to understand something that was just beyond her reach.

"Why do you think I'm like you?" You ask hoping that if you can disabuse her of that notion you'd get her off your back.

"I can feel it." Her aura wraps around you and you feel the tingles. "I can feel that you are like me, you don't have to lie, you don't have to keep the mask on. We can be together as ourselves, just as ourselves." She looked very different, her cool expression falling into a clearly upset on. "Just be like me." There was a vulnerability there that you were finding hard to accept was genuine, but a part of you believed it was.

You let out a breath considering her words. This could be one of the most emotional moments of her whole life and you suddenly felt guilty for wanting to shit all over it. To tell her she was creepy you weren't like her and for her to fuck off. You opened your mouth to say just that when she blinked a few times and rubbed her eye. You saw the wetness on her finger tip and the guilt shut you up. "You still haven't yielded." You say instead as a way to give yourself a possible out.

She blinked a few times at you then smiled. "I yield." She dropped her sword and bowed deeply. When she rose she was still smiling. "Are we ..." she doesn't continue as you hold up a hand.

"We're," you sigh wondering if she was a smart idea, "fine, just don't sneak up behind me."

She let out a shaky breath and her smile slowly returned to the neutral expression. "Very well, I will make sure our courtship proceeds smoothly." With that she goes to walk off.

"Wait courtship?" You ask stopping her.

"Of course. We can drop our masks with each other but everyone else is still there." She steps close to you making your feel a little uncomfortable but less than you had been before. "But we'll know each other." She leaned forwards and planted a soft kiss on your lips. Her lips were cold but the kiss wasn't as, unpleasant, as you would have thought. "And don't worry about Vatarie, you can keep the courtship with her going if you want." She breathes in deeply for a moment. "I know you'll chose me." She stepped back and her neutral expression returned, the mask fall back over her face. "Thank you for the sparing match Christopher." She sauntered away leaving you to stare at her behind as she went.

You wonder how you keep putting yourself in these situation. You can't really complain about not having agency this time. You had a very clear way to avoid this happening you just could bring yourself to turning down a pretty girl. You sigh and look at your sword. There is now a very clear cut in the metal midway along the blade. Well at least you weren't the one who broke this sword, that was a first.

You put your sword away. You could go to the baths, Asune is probably going there and you think some time part would be good, so you'd have to wait here for a bit, a good time to tryout more unarmed forms you guessed. Alternatively you could go back to your room, if Edin was back you could apologise, or explain or ask him to explain or just figure out what happened.