After knocking away the weapon, I went to finish this trainee off.
After all, pain was a good teacher.
Only before I could actually swing my sword at that person, there was another trainee that charged forward.
Since they wanted to take the pain on behalf of this person, then I would let them.
But when I swung out at that person, I was caught off guard by what they did.
I was able to react in the end and block their attack, but I couldn't believe what they had just done.
After all, they just copied the move that I had done.
In fact, it could even be said that they had done it better than I had since they had added an extra twist of their hand when they used that move against me. That created a second curve to the blade that served to confuse the one that was attacking.
Of course, even though they had copied my move and improved on it…
"Clang."
"Ah!"
There was still the matter of the difference in physique.