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Synnadine wrote:

Iris continues to stand while Jacob recovers, politely giving him the chance, as he then speaks up. A sort of lights sparks in her eye as she looks to her elder sister who simply nods and gets up, walking over to them. "It's good that you noticed on your own...." She reaches Iris and places a hand on her shoulder as Iris relaxes. It's pretty clear this spar is over, since Jacob's haki is now running low.

"You only got so tired out because you aren't used to using it yet, applying more effort than what you actually need to, which is normal for someone starting out. That and you had to exert yourself quite a bit to feel out such a large area through Iris's devil fruit right before that fight. For now, give your haki time to recover, so stop using it. We can work on your technique in the mean time. Iris?" The two sisters look to each other for a moment as Iris nods to walk away, falling flat on her back to lay passively in the sand back near where Pearle was before. Pearle then moves a bit to the side and looks to Jacob. "I've seen you in a fight, and on the defensive. Now I want to see you on the offensive. It's your spirit that's tired, but your body should be fine, so push through it and come at me."

Jacob took the crystal glasses off to let his aura recover from the strenuous usage of observation haki, though hearing that he was meeting the expectation of these sisters, or rather he was managing to surpass their expectations, filled him with pride. He started to rest up for the moment to let his body adjust to the strain of using Observation haki to such strained extents on his first try training it.

"I did put alot of effort into it..." He says looking to Pearle after Iris hit the sandy ground, hearing her declaration that the time for his combat to start the young Captain took a deep breath and blew smoke out of his nose. If he learned anything from the last few months of his life is that while his spirit may waver his body would still stand strong against the horrors before him until its final breath. "The offensive?" He says more so for himself, not expecting or giving her the chance to answer as he speaks up again "With your devil fruit you're quite suited to withstand quite the punishment if I can guess a few applications you might use along with the fact you'll use observation haki too no doubt... In which case I can't really hold back, you'd scold me for that and it would be pretty unfair to you." Jacob smiles in his usual goofy way before he settles into a stance.

For risk of getting smacked right off the bat by talking for too long, Jacob wasted no time as he threw up a massive smoke screen before a barrage of smoke fists fly threw the smoke screen towards her. And if she did use Observation haki it would show her that Jacob intended to rush her with the same strange flaming fist attack he failed to complete during his first bout between him and Iris. Rather ballsy move to use that off the bat. And he prediction would hold true as he used the barrage to cover his flank to the left as he leaped out to the side of her with Red King burning brightly in his right hand. Though one thing that the premonition did not convey was the crushing bloodlust that hung in the air and the murderous intent that filled his eyes.

A complete flipside to his usual attitude and ultimately a gambit move to psyche the sister out to make his attack more interesting and his attempt to slip her up with presenting something completely unexpected. In truth the glare was a farce, the menacing bloodlust behind his gaze was one he gets whenever he relived the moments in Calsnova when the Red King himself threatened the lives of his crew, his family by telling him that people often lose their lives out too see and his killing them would not be raised to anything more than that. Pearle may figure out that the gaze was not something born from anything she has done and that the entire thing is just a trick, but Jacob still persisted as he threw his arm forward, unleashing the ashen flames of his punch to strike her in earnest.