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ZOCOM wrote:

Jacob's face became filled with with amazement as his attack was caught by her crystalline fist, though that quickly became worry when he felt her grab tightly to his hand and basically ragdoll him after she chewed him out about his fighting techniques and how bad it was before he was thrown back down the beach to roughly where he started. Shaking his head to get the sand out of his hear and mouth, Jacob stood back up and took an offensive posture "Even on the offensive I get my butt handed to me." He says with a smile.

He loosens up his shoulders and arms, shaking them at his sides before raising them again. Though same as before he unleashed a large smoke screen with a volley of smoke fists rushing out to meet her along with larger wads of smoke that rushed past her. If she ignored it she would see a something faintly resembling a leg in the very corner of her vision coming to strike her in the side of her jaw. If she moved to counter the sweeping 'leg', Jacob would rush through the smoke cloud he originally created with one arm raised in defence with the other raised with a haki imbued fist to strike her stomach and try to wind her to see just how solid her defence was now.

Pearle seems to go on guard at first with a shift in stance, but rather quickly seems to change her mind from doing much just yet, dodging the attacks coming at her with the most subtle movements possible. Adjusting her body just enough to make the incoming blows miss her entirely as she remains scanning outward. She quickly notices the leg at the corner of her vision and turns promptly to it, but almost immediately jumps over it in a spin. Already moving in for his true follow up attack this quick spin allows Pearle to see the true Jacob, landing firmly on the ground facing towards him. Both hands immediately imbued with crystal and haki she reaches out to grab Jacob's defensive arm around the wrist and holds her opposite arm down, planting it palm first into Jacob's haki infused strike. Pearle then swings both hands out suddenly and pulls forward, her forehead now imbued with a crystalline haki as her forehead meets Jacob's in kind, then quickly shifting her body to be beside his. Pearle promptly kicks Jacob in his still parallel-with-the-ground gut then releases her grip on his wrist and fist, but before he can fall she swings her leg out with a round house kick to shoo him away down the beach. These strikes certainly hurt, though Iris had hurt worse earlier, so it stands reason that Pearle is being more merciful. Likely because beating him down is not the purpose of this.

She calls out to him as he grinds himself to a halt. "Your devil fruit excels at the art of deception, but if you rely too much on that fact then if your opponent sees through your attempts to lead them on the only one who will be caught off guard is you! Deception should be a tool to get the upper hand when your opponent least expects it, not the core of how you fight, especially with potential like yours! Now come at me AGAIN!"