"If you wish for me to crush you, then on your head be it!" The Goddess Rhongomyniad suddenly picked up her pace as she laid attack after attack upon the blue haired boy, and he was clearly struggling to keep up with her savage offensive. "Would you like me to hold back a little?" The woman asked of her opponent as he desperately fended off all of her earth-shaking attacks with a strained expression. Saber felt conflicted at seeing the Goddess start to turn the tides completely on her fiance's friend and daughter's advisor.

He was fending off attack after attack of savage blow, as the Goddess hammered upon his blade with her own shimmering sword of light. Over and over again did he just barely manage to fend off an attack in time with his blade, and despite everything, he looked closer to defeat now than when he had a sword impaled through his chest. For once, he no longer had a smile on his face as he battled the Goddess, and instead had an expression of intense focus.

Though as he kept dodging blows and deflecting the attacks of his adversary, Saber realized something. With every attack deflected or blocked, he blocked the next one or avoided it with greater ease. His arms must've been screaming in pain as he held back the strikes of the Goddess, but it was all for a good purpose. As he was battling her, he was learning her own style of battle, and before long, when a slash with her golden sword of light threatened him once again, he didn't block it. He didn't deflect it. No, he completely sidestepped the attack, trying to thrust his blade up at the Goddess as he did. The Goddess was rapidly forced to try to defend herself from the strike, barely managing to block his counter attack in time, but it wasn't quite enough. He followed his counter-attack up with another blow that the Goddess barely managed to block, and another, and in the blink of an eye, the tide of the battle had shifted to Shinji's favor entirely, the talented boy not leaving any opportunity for Rhongomyniad to switch back to an offensive approach as he rained attacks down on her, he moved like a storm of death.

Part 42