You? You taught him? [ Rin blurts it out; because yes, she is surprised. For all she's been disregarding the rules of formal society, a man letting a woman teach him swordsmanship is not something that's really heard of. And then a man like Anotsu Kagehisa... !

Then again, allowing women in your very official sword school was also not really heard of. Makie, Doa. Rin thinks of Hyakurin, then, too. Of Mugai-ryu and Rokki-dan, neither of which had really been a sword school, but rather Habaki Kagimura's personal henchmen (-women) picked from criminals.

If you thought about it for a moment, Anotsu and Habaki had similar ways of going about things. ]

Ah, but... he did have that elegant sort of fighting style, didn't he? His axe describing those circles, not by brute force, but by using the axe's own movement. Not like Manji-san at all.

[ Rin had admired those movements once, right up until she'd seen the face of the kenshi who'd made them. ]

Of course, he never matched you.