She was glad to be making Aqua think: she had, after all, stacked things against her, to force herself to think more in this fight. She had, after all, experience in fighting with knives. What Aqua did NOT know was that she had also trained with a staff with a knife at the end of it. It wasn't a sword, but it still taught her how to handle herself with a long ranged weapon.

When the sweeping attack came, she danced out of the way for a moment, and then came forward with an upper body hit, quickening her attack.