"A<i>sword. </i>How very Edo of you. See, I would've had a gun. Then this fight would be over before it started."<br/><br/>Ice continued to form in Mashi's blindspot. Taiga stayed firm, letting him come to him, forcing him to place his foot to attack and potentially slip.<br/><br/>Taiga walked over the ice as surefooted as he had over the wood floor here previously. He tossed two ice knifes in the air, where they hovered, and then picked a kitchen knife out from a block of them nearby.<br/><br/><i>Let's see him melt that, </i>Taiga thought, deathly serious.