To be honest, my strength is more in skill. It's all tactics and using the environment to my advantage, [And cheating and so many mindgames, but he's not willing to do that to her.] but I definitely have to keep up. Fighting gods is no joke.

[He cheerfully props his arm up all the same, ready to fight her. He's not taking the gauntlets off though. But they're samurai kote so the fingers are free, just covering the knuckles and tops of his hands.]

[And he just snorts about the cherubs.] I guess that's as close as they get to stabbing for hello there. I'll take the imps any day of the week. It's nostalgic for me. [That's sad. He also doesn't even realize it's sad!]

[And he laughs at her buffet story.] Hah really? Okay, if I find Yato again you can try to out-eat him.

If I best you in the fighting ring -- if they let mixed gender fights happen, some Westerners get weird about that -- you should join my army.