"I'm so sorry!" Akane says, kneeling down beside her, with a worried expression on her face. "I didn't-- I should have held back, but you're so good with swords that I thought-- I don't know what I thought. I'm just-- I'm not used to having to hold back. I'm used to barely being able to keep up."

And she is. She really is. Ranma and Ryouga... Mousse and Shampoo... she could maybe take Ukyou or the Kunos if she went all out, but she was far behind the real top-tier fighters back home these days.

It was hard to believe some days that once she'd been one of the best fighters in Furinkan Town, if not the entire Nerima Ward.