[ There's brawling, and then there's trained hand to hand combat. Souji and his friends are familiar with brawling. Suckerpunches, feints, throwing your entire body behind a swing and the like. So the congratulatory pleasures he gets from scoring both successful hits on Shana diminishes when she hardly flinches but just takes the hits, already moving to another attack.
And that's when he sees it all in one moment, one happening split-second right after each other. He sees Shana's hand come flying below his face, registers it as an awkwardly-aimed slap, realizes that the form is too deliberate and is gunning for his neck! His posture is too committed onto and over Shana's small frame and because of the over-extending nature of someone with little knowledge of professional combat, and it happens too fast for him to make any kind of defensive posture.
Souji gets hit square in the larynx. He stumbles back and raises an arm in front in a defensive posture but it's obvious that he's dazed. He also can't breathe. Or at least he's not sure if he's breathing. And of course the pain, but that's secondary to the dazed and not-breathing thing. ]
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And that's when he sees it all in one moment, one happening split-second right after each other. He sees Shana's hand come flying below his face, registers it as an awkwardly-aimed slap, realizes that the form is too deliberate and is gunning for his neck! His posture is too committed onto and over Shana's small frame and because of the over-extending nature of someone with little knowledge of professional combat, and it happens too fast for him to make any kind of defensive posture.
Souji gets hit square in the larynx. He stumbles back and raises an arm in front in a defensive posture but it's obvious that he's dazed. He also can't breathe. Or at least he's not sure if he's breathing. And of course the pain, but that's secondary to the dazed and not-breathing thing. ]