Chief of Hollow Operations Section 6 (Patreon)

An expedition into Hollow Zero like any other, Hoshimi Miyabi is as efficient as ever. It was just her and Yanagi that day, Soukaku and Harumasa off on another errand. It felt mostly like a routine cleanup, if anything. Just more training.For the fox thiren, everything felt like a good flex of her skills and muscles. It was always good to maintain proper training, even if it was mostly akin to carving numerous ethereals into nothing. It was also a good chance to talk to, or at least enjoy the time with Yanagi alone, as when the pair weren't dealing with meetings they'd often be handling Harumasa's complaining or Soukaku's limitless stomach.It wasn't that they needed to get away, but the quietness was comforting, in a sense.Miyabi wanted to make sure her skill with Tailless hadn't waned since their encounter with Bringer, worried that after their time recovering she'd maybe gotten a smidge rusty. Her swordsmanship proved otherwise as she'd effortlessly swathed flames of foxfire there and again to vaporize their foes.Yanagi was a bit behind, but who wouldn't be, when the void hunter ahead of her was moving with such brevity. In her haste to catch up, Yanagi left herself just a brief fraction open as Miyabi prepared a triple strike, her blade heating up in azure energy.A careful, immaculate series of slashes ripped up the air around the fox thiren, cleaving the ethereals -and the locale- into pieces. A sharp gasp managed to sneak out from behind her, but Miyabi was much too focused on maintaining her effortless bladework to notice she'd reduced her coworker's clothing to less than ribbons.In a few hours, she would be reprimanded for the sudden nudity caused by her blade, but for the time being the only thing on her mind was training to protect those she held dear.