What's Inside? [Hero Quest]

Kuhn had used everything he had against Cirno and in the end done very little against her. He knew that he had limits. He had fought strong creatures before, foes that had taken everything he had to defeat them and others still that had only gone down because he had help. Even with all those victories in the past he knew that he had never even begun to see the strongest of them. He had never come up against someone like cirno who seemed to outclass him in every way. Somebody who no matter how hard he pushed himself he couldn't touch. He could accept that he wasn't strong enough that didn't really bother him very much because he knew that he could get stronger. He knew that there was potential in him to grow. He had come here knowing that he would have to improve to take on the behemoths of this world. He just hadn't realized how far he had to go until the moment Cirno appeared behind him paralyzing his body.

As he felt that sharp shock of energy, felt his body freeze in place he knew this match was officially over. Of course he was sure that it was gonna be over soon anyway but still to realize that he had lost officially was hard to deal with. He had given it everything. As bad as it felt to lose he also felt a kind of surge within him. He wasn't sure exactly what was happening but he was sure it was cirno doing it. After all her objective wasn't ever to hurt Kuhn she had wanted him to push himself and grow stronger and he wasn't surprised an angel would be able to something for him toward this end. He listened to her words telling him to become faster. He knew the logic behind that idea. He already had a way to improve the strength of his attacks at will so working on his speed was probably the best idea.

That being said Kuhn also had a few ideas of his own from this fight. Certainly speed would be a great help and he would focus on that but he also knew his defenses could use some improvement as well. If he could build his speed to dodge most attacks that would be great but make it so that the few attacks that would hit him did very little damage would make him difficult to take down. That would of course be on the back burner but an idea burned in his head about how to go about that objective. He figured he could probably master in his spare time. He used his propagation to improve his attacks and he was sure he could learn to redirect that to improve his defenses similar to how blut vene used energy he pulled from around him. He wasn't entirely sure how to go about that but he would figure it out.

Kuhn felt his strength starting to return to him as Cirno started to help fix him from this tough battle. He was surprised at how quickly he was recovering even with the angels help. He stood up looking at her. "I know why you pushed me. I know that I need to improve and I have a long way to go. That's why I am here isn't it. In order to protect people I need to become better. I never for a moment thought that would be easy to achieve. I knew it would be a difficult task." he would say quite serious but a smile quickly returned to his face. "At least I have a beautiful angel such as yourself to help me out." It was starting to feel as if the fight hadn't even happened as Cirno kept restoring him. He felt that he had already improved a bit and knew there was likely more to come. "So whats next?"