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He knew Alexandrite was going to be hesitant after last time, but Rutile was a lot healthier. With everyone's help, he's diet started getting better, he was active. While he still wasn't in peak condition, he wasn't a walking skeleton anymore.

The nervous energy of powering up was still there though. The paranoia that some General was going to come for him. Now because he had been talking to knights about purifying. What it meant. He was pretty sure he was going to do that. Rutile just needed to know more about it before he did. He wanted to be sure he could leave the Negaverse behind. Shoving all that to the side, the Captain took out his weapon already, the large sewing needle he wielded like a sword. He wasn't going to use it in this fight, just the weight alone let him know he wasn't prepared for it, but it was something to fiddle with.

"I won't be usin' it," he said, looking across the field at Alexandrite. He had a grin on his lips reminiscent of the one he used to wear. Not quite as big. His eyes tinged with nerves.Still, Rutile swung the weapon around a few times, and then threw it down into the dirt. He had to remember, with weapons he would win. Alexandrite was a lieutenant.

"Maybe you're right," Rutile stated, shrugging. "But I have a feeling I don't have the kind of time. ....I feel like someone's going to be hunting me down.." He really did.

So, without anything else, the Captain took off at the Lieutenant, aiming a punch for his stomach rather than his face this time.

He didn't want to dwell on who could be hunting him.

A general? A General King or Queen? Another captain? Some of the lieutenants were brutal. It could even be a Corrupted Senshi.

"I'll ask Azurite next!"

When he took Alexandrite by surprise, Rutile grinned. That was a good sign. He didn't care how the other saw it. This was building up muscle and getting him moving again. Somehow he was able to get out of his head how scared he was with practicing like this.

He yelped when Alexandrite chased, his footing not quite as quick as it used to be. And then the question came and the punch would connect in a glancing way to Rutile's side. Not a full contact punch. Still made him gasp and then he choked on it. Because of course he did. Rutile came to a stop, hands on his knees and he wheezed before pounding on his chest with his own first.

"Holy s**t, I'll kill myself this way."

What did her magic do?

"...She can basically suffocate you if I remember correctly..." It'd been a while though.