Damn the lucky blighter got out. Twisting his leg positioning and bouncing his weight back along his left foot, he regained his composure and re settled in his positioning. focusing the flux into his legs for a short burst of speed he launched himself in direct attack, sailing past the blow and shooting his right arm out to leons gut. a similar move to leon's opening gambit, but with one modification he wasn't going to hit leons gut but drag his fist up and sail an uppercut straight into leons jaw. this'll get his attention. xi also had his oter arm still bent poised to dart out and deflect anyyother blow tha tma have sailed his way. well either way. we do have damned close speed and strength, but hows your technique? if xi's upper cut connected he would swing his weight round following th blow to then launch leon back with a swift torpedo kick to the sternum, not enough force to crack it but sseeing as he would already be off balance form the uppercut, it would at least send him flying off balance