♩Solar ♩ Gravitas & Vitas♩Strong Bird♩Blitz Sticks♩Oto Oto♩Oto Tier 3 ♩Nitufia♩Santufia♩Nitufia - Tier 2♩Flight & Fight ♩
Charlotte & Caprice Weapons ♩ Nico & Juju's Weapons
"We're all caged song birds, waiting for someone to hear our sound"

Geno would appear to be a sly man to those who wouldn't pay attention to his intentions. However, to Junbei, he read his aura like an open book filled with a mixture of excitement, sorrow and joy when it came to combat. As stated previously, Junbei never under estimated his enemies, his mind was very much still opened to the ways of his sixth sense, so when Geno started up immediately after his sentences concluded, Junbei locked onto every aspect of his aura and minuscule moments to a tee. The man's aura seemingly towered over him, for an instant, he felt his mind waver, 'Could this be the next kind of Haki? The willpower kind that Cappdona had forgot to mention?' Junbei would think in an instant. For a moment, Junbei almost wanted to rub his eyes, as before him the figure of a golden Buddhist statue, it was in this moment Junbei felt the air of that of a King or Maybe even a God... No Devil, it was a mixed impression. It was through this experience that a grin would appear on Junbei's face, he was truly indeed grateful for this spar, all of these emotions swelled in realtime as Geno's Tier 3 movements, seemed like mere normal strides to his Tier 4 Perception coupled into the elements of his Kenbunshoku Haki. It was a trick, he wasn't sure if it'd work but it might protect him slightly from the unknown forces of the third element he had yet to experience. It was recognition, he focus his will to reject Geno's aura by noticing the predator's force. Realising Geno had a trait that either Junbei hadn't have as yet or just didn't possess.


The Songbird wouldn't however loose in a battle of aura's, behind him, the image of a large Phoenix themed bird would hover behind Junbei. It wasn't any form of this King's aura, no it was his own willpower to not be best. Clenching his chest with focus intent, Junebi tracked the man's advance stride by stride, meter by meter or inch by inch depending on the metric you'd choose to acknowledge. However, this too was a test to Geno, a test neither to be little the man but see if he'd truly want to learn the ways of Haki. It wasn't an attempt to kill, no, it was an admiration at the man's will and power, Geno's emotions seemingly flowed into Junbei's mind, to the point where he could seemingly feel as the man felt. Empath, a minor trait given to those who truly dabble in Kenbunshoku Haki, feeling the man's joy for combat, a broad grin couldn't help but fill Songbird's face. Though delayed, "I accept this offering of your Strength Geno! Bring it! I have my own will too!" Junbei shouted, clutching to his Busoshoku Haki.

Junbei's body was like a sturdy mountain, it was one thing Geno had slightly misunderstood, in his opinion. Underestimating the quality of his body and his Busoshoku Haki, because only by external means of knowing his past,  would he truly know the quality of his body. Junbei's body was around Tier 7 natural defence, meaning, if a bomb would hit him, his body would surely incinerate but his chest cage would remain intact. As the man's right hand extended for contact, Junbei would pay too attention to the hand that wasn't lead, not one to make mistakes twice. However, as Geno's palm was about to contact, Junbei would use his invisible-visible black armour to push off his chest, thickening it too the level that it was as solid as diamond, no maybe harder. He noticed the force behind the palm not matching the aura's intent, meaning several things but generally, the palm's initial strike wouldn't be as strong as say mach truck striking a young buck. It's be more like a gentle fist, pressing under a waterfall. If this was the case, he'd brace his mind from what came next. If not, he'd push back with a crude momentum.

Regardless, the force, Junbei would stand firm, like a mighty oak in Upper Yard. As the force surged, Junbei would also coat his head and waistline for additional coverage, watching his left hand closely, if it'd move, he'd instantly lunged backwards about five meters changing intangible, as a safety measure. However, in the moments between their attacks, Junbei and Geno had bonded, not a fake sense, as his emotions poured into Geno, as Geno's did into him. The fun loving nature of the Songbird enjoying the thrill of a fight or the melody of a rift, that was his truth, the enjoyment of meeting someone he could truly see as equal.

"That's my Busoshoku... and it seems that in testing my merit... I felt shades of something much greater, I nearly lost consciousness. I have nothing else to teach you, Geno. Your God's hands have placed you on the path... The very path all men aspire towards, that of an Emperor." Junbei said grinning. Grinning, "And with that, I think I'll call this spar to a close... before both of us destroy this whole island in the backlash." Junbei said grinning.

♩Solar ♩ Gravitas & Vitas♩Strong Bird♩Blitz Sticks♩Oto Oto♩Oto Tier 3 ♩Nitufia♩Santufia♩Nitufia - Tier 2♩Flight & Fight ♩
Charlotte & Caprice Weapons ♩ Nico & Juju's Weapons
"We're all caged song birds, waiting for someone to hear our sound"

At this point, the Songbird's heart was met with a flurry of emotions. One of which was sadness, a feeling that he felt recently when he'd parted from Baz and Cyrus. In his mind, Geno's actions had now etched a position in his heart as strongly as these men had. It was with this, Junbei had the correlation that these men would somehow change the fabric in the world in very big way. Excitement, it'd been awhile since Junbei had felt his blood rush to the point where he wanted continue a fight past a friendly spar, to see who'd come out on top. Not since the days of his Master Colt. Happiness, a wide grin would spread across his face from ear to ear as the man expressed his gratitude, Junbei simply bowed back in respect, as he'd often do after spars customarily anyway. This bow, meant something, this moment was the day two truly great men had clashed, and the dead spirits within deserts of Alabasta would be the only souls to be able to tell the tale, and the dead can't speak through regular means.

"I think I have an idea for a pretty wicked song now." Junbei said, knocking around melodies in his head until the man disappeared off towards the city. His eyes expanding widely, "Oh right... I have a show to do!" Junbei said grinning. Moments after Juju came tracking down Junbei using his Kenbunshoku Haki, and the intensity of his Captain's aura made the man freeze for a minute. "Hoho... Your late for the show... but judging by the looks of things... You've gotten stronger Captain." Juju commented. "Wait until I tell you about what happened to me, Juju! I think I met a man who'll cause the Marines many headaches in the future, Rishi Rishi!" Junbei exclaimed, humming a new tune.