[He doesn't bother to really wait for an answer on her part, if she heeds his warning him leading the attack to allow her to see the opponents in action is the best idea. If she doesn't... Him leading the attack would help to show her why she should. Either way it would be stupid to let someone who doesn't know the enemy go first unless both of them were equally ignorant of their opponents' abilities.
Ikki launches himself forward, practically flying over the ground as his Cosmo flares and the flames surround him completely, almost hiding his body and taking the form of a bird. He releases his attack as soon as he reaches the front line, a whirlwind of flames around him captures some of the Specters before the phoenix flaps its wings and flies towards them. In a matter of seconds the flames explode, burning and devouring armor and flesh alike and three Specters fall to the ground, dead. Their absence creates the opening Ikki needs to position himself inside the front line, punching and kicking the enemies.
Some of them try their own Cosmo attacks on Ikki, but he dodges them easily, he has seem them all countless of times already, and no Saint would be such a failure as to be affected by the same Cosmo attack twice. Dodging when fighting several enemies isn't easy though and gives him a disadvantage as the time he spends dodging allows the closest enemies to try to attack him, normally he wouldn't even bother dodging just nullifying the damage with his own Cosmo. But he's not fighting alone and Karla needs to see him dodge the attacks so she can learn how to dodge them herself. Those Specters may be inept in the use of Cosmo, but even they can be dangerous to someone not used to fighting them.]
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Ikki launches himself forward, practically flying over the ground as his Cosmo flares and the flames surround him completely, almost hiding his body and taking the form of a bird. He releases his attack as soon as he reaches the front line, a whirlwind of flames around him captures some of the Specters before the phoenix flaps its wings and flies towards them. In a matter of seconds the flames explode, burning and devouring armor and flesh alike and three Specters fall to the ground, dead. Their absence creates the opening Ikki needs to position himself inside the front line, punching and kicking the enemies.
Some of them try their own Cosmo attacks on Ikki, but he dodges them easily, he has seem them all countless of times already, and no Saint would be such a failure as to be affected by the same Cosmo attack twice. Dodging when fighting several enemies isn't easy though and gives him a disadvantage as the time he spends dodging allows the closest enemies to try to attack him, normally he wouldn't even bother dodging just nullifying the damage with his own Cosmo. But he's not fighting alone and Karla needs to see him dodge the attacks so she can learn how to dodge them herself. Those Specters may be inept in the use of Cosmo, but even they can be dangerous to someone not used to fighting them.]