Maigo made his attack towards Elin, after missing his first slash, he continued on. Tenacity and speed drove him forth, he knew that he would be able to easily close the gap between the pair and deliver a slash to Elin’s Achilles tendon, pushing the fight to an end quickly. As he continued to charge forward, he watched as a small black ball fell from Elin’s hand, his sharingan glanced down towards it for a moment to takes its measure. His first thought was that it was a smoke bomb, intended on providing an escape route and clouding Maigo’s vision to attack, a smart move from his analysis. As the ball hit the ground, he hurriedly swung his sword and tried to deliver a quick blow, maybe not at full depth and with all its power but at least to hit something.
Smoke and debris began to rise from the ground where the ball landed, his sword slide by Elin’s leg, hitting nothing but air he was angry, had he waited another fraction of a second to close the distance and make a real strike. It was a blow that could have ended their fight relatively quickly, even if he had to trade blows to do it. But now the cloud of debris, smoke, and powder rose through the air, his original guess at the object being a mere smoke bomb had come to be extremely far off.
The first scent of the debris was rancid, it burned his nostrils as he inhaled it first, then the edge of the quickly forming cloud hit his eyes. The pain therein would create a jolt of awareness most people wouldn’t be ready to handle and he certainly wasn’t ready in his naiveté. He quickly closed his eyes, a desperate attempt to avoid further irritation, he had to quickly make a decision on whether to continue on and try to land a quick blow on Elin. Something he could easily do in his position, though it may give Elin an opening to strike against him, but without his sight how accurate could he really be? His other option would be to back away and try to understand things from a more focused perspective, and let his genjutsu run rampant a bit longer.
Regardless, he had to make a decision quickly, there wasn’t much time to act as he closed and covered his eyes. He went with plan B, sliding his feet to a halt as quickly as he could, balancing his body and jumping directly backwards from where he was. One jump would be enough to get him out of the cloud of debris and smoke, and it clung to his body and clothing, making it look as if he had just exited a mine of some kind. In the brief moments of exiting the cloud he could open his eyes again, barely, the burning and lacerations caused had done their dirty work, and now his sight had been compromised just as his genjutsu had done to Elin. A second jump backwards would clear him of any imminent danger, with the debris cloud blocking his vision, Maigo wouldn’t be able to watch what Elin’s next move was. He could do anything from undoing the genjutsu to preparing another attack, but with his genjutsu active he wasn’t in a position to attack, not yet at least.
Taking his second jump back, his re-arrival to land ended less than pleasantly, not paying attention to what was behind him. In part, from the horrible irritation in his vision, and him focusing too far on the debris cloud and keeping his genjutsu going as a distraction. His landing started with his right foot, stepping down normally, but rolling his heel into a small crevasse created by his chakra crescent only slightly earlier. His momentum carrying him down forward, his weight moving down and back into the pivot of the crack, his left foot didn’t even come back to the ground, the displacement of his body led his upper half to the ground quicker and he reached out his right hand to recover his fall.
It was during the rotation of his upper body and the sliding of his lower body that a crack came, pain shooting into his leg as he lost the grace of his fall. Now crashed to the ground he sprawled to move he leg into a comfortable position and try to ease himself of the pain. He was no doctor, and had almost no medical training, but from the pain, pain from merely rubbing against the afflicted area, he knew that he was looking at least at a fractured bone in his lower leg. But because the leg appeared rigid and not oddly bent, he imagined it wasn’t a complete break and that would be enough to calm his worries about having any major damage to deal with. But now he had to deal with the match and whether to continue on and risk his leg, on the chance to win, if he could even do so anymore. Or to swallow his pride and forfeit from the match? A fate to Maigo worse than being merely beaten, but to risk further injury and his life, on nothing more than a game at this point, it would be a decision he would have to live down and deal with for some time to come.
Luckily for Maigo, the tears and burning from the debris would cover any real tears he might have shown. Closing his eyes for a moment, almost ignoring Elin’s movements at the time, he looked towards the proctor at the edge of the arena and gulped. He set one leg up and pushed off his hands into the air slightly, keeping balance on his left leg and standing up with his pride, his right leg clearly causing him pain, the pain of having it be pulled downward by gravity. He swallowed his pain and his pride and raised his hand,
“I’m done, if I continue on I won’t win and only risk further injury. Release Elin from his genjutsu, I’m done here. He said as he looked towards the ground slightly. Part of him wanted to play it off like it was no big deal, but there was no humor to calm his mind at that moment. For it was immediately as he said it and began to hop towards the infirmary that he began to regret his decision, and regret was a thing that Maigo never handled very well.
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[OOC: For an exit post I didn't see any need to add the Chakra and Stat differences, I had Maigo break his leg so that it would be more believable IC beyond his eyes just burning. More for my own sake (pride) than anything, if I'm missing anything let me know otherwise it's been fun~]