Using ones own style against them when they don’t expect you to know it will catch them off guard. Rei confused Xiu Mei by using her own style even thow she only was mincing what she had seen in the fight.
Min Hua Lin, a thirteen year old girl living in the boonies Yinchangxiang, China, is the younger of two sisters and fellow heiress to a little-known family style of martial arts.
Rei Haiyaou, the adopted daughter of Kenji Haiyaou, is a quick-learning martial artist who is currently traveling through China to pick up as many martial styles as possible.
Xiu Mei is the older of the two Lin-style heiresses. She doesn't show much patience toward her younger sister. Everyone in town thinks she's the bee's knees.
Using ones own style against them when they don’t expect you to know it will catch them off guard. Rei confused Xiu Mei by using her own style even thow she only was mincing what she had seen in the fight.
That’s Rei’s game.
So, did Rei just pick up the Lin style from watching Xiu Mei? Or has Kenji taught her some of it himself before now?
I know Rei’s a prodigy, but she’s not an machine powered by Thorsen Memory Tubes.