Joe frowned, that sounded similar to his own fighting style. Though he didn't sacrifice his normal defense for it, he did care a little less about his evasion skills, loving to be all in his opponents face and load strikes with his hands, sneaking in a devastating low kick in as his opponent is focused on his hands. He underestimated her simply because of her looks, his mistake. He really seemed shook up, she must have been something else. Especially since he already heard of her before, that must have meant that she was some kind of legend around here. That was definitely interesting, especially since the guy was praising her so highly.

"She fought exbeasts? That is so cool.", he couldn't wait to do that. "Well, my name is Joe. I don't remember catching yours either?", he sort of subtly asked. Pushing his for a handshake. "We should train together tomorrow, you can show me some fancy sword tricks I could use to up my hand striking and I could do the same to you in reverse.", he proposed.