So his opponent had decided to feign surrender. A dirty tactic to be sure, but there was no need to the Tegerfelden scion to acknowledge it as of present. Lunging in such a manner would likely leave one's body off-balance, especially if whatever the attempted attack was were to miss. And it did miss, the aristocratic teenager's years of training in the Aargau School having honed his skills quite immensely. He neatly sidestepped to the left, avoiding the wild strike with practiced ease, positioning himself to stab forth at his opponent's extended arm. It was definitely no sabre, foil or epée, but the range of his beautiful weapon was still enough for his purposes - after all, the other teenager had closed the distance enough for the dagger to be extremely viable indeed.

One would wonder why Liudolf had deigned to strike at the extended forearm rather than the fist. His reasonings were pragmatic; to attack at the fist would be useless if his opponent were to recover rapidly enough to rebalance and pull back, but by stabbing at a far less mobile part of the arm, he had cut off many of his opponent's 'escape routes' and possibly assist in overextending the other teenager.
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