Windspeaker Touho elected to prepare another five Symbols of Fuujin before activating her Megumi no Fuujin: Reitekina Yoroi [Grace of the Wind God: Spiritual Armour] technique and jumping down from the tree she had been hidden on, stopping to hover half a foot above the ground. She could cover the distance between where she was and the center of the island (as evidenced by the pillars, if she had to guess) in approximately two to three seconds in this form, and she decided to do so simply because the advantage gained from waiting diminished with each passing second. With no knowledge of her opponent, who know (presumably) had knowledge of at least one of her techniques. She had waited for long enough that she had almost entirely recovered from the loss of energy from having created the hailstorm and felt that she had enough of her strength to adequately fight.

Vigilance was the first tenet of the militaristic mind, and she remained prepared to react to anything that her opponent would do upon her moving and arriving - she would still not make the first outright move, but being stood in the center of the arena as a challenge would likely ensure that she would not have to.