To distract myself, [ after that moment in the teahouse with Ayaka and on, ] I put a message out asking for sparring sessions.

[ Yeah and how did that work out for you Cloud. Occasionally, his gaze flits from the girl around his arm, to the various stalls and the guiding light of the lanterns that illuminate their way. As they move farther and farther away from the stalls, the idle conversations between couples and other festivalgoers alike slipping into the background, there's less stimulation to distract him when he asks her, ]

Would you be up for sparring with me? Can't get too complacent, even here.

[ That, and he wants to see more of her Kamisato Art Tachi Jutsu. Even if they discarded their actual weapons and stuck to more traditional bokken. ]