Kabuto is noticeably faster now, quickly raising his weapon, now taking the form of a knife, to parry her sword strike. Despite still being fundamentally an armoured hero even in this slimmer form, there's no reason to take a blade to the gut.

"In fact, using Clock Up against ordinary opponents feels like cheating, but... Clock Up." He could be here beating a brick wall for a long time like this, and nobody wants that. It's either this, or Hyper Mode, and Hyper Mode would be even more like cheating. So he taps a button on the side of his belt.

And the world stops moving.

At least from his point of view. To call everyone else moving in slow motion would be gracious. Loosed arrows hang still in the air. Borderlines drawn crawl upwards like he's watching grass grow.

It's a level of speed that should be impossible for her to match, and it should be easy for him to strike her in the side with a fierce elbow, and to seem to appear behind her long in an instant.