Martyr - yes, it was her name- was mentoring you again in her traditional minka house. She did a series of quite wild sword moves with her katana on a dummy, and a really fast spinning finisher move. Before giving you a training sword, and motioning you to go up next.

...you did quite poor, but i guess she wasn't expecting anything to change, you had always really struggled with katana fighting. Which was why she, the best katana fighter there, had been training you.

She sighed...

"No, no, thats-...agh, just take a break..."