Fateful Reunion

Himiko would start to feel the sweat building up on her own forehead as she looked deeply into Claudia's eyes, neither of them moving each other an inch, as their strong and fit bodies were pushing it to the limit, trying to overcome the other's physical might.

However, it wasn't something that Himiko was planning on losing. As the crowd grew between them, Himiko would find herself smiling as she would hear Claudia's words. " Neither have you. Yet....I'm still stronger." The pink haired woman let out as she would try and dig deeper and try to slowly start overcoming Claudia trying to battle to start forcing Claudia's arm down against the table.

With eyes on them or with eyes averted, Claudia was always looking for a chance to prove her superiority over her rival as she continued to push against Himiko's hand. Her teeth continued to grit and grind as she placed all of her strength in her hand, looking for that slight advantage. But Himiko would get the first lead as she began to push Claudia's hand down to the table, slowly but it was noticeable to the blond as her eyes widened.

But her smirk did not lose a step as she continued to push, trying to battle back against Himiko's advantage. "Not...strong...enough!" she let out as she pushed up against the hand, trying to shift the scales in her favor!

It was the pink haired fox that managed to gain the first advantage against her blond rival as she began to slowly push that hand down, feeling how their arms shook and struggled against each other with Himiko slowly winning out over her rival.

Yet, with Claudia's words, the blond began to push back! She slowly forced her way up from that half-way point and back to a neutral position as the pink haired woman would scowl a bit, growling out in frustration she would try and intensify her pushing. " W-weak!...." Himiko let out through a strained voice as she would attempt to force Claudia's arm back down again.

Surging up with her hand, Claudia managed to gain back the lost distance up to the halfway point as she smiled at her scowling rival! "Not that easy, Himi!" she screamed out as she tightened her hand on the table for more leverage. She knew that Himiko would try and force her hand back down onto the table, tightening her grip and planting her elbow on the table to try and prevent that from happening. Growling out, she had to use everything to stop that from happening as more sweat started to drip from her forehead.

It took a lot, straining to keep Himiko from winning as the crowd was getting more and more interested in seeing who would come out on top over the other. Her arm was shaking from how much she was putting out to stop Himiko's hand from winning as she tried to do the same onto her rival!

Gritting her teeth as she would narrow her eyes and lean a bit forward as she held herself against her rival, the two of them had their stance against one another, as they held themselves against one another. Sweat dripped off of chin of Himiko which had trailed down from her forehead.

" Never claimed beating you was easy." Himiko smirked as the two of them continued to strain against each other, her arm shaking quite a bit. Though, shortly enough she would start to lean a bit to the side, trying to lean into her pushing just a little to try and take Claudia down.

Claudia growled out as she tried to fend off Himiko but the added leverage of Himiko's body placed too much pressure for her to keep her stability as she started to lose her ground, slowly being pushed back towards the table. "Grrrrrr.....! No!" she let out, trying to fight back against Himiko as she arched her head back, her features straining with exertion as she found herself being forced back again as more sweat perspired from her body.

She shook her head, she wasn't going to lose after so long as her hand neared the table, stopping a few inches from losing as she growled. Tucking in her head and strengthening her body, she pushed into the hand to try and force Himiko's hand back past the halfway point!

Himiko started to win out against her blond rival as she continued to push against Claudia, pushing that arm down further and further with each passing second. She would feel how Claudia tried to push everything into it, leaning forward with her head.

The pink haired woman would strain and close her eyes, pushing and forcing herself to push further against Claudia, should her Italian rival keep trying to push against her in this weakened position then Himiko aimed to try and force Claudia's arm down against the table.

Claudia continued to push, her hand continuing to shake against Himiko's as she continued to push, Himiko's hand refusing to budge. But Claudia was not going to give up, she had never given up against Himiko in the face of such opposition and she wasn't going to start more as she continued to push into that hand of her rival.

She would let out a roar as she pushed all that she could into the hand, refusing to go down any further as she tried to use all she could to come back from this disadvantageous spot and flip the script over on Himiko!

The two of them as always were evenly matched but it was Himiko who was in the better position now, despite that the blond was fighting against her valiantly, as she continued to push upwards, roaring out as she would start to force Himiko's arm up little by little, getting closer towards that neutral position.

Himiko would however, do the same! Roaring out the fox would try and bring Claudia's arm down with all her might, trying to slam that hand down against the table!

Claudia's body lurched as the additional force of Himiko's hand came crashing down right as she was about to make it to the halfway point, stopping her advance in her tracks as she locked her entire body to try and combat the movement of Himiko's hand. Sweat flew off of her body as she thrust her chest forward to gain the momentum she needed to fight against Himiko's push. It was difficult, her arm was beginning to burn from holding back the powerful arm of Himiko's.

Panting now, she would lose a few inches as she was getting pushed back, all of her progress being negated as she got closer and closer to the table!