The art of ribbon dancing truly wasn't an easy thing to learn, one had to have quite a bit of stamina to pull it off perfectly. Not to mention she had been learning how to use a ribbon in a defensive manner. The art of using it to strike hard enough to cause injury, but not to kill. Hell she had even managed to snag away the weapons of those that she had been training with.
Markus was one of those generals, much like Lo-Wen who never seemed to struggle with keeping up with an enemy. Also seeming to know what move that they were going to make before they made it. But right now, it was obvious that he was struggling to keep up with Akiza.