Please

"You… WHAT?!" 

Rinushka didn't even quite register what Ryu had just said at first. Her tongue was running faster than her mind, and she felt like she just had to give a generic witty reply back to make Ryu accept the battle. 

She was still a Dao Lord, but from what she could tell, Ryu's body had at least broken into the Dao Lord Realm as well. Although they were still mismatched, she had been wanting to teach this arrogant bastard a lesson for a long while. 

Back then, she was the one who had gone to save him from the entrapment of the Luminara Clan before dropping him off at the Beast Domain with the ten-year limit that Ailsa had given him. 

Of course, Ryu had ended up doing things in a much shorter time frame, but Rinushka hadn't been there for that, having entered seclusion to complete another task her master had given her.