"Are you kidding me?! No one said anyone had plant magic!" That said, Jingyi was playing dodging, slicing games, learning firsthand if any vines could sprout two new vine ends once severed, and making a distressed sound (of annoyance) when one vine with all its thorns slaps against his side and tears into his sarong.

"Oh come on, I just got this! I only have one outfit, can't you leave it alone!?"

All as he continued fighting against the vines, cutting them down where he could, dodging when too many came, and otherwise trying to buy Ryo and the young sali time.

Though a delayed thought rattles through his head, and he says, "Your Forever One might clear this guy's head! If we let him chase us there—"

Is not his best plan, but he yelps as another thin vine whips at him and scores across his arm with its pronounced thorns, Jingyi moving with it's momentum and catching around it with his arm, switching his sword to his offhand to bring it up and slice through the plant matter with a smooth motion. The thorns are lodged enough in his arm he doesn't get a chance to immediately tear it off him before he's fending off another two vines in tandem, slamming a third aside with his tail, which the vines seem to slide off his scales and only catch in the blue fur of his mane and tailtuft.