Joshua sighed and held out his blade as the needles fell towards him
"Tsukiakari no Arīna" he said, causing a ring of runes representing a full lunar cycle to issue forth and stop a few feet around him and mizuko. the effect the runes was slow but it had some effect right away on Mizuko's attacks as they started dissipating from the area contained in them. The needles became blunt and their only effect then was to rain down on Joshua. The dragon still barreled towards him but Joshua reacted calmly, putting the hilt of his sword on it's sheathe, which had changed to match the hilt directly. Doing so caused the two to connect, giving him a bladed spear weapon, which he then used to slash the dragon, dissipating more of the reiryoku in it and causing it to him him at a much weaker state. when he spotted the whirlwind heading his way he called up a wall of lunar runes to block. When Mizuko cast her specail kido he did nothing. true it was coler then it usualy was because it was wet but that didn't matter much to him. Mizuko had sealed her fate as far as he was concerned. She couldn't use these moves much longer.
The arena would slowly build up it's dissipation power in the area. Unless Mizuko finished him off soon (in one post exactly), Joshua estimated the Arena would be powerful enough to disspiate any reiroku she was using to the point she would lose the ability to use kido, hoho, and her shikai technique. This also ment her mist, which was held in place and brought forth by reiryoku, would vanish. Joshua would be effected too of course, but he would last a bit longer. Either way, he wasn't that concerned. He still had two aces up his sleeve
"So little miss" he said, looking around"what are you gonna do now? At your level it might be a bit predictable, so please try and entertain me"