User blog comment:B214/General discussion/@comment-27180505-20151226021459/@comment-24742995-20160125175916

Kuraudo late reappeared becoming a dual wielder, trained from the Last Samurai, and was able to use Ten'i Muhou to a level that even Ikki admitted that he couldn't do.

There are rematches with former opponents with Ikki. although they're only sparring matches, Ikki still had somewhat of a difficult time against them. Ikki was in fact being pushed back by Tohka in a spar, but was able to prevent her from using Raikiri by kicking a piece of stone to her sheath(completely fooling her reverse sight in the process) and slicing her throat while she is in shock(device is set to illusionary form so no injuries).

Ikki also had an intense spar with Ouma in volume 9, even though Ouma lost to Stella pretty badly before.