Only now Cata realized how desperately outmatched he is. Shorter reach and less firepower and hitting weaker with weapons!? No thanks, gonna make all the effort in disarming that huge staff.
On the mouth he said "I don't hit exactly hit hard on the fists, so give up on the stupid weapon crossings and try me close!"
[The following grab attack was granted by Nathan]
He said it's just 'stupid weapon crossings' since he is confident he can parry the staff hit for hit. He's not wrong for now, but he needs to deal damage, and swinging isn't exactly great against stabbing in a range. As he swung his hammer into the tip and got some recoil so serious that it damaged his aura, he ran straight for Nathan again and broke out his semblance-three spikes spontaneously emerged from his aura, two for the eyes and one on the throat, while holding the hammer with another aura tube and having the head sliding to have the staff trapped in the right angle between the head and the handle-barrel again. Hopefully taking advantage of his instinctive eye-closing, Catalina got a grip again on Nathan's wrist, this time with both hands. Take that! came crashing down using the momentum at the same time and just before it hit his own hand, the hand covering his wrist moved revealing the his own repulsion crystal excited by the current! And the well timed hammerhead hit the crystal right at that time, making a point blank shock on Nathan's wrist artery. Which is protected by the aura thankfully, otherwise the hydrostatic shock is going to do some long term damage.
Surely the shock is going to make him drop the huge staff! Or so he thinks. He just hoped his opponent don't pull of something so good that it makes him on the receiving end of a 'rules of nature' moment.
(Sorry for the writing style, but none of them are autohits, obviously)
[Aura at 82%]
[Spikes each hits for 4%, but they're mostly a distraction. The Take that! is 8%, and the crystal probably clocks in at 10% at most, and did 7% to Catalina himself.]