Irena was furious.
She wasn't that small, okay?!
There was clearly still a little there!
Irena was quite displeased.
Someone actually slandered her as "flat as a board"! What an outrage!
"Was it because something like that appeared that the Counter Force came into being?"
Reines pressed on curiously. Irena simply stopped looking at the Danmaku.
"The Counter Force only acts upon life born within a planet. If it is dealing with 'outsiders'... well, they may be 'similar,' but they are actually 'different,'" Lord El-Melloi II said. "The thing that confronts outsiders is often the planet itself, though that is subtly different from the Counter Force."
"If we're talking about something used to fend off external enemies, it should be the wielder of the Holy Sword and the Holy Sword itself. Those things can hardly unleash all their power against life within the planet, but against things from outside, they are absolutely very strong." Irena added.
"The wielder of the Holy Sword..."
Lord El-Melloi II suddenly recalled something rather delicate, and even his expression became awkward.
But the scene on the stage betrayed his thoughts.
Images of the Fourth Holy Grail War surfaced in Lord El-Melloi II's mind.
The sight of Iskandar's ox cart being blasted away by a single strike from a Holy Sword was still vivid in his memory...
"Wait, Irena, how do you know all this?" Lord El-Melloi II noticed the blind spot. "Could it be that such things... are common in other dimensions?"
"No. Everyone is very peaceful. If anything, it's mages whose values are the messed-up kind, right?" Irena took the opportunity to ruthlessly roast mages. Then she said, "I know about this because I have a few pen pals. They know about these things, so they occasionally mentioned them while we were chatting."
Irena