The four prosthetic arms sensed the danger and immediately stabbed into the stone floor to absorb the impact.
Fiore instantly understood the situation. In this state, she could no longer use her prosthetic arms to counterattack.
"Not good...!?"
Just then, the shadow of a beast suddenly entered her field of vision.
"What!?"
The Magic Bullet shattered the beast's forehead, ending its mission. Stunned for a moment, Fiore heard someone hiding behind a building say:
"Big sister, don't just stand there!"
"Ah, uh, okay!"
Fiore hurriedly got to her feet.
The prosthetic arms were already fully prepared to protect her. Acting on her command, they unleashed a barrage of light bullets to blast the car away.
Clicking his tongue, Shishigou once again ducked behind the car.
At the same time, he guessed the other party's identity from that earlier call.
"Big sister, big sister, big sister... Don't tell me you're Caules Holvein Yggdmillennia!?"
"That's right!"
A voice answered from behind the building. This was going to be troublesome, Shishigou thought. A magus had to create a one-on-one situation, or one even more favorable to himself, whenever possible.
Fighting two magi alone was an extremely foolish thing to do.
According to the personal information he had received before the war, this younger brother was far inferior to his sister in magecraft. Even so, knowing that did not make fighting two opponents alone any less foolish.
Poor magecraft did not mean the other party was bad at fighting.
Magi who would "do anything" to make up for their shortcomings in magecraft were even more troublesome.
Shishigou understood that principle very well. And this was no magecraft contest. It was war—a place where people killed each other. No matter how great one's advantage in magecraft was, death meant defeat.
"Come out! Why don't you