Even with incredibly sharp instincts, it should have been impossible to react in that kind of split-second situation.
Shirou said it with a serious expression, though his words sounded almost like a joke.
"Hmm, I've killed shadow-like monsters as tall as mountains and as numerous as the sea.
Those things were distinctly different from the shadow monster just now, so I was able to sense that something was wrong. The true body was something else."
Even if the boy claimed it had merely been a lucky coincidence, Shuze Ritsuka couldn't see it that way.
What Shirou had displayed just now wasn't merely keen eyesight. Even the sword he had casually swung possessed a level that surpassed human understanding.
Shuze Ritsuka couldn't help wondering about that flash of light just now...
If it had been the senior apprentice of the Aozaki Sisters—the man who had killed the True Magic User—could he have made a slash like that?
Shirou and the others had been distracted by the trap, so they hadn't noticed.
But besides them, another person had been there and witnessed everything—
The woman who had come to catch up with an old friend, the woman who had set the trap at the entrance.
"That time in the forest, and the time at the amusement park... This is the third time already. Could it be that she has a grudge against me?"
The red-haired Female Magus standing in the parking lot beneath the apartment building, Touko Aozaki, wore a sly and dangerous smile.
"Whatever. I may as well go over and say hello."
Volume Two, Chapter 132: "Woman Trouble EX" is still going strong!
Even without relying on the inherent properties of the Enma-Blade, the slash Shirou had unleashed could be called divine.
The metal bird-shaped familiar that had been cut