As for the other one, although Asagami Fujino had caught him off guard just now, once Araya Souren was prepared, he no longer feared her.
"Fujino! What are you doing? Why are you just standing there watching?" Shiki whispered angrily at her companion as she struggled.
"I am attacking, I am! But why... Why isn't it working...?"
Asagami Fujino widened her eyes, which shimmered with an alluring light. She was even more flustered than Shiki herself, cold sweat trickling down her beautiful face.
"It's useless. In the end, Mystic Eyes are only a form of magecraft activated through 'seeing.'"
Araya Souren spoke calmly.
"Your ability can only be activated from a distance. Up close, it poses no threat--
Now that I know how it works and how you fight, there are countless ways to deal with it."
Araya Souren was the strongest Barrier Master in the world, while Asagami Fujino was an ordinary high school girl with barely any knowledge of magecraft.
For him, creating a barrier that could deceive ordinary people was as easy as breathing.
In simple terms, it was similar to a mirage.
From Asagami Fujino's perspective, she might have set a point of rotation on Araya Souren's body, but in reality, she had been deceived by the illusion created by the barrier and had set up and activated it somewhere several kilometers away.
Naturally, such an attack could not affect Araya Souren himself.
"Tch...!"
Ryougi Shiki clenched her teeth and glared at Araya Souren as he continued closing in on her.
A chill crept up the girl's back.
The enemy before me is an out-and-out monster. Can Fujino and I really defeat him?
She shook her head, casting aside her distracting thoughts.
Gathering all her strength in her right hand, she threw the knife toward Araya