The white-haired man truly panicked a little and began chanting, "Telepor..."
But as if he had been cursed, he could not utter the spell!
Shirou smiled confidently. The enemy's magecraft could not be used. Victory was his!
But then came a clang—
The sound of metal colliding.
The white-haired man turned and punched the sword.
Magic☆Melly!
Shirou had once assumed this white-haired man was a Caster and thus should not have possessed any formidable close-combat ability, so he had confidently thrust out a killing blow.
But Shirou was wrong. He discovered that he had been wrong by quite a bit.
Not only was this man's magecraft exceptional, his close-combat ability seemed to surpass even his magecraft by a level.
If that sword strike came down, King Hassan might not die... most likely not, but even Heracles would have found it difficult to dodge and would have had to take it head-on.
Yet this Caster had not only blocked Shirou's strike with one punch, but the sword Shirou had projected even seemed on the verge of shattering.
Shirou was greatly alarmed and hurriedly reinforced Durandal, the sword said never to break. But the reinforcement was completely useless. The cracks became even more obvious. That punch had apparently not been a simple strike—it had analyzed Shirou's magecraft and found the sword's weakness.
He decisively abandoned the sword in his hand. A new sword appeared in his empty left hand as Kanshou was projected once more.
The shattered sword allowed that fierce punch to shoot toward Shirou's face without obstruction.
He raised his left hand slightly and pulled back his right, taking a small step backward as he decisively seized the flaw in that punch.
Combining his twin swords, Shirou slashed at the incoming arm.
With a single "Strengthen," the Magic Circuits on