He swiftly glanced back at Yuki. Hugging the camcorder, Yuki gave Jiu Ming a slight nod, immediately putting him much more at ease. Mm, with the world's second-strongest girl here, there definitely wouldn't be a problem. Then he would block it.
As he turned back, Jiu Ming seemed to see Yuki murmuring something...
Clink~
Amid Haruhi and the others' astonishment, Jiu Ming's empty hand somehow stopped that beam of light as thick as a water vat out of thin air.
"I mean, shouldn't he be holding something in that hand...?"
"Isn't that obvious? You can see it already!" Haruhi stared fixedly at Jiu Ming. The transparent longsword in his hand had begun to reveal its original form after drawing in energy.
Eh, eh, eh!? This wasn't taking much effort at all!
Jiu Ming, who had been prepared to withstand an overwhelming impact, thought in astonishment. Blocking the blow was indeed strenuous, but it had not reached the point where he could no longer resist it. He even had time to turn around and give Yuki and the others a baffled look.
If he was right, did this have something to do with her earlier whispering? Had she slapped some kind of buff on him?
Mm, if he was seeing correctly, the three fingers Yuki currently held up meant she was counting down, right?
By the time Jiu Ming looked back at her, one of Yuki's three raised fingers had already lowered, leaving two. In other words... there was a two-second time limit left? Just deflect it aside.
Having had part of its power absorbed by Jiu Ming, the magic cannon had shrunk considerably as it was refracted in another direction. Yuki promptly lowered her raised hand. This was exploiting a loophole. They faced all sorts of restrictions in this world,