Blades collided.
Spells slammed head-on.
Another renowned dueling Witch of the European Continent fell before Lin Zhaojun. Her opponent's snapped blade flew toward the production crew's tent, buzzing as it shot in and stabbed into the temporary wooden flooring with a thudding, rattling sound.
Takeuchi Hina, the production crew's supervising producer, did not complain. Instead, she looked at the broken blade on the ground with a hint of delight. With a swish, she opened the court noble fan favored by Eastern Witches, then swiftly snapped it shut with a Pah! that drowned out the surrounding noise. She pointed the closed fan toward the broken blade from afar.
"That's it! That's exactly it!" she cried repeatedly.
"Props team, go get some more weapons. Break them and stick them into the floor! And use two evocation spells to blow up that wall!" she commanded in rapid succession.
A whirlwind of renovation work began, while the program director, entirely unaffected, continued explaining the topic to the idol Witches:
"Today's debate concerns the response to the Anse Elves' deception of Witches—whether Olivia's response qualified as a 'just war.' I want you to explain it from different angles."
"Different angles?" idol Witch Dolores asked curiously.
"Debate." The director widened her eyes and gave a snort rather like a cat. "Things like 'Olivia went to war too early,' or 'Olivia wasn't prepared enough'—debate those points."
"But... there isn't really any point in debating those things..." Dolores said.
"Having no point is precisely the greatest point." The director's tone turned grave. "The main purpose of our program is to [legitimize] and [verify] the justice of Olivia's destruction of the Anse Elves—that is, to establish that this was a 'just war'... And nothing can prove 'this was a just war' better than [a debate built upon the premise