"You look a little disappointed!" Saegusa Mayumi said with a bright smile.
"No, you're seeing things."
"The match is about to start. Let's hurry to the venue."
Kudo Mitsunobu certainly couldn't admit to something like that, so he turned and walked straight out of the tent.
Monoball was a sport similar to tennis and short-court wallball, except there was no serve.
Each round lasted three minutes, with a three-minute break in between. Each match consisted of three rounds.
A launcher fired low-elasticity balls about six centimeters in diameter using compressed air. Players scored by hitting the balls into their opponents' court with a racket or a CAD before time ran out.
Normally, this should have been a sport where two players ran back and forth across the court, working up a sweat.
But in some ways, Monoball required a higher frequency of magic activation than Speed Shooting.
So nearly all the players chose to use acceleration magic with their rackets to hit the balls back into their opponents' court. That way, they could conserve their psions and avoid having to withdraw halfway through a match.
That was how things were supposed to be.
But now, Saegusa Mayumi stood in the middle of the court, holding a pistol-shaped CAD in one hand. Her opponent was using a CAD shaped like a double-barreled shotgun.
"A contest of psion reserves, huh!"
Kudo Mitsunobu murmured to himself, then immediately lost interest in the match.
If the girl were skilled in movement magic, she could at least put on an exciting match, even if she had no chance of winning.
But she had chosen to go head-to-head with Saegusa Mayumi in a contest of psion reserves. Kudo Mitsunobu could only conclude she'd lost her mind.
Who had given her the confidence to compete with the