Kochou Kanae looked at Tetsu no Sosuke again.
Shinobu Kocho was almost speechless. So both key factors had come down to the same person? Older Sister, you're the one who kills demons!
"Tetsu no Sosuke shattered Upper Moon Two's weapon," Kochou Kanae said. "That was the second key factor. It didn't just surprise me. Upper Moon Two... was probably shocked too."
"I was shocked too." Hearing that, Shinobu Kocho couldn't help agreeing.
When Doma had charged at her, he had moved so fast that she could not possibly have defended herself.
Yet Tetsu no Sosuke had not only pulled her out of the path of that attack, but survived Doma's assault himself.
Though badly wounded, he had still managed to fight back.
Seriously, what had given him the nerve to swing a hammer at one of the Twelve Demon Moons?
For a Swordsmith, he was almost unbelievably formidable.
Even more frightening, he had actually smashed Upper Moon Two's weapon with that hammer, then swung it at his head.
Still, that did suggest one thing.
Was Upper Moon Two's head actually tougher than his weapon?
Otherwise, why had the hammer shattered his weapon but not his skull?
But if his head was tougher than his weapon, why could a Nichirin Blade cut through his neck when it hadn't broken his weapon?
Shinobu Kocho felt as if her head were full of mosquito coils. The more she thought about it, the more tangled it became. She couldn't make sense of it at all.
When she asked, Kochou Kanae couldn't come up with an answer either. In the end, she offered the only explanation that seemed remotely reasonable. "Maybe... because Tetsu no Sosuke is a Swordsmith?"
"...Huh?"
Did that count as an answer?
Because he was a Swordsmith, he knew weapons better?
Then