“Zero Formation: Reverse Snow Moon Flower!” Glass shouted. Next Glass unleashed one of the skills she was most proficient with, sweeping away the women who were closing in to counterattack. Then she and Raphtalia dropped back to my position.

“Thank you for calling in Chris. I might have some comments about what has happened to him later, but for now, you have my gratitude,” she told me.

“Mr. Naofumi! The mirror vassal weapon is lending you its power! How great is that?” Raphtalia said.

“Pretty great,” I replied. “Can you tell me the power-up method to draw out the power of this weapon?” I asked her. There was a power-up method she had learned from Kizuna, but I hadn’t asked for the details. I vaguely remembered it being something like getting stronger if you were using the same weapons. Glass’s method was for her weapon to absorb the magic leaking out from opponents during battle. In any case, if we didn’t have a quick way to power up right now, we would lose purely on the basis of raw stats.

“Do you think I have time for that now?!” Raphtalia exclaimed in response. Miyaji was firing notes at me again. He really knew how to pick his moments!

“Formation Two: Glass Shield!” I shouted. Just before the notes appeared, I made my own glass shield appear right in front of Miyaji’s eyes. It could be used exactly like Air Strike Shield, so I was proficient with it already. It also didn’t require Change Shield, so that made it one beat faster.

“Shit!” Miyaji shouted, even as the glass shattered and flew at him. Even Miyaji didn’t have time to avoid that one, and the glass stabbed into him—but maybe due to the difference in our levels, it didn’t look like he took any damage.

“Why must evil always thrive?! Taste the hammer of justice!” Armor raged.

“Raph!” said Raph-chan, activating magic of some kind.

“I don’t plan on letting you do that again,” Glass followed up, parrying the attack using her fan. His strikes were too powerful to take head-on, so she had adjusted by sweeping them to the side.

“Curse you, Shield Demon King! Only a coward would resort to illusions!” Miyaji bellowed. He had also been hit by Raph-chan’s illusions and looked completely disoriented. This looked like our chance to take him down.

“What the hell are you letting them do to you?!” Witch raged at him. She hadn’t done enough to warrant complaining about anyone else, surely. Her magic spells had just been nullified one after the other.

“What was that?! If you have a problem with how I’m handling things, put some pressure on the shield demon king yourself!” Armor shouted back.