“It will probably be hard to just start using it,” she replied. “Hold on, what did you just call him?” Oh crap. She’d realized that I never learned his name.

“Hardly something we should be discussing right now,” I said. We didn’t have the strength to take out Miyaji, his women, Armor, and Witch too. Ah. Then I remembered a certain skill.

I raised one hand, saw a skill in my mind, and then activated it.

“Formation One: Float Mirror. Formation Two: Float Mirror.” Two mirrors appeared, just like with Float Shield.

“Hah! There’s no way you can fight back!” Miyaji yelled. He appeared to only have one trick up his sleeve, as he proceeded to launch off more notes once again. They had different shapes and colors this time, so they were probably a different type of skill.

“Mr. Naofumi!” Raphtalia shouted.

“I’m fine. Defense is my job. Also, Raphtalia . . .” I started.

“Yes?” she replied. Then the floating mirrors adjusted their angle in the air to catch each note. The notes slipped inside the mirrors before being shot back directly at Miyaji.

“Uwah! Reflection?! You are joking! I’m not allowing such a cowardly attack!” Miyaji raged. So reflection was cowardly now, was it? Still, these mirrors could not only reflect magic—a property of Float Shield—but could also reflect skills. That was pretty convenient.

Time to put the boot in.

“Your magic is nullified and your skills reflected. Looks like we’ve got you on complete lockdown, Miyaji!” I crowed with a mocking look on my face as I taunted him. We were establishing a nice situation for countering Miyaji—a real textbook example of strategy.

“What did you just say?! Are you insinuating that I’m weak?!” he raged back.

“Yes. Itsuki and I could take you alone,” I told him. We would actually prefer to have an attacker help us as well, but if we could nullify everything he was doing, then we could probably subdue and capture him. If we defeated each of the attacks he unleashed, one at a time . . . Then I remembered why we were here. Our purpose was not to defeat the musical instrument vassal weapon holder—it was to rescue Kizuna. If we could just save her, we wouldn’t need to be here fighting in enemy territory. And there would be so much more we could do.

Chapter Twelve: A Falling Out

Chapter Twelve: A Falling Out

“Glass! Take Chris and go on ahead!” I said.

“But . . .” she started.

“Don’t forget what we are here to do! Get moving!” I repeated. The most frightening thing right now was having Kizuna be held hostage. That fact alone could turn the entire situation against us.

“Very well. Naofumi, I’ll leave the rest of this to you,” Glass said.

“Go get Kizuna back!” I told her.

“We will!” Glass said.