“What!? Could this sword be...!?”
“Good job, Clan!!”
Koutarou wasn't affected by the memory loss. The indigo light dispersed as it contacted the sword, and it didn't reach him. While Maya was surprised by that, Koutarou launched repeated attacks. Since the top of his sword had struck the scythe on his first attack, he twisted his body to use the momentum to launch the grip at Maya's side.
“Quick Cast – Force Field!!”
However, Maya created a shield to block Koutarou's strike. Seeing that, he jumped out of Maya's range.
Maya sent swung her scythe towards Koutarou's back, but the first blow had knocked her off balance and her attack didn't reach him.
“Good, I can fight like this!”
After distancing himself, Koutarou readied his sword again. Maya did the same with her scythe. However, she had an amazed expression on her face.
“I am surprised. Just what is with that sword?”
Maya had at first thought that Koutarou's sword was a capable of extending and retracting like a policeman's baton since it wasn't emitting any magic power. If it had, she would have imagined that it was a blade created from magic like her own. However, since she couldn't sense any magic power from it, it was only obvious for her to assume it was a product of modern science. So she believed it was an extendable weapon, and since it was glowing, she assumed that electricity was running through it.
However, that wasn't the case. If it had been a product of modern science, her spell should still have activated. But since it hadn't, it meant that the sword didn't have a physical form. Since the grip and blade weren't connected, energy wouldn't transmit between them. But since she couldn't sense any magic power from the blade, that was impossible. Maya was well aware that the modern science on Earth couldn't create material without physical form. Despite that, an example of such was right in front of her. It was an unbelievable situation for Maya.
This result had been brought forth because of Clan's recommendation. When she had heard that strange things happened when Koutarou touched the scythe, she had recommended the beam sword to him. The beam sword behaved very similar to a beam cannon fired at point blank range. It was just high density energy given the form of a blade. That's why the blade and grip weren't strictly connected. Clan suspected that even if the blade connected with the scythe, nothing strange would happen.
“You are full of surprises... Isn't that sword just cheating?”
Not even a magician like Maya would imagine that it was a weapon created by aliens.
Maybe it's a blade created out of force fields designed so that it wouldn't leak magic power? But can magic power really be this thoroughly erased? And is there are a merit for doing so? Or could it be that... the underground people gave him one of their weapons?
Maya tried to come up with a solution within her own range of common sense, which ended up taking her further away from the truth.
“You're telling me that? That scythe of yours is nothing but cheats”
“I guess it means that we know nothing about each other then!!”
“That's right!!”
The two had only stopped for a moment. Knowing that thinking about it wouldn't get them any answers, they decided to focus on the fight at hand. Their top priority was to defeat the enemy in front of them.
Koutarou's sword and Maya's scythe clashed repeatedly. For each time their weapons formed from energy clashed, a huge flash was produced.
“It's been awhile since I've fought someone that could keep up with me in this state!”