Chapter 178: 15-year-old Inglis and the Two Leading Actresses (31)
「「…………」」
There was a slight pause as they looked at each other. The audience was also staring at Inglis and Yua on the stage. Inglis could feel their gazes full of anticipation, expecting to see something extraordinary.
Whatever happened next could be swept under the rug called stage effects, and the gallery was being protected by the barrier Principal Miliera erected using an Artifact too. And so, they didn’t need to worry too much and they could fight with their all. They just had to give the audience a show they anticipated.
「……Not coming?」
「Yes. I’m thinking to be on the receiving end once again.」
Yua’s entrance was extremely difficult to read and react to. Not only did she disappear from sight, but the ripple of mana in the wake of her magical phenomenon was also so abysmally little, making it difficult to detect her both visually and magically.
Inglis managed to react to her by crushing and scattering an ice sword that carried her mana, as well as cutting off her vision and focusing her senses to detect any movements in the ambient mana, but…
This time, she was trying to keep her eyes open. If Inglis’ own sensitivity to mana had improved compared to before, then she should be able to react to Yua. Recently, she had been practicing to grasp and understand the subtle flow of mana in nature along with the movement of Ether that hid deep within it, instead of just taking them as a matter of course.
She couldn’t do it without undoing her favorite training diet that she never failed to do, which was to apply a constant gravity pull to herself.