Reunion with much at Stake

Then, the stake, which had been flying around at an incredible speed, finally restrained itself and faced me.…

...In the air a few centimetres in front of my forehead, as it was held back by the defensive barrier from the scorpion charm.

It had tried to break the defensive barrier, eating into it with an incredible power, but Maria onee-chan's barrier wouldn't be broken so easily.

"...No good... I can't break it..." The stake muttered hatefully.

...You could probably say that I had been saved thanks to the scorpion charm.

Without that, my way of killing time until I got sleepy would have become a way to kill time for all eternity.

March 29, 2010, dA