Yet Kirihara did this in seconds. Shinkiro's chest opened up, and its prism extended out. "No place to run," Kirihara warned. "And no place to hide! The Diffusion Wave Transition Cannon is the ultimate mode of attack!"

A beam of light shot out of Shinkiro directly into the prism at just the right moment and just the right angle. If Kirihara's calculations were correct - and they were - then the prism would scatter the destructive laser in such a way that it would surely strike every shadow, every location in this mall that Lelouch could be hiding, with no possibility for escape.

Just as Kirihara fired, Gawain became visible. Ah, so the Prince could see the futility in hiding from the inevitable? The Prince's voice came through, and his breathing was ragged. Keeping the large Knightmare invisible must have been quite difficult for him.

"Then can that spear..." Lelouch said. "Pierce... That shield?"

The laser firing towards Lelouch's position illuminated him - and in the process also revealed the glass statue he had been hiding behind. "Wh-what is this?!" Kirihara yelled. He watched the statue scatter the light further, and saw reflective surfaces appear that had not been there before. These were variables he had not yet considered in his calculation! Including them, Kirihara traced the new paths his laser attack would take: Like this, they would miss Lelouch and reflect back towards -

So that was what Lelouch meant! According to Chinese legend, there was once a merchant, who claimed that a spear that he sold could pierce anything, at the same time attempting to sell a shield that he claimed could block any attack. In response to this, he was asked what would occur if the spear were to be turned against that shield. From this, the Chinese word for contradiction was born: Mao dun, spear and shield.

"So you're putting it to the test in the modern era, Lelouch?" Kirihara asked. His fingers moved quickly across the druid system built into Shinkiro even as the lasers struck the mirrors, rebounding off each of them until they all came back towards him. "Unfortunately for you, it will soon be made apparent that the merchant's shield was the superior product."

The Absolute Defense field was aptly named. With the proper input it could survive anything. Anything at all! There was yet to be a weapon on earth that could pierce it, and its own Diffusion Structure Phase Transition Cannon was far from enough to get the job done. Lasers struck from seemingly all angles, reflected back towards the Knightmare that had fired them. Yet to no avail. None of them could pierce the force field surrounding it, as it perfectly counteracted every single one of them. When the last laser dissipated Shinkiro dropped the field and immediately descended towards Gawain's position.

-Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion Chapter 49