The reason Brunhild had not used the spear was simple.
(She still hasn’t started her true attack.)
Just before her feet landed back on the ground, a chill ran down her spine.
She could see two eyes accurately glaring at her beyond the dust.
(If I use my trump card here, I won’t be able to deal with her true attack when it
comes!!)
For the next few seconds, all sound disappeared.
The dust was split down the center. In a straight line from the center, something quickly
approached like an arrow. Brunhild realized that it was a human form and stabbed her
spear into the cracked ground. Earth’s gravity was just too weak so she could not wait to
land naturally. She used her weapon to forcibly stop her motion and then land on the
ground as if swinging her body around with the spear at the center.
That was when the attacker’s “true attack” came.
Its form was the sword.
[-]
Its meaning was death.
The attacker used the iai technique of slicing with the same motion as drawing the
sword. The trajectory of the blade naturally made a horizontal half circle. This trajectory
was corrected slightly upwards so that it accurately aimed for Brunhild’s neck.
Brunhild did not hesitate.
She had no reason to hold back any longer.
She grabbed the spear stuck in the ground with both hands and pulled it toward herself
like it was a giant lever. The principle of leverage caused the tip of the spear to be lifted
up from the ground scattering concrete fragments around as it did. The tip shot up
straight for the attacker.
The two weapons crossed paths.
A high pitched clang exploded out.
Brunhild’s spear accurately struck the attacker’s sword. Since the attacker’s sword was
making a horizontal half circle, the side of the blade was pointed down. Neither weapon
was destroyed and sparks flew out.
It was like a small scale explosion.
Brunhild and the attacker both drew back a few meters.
For those two, that distance might as well have been inches away. They could hit and kill
with any attack from that distance.
In that situation, even messing up the timing of one’s breathing could lead to death, but
Brunhild smiled.
“You certainly seem different from before.”
She adjusted her grip on the spear.
Unlike the claymore from before, Gungnir would not be destroyed. The spell in
Kanzaki’s blade, Yuisen, held the destructive power needed to cut down a monotheistic
angel, but Brunhild’s spear had been able to match it. That must have been because it
held the power of the strongest Norse god due to the Final Rune.
“I guess this was too much for a little lady like you.”
“Your fun has gone too far.” The attacker’s face, Kanzaki Kaori’s face, was expressionless.
“I will ensure that you atone for those sins.”
- Toaru Majutsu no Index Norse Mythology SS Chapter 8 Part 2