If something didn’t change, it would scatter the 200 smaller explosives and an area of the city with a radius of 3 kilometers around the palace would truly be blown away.

And then…

“To zero!!”

A new voice reached Villian’s ears from a distance.

Immediately afterwards, the cruise missile malfunctioned instead of scattering the smaller explosives in every direction. Even when it reached the designated point, the missile’s outer shell did not open, the flame propelling it from the back disappeared, and it fell to a road outside the palace grounds like a wild pitch.

The cruise missile had to have weighed quite a bit, but it rolled while bouncing multiple times instead of piercing into the road.

It was an unnatural scene almost as if all of the attack power it had as a weapon had been stripped from it.

As the third princess stared blankly, the sharp sound of the air being sliced reached her ears.

It was the sound of a piece of dimensional wreckage created by Curtana Original.

Carissa had kicked the 3 meter long sharp stake. It came roaring directly towards Villian’s face, but it did not hit her.

Knight Leader had suddenly cut in from the side and punched the 3 meter stake away with his right fist.

With a loud impact, blood shot from between his fingers.

But Knight Leader’s expression did not change.

He merely looked down at his fist.

“…It seems that it truly does not work on Curtana Original or the phenomena
derived from its powers.”

“Knight Leader…?” called Villian in a shaking voice, but he did not turn in her direction.

A great number of knights had appeared along with him and he spoke without looking at Villian.

“I will accept my punishment. Once this coup d’etat is over, you may decapitate me if you wish.”

He spoke those words with no hesitation.
- To Aru Majutsu no Index Vol 18