"But it doesn't even snap. First of all, I didn't realize the ambush existed because I wasn't ready. But still, if we could have deployed a different space defense to cover ourselves up, that would have prevented it. But you couldn't do it either. You're halfway through everything anyway."
"... wait a minute. So you're saying that Carla's cross-space defensive magic was really fully deployed?
"Naturally. Three hundred and sixty degrees, you can deploy without a minute's gap."
"... is that true? He just said he was moving different spaces according to my movements..."
"Then consciousness will be biased against defense. But if we can deploy it fully, we can also break consciousness into attack. That would be almost invincible."
"Was Carla originally capable of cross-space defensive magic?
"No, not since we were flown into different spaces. That made it possible to understand something like the concept in the first place of different spaces. No, I didn't find out with my head. It feels like you got it in your body."
"Oh, I know that well, too. While wandering through different spaces, I feel like I've learned something from my body."
"Right. But the difference between me and you is that I spared no effort there to get a full sense of it, whereas you somehow understood it and spent it without any further effort."
Then Gaius pulled his cheeks again.
"Really, a guy named you, if there's a gap, let's skip it..."
"... no, well, he's certainly not that diligent, but he's just like such a savory demon..."