When Mitsurugi reveals himself as Lancer, the Dragon of Swords, who can turn anyone into a sword that he can then wield, it’s clear Shiki AKA Larva-dono is up against one of his toughest foes. I say “one of” because Shiki has trained with three individuals stronger than Lancer: Mio, Tomoe, and Makoto. However many tricks Lancer has up his sleeve doesn’t matter.
For Shiki, this isn’t just about following orders and protecting Hibiki. It’s a matter of pride. He’s not about to fall to someone like Lancer after the training he was privileged to receive. He may be the weakest of Makoto’s three main followers, but he’s no slouch, as evidenced when he summons the legendary poison dragon-slaying sword Ascalon.
Lancer actually puts up enough of a fight that Shiki has to use a bit of subterfuge in order to defeat him. “Larva” was only ever a decoy Shiki was using to fight him. He then uses his Larva form to distract Lancer into thinking he’s defeated him, only for the real Shiki (in Hyuman form) to slice Lancer clean in two. After that Shiki heals Woody and accepts Hibiki and her party’s vow to repay him and his master someday.
As for his master, Sofia Bulga is also one of the toughest opponents Makoto has ever faced. That much is clear when she inherits Lancer’s power as the result of a bet they made: If she had died first, she’d have become his sword, and he probably could have beaten Shiki with it. She transports herself and Makoto to a “Separate Space”—the Prison of Swords.
But while Sofia thinks she has her foe right where she wants him, Makoto uses his Investigative Kai to immediately assess the situation, and finds her whole enterprise rather normal and dull. He then reveals he’s neither warrior nor mage, but a kyudoka, or practitioner of traditional Japanese archery. With his arrows, he destroys huge swaths of Sofia’s inventory of inherited swords, each of them once a great warrior.
Even when Sofia locates a Japanese katana that proves more powerful than any of her other swords, Makoto doesn’t allow her to hope she has any chance of victory for more than a moment or two. He switches archery style from kyuudou to a fantasy style, using his mana matter to create a great stair which he ascends faster than Sofia can react. He shoots her with one arrow, then another, and shatters her Separate Space.
Once that happens, we don’t see Sofia again, and I assume she’s no more. She put up a good fight, but like Lancer against Shiki, she was destined to be boatraced. Mind you, that doesn’t take away from the entertainment value o watching both Shiki and Makoto at their best, which was brought out by their opponents.
After Makoto somewhat nonchalantly destroys the newly-evacuated Fort Stella with one shot from a vantage point a few thousand feet in the air, he allows himself to fall—something he’s grown used to by now—and lands right near Shiki. He’s told about the debt Hibiki and her party promised to repay, and Makoto admits she knows Hibiki, but they can discuss it later.
Suffice it to say, Makoto is glad to have completed the task the Goddess gave him, and believes Limia will be just fine with Hibiki as their hero. All that’s left is to head home to the Demiplane, where Tomoe and Mio are surely awaiting their return.
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