Reinhard: “Excuse me.”
Grasping the ice spear, he drew his wrist back to aim Regulus, and let the missile fly.
The spear flew true—― however, it was not the sharp tip that had been pointed at Regulus. As it turned to its side, its shaft scored a direct hit. But what had happened, was that when the shaft of the spear crashed against Regulus, it fell straight into the waterway, broken into two.
Emilia: “What is the meaning of this…?”
Subaru: “I see… I get it, Reinhard.”
Seeing the state of the broken spear, Emilia tilted her head in confusion. From beside her, Subaru grasped the meaning behind why Reinhard had done this, shuddering at its outcome.
Hearing Subaru’s acknowledgement, Reinhard nodded and said,
Reinhard: “Emilia-sama, did you see what happened to the spear upon hitting him?”
Emilia: “It broke, right? A spear of ice is different from a real one, so it’s natural for it to have broken in two after it struck with that sort of force…”
Reinhard: “Not quite, the spear did not break. The part of the spear that hit him is missing. The part that hit him is missing, separated. The spear was broken not into two, but three.”
Reinhard’s explanation served as an answer to what had happened to the spear and with the water dragon.
Neither object, upon contact with Regulus, had managed to penetrate his body. With an ordinary barrier, the collision would have caused a projectile to bounce off or shatter from the impact, but neither had happened. Regulus’s body literally rejected anything that collided with it. - Arc 5 Chapter 50