Masami wrote:"Surely, you don't lust for blood... what a useless kid," was the last thing Masami said when he tilted his head, and then dashed forward to face Tomoe with his palms touching each other, closing a distance of 5-meters at most, and then casting a spell when he whispered: "Your goddess doesn't exist," a magic circle appeared in front of the mask's eyes, immediately afterwards: the same would appear in front of the mask's mouth this time, releasing a quick jet of flame—those two spells were casted without the need of any spell motion.
The Meteor Shot would have released and shot forward at 30 m/s, due to Rama's Bow increasing the speed of its shots to 30 m/s instead of 20 m/s, from a 5 meter distance from Masami, at the same time as the flames had begun to touch Tomoe, him standing there and taking the hit to his armor in order to blast Masami with the shot. With the speed difference, the flames hitting Tomoe and the Meteor Shot hitting Masami would impact at around the same time, with Masami's flames being cast slightly earlier but Tomoe's arrow being far faster, as can be seen and acknowledged without debate here:
Tomoe Tanaka wrote:Instead of bothering to dodge either of these, Tomoe would shoot at Masami instead, an arrow fired just as the stream of flames would just start to reach him, attempting to match the boy blow for blow.
Masami wrote:Through the mask, Masami kept his eyes opened; if Tomoe decides to dodge or to distance himself like what had previously happened to the foxfire spells, then Masami would chase his opponents' direction(s) and maintain the 5-meter distance; he will be able to turn in all directions without falling off of his platform, even for the means of somersaulting. However, if the opponent decides to fight back to counter the spell with another, then Masami would release his palms from one another to cast a shield that he was preparing a few seconds ago, in which would be stationed 2-meters away from Masami, and then fly backwards to create at most a 15-meter distance from Tomoe, ready to dodge any attacking attempt in flight
In Masami's list of responses for measures he would take on actions, it's stated that if Tomoe were to retaliate with another spell, Masami would cast a shield in response. Thus, following this train of thought, Masami would have attempted to cast a shield rather than smirk, but would have been too late; as again, the range of the two combatants is five meters apart at this point, with the arrow moving at 30 m/s. The arrow was fired at Masami nearly at the same time as the mask's flame spell, but the arrow would reach Masami in 0.16 seconds, which is not enough time to react by casting anything in response, especially not something it was stated he would be ready to cast.
Masami wrote:Let's do it... Masami!
With a smirk across Masami's face, hidden behind the demon mask, Masami would continue charging towards Tomoe despite the arrow being launched at him.
In order for this action to take place, Masami would need to recognize that the arrow has been fired, think to himself that it's time to activate the Reverse spell
rather than the defensive spell that was stated he would prepare in response to this scenario,
Masami wrote:However, if the opponent decides to fight back to counter the spell with another, then Masami would release his palms from one another to cast a shield
and then activate it, acknowledging that an arrow has been fired towards him, thus implying this all happened
after the arrow had been fired. To react quickly enough to realize that an arrow is moving towards him at 30 m/s from a 5 meter range, he would need to realize that a projectile is moving towards him, realize that he wouldn't have time to use his defensive spell the way he was planning to do as his natural response to a spell delivered in retaliation of his mask's flames, and then also have the natural reaction of smirking in the face of something so fast as to be unable to be reacted to normally in such a short span of time, instead of a more natural response to something moving at him so quickly like flinching away or attempting to evade, all in the span of 0.16 seconds of time before impact.
And all while he was prepared to cast a defensive spell using his hands, instead of his Reverse spell, which again would've required the three step process of realizing that an arrow was now right at his face pretty much instantly, acknowledging that he wouldn't have enough time to cast a barrier, and then realizing he'd need to use his Reverse spell and smirk to activate it while moving forward.
All of this, and I'll say that Masami would be hit by the Meteor Shot spell and Reverse would have been too late. It was shot faster than any other arrow or spell he would've seen or expected, and he had no time to react and change his plan of casting a defensive spell the way it was stated he would. 0.16 seconds is a
very brief sliver of time to do anything in, really.