Artist's commentary
NT10 151
Round 4 in NT10: Kamijou Touma vs. Kanzaki Kaori, Acqua of the Back, Princess Carissa, and Knight Leader. Singlehandedly one of the most hilarious chapters in the volume, it just shows that though Touma has no way of winning against a Saint, he needs only not to lose. This scene is where Touma manipulates Kaori's good nature to do his bidding, saving him from being manhandled by the powerful swordsmen that he has never beaten, alone anyway.
This was kind of difficult to do though, specifically the background as I have never done a bird's eye view of anything that is remotely decent to look at. Tried searching what an aeril city in Europe looks like in the snow and I found the city of Tromso, Norway, which has an eerie resemblance to the background used in the illustration. It was a pain in the ass, but I guess here I'm just mimicking the artist's background style though this one has more variety in colors as I am incapable of his lighting using a single hue, if I'm using that term correctly. In the end I just shoved that thing to sharpen then put some blue over it. The characters were easy to do since there is so little of them here. Anyone notice that Kaori has both her sleeves even here?