Quote Originally Posted by RyougaZell View Post
At first I raged at Touma not moving to help Tsuchimikado, but then we saw it would have been useless. Though I find very interesting that he wasn't able to break that spell.
He wasn't also able to dispel the fire element Stiyl summoned because it was continuously regenerated by the talismans. Or the automatic counterspell that plagued Stiyl in the previous ep whenever he tried to use his magic. I'd guess it was a similar issue here. Destroying the piece of paper might have made the difference, perhaps.