Nox gestures as the black keys fly towards his face, and a heartbeat before they connect, time stops. Ciel is frozen in place (but still conscious), and the swords float in the air a few inches from their target.

"If what you say is true, then this is a most fortuitous discovery... you alone could fully power the cube! This changes everything! Assuming, of course, that what you say is true..."

Nox plucks the swords out of the air one at a time, throwing them back towards Ciel. Each one slows to a temporal stop a few inches away from a different one of her vital organs, stopped from impaling her only by an unmoving tenth of a second.

Then, time resumes.