How did Galfa make Maria temporarily lose her powers?


In episode 9 of _Maria the Virgin Witch_ , Maria temporarily lost her powers
after she was beaten by Galfa.

How did he make them go away for only a slight amount of time without taking
her virginity?




When I watched the anime long ago, I also had the same question and discussed
it in online forums. There were mainly 2 opinions regarding this.

First was that Galfa only beats her up and pretends to sexually assault Maria,
and combined with the smoke drug it makes Maria think that she has lost her
virginity, sort of like a mental block.

The second, more crude theory was that he actually did violate her, but
uhh..only with the finger of his artificial metal hand so it did not count as
losing her virginity.

I prefer to believe that it was the first.

