The duo of Jasmine and Johnson of the Australian army moved independently, without waiting for the result of the division approaching the sea. They both understood. Having lost the main forces, the detachment of deserters from the Great Asian Alliance will not be able to show any good results in this operation.
And now they were whispering in the corner of the corridor, so as not to be noticed.
"Can you get control?"
"Thats impossible." Answered Johnson to the question of Jasmine.
"There is a whole crowd of soldiers in front of the control room.
Moreover, as a bonus, among them is 'Daitengu'."
"Harunobu Kazama? ... definately impossible.”
The commander of the Independent Magic-Equipped Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Kazama Harunobu, was known among foreign magicians, both under the pseudonym "Daytengu", and under the abbreviated name "Kharu Kazama." At the end of the 21st century among the English-speaking soldiers ?? ??? they began to pronounce "Dai-tengu" in Japanese instead of translating "The Big Long-nosed Goblin"
According to one theory, this was the result of the export of the subculture, but the truth was covered in darkness.
“Does this mean that now it is best to escape?”
"This conversation is over." Jasmine answered so quickly and sharply, because the same thought came to her mind.
"Wow, what the hell was that? ...What do we then, Jas?”
"At least it's too tough for me. To crack the magical system established on this island, we still need to get Kei Isori."
"So you cannot do it without kidnapping this boy?"
"It's more realistic than meeting with Kazama."
"Well, that's for sure..."
Johnson noticed the approaching people and closed his mouth. Jasmine also reacted well and quickly returned to the behavior of the "ordinary girl".
"These girls ... they're Kei Isori's escorts, are they not?"
They talked, sitting on the couch near the toilet. The faces of those who entered the toilet Kanon, Sayaka and Azusa were easily distinguishable.
"True?"
"Without a doubt."
It seems that Johnson did not remember them so well, but he was confident in his reliable partner, Jasmine, with whom he went through a lot.
"This is good. Captain Johnson, hide. Take them hostage then take Kei Isori."
According to Johnson, none of them possessed a threatening fighting power. The girl with the hair-tail, seemed to be able to show some strength, but she was not so enemy that Jasmine was unable to handle.
"I got it."
Carefully, not to make noise, Johnson opened the door to the service room, and hid there.
Leaving the restroom after correcting their makeup, Sayaka noticed that there was a smart little girl, seeming around 12-13 years old. Europeans usually look older than the Japanese, so she could be youger.
"Ah... really, Jas?"
"Yes , Sayaka."
It was the girl they helped the other day to avoid being kidnapped, she remembered in some way.
"Eh? But the hair color…"
As Kanon said, the hair color was different from what was at that time.
Her chestnut hair turned red. The brown eyes turned green. The impression was quite different, given the change in colors and clothes, but after she herself admitted it, doubts fell away.
"Jas, what's the matter? Where is your dad?"
"Yes, so we had a small problem."
"Uh, what happened?"
There was no sound of fear in the voice, but Kanon, who, as usual, lacked vigilance, approached Jasmine. But in this case the enemy was a girl who looked 12-13 years old. It would be a little strange to blame Kanon for her carelessness.
"Actually... Do not move!" The result was, as expected. Quickly twisting her arms, Jasmine put a knife to Kanon's throat, which was hidden under her clothes.
"Jas, what the hell !?"
At the shout of Sayaka, Jasmine answered only with a soulless smile.
"Do not judge people by their appearance. You better remember this."
Keeping Sayaka and Azusa in sight, Jasmine said her demand. "Bring Kei Isori ."
"Kei? What are you going to do with Kei!? Uk!" Kanon tried to free herself, but since her hands were firmly fixed behind her back, she could only complain.
"I have no intention of directly harming him. Bring him as soon as possible."
"No! I cannot force Kei to be in danger because of me!"
Azusa and Sayaka exchanged glances. At the moment there were no signs that Jasmine was harming Kanon. However, looking into her cold eyes, they knew that she would not hesitate to use the knife.
"Do not go calling me. I'm here."
"Kei!"
The voice of Isori was heard because of the puzzled Sayaki and Azusa.
"Kei, why did you come! Ay!"
"Please be a little quieter. You are interfering with the conversation."
Tightening her hands harder to silence Kanon, Jasmine looked at Isori.
Isori also looked at Jasmine. Anger burned in his eyes.
"First release Kanon. After that we can talk."
"Try to understand the situation better before you talk. I put forward demands here, not you. So... to begin with, let the soldier standing next to you step back.”
Squeezing his teeth, Isori nodded to the standing Chaebaru. No, did he rather bow? Without saying anything, Chaebaru took two steps back.
Learning that the man dressed in the form of a waiter, in fact, turned out to be a military man, Sayaka and Azusa rounded their eyes. However, they both realized not to say anything, so they did not interfere with what was happening.
"That's better. Then, back to the main topic. Mr. Isori , please follow us."
"...If I go with you, will you release Kanon?"
"Yes. James."
Called by name so as not to betray his identity, James appeared.
"Mr. Isori , come here."
"I got it."
"Kei, stop!"
At that moment, Jasmine's mind was directed to finding out what to do with the recklessly leading Kanon. If Kanon is left here, the negotiations will fail. Johnson's attention was directed to Isori, Chaebaru and Sayaka.
Johnson, a combat melee sorcerer, knew that Sayaka could not match his appearance.
He was not worried about Azusa. Jasmine was also not afraid of her.
The face of Azusa made others judge her to be a low threat.
But the one that Jasmine should have watched most of all was, in fact, Azusa.
...There was a sound of strings.
The sound of the strings, similar to the playing the harp, sounded from nowhere.
The Magic of Psychic Intervention by Azusayumi.
The consciousness of Jasmine was divorced from reality, seduced by the tone of the sound.
Jasmine could not understand where this sound came from. It was also unclear whether the ears could hear this sound, or if it was an auditory hallucination. Simply put, Jasmine's mind was distracted by the question of where the sound come from. Her mind was focused on the question of when and where the sound would come next time.
While everyone forgot how to move, Azusa activated the following magic, using the CAD taken from her handbag as a mobile terminal.
The knife, attached to Kanon's throat, jerked violently. The feeling of the knife moving in her hand returned Jasmine to consciousness. However, it was not enough as her fingers had little strength and the knife was torn from her hand.
The knife fell to the floor.
"Yaya!" Having seen this, Sayaka began to move. She aimed her hand against Jasmine's head. Jasmine released her hand from Kanon and quickly retreated.
"Jas!" Recovering from "Azusayumi," Johnson took Jasmine in his arms.
Just in time, darts flew to Chaebaru to stop the two men. Johnson took them from the hotel's playroom. Chaebaru easily repulsed three darts, but during this time Johnson and Jasmine ran away to the entrance of the service room.
"Kanon, are you all right?" With relief on his face, Isori ran to the liberated Kanon.
"Uh-huh... I'm sorry. Forgive me please." Kanon that saw Isori next to her suddenly burst into tears. Isori did not panic, but gently pressed his head to her.
"Was it scary?"
"No. Not true. Not at all!"
"Then what is it?"
"Because of me, Kei was in danger. All because of my carelessness!”
Isori repeatedly and gently stroked the head of the reproachful Kanon.
"Why are you apologizing? You did nothing wrong."
"But!"
Isori brought his lips close to the ear of Kanon continuing to repent.
"I'm glad that everything is good with Kanon."
Kanon's apologies ceased. She just sobbed, buried in Isori's chest.
"Uwaa... He's such a gentleman."
Fortunately, these two did not hear Azusa's messy comment. Sayaka's look, saying "how enviable" also did not reach Isori and Kanon, again gone into their separate world.
"Somehow we escaped... Jas, how are you?"
"I screwed up. The fact that Azusa Nakajou uses the magic of psychic interference... "
With regret biting her lip, Jasmine looked at the floor and thought. In the end, she looked up, making a decision.
"I did not want to do this, but... its time I use my magic at the party venue."
"Yes, it looks like thats all that is left..." Johnson's words, too, were indecisive. The use of Jasmine magic, "Ozone Layer", at a party is the same as a poison gas attack.
They will not be able to excuse themselves by justifying this. The whole world will oppose them with more harsh criticism than terrorist attacks with bombs. The government of their country may refuse to communicate with them in order to avoid criticism of other countries.
However, the operation of the external detonation would not be successful (in fact, it has already failed), the option of capturing machine control and the variant of hacking the magic system also ended in flight and failure. The only remaining solution was using "Ozone Circle". As the high command from the headquarters of the Australian army ordered to complete the diversion, it is impossible to destroy their expectations without doing so.
"Jas, we'll go to the lifeboats first. After using the "Ozone Layer", access to the port will be blocked. Therefore, it is better to prepare for an escape beforehand."
"Agreed."
They descended the service ladder to the staff area, and made their way to the workers' recreation room, located next to the port. To not be seen, they did not go directly to the port. Instead they went to a remote, deserted room.
"How convenient that no one is here."
"It seems to me that this is too good..." Unlike the optimistic Johnson, Jasmine could not get rid of suspicions.
"Apparently they were distracted by the recent hype."
However, they could not afford to chill out here. Jasmine mentally ordered herself to agree with Johnson.
"Watch our back."
"Leave it to me."
If magic only generates ozone, then it is not that difficult to pull it off.
However, relying only on relative information about a place that is not visible in order to generate highly concentrated ozone in a short time, the mind must be strongly concentrated. Thus, the magic operator becomes defenseless. Therefore, in order to use "Ozone Layer" in enemy territory, it was absolutely necessary to have a partner as an escort.
The CAD started downloading the activation sequence. Closing her eyes and concentrating, in the magic calculating area, she began to form the magic sequence.
This contradictory action deliberately changed the contents of the magic calculation area, which is in the subconscious. Both consciousness and subconsciousness had to simultaneously concentrate in one act. Even forgetting how to breathe, Jasmine built the sequence of magic "Ozone Circle".
Coordinates were recorded. Jasmine activated the Ozone Circle (not realizing how many people it will affect) at the venue of the party.
However, there was an unexpected problem.
"...Did the invocation of magic fail?"
"What!?" Instinctively asked Johnson, forgetting about the observation of the surrounding area.
"Activation of the 'Ozone Layer' ...seems to have failed. There was no effect."
"Impossible!" It's amazing, but Johnson seems to have raised his voice and forgot that we’re hiding.
No, he was right that this was impossible. Jasmine Williams was an improved magician optimized for Ozone Layer, and Ozone circle developed personally by William McLeod during the process of setting up her genetic code. He failed to reproduce the same scale, allowing the magic to be classified as Strategic Class, but the activation speed and identity exceeded the original magic of MacLeod himself.
Not only in theory. Jasmine has used the Ozone Layer in real combat many times already. Up to this point, she has never failed to activate it.
Four days ago, there were also no problems with using the Ozone Layer to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army.
"I'll try again!" Jasmine closed her eyes again and concentrated her mind. Johnson forgot his role as a security guard and stared at her.
Opening her eyes, Jasmine, with a shocked face, fell to her knees, exhausted. "Not activated ...Why? Is my power gone?"
"No."
Suddenly, a beautiful, clear voice, like the sound of a bell, interrupted them. Immediately after the voice sounded, the presence of a third party emerged from nowhere. Johnson wanted to release an air bullet in the direction of the apparent presence. However, his magic was never activated.
Before the speechless duo appeared one man and two girls. The man is a colonel of the division of special forces of the Great Asian Alliance, Chen Xiangshan. And the girls were Miyuki and Minami.
"You two did not lose the ability to use magic techniques." Miyuki spoke to Jasmine and Johnson. In her speech, there was a faint pity.
"The secret technique of the Yotsuba family, 'The Gatekeeper.' How is it for you?"
"The secret technique... Yotsuba?"
Miyuki smiled back at Jasmine, who had croaked her question.
Jasmine's question was in English, but Miyuki responded in Japanese.
"Yes. Usually I do not explain this, but today is a special day. Because we were also given a look at many interesting techniques."
Saying this, Miyuki turned her gaze to Chen Xiangshan. He grinned slightly in response. Miyuki looked again at Jasmine.
"The sequence of magic, built in the subconscious, is transferred to the
"root" of consciousness from the upper layer of the subconscious and projected onto the target of magic from the "Gate" existing in the gap between the conscious and the subconscious.”
"So what?" Johnson asked in an irritated voice.
"...Cannot be!?" It seems Jasmine realized what Miyuki is trying to say.
"The gate is the Eidos platform on the border with the Idea. The gate faces the Idea. Otherwise, you would not be able to make magic work consistently outside of you."
"Damn it! Whatever look, it means…"
"It seems that you have already understood. The magician neutralization magic of 'Gatekeeper' is installed on the Gate of the target magician and destroys the sequence of magic immediately after passing through. You cannot use magic until 'Gatekeeper' is canceled."
Miyuki's explanation was partly true.
She said the "secret technique of the Yotsuba family", but it was
"Tatsuya's secret technique." At least for now, in the Yotsuba family, only Tatsuya could follow the "gates" of other people. It was presented as a "Yotsuba secret technique" to avoid too much interest in Tatsuya.
But neither Jasmine nor Johnson could do anything about it. Because now, in fact, their magic was sealed. Jasmine struck the floor with both hands.
Johnson silently attacked Miyuki. But before he could, his body bumped into a barrier created by Minami. Shortly after a sharp drop in body temperature took away his strength to stand on his feet. Miyuki kindly turned to Johnson, who crawled unattractively on the floor:
"Do not worry. Because it has already been proven that sleep is only temporary."
Chen Xiangshan again grinned. Because he himself was exactly that example of proof.
"Guys, please." Miyuki shouted to someone outside the door. As if on command, the door opened and the soldiers in uniform entered to detain Jasmine and Johnson. Behind this door was not the expected port, but a completely different room.
From the open door, music was barely audible. Realizing that they are very close to the venue of the party, Jasmine was shocked.
"You probably did not notice? It seems it's called 'Kimon Tonko'. You two wanted to go down the stairs, but actually went down and down. So, if it had happened that 'The Gatekeeper' did not work, then the method of aiming Ozone circle through relative coordinates would not have yielded any results."
"Hahahahaha.... What is this. From the very beginning, we were in the palm of your hand...?" Realizing that this was their final defeat, Jasmine burst into laughter.
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