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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - Volume 22 - Prologue of Disturbance (II) - Chapter 5.2




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All the puppets were cut down by Tatsuya. Tsukasa confirmed this in a separate room from the command post.

In the safe room there were no surveillance cameras. To her regret, Tsukasa did not know what the next head of the Yotsuba family (in other words, Miyuki), and her guard, who had escaped there, were doing.

But now the invaders were eliminated from the outside, and they must open the door and exit.

And there will be a chance.

She checked the magic circuit, which establishes a connection between her and her subordinates.

The connection status is satisfactory.

Even if she used ancient magic called "Puppet Law", she was not a user of Outer-Systematic Magic interfering with people's minds. She was a magician from the Tooyama family, whose people received zonal magic developed in the Tenth Laboratory, generating magic barriers in the form of strong virtual structures.

Even with a magical connection, Tsukasa could not read the mind of the person on the other side. She could not receive the flow of information from the five senses, and could not directly control the will. At the moment she could only count the location of the other side of the magical connection. It was a link only to determine the coordinates in the information dimension.

The most important thing is that this was enough for the user of the magic of the Tooyama family.

If you need physical information about sounds, conditions, and something similar, then you can simply use wireless equipment. The equipment for secretly listening and surveillance used by the intelligence department was not useless garbage unable to work with muffling or physical obstacles.

The key to the activation of magic was the coordinates in the information dimension. This can not be obtained by electronic equipment. Also there were rumors about the existence of magicians and magic support systems that can match the resulting video image from anywhere in the world with the corresponding coordinates in the information dimension.

However, Tsukasa considered these rumors fiction.

The system for aiming specialized CAD also reinforces the senses to the maximum, so that they can obtain information about the distance.

But the users of Elemental Sight, directly looking at the information dimension, are probably able to calculate the coordinates in the information dimension based on the video image. However, there must also be restrictions. For example, there is a limit to the distance that a person can really feel. Infinite space exists only in the abstract concept.

And the breadth of knowledge of man has limits.

There cannot exist such people who violate logic, who, ignoring the harsh reality of physical distance, can concentrate consciousness on the information body in the information dimension only on the basis of knowledge obtained from the image. Tsukasa thought so with an eye on her own shortcomings.

But this thought did not cause her any inconvenience. With the magic that the Tooyama family possessed, the role given to it did not require concentrating on a goal that is at an extremely long distance only with the help of a video image.

This mission also did not require such things.

She concentrated her mind on the image from hacked surveillance cameras to provide proper support to her subordinates.

 

The door, decorated with old-fashioned ornaments, opened before Tatsuya, slipping sideways and entering the wall. To hide his playful mood, Tatsuya pulled a bitter smile on his face. He realized that unlawful offenders (Tatsuya did not notice that he was also an illegal violator) could not open the door, because they tried to push and pull it.

Right outside the door stood Minami. Upon recognizing Tatsuya, she bowed politely. From inside the room, Miyuki approached him with an elegant step. She did not hurry, apparently understanding that she was under the sights of other people.

"Many thanks for saving us from danger."

In appearance, this situation was not particularly dangerous, it was just words of politeness.

"It looks like you are more than safe."

"Because Tatsuya-sama got there so quickly."

This time it was not a formal phrase, but the true feelings of Miyuki. She did not doubt that Tatsuya would come to help her, but when she really saw his face, she began to overflow with growing delight.

Moreover, Miyuki was happy that Tatsuya came much ahead of her expectations. She openly radiated this feeling.

It was unconstrained. It could be said that she emitted an aura of happiness. Somehow, without any words, the room was filled with an atmosphere of immobility.

The first who woke up from this sweet prison, there was another pair of magicians, a master and a servant.

"Sorry, thanks for saving us from the danger. Shiba-sama, please accept my apologies that I too thank you so late."

Her polite speech sounded a bit awkward. For some reason, he had the impression of an acting game.

"My name is Tsunashima. This is Tsunaga. Tsunaga-san, thank him too."

Following the direction of Tsunashima-jo, Tsunaga went ahead. She moved from Tsunashima to Miyuki.

Tatsuya instantly switched from a stationary state to maximum speed.

He pushed Tsunaga back with his hands.

Tsunaga, who was trying to grab Miyuki, clasped her hands around her neck, fell, flipped over from the blow.

"Do not move!"

"Minami!"

There were simultaneous voices of Tsunashima and Tatsuya.

Tsunashima grabbed the unfortunate student and put a knife to her neck.

Minami, following Tatsuya's orders, dragged Miyuki back, and took her place, closing it with her back.

Tatsuya called Minami for this.

"If you move, I cannot vouch for the safety of this..."

"That I do not vouch for the safety of this unfortunate girl," Tsunashima probably wanted to say.

However, Tatsuya completely ignored her words. He released magic at Tsunaga who attempted to harm Miyuki.

Miyuki and Minami were not the only ones who heard the illusion of the sound of broken glass.

It was the "sound" of destroying the magic barrier.

Falling, Tsunaga surrounded herself with a barrier. This was destroyed by the magic of Tatsuya.

Without revealing it on his face, Tatsuya remembered his big suspicion.

When he pushed Tsunaga away, his hand felt something else besides her body. At that moment, a magic barrier was unfolded in an instant, which he wiped out with the decomposition magic activated from his palm.

After that, slightly pushing his hand, he added to the attack a small psion wave with a high compression ratio.

The Barrier magic collapsed, and it was expected that under Tatsuya's psion stream, the further creation of magic should not happen. Psions of another magician - an extraneous "stream." The psions flowing through the body and the magic calculation zone existing in the subconscious are separated from each other, but are not completely independent. When the activation sequence is output from the CAD, it is read by the area of magic calculation area, passing through the body through the psion network. When there is something foreign, like a stream of strange psions, the activation of magic right after that should be impossible.

But despite this, Tsunaga tried to get up and deployed a magic barrier. If you look in chronological order, you could see that the magic was built right after the infusion of Tatsuya psions. The use of magic is not necessarily impossible when the body is paralyzed, but she did not seem to be a magician who can do it.

While Tatsuya was putting his filled with doubt mind in order, he was not idle. He raised his right hand and released a narrow stream of psions into the still lying Tsunaga.

Gram Demolition.

Initially, it was used to blow off the sequence of magic, but if you use the stream of psion elevated permeability, then it shows an effect similar to the infusion of psions upon contact.

Tsunaga's body jerked again, after which it finally stopped moving. It looks like she lost consciousness.

If she hit her head or had a load on her heart, then there is a chance that she might die. Despite the fact that the consequences can become unpleasant, he still used the enhanced long-range version of Gram Demolition, and it looks like it worked.

Reflecting on this, Tatsuya stepped in the direction of Tsunashima.

Blood ran from the neck of the hostage. But it was not "overflowing like a fountain", but only leaked out a little. The balanced use of force in such a situation indicated that her appearance and experience do not match, or that she had some special training.


But, to her regret, it did not matter.

In this place for Tatsuya, only Miyuki mattered as a hostage. Using Minami's life as a shield, he preferred neutralizing the enemy.

Although Minami can repel most enemies, but if Miyuki were still taken hostage, he would, rather than counteract magic or worry about the safety of the enemy, simply turn them into a puddle. Undoubtedly, the tactic of taking the hostage against Tatsuya was not the smartest choice.

Tatsuya tried to shoot a psion shell at the magician, who called herself Tsunashima. But at that moment he noticed that Tsunashima and the hostage were surrounded by a magic barrier.

Tatsuya could not help but wonder. From the woman who called herself Tsunashima, there were no signs of activation of barrier magic.

(From where?)

Someone formed a magic barrier around this magician. The other did not come to mind.

The magic barrier disappeared.

Tatsuya's left hand extended to Tsunashima's knife. It was worth it to grab the blade of the knife with his hand, as it dissipated into dust.

The latter phenomena was the result of Tatsuya's decomposition magic.

The doubt that sat in his head was not an obstacle to the battle.

Tatsuya grabbed Tsunashima's right wrist and turned it out.

Tsunashima, instead of wrestling, jumped and made a somersault in the air.

Tatsuya let go of her hand and grabbed the hostage instead, dragging her toward him. Then he pushed her to the rear of Minami.

Minami helped the shaken and ready to fall hostage to stand on their feet, supporting her.

Tatsuya swung his foot on the side of the landing Tsunashima. But before the impact a magic barrier was able to form. Not paying attention, Tatsuya struck.

At the moment of touching the barrier with his foot, he "crashed".

Controlling both magic and body, Tatsuya struck Tsunashima with his foot in the chest. Unlike Tsunaga, he no longer held back.

Tsunashima's heart stopped. Arrhythmia of the heart from stroke.

?

?

At the same moment, when the magician fell to the floor, Tatsuya hit her chest with lightning magic.

The weak electrical discharge performed by Flash Cast played the role of a defibrillator, and fortunately, the woman's heart resumed beating.

 

Tsukasa opened her tightly closed eyelid. She could use her magic even with her eyes open. But she sensed that the accuracy of magic was enhanced by partially blocking the five senses or some of them.

Therefore, she usually closed one eye, when it was required to deliver magic to a place remote from her current position.

"Merciless, even if the enemy is a woman...?"

She was sitting in her own private office. So she spoke aloud to herself, without worrying that she would be heard.

"And yet, in order to break my magic barrier at one point... Although its power was lower, because it was not used in its original form, but it seems that now my self-confidence has significantly dropped.

Tsukasa put a false smile on her face and waved her head slightly.

"No... As expected, he should be recognized as a Yotsuba magician. In any case, what kind of magic broke my barrier? It seemed that the very sequence of magic was destroyed... Could it be that this is Gram Dispersion?"

Tsukasa again shook her head. This time with a smile, mocking itself.

"...No matter how similar it seems, this is definitely not it. This magic can exist only in the research laboratory. It cannot succeed in a real battle."

"However, it seems that even the Yotsuba's magician was unable to neutralize magic while waiting. Well... If he could influence me from such a distance, he would no longer be in the category of magicians. He would be a monster, superior to humans."

Tsukasa looked at the image from the surveillance camera.

Tatsuya was squatting next to Tsunashima.

The camera in the corridor just looked inside the safe room through the open door, and by the look of Tatsuya from behind it was not clear what he was doing.

"...In this country there is no place for those who exceed humans. If you turn out to be a monster of inhuman nature, it's a pity, but you'll have to disappear."

Do not go, but disappear. Tsukasa whispered these words to Tatsuya's image on the display, as tenderly as she could.

 

Tatsuya crouched beside the defeated magicians and began to search for traces of magic.

Those magic barriers were not created by these women. The magician who activated this barrier magic was not even in this building.

Remote magic with the exact target of activation. The first thing that occurred to him was that these women were used as the magic point of transfer. Magic techniques that use people as the magic point of transfer, although rare, are not surprising. Just two months ago, he saw the criminal Gu Jie, the operator of ancient magic, use the young

"humanist" as the point of transmission for summoning and controlling the magic of the DS.

However, on these magicians he did not find the seals carrying the magic identification signal. Even with his "Elemental Sight" he could not find any traces.

Does this mean that the coordinates in the information dimension are computed from an image?

Technically, this was possible. Moreover, Tatsuya's own "Third Eye"

used images from the stratospheric cameras and the low-orbit satellite to assist in targeting. In addition, Tatsuya now had a strange feeling that he was being watched through the surveillance camera.

(The magician who created the barriers... I cannot track him. The footprints are too weak.)

Tatsuya's elemental sight is also not omnipotent. It is quite difficult to find out the identity of an agent who carefully completed his work without leaving "information" tracks. Perhaps he could, if he could use the ability to 100%, but in the current situation that was impossible.

"Tatsuya-sama?"

Miyuki called Tatsuya in a troubled voice. It seems that she was worried why he had such a grim face.

"Do not worry. It seems it's over."

Tatsuya stood up and smiled at Miyuki. She smiled back at him.

"Minami."

"Yes, Tatsuya-sama."

Minami has already returned the hostage girl to her guard and, hearing that she was called, came and stood behind Miyuki.

"Contact the police. I'll go look for the wounded. At this time, I trust Miyuki to you."

"Yes, I understand. Rely on me."

"Miyuki, I will not be long."

"Yes, Tatsuya-sama. Be careful."

Not showing that she almost reflexively said, "Onii-sama," Miyuki bowed in an adult manner.

 





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