Chapter 4
“I want to look at Miyuki-senpai’s face...”
“What are you talking about? You just left the Student Council room earlier this evening, didn’t you?”
“But Kasumi-chan, if I’m not doing anything, don’t you think going to have tea with Miyuki-senpai is much more constructive?”
The apartment where Tatsuya and Miyuki and the hospital were Minami is being treated are separated by the distance of, let’s say a neighborhood. It is a bit too far to go on foot, but by car it is only 5 minutes. Ever since hearing this from Minami during her visit, Izumi has been repeatedly spilling such complaints.
“I’m not going. That guy is in President’s house.”
Also, it is already a pattern that Kasumi replies this way.
These two are in a small restaurant near the Chofu-Aoba clinic where Minami is hospitalized. The Saegusa Family has reserved this shop since the role assignment at the Master Clans Conference a few days ago. It was ideal to make it into a base, as this shop’s business model is that only customers with prior reservation can enter.
The job given to the Saegusa Family at the Master Clans Meeting was to ambush and capture Kudou Minoru who has converted into a parasite. If capture is difficult, execution is unavoidable.
The Ten Master Clans decided that bringing parasites into human society was a crime for which death is inevitable. Both Kasumi and Izumi don’t want to kill Minoru if possible, but they understand that if he is left like that, stealing his life is unavoidable. Tatsuya considered these two to not be suited for the Ten Master Clans, but there is no doubt that this mentality they have is a result of the Ten Master Clans training.
“Anyway, will he really come?”
Their minds were not lingering on how to end it without killing Minoru. Both Izumi and Kasumi already told themselves that there is absolutely nothing they can do about it.
“I think he will come.”
“Is that so...Isn’t that idiotic even for Minoru?”
“I think his head is better than yours though, Kasumi-chan.”
“Sure, Minoru is smarter than me, but your grades aren’t much different from mine, Izumi!”
“That means I don’t have to help you with general studies homework anymore, right?”
“Ha-hang on! That’s unfair! We’re not talking about that right now!”
“Even if you say it is unfair...”
“What I’m saying is that Minoru is on the lookout for an ambush!”
Izumi’s sentence reached its conclusion when Kasumi hurriedly covered it with her own words.
Izumi unintentionally smiled and stopped playing with her twin sister.
“So you are expecting that much? Maybe if we’re seen through, he may hold back.”
Kasumi responded with a ‘is that so?’ while she patted her chest when Izumi finished her inconvenient speech.
“But even so I think Minoru-kun will come.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Because he’s been prone to illness since childhood. Minoru-kun was a boy that didn’t get attached to things.”
“...I see. I remember him impatiently saying several times that he wanted to be more selfish.”
Kasumi and Izumi didn’t meet with Minoru often. Their personality was such that, from other children’s perspective, they didn’t get attached to things.
Even so, from their perspective, Minoru was a child that didn’t want anything.
“That Minoru-kun desired Sakurai-san to the point he threw away being human. Intense feelings to that extent...Unfortunately, I can’t understand, but I can only imagine that he will never give up.”
“So even you don’t understand, Izumi...”
“Yeah. As a maiden, it is truly regrettable.”
“Maiden, huh...Well, I guess Izumi is a maiden. But such feelings, being a man or a woman has nothing to do with it. Still, aside from feelings, isn’t the real problem that Sakurai-san is being protected by the Yotsuba, Juumonji and Saegusa Families? Will he plunge into the middle of the enemy alone? Or is love blind?”
“Kasumi-chan, that isn’t what ‘love is blind’ means?”
“Huh, really? Doesn’t it mean that love makes reason and common sense disappear?”
“Although that’s what’s written in Japanese dictionaries, reason disappearing means that you become unable to realize your partner’s faults, and common sense disappearing means that when picking sides, you don’t consider yours and your partner’s family’s social status and point of view.”
“Oh, so that is what it means.”
“Besides, I think Minoru-kun will come regardless of an ambush, but I’m guessing it isn’t because he lost his ability to judge with composure.”
“Well then, what is it?”
“Minoru-kun is most likely...”
Izumi lowered her voice. Not just her voice, her facial expression is saying ‘I can’t say it out loud’.
“...not afraid of the Yotsuba, Juumonji, and our own Saegusa Families. That’s what I think.”
“...I don’t think Minoru is the overconfident type.”
Lured by Izumi, Kasumi also whispered.
“If Minoru-kun has the ability, the self-confidence is not excessive.”
“That’s...Maybe he can bypass if it’s the Saegusa Family, but...”
“The current Minoru-kun can get the parasite’s power. Also, not questioning if it’s true or false, he took in the ghost of an Ancient Magician from the continent.”
“...Is the ghost even real?”
“...Anyway.”
Regarding the matter of the absorption of Zhou Gongjin’s ghost, Izumi didn’t truly believe it. Despite Kasumi’s protest, she didn’t delve into this discussion.
“There is no doubt in my mind that Minoru-kun is getting stronger.”
At the same time, she couldn’t withdraw the need for vigilance towards Minoru.
In the end, Kasumi didn’t know whether she agreed or not with Izumi’s opinion.
“Kasumi-chan, Izumi-chan, he’s here!”
As Mayumi came to call the two of them, their argument came to an end.
“How is Sakurai-san!?”
Mayumi showed her figure from the door that leads up to the interior of the kitchen and Kasumi stood up vigorously and immediately asked about Minami’s welfare. Kasumi, who is a classmate of Minami, seems to have deep feelings of affection towards Minami, in contrast with Izumi who works with her at the Student Council. – Perhaps Kasumi may be just easier to understand.
“She’s safe. We caught him before he sneaked into the hospital.”
“Was it the Juumonji Family?”
Izumi asked so. If she didn’t ask, Kasumi would have asked.
“No, subordinates of the Saegusa Family.”
Kasumi’s eyes shined and her expression reflected a ‘we did it!’. But her eyebrows instantly became gloomy. “They all got knocked out without lasting a minute. The people from the Juumonji Family were running there now, and are holding him back. I also contacted Otou-sama, but he’ll take 10 minutes or more to arrive. Juumonji-kun has also been notified, but we can’t hope for him to arrive in less than 5 minutes.”
“So until then, we have to keep him there, right?”
“Exactly right.”
Kasumi and Izumi were not just leisurely listening to Mayumi talk. While the two of them were leaning their ears and moving their mouth they were putting the CADs on their wrists, protective goggles with an internal communication device and a protection vest – a vest that has not only the function of softening shocks, but is also bulletproof and blade proof – on their body.
“Preparations complete.”
“Me too.”
“OK. Let’s go.”
Mayumi, who wore an identical outfit, opened the door, Kasumi and Izumi followed right away.
When Mayumi arrived at the scene, the battle had temporarily stopped.
Four magicians were collapsed on the road. Kasumi and Izumi rushed over to check their pulse and breathing.
“He’s alive!”
“Same here, doesn’t seem like there are any major injuries.”
Mayumi spoke to the two magicians who were breathing shallowly.
“Where did Minoru go?”
Mayumi raised the goggles to her forehead and showed her face to ask two magicians who were standing on their own feet.
“He went towards the alley on my right. We’re telling those who are protecting to intercept him.”
There is no door leading to the inside of the hospital on the right side. Is he planning to break a window, or is he thinking of sneaking in from the rooftop? Either way, Mayumi thought Minoru wouldn’t run away.
“Understood. I’ll chase him. You guys, please go back to your posts.”
The two who answered Mayumi’s question were magicians from the Juumonji Family. Everyone who was collapsed on the road was a subordinate of the Saegusa Family.
“We’ll be counting on you.”
The two from the Juumonji Family bowed to Mayumi and returned to the front of the hospital’s rear entrance. The task they were given is to prevent the invasion of the hospital. They ran here to assist the Saegusa Family magicians, but they were a long way off the entrance, which was their real role.
“You two, with them, please.”
“Onee-chan, you’re going alone!?”
“It’s dangerous!”
Kasumi and Izumi tried to stop their sister, but Mayumi shook her head with a serious look on her face, with no hint of a smile.
“We can’t leave these injured people alone. Even without serious injuries, my consciousness doesn’t allow it. Besides, Minoru-kun may not go towards the back door.”
It’s a common technique to attempt re-invasion from places where vigilance has been lowered after pretending to go towards a different place. Neither of them could deny the possibility their sister pointed out.
“...Understood, Onee-chan.”
“Onee-chan, be careful.”
“Yeah, you two as well.”
Mayumi put the goggles on and went towards the right side of the hospital.
Signs of magic suddenly increased. Mayumi chased them, rushing from the alley along the hospital to the road on the other side.
Lightning flashed in the air.
About 5 meters above the ground. The scenery of a night sky covered in thick clouds was empty – nobody was emitting the lightning attacks within the darkness.
The targets were two male magicians. Subordinate practitioners from the Juumonji Family, who they were introduced to by Katsuto before the start of the operation.
One of them was bleeding from one leg, crouching to hold his wound.
The unhurt magician had his back to his partner, catching lightning strikes with a magical barrier.
If it was a normal Release-Type Magic, it would be over when stopped by a shield.
Setting the starting point of the attack away from the target with Modern Magic to prevent the enemy’s event interference power from disturbing the magic invocation. It is no more than that.
But this lightning attack is not a simple stream of electrons. Lightning travelled several meters diagonally, drawing a light snake with an afterimage in the air. Instead of colliding with the magical barrier and breaking it, it shifted its movement and went around to hit from the sides.
Giving shape to the phenomenon. In exchange of spending additional resources to include shape in symbolic organisms, this technique enhanced the operability of phenomena created by magic. This is an Ancient Magic technique that isn’t in Modern Magic. This situation, is it for sustained use of lightning strikes that diffuse in an instant?
It certainly is an advanced technique, but isn’t it more effective to create lightning strikes repeatedly? Mayumi thought so seeing the lightning snakes moving above the shield, but immediately noticed her own misunderstanding.
The magical barriers built by the Juumonji Family magicians took a hemispherical dome shape. Even by circulating sideways you can’t pass through the shield. But the lightning snake that seemed useless added a tail and made a circle around the shield, binding the shield’s operator.
Witnessing this, Mayumi finally understood the purpose of this magic. This is a confinement magic.
The lightning snake doesn’t just have the effect of electric shocks, it also adds pressure to the shield, not to mention that it constricts the inside of the magicians’ barrier. And in the moment the shield is dissolved, a lightning strike will attack the people barricaded inside it.
The lightning snake seems to be wrapping itself around the shield, but it’s actually fixed in contact position with the magical barrier. If one were to move while holding the shield, it would be a strength contest with the magic that is affixing the lightning snake.
Thunderbolts were emitted from the sky once again. Not just one. Three attacks, one after the other.
The lightning strikes became lightning snakes and surrounded the shield of the two Juumonji magicians.
Three circles were tying the hemispherical dome magical barrier. Though the first lightning snake disappeared, the second stage of the lightning strikes surrounded the shield and crossed each other at six points.
Mayumi released a Psion Bullet, shooting at the lightning emission point.
Mayumi’s Psion Bullet doesn’t have power similar to the Gram Demolition Tatsuya uses.
But the technique to shoot accurately at a target point is not inferior to other people. She isn’t called ‘one of the best long-ranged precision shooting magic users in the world’ just for appearances.
The Psion Bullet Mayumi released accurately hit the magic’s battery [16] that was installed in the sky. A Psion Information Body that remotely invokes the magic continuously. Mayumi’s Psion Bullet destroyed the information structure that acted as a battery.
Mayumi has ordinary magic – the Modern Magic’s 4 Systems and 8 Types, except a Non-Systematic Magic that shoots a Psion Bullet and an inborn special ability in the Sensory System. Remote Visual System Sensory Magic ‘Multi-Scope’. Though it is possible to use it as magic, Mayumi can use it freely as an inborn special ability – once referred to as ‘Supernatural Power’.
This was unprecedented. Magic and Supernatural Powers are essentially the same ability, but one person should not be able to have both Supernatural Powers and Magic. Supernatural Powers distort phenomena with mere thoughts. In exchange, they can only modify phenomena with a specific pattern. Modern Magic, by adjusting the mental faculties used for Supernatural Powers, realized diverse phenomena modification. In exchange for that, various auxiliary measures other than thought are needed for magic execution.
From the point of view that it can only deal with specific patterns, Tatsuya’s ‘Decomposition’ and ‘Regrowth’ are close to Supernatural Powers. Tatsuya also has traits of Supernatural Power users, as he also can’t support other phenomena modification patterns. As seen from this precedent, Supernatural Powers and their specialized modification of phenomena, and magic that can deal with a variety of phenomenon modifications, cannot coexist.
But Mayumi can use both special perception abilities and diverse magic. She can be said to be an irregular magician in a different sense than Tatsuya.
Now, Mayumi was using her unusual ability, ‘Multi-Scope’, at full power. Using her full power ‘Multi-Scope’ to obtain visual information, seen from various angles, brings a big load to her mind. The consciousness starts dimming in just a few minutes, so it’s rare to use it at full power.
Mayumi looks for Minoru, who is surely hiding nearby, knowing that it is unreasonable.
Even if it is said that magic ignores physical distance, it can’t be used to reach far places beyond a person’s line of sight with the same amount of power and technique finesse as the lightning strikes just now. He should be hiding in the vicinity.
(Found him!)
Has Mayumi’s persistence bore fruit?
Or were her strong thoughts showing it?
His back was reflected in the field of vision of her odd ability, ‘Multi-Scope’.
Despite seen from the back, with his face not visible, he has a beautiful and mysterious figure that is not something from this world.
Mayumi shifted her point of view and confirmed that person’s face.
In the moment he was ‘seen’ from the front, he suddenly turned his face away, as if he sensed a glance.
But that moment was plenty.
Mayumi ran her fingers on the CAD on her wrist.
The invoked magic can be said to represent who she is, ‘Magic Bullet Shooter’.
Batteries was created in the sky, and from there, dry ice bullets were released.
Three batteries concentrated their shots on Minoru.
‘Magic Bullet Shooter’ has definitely caught Minoru, as could be seen from the remote field of vision.
The figure of the boy Mayumi is looking at disappeared from the ground.
Her ‘Multi-Scope’ didn’t lose sight of his beautiful figure.
He was in the air.
Mayumi made a new battery, and it poured dry ice bullets.
But the figure that dashed through the sky used complicated movements to dodge the majority of the bullets following him.
Minoru landed on the rooftop of the hospital.
Mayumi stopped spending resources on her ‘Multi-Scope’, leaving only a field of vision from the top, compiled jumping magic, and waited for her magic to capture Minoru.
Leaving behind the allies trapped with the lightning snakes, Mayumi jumped to the rooftop of the hospital.
“Is Onee-chan okay?”
“The opponent is Minoru, but even so I think Onee-sama is taking too long...”
Izumi replied to Kasumi’s question with an unconfident tone, but the anxiety could not be read from her expression. This probably means she wasn’t worried about her tone of voice.
Currently, the strongest magician of the Saegusa Family is probably Mayumi. Their father Kouichi never participates in his children’s ability competitions, so it can’t be said for sure, but Mayumi is proven to be the strongest among the siblings. Kasumi and Izumi can’t win against Mayumi even together. The girls are no match for her even if they use Multiplicative Cast, their trump card where they combine their ability.
These two were leisurely chatting because they had nothing to do but talking and being on the lookout. The first aid treatment on their (father’s) subordinates that Minoru took down was already finished. Nobody had any serious injuries that were accompanied by heavy bleeding from the start. There are no fractures that can be seen from the outside. There was one casualty who may have hit his head when he fell, but unfortunately brain damage is something these two can’t control. They cooled down the swollen spot and were waiting for the Saegusa Family’s rescue team to arrive, instead of an ambulance. They didn’t openly discuss it, but both of them had similar thoughts that if the rescue team didn’t come, they would carry them into the hospital right in front of them.
“All things considered, they aren’t coming.”
“They aren’t coming...”
The two of them didn’t have much patience left. Kasumi’s impatience can be seen in her outward appearance, but honestly speaking Izumi has a personality that makes her easily bored. Izumi may be better described as doing things at her own pace. Anyway, both of them match in impatience.
The two exchanged glances and each sensed the other had the same idea as them.
They signaled each other and turned their heads towards the hospital’s back door at the same time.
And then, the moment they tried to ask for help to carry the injured people, their mouths uttered words that were different than those they intended.
“Look out!”
But the warning backfired.
The two magicians guarding the back door turned their eyes towards Kasumi and Izumi.
The moment they lost their attention, magic fired from the darkness.
Violent sparks fell from the sky. ‘Spark’ is a magic that causes discharge phenomena by forcibly extracting electrons from substances. It’s a fundamental Release-Type Magic technique, but it requires high phenomenon interference power. Typical magicians have low density or fixed volume of molecules, so the best they can do is ionize a very limited scope of gas.
However, the ‘Spark’ emitted just now was entirely covering the two people with plasma. To be accurate, the area covered was from the chest down, the head wasn’t directly hit. But they naturally lost control of their body and tumbled down from their knees while convulsing.
“Who is there!”
Kasumi released magic while shouting. An intense flash illuminated the darkness that stretched between street lights.
Kasumi asked who, but she was convinced the enemy was Minoru. If people other than Minoru emerged in the light, Kasumi would have lost the rest of her voice in surprise.
To the magic light took away his resistance with a glaring flash, Minoru didn’t put his hands over his eyes, he just narrowed them.
The strong light produced a dark shadow, highlighting the inhuman charm that adorned Minoru’s face.
“Minoru, give up!”
Kasumi released ‘Freeze Air Bullet’. Magic that compresses the air while cooling it, converting the heat into bullet speed.
This magic fires Dry Meteor, Mayumi’s trump card, but with ordinary air instead of carbon dioxide. It doesn’t freeze because the freezing point of the mixed gas, whose main component is nitrogen and oxygen, is lower than carbon dioxide, but bullets cooled while being compressed with high pressure manifest different effects than dry ice bullets.
At the same time that Kasumi used magic, Izumi laid out Zone Interference for defense.
The effect of the flash magic ran out and Minoru’s figure was submerged in darkness.
The ‘Freeze Air Bullet’ that Kasumi released collided against a magical barrier and got crushed. The air that was restrained by magic suddenly expanded, making a lump of cold air dozens of degrees below the freezing point, according to the laws of physics.
But the cold air didn’t enter the inside of the shield formed by Minoru. Haze was produced, dew was formed outside the shield, water droplets dropped down the transparent barrier. Minoru’s magical barrier had the ‘hardness’ of a solid object.
Magic attacks were sent out by Minoru at the same time as Kasumi’s ‘Freeze Air Bullet’ crumbled.
In the region Izumi where spread out Zone Interference, the influence of phenomenon interference appeared. Zone Interference is not magic that uses the output of a Magic Sequence. It’s a defense technique that continuously uses the caster’s personal phenomenon interference power. If magic is released from an enemy, that will be transmitted to the caster as a reaction.
Izumi mustered her strength to invalidate Minoru’s magic. But that resistance was not enough and it broke though.
Discharges were generated in the sky. Is it smaller than the ‘Spark’ that the Juumonji Family magicians received because Izumi’s Zone Interference lowered the intensity of the phenomenon modification?
But with the enemy magic successfully invoked, that is not a big consolation. Plasma scattered in sparks, hitting Kasumi and Izumi.
The gust of wind that scattered that plasma was due to Kasumi’s quick-witted defense of diverting the second attack towards Minoru.
“Izumi, are you okay!?”
Kasumi rushed up to Izumi, who was injured by the Zone Interference strength contest, and held her in her arms.
Izumi gripped Kasumi’s hand that was holding her shoulder.
“Kasumi-chan, we can’t do this one at a time.”
“I understand, Izumi.”
Kasumi did not misunderstand what Izumi’s words meant.
The current situation is a two-on-one. They are not fighting alone in a sequential order. Even in this state Kasumi and Izumi are cooperating.
What Izumi is saying is that this is not a simple numerical strength problem. Both of them can’t fight as two people, they can’t win against Minoru unless they unify their power. Izumi said so. And Kasumi nodded.
The two mutually interlocked their fingers. Kasumi’s right hand and Izumi’s left hand perfectly united by the palm.
The twin sisters faced one another and mutually attracted each other, connecting the other hands.
From Kasumi’s left hand to Izumi’s right hand, Psions flowed.
From Izumi’s left hand to Kasumi’s right hand, Psions flowed.
Connected hand and hand, the pair’s Psions circulated through their bodies.
Suddenly, Minoru released magic. The power of phenomenon modification is working just above the twins that face each other.
But Minoru’s magic finished before it could start. Zone Interference with a strength incomparable to before protected the sister’s bodies.
“Let’s go.”
Izumi whispered.
“Leave it to me!”
Kasumi responded to that.
An Activation Sequence was output from Izumi’s thought-operated CAD worn around her left wrist.
There are no agreements on who is the chief and subordinate of the pair’s Multiplicative Cast. There are surely numerous roles where Kasumi constructs the Magic Sequence and Izumi grants the phenomenon interference power. But in the opposite case, where Izumi constructs the Magic Sequence and Kasumi grants the phenomenon interference power, Multiplicative Cast works the exact same way.
Light was created within the darkness. It doesn’t have the strength to dazzle the eyes, it is a light just to fulfill its role as illumination, shining on Minoru’s body.
Under the light of magic, Minoru’s face expressed utter confusion. He probably didn’t understand the meaning of using such magic power that holds no offensive power.
Of course up until now it has been no more than the preparation stage. A procedure to make aiming the magic easier.
?
The next magic will be invoked. Though Minoru was not absent-minded, his confusion dulled his decision making, so Izumi acted faster this time.
Gusts of wind coiled above Minoru’s head. A large amount of air was compressed in an instant while preserving room temperature.
Izumi unleashed it directly downwards instead of striking Minoru with that cluster of air.
The descending air swiftly cooled due to adiabatic processes and attacked Minoru.
‘Cold Storm’. Izumi admires Miyuki, and this new magic came from the desire to make use of cooling magic similar to Miyuki’s.
“S-So cold!”
Blowing in the icy fog wind, Kasumi screamed.
“Sorry!”
Izumi’s voice was a bit stiff when she apologized. Coldness and agitation are the causes. It seems ‘Cold Storm’ has only been learned recently, so it hasn’t been perfected to the extent that she can defend against the aftermath.
“It’s fine. Anyway, did we do it?”
Needless to say about Kasumi, but Izumi too is staring at Minoru’s figure covered in frost.
Minoru was standing still while sparkling white magical lights.
There is no movement.
There is also no collapse.
If Minoru lost the strength on his limbs, it’s weird that is he not falling. Even if the whole body is rigid, standing still like this is usually impossible.
“Kasumi-chan, one more time!”
Izumi’s shout was synchronous with a change in Minoru.
The frost on Minoru’s hair, face and clothes disappeared in an instant.
After that frost was gone, he wasn’t even one bit wet.
Minoru extended his right arm towards Izumi and Kasumi.
“Go!”
Kasumi responded to Izumi with a hurried voice. However instead of repeating what they just did, Kasumi took the initiative this time.
Strong winds composed of 90% nitrogen blew towards Minoru.
‘Nitrogen Storm’. Magic that causes oxygen deficiency with an air current whose oxygen concentration was extremely lowered.
However, the ‘Nitrogen Storm’ the twins released was blocked by Minoru’s shield and its effect was invalidated by the downward air current that kept coming from the skies.
“——”
Izumi saw Minoru’s lips move. Kasumi didn’t notice, and Izumi couldn’t catch what he said due to the raging winds.
But Izumi somehow believed Minoru had said ‘it’s my turn now’.
Izumi instantly felt the signs of magic activation. At the same time, a gentle breeze blew.
Izumi spread out a physical shield in panic.
But the breeze stopped at the surface of the shield, and began to blow again inside the shield. The wind didn’t pass through the magical barrier. The magic passed through the barrier.
Naturally, that was not insignificant. When Izumi and Kasumi first felt the wind, it was already too late.
Kasumi suddenly collapsed.
Panicking, Izumi stopped hugging Kasumi and resumed her breathing.
Immediately after that, Izumi’s conscious was swallowed by darkness.
Kasumi’s and Izumi’s bodies were caught by an invisible hand before they crashed on the road. They were laid down softly on the road.
It was Minoru’s magics that caught the two and took away their consciousness. The former stopped them with Movement-Type Magic and reduced gravity with Weight-Type Magic. The latter decreased oxygen concentration with Convergence-Type Magic. In principle, it is similar magic to the ‘Nitrogen Storm’ the twins used. Instead of breaking through the two’s magical defenses with pure strength, he used a technique that led them to not recognize that the magic used by the enemy was the same kind of magic they used. This was a technique learned from Zhou Gongjin’s knowledge.
Minoru manipulated the airflow and blew air with raised oxygen concentration into their nostrils. Forcibly sending in oxygen into the lungs.
The two simultaneously restarted breathing and coughed violently.
Minoru used his next magic. The two lost their resistance to magic in this half-awake state, so he used Ancient Magic genjutsu [17] to lead them to sleep. The two’s eyelids closed. Comfortable and breathing, proof that they are harmlessly sound asleep, different from just a few moments ago.
Minoru breathed out in relief. Injuring these two was never his intention. Even just turning towards offensive magic was too much for him.
Minoru understands why the Ten Master Clans are targeting him for capture or subjugation. But he didn’t plan to be hostile towards the Ten Master Clans.
He just wants to save Minami. To make sure of Minami’s intentions, and if she accepts his idea, he will turn her into a parasite. Afterwards, the two of them would live quietly and hidden. If Minami so wished, he would return her to the Yotsuba Family. He thought if it was the Yotsuba Family, they would protect their relatives regardless of what the rest of the Ten Master Clans says.
So even if he gets attacked, he planned to finish this as peacefully as he can. It was a difficult decision to attack Kasumi and Izumi, with risks of after-effects, as they have known each other from a young age. He wanted to make them powerless with the least pain possible, finish the first aid as quickly as possible, and Minoru didn’t plan to indulge in it.
While experiencing the persistent foul aftertaste, Minoru headed towards the back door of the hospital.
His goal is to kidnap Minami. He didn’t dare to sugar-coat it. Today he was ignoring her intentions, He came to take her away from the hospital. He believed this wasn’t the time for persuasion from the start. In Minoru’s calculations, with the amount of time that has passed it wouldn’t be strange if Tatsuya was already flying in.
Minoru extended his hand to the door of the rear entrance. But right afterwards he was forced to withdraw his hand, jumping back a great distance.
Dry ice bullets shot at his afterimage.
“Minoru-kun, surrender!”
Minoru looked overhead, towards where the voice came from.
“The genjutsu was exposed already, huh...”
Minoru reflexively muttered. From the hospital’s rooftop, Mayumi looked down on him.
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