N/A: Took me half a day just to finish this!
Today was the first day of the Nine Schools Competition. I sat with Tatsuya-kun and the others. The Battle Board event was first to go. Mari was in that one. She applied Fortification Magic while multi-casting Movement Magic and Vibration Magic. She's not even close to as good as me when controlling multiple magics at the same time. After all, the Mitsuya family's specialty is that. We all knew who was going to win of course.
Now it was the Speed Shooting event. There were lots of people. Mayumi was quite popular huh? Loud cheers started when Mayumi walked out onto the stage. She was going against Matoba Keiko, a Fifth High student. The countdown began and Keiko and Mayumi got their rifle CADs ready. Nobody should underestimate the Elven Princess in losing. Mayumi was far too skilled for Keiko. It started and the clay targets started flying out. She was quick and had accurate aiming. "Amazing," Shizuka said. "Ms. Saegusa's 'Der Freischutz'...It's even faster than last year," Miyuki said. "I expected it from Mayumi," I said. Near the end of the match, Mayumi used one hand only to shoot her last shot. She won, seventy points more that Keiko. She turned around and waved to First High and everybody cheered.
That night, we celebrated her victory. All Student Council female members celebrated with her. We spoke about plenty of things. Miyuki left to tell Tatsuya-kun about him filling in for Mayumi's engineer for the Women's Crowd Ball.
The next morning I was going to see him in the stage, but I stopped only to see him helping Mayumi stretching. They finished up. I watched the two talk to each other. Mayumi was smiling at him. I depressingly started to walk back. "Hiromi!" I heard his voice and turned around. "Did you want to see me?" Tatsuya-kun asked. "I was, but you were busy with Mayumi so I thought that I should've just left you two..." I responded. "You can say what you want now," he said. I smiled. "I was wondering if you had time to help me pick an outfit for the Ice Pillars Break event." He smiled back at me and patted my head. "Sure." Just being patted in the head by Tatsuya-kun was enough to make my heart race. "See you later then," I said, waving and walking.
It was finally starting. Mayumi was going against Yamagami Misato from Seventh High. She served. In the end, Mayumi won. Then we watched Kanon's round of Ice Pillars Break. It started. She used Landmine Source. As expected from the family that is known to be skilled in Long-range Solid Matter Vibration Type Magic and in spells that cause the earth to vibrate. Two of her opponent's pillars broke. Three more broke. Her opponent looked very desperate to win. She tried to defend her pillars, but her spell was no match for Kanon's spell. In the end, Kanon won. Kanon turned around and did a peace sign toward us. Isori Kei smiled.
In the afternoon, all of us, Leo, Mikihiko, Erika, Mizuki, Honoka, Shizuka, Miyuki, and came to Tatsuya-kun's room. I sat on one of the beds. We discovered that Tatsuya-kun had a Weaponized Integrated CAD. He threw the briefcase it was in to Leo to try it out.
Night fell and I found out the CAD was a sword.
The next day was Mari in the second round of the Battle Board event. She was in the lead again. I gasped. I sensed a spell. I looked at Tatsuya-kun, who also noticed something. That strange feeling came back again. The student who was behind her flew to Mari. Mari prepared to cast a spell, but stopped and caught the student instead. The water drained out. Tatsuya-kun got up and headed down. I was about to follow but he told me that I should just stay with the others.
Mari was taken to the Susono Base Hospital by Tatsuya-kun. She had broken her ribs. He stayed with her while she was being treated. After that, Tatsuya-kun went on to find out how the incident happened. I wanted to help him, so I came to his room. I knocked. He opened the door.
"Is there anything I can help you with?" I asked. "You're too focused on this, so don't worry about it," he said. "But you're working too-" Tatsuya-kun interrupted me by putting his hand on my shoulder. "You remind of Miyuki," he said. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. I'll tell you the information I managed to get tomorrow." I nodded.
Then I went to a meeting with Mayumi and the others. We were in the lead, yet Third High was catching up to us. Miyuki was going to take Mari's place in the Official Mirage Bat event. I hoped that we would win very much.
On the fourth day of the competition and the first day of the Rookie Event, Honoka and Shizuku were going to compete. Honoka was competing in the Battle Board event and Shizuku in the Speed Shooting event.
We sat and waited for the Speed Shooting event to start. Honoka was starting later. Right now was Shizuku's qualifying round. The alarm went off and Shizuku put on her glasses. The clay targets flew out and she shot. She had set the whole scoring area as her Magic Activation Zone and tagged all the solid substances inside the zone with Vibrating Wave Magic. Active Air Mine was the spell. Shizuku succeeded.
Watching all these different events made me want to already compete. Oh, I forgot to tell you which ones. Ice Pillars Break event and Mirage Bat event were the ones I was doing.
Shizuku was now competing against Kawamura Minami from Second High. Minami was anxious and desperate to catch up to Shizuku. Shizuku ended up winning and First High cheered loud. I was very amazed by Tatsuya-kun's skills and a huge spark of hope lit within me.
Now it was Honoka's turn. The Women's Rookie event Battle Board. It was about to start. Tatsuya-kun gave us shades and we wore them. Right when it started, an optical spell happened from Honoka. So that's what the shades are for. Honoka accelerated quick and ahead of the others. I clapped my hands together. "Your plan was a success!" I said. "Yeah," Tatsuya-kun replied with a smile.
After it was over, we went down to see her. She ran to Tatsuya-kun and held his hands while thanking him. Tatsuya-kun congratulated her and she started to get teary. I chuckled. Honoka explained to us that she would always wimp out during matches and that she hardly ever won. Tatsuya-kun looked at Shizuku to get an explanation. She whispered that Honoka was talking about her elementary days. Honoka cried and thanked him a lot.
That night, Miyuki left to go visit her brother.
The Women's Rookie event Ice Pillars Break had started. The platform Shizuku was on rose up. She was wearing a blue kimono. Her sleeves were tied up by a sash. I smiled. I had heard that the Women's Ice Pillars Break was like a fashion show, and that was the reason why I asked Tatsuya-kun to help me pick an outfit. She was going against Kasuga Akane from Fifth High. They started casting spells. It was quite an interesting battle and Shizuka had won. Cheers were loud from First High.
Next was Miyuki. She was going against Shimizu Ayaka from Fourth High. The platform went up. Miyuki was wearing a shrine maiden outfit. The two immediately casted spells. Inferno. As I thought, Miyuki was powerful. Ayaka desperately pressed buttons on her bracelet CAD while sweat poured down on her. Her pillars began melting quick. Miyuki finished her off with an ice spell.
That night, girls gathered around Tatsuya-kun, asking him all sorts of questions. I began to feel that some boys were getting annoyed by all the praise he was getting from the girls.
The more Tatsuya-kun talks to me, the more I feel like I'm getting close to being by his side. I would have to do my best for tomorrow in the Ice Pillars Break for the school and for him. I cheerfully smiled quietly.
N/A: You know, I wish they'd hurry up and tell us if there's going to be a season 2! If there isn't, I swear, I'm going to die. Not this story though! This was four episodes so five left for this arc! By the way, I'm just gonna spoil you guys a little, but remember what Masaki asked Hiromi last chapter? She has another special ability just so you know!
