Wow~ It's sure been a while folks. And i apologize profusely for such the long wait for me to kick back and get into the run of things.
But let's leave the rest for later, onto the Seventh Chapter.
"In short, the Fencing club intruded while the Kendo club was in the middle of their demonstration for new members."
"In short? You nearly mentally cripple a student and yet you don't mention it in your summary?"
Currently Tatsuya was in one of the many boardrooms in First High giving his views and reports to the Big Three of First High. The heads of the Student Council, Public Disciplinary Committee and the Club Management Group. And Tatsuya honestly didn't want to be there, he didn't see a need to. Why would he need to clarify on anything when there was multiple people there already plus Miyuki had already gave her own statement just before him.
"Yes in short Watanabe-senpai. I gave a brief summary as to what caused a disturbance, you didn't ask for an after action report."
Tatsuya was at that point where he couldn't be bothered hiding any snarky comment that he wanted to make just for a good appearance.
"Then why did you choose that method of dealing with him? And why did you even make it escalate to that level?"
"Equivalent exchange Watanabe-senpai. I didn't make it escalate at all, it's not my fault most of the students in this school are self-involved worms who think they are better than others just because of something that will unlikely be a worthy gauge of their humanly worth once they have left education. I gave him the reasoning as clear as day, he thought it was a smart idea to try and assault me."
"Equivalent exchange? You can't be serious!"
"Completely serious Watanabe-senpai. If he believes assault to be justifiable because I explained to him why Kirihara was being taken in, then me nearly mentally crippling him is completely justifiable because he was going to assault me. By those points, I'm more in the right than whoever the guy was that I dealt with."
It left no room for a replying answer from Watanabe Mari, despite being a completely twisted way of looking at it. From the point stated, it somewhat makes sense albeit Tatsuya had completely refrained from giving the whole truth on the manner at hand.
"And what of Kirihara, Tatsuya-kun?"
"Due to the fracture on his collarbone, I handed him over to a Health committee member. According to Miyuki he had acknowledged his misconduct and seemed to be regretting what he had done and was going to if I hadn't intervened. And as I trust Miyuki's judgement and senses when it comes to those areas, I deemed that there was no need to take further action against him."
"That should be fine then Tatsuya-kun. So how about it Juumonji-kun?"
Despite acknowledging the power of who the conversation was being turned over to, Tatsuya kept his gaze woefully plain. Juumonji may have been a counter to his Destruction but it wasn't enough to make him care enough to fully concentrate right now. There wasn't a need as there was nothing to gain outside of what Tatsuya had learnt about him from the files he has read beforehand that Yotsuba Maya had acquired for him.
"In regards to Kirihara, I'm grateful for your leniency. A B-rank lethal spell was used in that kind of place. Be that as it may, a suspension is unavoidable. But your rather disturbing dispatch, the report from the nurse says that he looked like he was experiencing a violent nightmare."
"Even if you are just implying Juumonji-senpai, it's rude to inquire about other people's magic. I will not speak for or against what I did because I see nothing wrong with how I dealt with the circumstance. Decide as you wish but there isn't really much that could be done, the higher-ups are as much of a kiss-ass as others are. To slight me is to annoy Yotsuba Maya, that is not something they can afford to do. Even if there was someone who was in the frame of mind to actually suspend me, my mother would get them back by taking both me and Miyuki out of this school and send us both to another school. Presumably the highest bidder or Third High as they seem to be the only true rivals this school has."
And the two males of the room stared at each other. Juumonji discerning Tatsuya and Tatsuya allowing Juumonji to look but not get. Tatsuya's completely impassive and lacking gaze were an impenetrable gate to anyone who was simply using their eyes to discern him, it was even enough to put off the people with weaker wills.
"I see. Thanks for your hard work Yotsuba-kun."
A soft hum rumbled around in Tatsuya's throat as the outcome he expected came to surface.
"Then I'll be off."
With a slow nod of his head, Tatsuya turned on his heel and walked straight out of the boardroom.
As Tatsuya left the room, Juumonji's eyes never left Tatsuya's back watching him as he left the room.
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Tatsuya felt sorry for someone. Yeah, it's a surprise to be heard but not really that much if you listen to the seconds afterwards. He felt sorry for Miyuki for having to watch what he did in retaliation. He cared not for the male that he nearly turned into a vegetable, no, he only felt sorry for making his sister watch the act of nearly turning a teenage boy into a vegetable. Not entirely Tatsuya's fault, it's a heavy dose of Yotsuba Maya but that's Yotsuba in a nutshell. Some might say disturbing and cold-hearted but the much more effective and wide-ranged adjective would probably just be 'Weird'.
Yotsuba was a clan shrouded in mystery unless and only unless, it was something that happened on a World Scale. Outside of that, not much was known. The Head, the Head's Butler, the Heir and the Heir's Guardian were the only ones known. Well, them and the Kuroba branch but no one really likes to talk about the Kuroba branch. So that's basically four people, only two are technically being seen as family inside of Yotsuba. All other clans had at least four members of the main family let alone the total number of people within that clan.
Yotsuba was weird.
People wanted to change that. The other Ten Master Clans wanted to change that but where would they get? There is the power to make it happen, the grandeur to make it happen but the question is simple from there. Would it even happen? The Yotsuba seem like the kind of family that if there was a chance of them falling then they'd blow themselves up upon death to eradicate everything about them except memories and memories of Yotsuba aren't really something you want to keep.
Things come and Things go but in this lifetime, Yotsuba will not budge an inch.
So with that knowledge of Yotsuba, how did Tatsuya go about comforting Miyuki? Did he even do it? Of course he did. Tatsuya and Miyuki were so close that incest was most definitely on the tip of Yotsuba Maya's tongue when thinking about getting Tatsuya a wife. Tatsuya let her choose one thing and that was to sleep with her. Not the gung-ho type of sleep where you make kids or just have fun but to literally just sleep. Spooning might be the most effective word to use to describe what Miyuki was wanting, for the moment at least.
And was Tatsuya ok with spooning his younger sister? It's neither a yes or a no, he was wholly indifferent to it as per usual really. He would indulge her and indulge her up until a certain point but that was simply because of his own reasons. He was trained to be a Weapon that utilized Magic. He grew up learning what he needed to as the Scion of Yotsuba. He didn't grow up being a Brother so he had no idea how to be one. All that came to his mind was to indulge her in her whims. A plan that can only possibly backfire in the end.
Nevertheless though, what can you do? Compare Miyuki to every other female in the world and pretty much everything points towards incest being the best outcome in that situation. Pretty sure that if there was God, not talking about the many Gods but of Christianity here, then there'd be another decent outcome. Forgetting everything else, this was simply how 'Life' worked. It was a cacophony of instances that absolutely no-one could understand the premise or reasons behind.
After all, the Future could not be completely predicted.
Battles may still happen. Total losses may still happen. Certain injuries may still happen but, nothing can be exact before it actually happens. Like 'Life', that was another law of the World.
Tatsuya was someone who seemed to embody the Laws of the World to a tee. His 'Life' was something on a national-scale of interest, perhaps even Worldwide-scale but it was as confusing and weird as it could get at the current moment and it could and probably will get even weirder.
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"No one?"
"Every one?"
"Heat 4-2-1?"
"Yup, Yup and Yup."
"Essence Mark Alive?"
"Essence Mark is Alive and Transponding, Sir."
"Hirano. Set to Wave 4 and Spin Cycle 8."
"All Jets are Spinning, Sir."
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"Taaaaaaaatsuuuuuuyaaaaa-kuuuuun~!"
The ever volatile child of Saegusa laid waste to the eardrums of those around her. Tatsuya thought it a shame that the ears were instantly revitalized through bullshit teenage hormones.
Saegusa Mayumi was taking one of the once-in-a-lifetime chances to gather all of Tatsuya's attention to herself as for once, Yotsuba Tatsuya was walking to school by himself. In the centre of the school's vast courtyard he was, a small holo-tablet held in his right hand.
Tatsuya proceeded to do something that he was only allowed to do when Miyuki wasn't around and that was to sigh, sigh heavily and mutter incoherently.
Reason being was not that he had to deal with Saegusa Mayumi but because he had to deal with her without having his morning dose of coffee.
"..Good morning Keiko. How's the husband today?"
"Tatsuya-kun, who is Keiko?"
Tatsuya was just as stumped as Mayumi was.
"Aren't you Keiko? Brown hair, hazel eyes, flat chest. Right?"
It was by this time that Tatsuya had actually turned round to look at Mayumi. It was that exact time that he listed off the appearance characteristics.
"Harshly energetic personality. You are a midget."
"Mouu~~ Tatsuya-kun, I'm not a midget."
"I knew it. You are Keiko."
It was at that point. That point where Tatsuya's tone fully expressed how truthful he was being in his complete confusion to who the person in front of him was. Tatsuya needed coffee more than food in the morning. His blood cells are practically confirmed to be coffee beans at this rate. White cells are most obviously decaf.
"Tatsuya-kun, remind me. Where do I live?"
"Live? 2-D characters aren't alive, Keiko."
That statement was what caused the otherwise interested but didn't want to be late students to become too interested to care about being late students. Very fine line honestly.
"Teehee~ Silly me, of course I'm not."
"No, you shouldn't be but you are."
His eyes steeled, Tatsuya drew nearer so Saegusa Mayumi. His tall frame arching downwards slightly, his face a mere inch away from Saegusa Mayumi's. His free left hand coming up and tenderly, pushing a lock of her black away out and away from her crimson eyes.
"You look more appetizing than I originally thought, Keiko."
Tatsuya's voice was kept low but it had a way of hitting the ears of everyone on the courtyard. Tatsuya didn't relent and continued to push farther. Cupping her small chin with his left hand, Tatsuya brought Mayumi's face up to look at his. Her bashful crimson eyes gazing at his wild duo of blazing red and calming blue.
Tatsuya let out a hushed hum of satisfaction as he took a slight whiff of her perfume and smiled lightly, only to follow on with a hungry lick of his lips.
"Wait for me later, Mayumi."
A husky tone met Mayumi's small ears as Tatsuya gently let go of her chin and took a step back. Mayumi was frozen solid from the altercation and allowed Tatsuya to go on his way like nothing at ever happened, immediately lifting his Holo-tablet back up and flicking right before turning and being on his way back into the school.
Let it be known, there are 3 stages of Tatsuya. 2 that can interlink and 1 that is riding solo. The Stoic Tatsuya. The Coffee-Drunk Tatsuya and the Flirting Tatsuya. However, all three Tatsuyas have two things in common. They are Ruthless and Hyper Effective.
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"Today class, we are going to talk about the effects of Dispersal Type Magic and how they can be effective."
As the lesson begun, Tatsuya immediately leaned back into his chair while all the other students lent forwards and activated their terminals so they could note or even word for word write down what their Teacher was just about to tell them.
"Dispersal Type Magic has strayed from it's original and rather intended path. In this Day and Age, Dispersal Type Magic is used for menial tasks. As you all know, Dispersal Type Magic is defined as magic that directly interferes with the movement and interaction of elementary and composite particles. This means that Dispersal Type Magic makes home-life a lot easier as it can rid objects of dirt or water droplets, it can even dry wet clothes in an instant.
Because of this, a Magician's views on Dispersal Magic have skewed somewhat. Originally, Dispersal Magic was created to combat and neutralize the danger of nuclear fissure weapons. And that's a surprising thought. We, Magicians, use a type of magic that can stop Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction safely as a means of speeding up chores around the house."
While all of this information was something that Tatsuya already knew, the Teacher had his own charms that was able to keep Tatsuya paying attention. He had some sort of vigour, some sort of emotion to his voice that kept Tatsuya interested in the potential for where this Teacher was going.
"Because of this History, the only real and quite possibly 'True' users of Dispersal Type Magic are Scientists and Magic Engineers who are all looking towards the Future explicitly. That being said, there are actually rumours floating around that our very own Yotsuba-kun uses Dispersal Type Magic for combat."
Tatsuya raised a single eyebrow at that point. It was a correct conclusion to jump to but it wasn't particularly right either however, it interested the students of the class to hear it.
"As you all know, Yotsuba-kun was able to fire magic in the shape of a cylinder without a CAD and against Antinite in front of very important people in, not only Japan, but the World of Magic. It wasn't completely a single spell but a fusion of the two. Yotsuba's Flash Cast and the specific Magic that Yotsuba-kun used. Although, Scientists who have been going over the videos, time and time again are still yet to reach a conclusion on exactly what it is. Of course, they know what happened and that the spell holds reminiscent features of Dispersal Type Magic but that theory also doesn't feel right to them.
And do any of you understand why that is?"
The room fell silent except for a few hushed mutters around the room. The students talking lightly amongst themselves, trying to come to an answer all on themselves until one students decided to take up the gauntlet and to raise her right hand up into the air two chairs in front of Tatsuya.
"Yes, Kitayama-chan?"
The boys were -kun and the girls were -chan. This didn't matter their years or pedigree for this Teacher and it's one of the few reasons why the 2nd Course students liked this Teacher. A man who went by the name of Hayashizaki Tenzan.
"Non-Systematic Type Magic."
"Ding Ding! You are correct, Kitayama-chan.
Ya see, the Scientists have picked up that the Psions were being Dispersed rather than the Eidos. Of course, we won't get a clear answer until either the Scientists and Magic Engineers create a reproduction of it or until Yotsuba-kun himself comes out with it. That creates a big question for the Future of Magic. Can the mass-production of this spell make Antinite obsolete further enforcing the might of a magician? Can the average magician even use the spell or do you have to be on the level as Yotsuba Tatsuya to even wield it?
But there is one question that the Scientists, Magic Engineers and even the 10 Master Clans hold at the tip of their tongues. With the ease that Yotsuba-kun showed it, at his young age, is there anything more?"
That question itself made the answer rather obvious. Whether it looked like it or not, there was always something much more. And to answer, Tatsuya let out a wry smile.
"A magic of that low-level is rather obscure for a Yotsuba, Sensei. It's true form is something much more terrifying."
I feel like this actually conforms well with my past chapters of this story.
Being away from writing a chapter and actually uploading it for a while has brought a certain deep weight to my conscious in this respect.
If it isn't for my reasons or yours, i'll get onto it and try to fix it.
Been around 9 months altogether for all my stories for me to properly get back into it.
Probably around a year overall but my life has finally calmed down with everything.
The original ordeal should still be on my profile and i don't want to dampen my spirit by going back into it after finally releasing this chapter for you all and so it leads me to the over reasons. Work and current family. Work has got super hectic, a lot of busy busy work and then married life. Much, much more strenuous than i thought it would be. I should have known that my Father was lying to me when he said it'd be easy but for once i was just hoping, you know?
I'm gonna leave it there for today on those things so onto other news. Both good and bad.
The Mahouka LN are finally getting an official translation, super hyped about that like Uber Super Hyper hyped.
I can finally hold a picture of Tatsuya-kun~ in my own hands. Problem being, it was pushed back from it's original date which i believe was November to May of Next Year. I was gutted to say the least. And i hope that you all go and buy them or pre-order them like i did and support the Author.
Ciao~
