Journal Entry January 2nd, 2093

Humanity... I can feel it slowly trying to slip away from my grasp.

I can hear a voice whispering to me... Telling me to look with the bigger-picture perspective instead of my perspective... Telling me to throw away the 'Me'... Telling me to morph the world whatever I want... Urging me to become something far above human...

I wonder... Is this what she had warned me before I departed from the Akashic Record? The 'backlash' that sooner or later I will have to meet for bringing all five True Magics to the World?

And here I thought I could get away with it after solving the mess Miss Blue left behind after pulling that stunt to revive her boyfriend for Gaia and Alaya...


Chapter 11

"Have you reached his place, Violet-chan?"

"Yes I have, Alcatraz-sama."

"Very good. From now on, he will be your new master. Serve him well, follow every single one of his command and give him everything you have and know"

"Yes sir."

"And one more thing: Be careful. Do not let the sacrifice of the one who freed you from Chaldea go to waste."

"... Yes sir."

And with that, the line went dead as the speaker chuckled before putting his phone away.

"Now... let's not be late for the climax of this event."


Watanabe Mari was a student of the First High. But more importantly, she was a swordwoman. And she could see whether a person practiced the art of sword or not based on the aura, the movement, the posture, the hands, how eyes moved and saw and how fast the reaction was.

The first time the Chief of the Public Moral Committee had laid her eyes on Miyamoto Musashi, the assistant of the school's gardener, Watarimono Yuuto, she had immediately known the cheerful and lively pinkish hair young woman was a fellow swordwoman. And probably a skillful one, if her assumption was correct. And since it was only an assumption, the female Watanabe wouldn't feel surprised if her assumption was wrong.

But this time, it was different, for Mari had never expected to see that the gap between her assumption and the reality was so large like this

"...N... no... no way..." muttered one of the terrorists shakily, his face was pale like a sheet.

"How... how could that bitch do that?!" came a shout from another terrorists, his gun was on the verse of falling to the ground due his shaking hands.

Miyamoto Musashi... she had blocked every single bullet coming to her just by spinning the katana in front of her like a shield! And just by pure skill without using any magic since the cast jamming of the terrorist was still in effect! Such a feat that required skills beyond what a normal human or even a swordmaster could gain!

"A samurai usually has two swords: a katana and wakizashi." the female samurai said dryly as she drew another sword with her left hand while the katana in her right hand rested against her shoulder "Having two blades in your belt means you are a fully fledged warrior and ready to protect others..."

Musashi's posture relaxed slightly as she pointed at the terrorists with the blade in her right hand

"... Yet all of you... Since when did you drop your swords... throw away that pride to attack and kill other?"

And that moment, Mari blinked.

It was just a blink and not even 0.5 passed in that blink...

"And this... is what you get for throwing it away"

... Yet it was all it took for Musashi to disappeared from her spot and reappeared right behind the group of terrorists, who quickly dropped down to the floor like puppets cut off from their strings, agonizing moan came out from their mouth as cut appeared on their arms and legs.

"How... " said Sakurai-sensei in disbelief as she checked the condition of the terrorists "How did you cut all of their tendons so fast like that?!"

With a small flick, little blood managed to get on the two katana was removed as Musashi put one of it back to a scabbard

"Skill and practice." Ignoring a clearly unconvinced Sakurai-sensei, Musashi just shrugged before indicating toward a small group of first year's 'Blooms'. "And I'm surprised with how accurate Yuuto-sama is when he talked about some of the 'Blooms'. All bark and no bite. Just something happened outside books and boom! They turned into a bunch of civilians that couldn't even defend themselves."

'sama'? This was the first time Mari heard Musashi referred to gardener with that suffix. What kind of relationship between them, she wondered.

"They are still students and inexperienced, Miyamoto-san." defended Sakurai-sensei as her voice hardened "Beside, it is wrong to judge all students by a few you met."

"Just state what I have seen and heard. Heck, that injured 'Weed' student there at least has enough courage to stand up and try to fight while those three could only cower in fear" Musashi wasn't fazed in the slightest. "And to be fair, I have never said all the Blooms are like that. It is your assumption that I judged them."

With another shrugg, Musashi continued walking toward the library direction while completely unawared of the admiring look coming from Mari as Sakurai-sensei quickly followed the swordwoman after letting out an irritating huff.


Fear.

It was something that Tatsuya had been deprived of. His own death could not induce such emotion into his mind. Not even The Lucifer's Hammer could force his mind to acknowledge fear. Ever since the day his training as a living weapon had been started, the only thing that could make such emotion took hold onto him was the scenario of losing Miyuki and it wasn't even the fear for him own being.

But in that invasion, for the first time in his life, Tatsuya had felt fear for himself.

If the 'Dead Apostle Ancestor'he had met when he had tried to get back to Miyuki haunted him for her unexplained origin and abilities even with his Elemental Sight as well as her hanging threat toward his little sister, the howl of the demon wolf was on a whole new level. For the first time, not a single muscle of his body had managed to move while his mind had screamed at him to run away instead of trying to save Miyuki. Even though his love for his sister had soon swatted away that fear and his body had finally followed his order, that fear still lingered in a corner of his memory, as if to remind him how just for a few seconds, his traitorous mind had put himself before his little sister's well-being.

After the invasion, he had secretly hoped that he would never have to hear that howl again or worse, see the source of that howl. But now, it was clear that whatever God out there had thought otherwise.

In the middle of the school's courtyard littered with disfigured dead bodies and burning vehicles, the Nightmare of The Great Asian Union stood proudly. About 3 meters in length while easily shadowed a fully growth adult with its height, the demon was oozing such hatred that felt like it was trying to suffocate everything around it white its black and blue flames were following every footstep of it.

But its headless rider, which had never been mentioned in reports or from those insane witnesses, was the most bizarre thing Tatsuya had ever seen. Yet at the same time, he was curious about it. Was it real? Or was it just an illusion? And if it was real, was it even a living being? But the moment he had set his Elemental Sight upon the wolf and its rider in an attempt to find out more about them, the only result he had received was the unbearable pain that felt like lava being directly poured into his skull through his eye sockets.

"Hey Tatsuya! Do you think that bastard told the truth? And who do you think jammed all the phone and radio signal if not the terrorists?" Leo's voice snapped the black hair teen out of his thought. The jamming was the reason why they couldn't contact the police or in Tatsuya's case, contact 101 the Independent Magic-Equipped Battalion to alert them about the presence of the Demon Wolf of Okinawa.

"He didn't lie, that I am certain. They need the communication to keep track with each other, thus there's no reason to jam even own their signal and frequencies." Tatsuya shook his head slightly as his group continued to move. Since Tatsuya could see that there was no hostile presence in this direction, the group could go much faster to the library "But who jammed the signal and for what reason, I do not know. ..."

Suddenly, Miyuki stopped dead in her track right before their little group could reach the end of the corridor. The frown gradually made it way to Tatsuya's face as he saw Miyuki shakily raised her right hand to her mouth.

"What's wrong, Miyuki-chan?" the worry was evident in Tatsuya as Erika came closer in an attempt to shake her friend out of her stupor.

"Miyuki-chan!" said Erika as she put a hand on Miyuki's shoulder "What are y..."

However, she didn't expect Miyuki to ran off toward another direction, her brother quickly followed behind after a half second of shock. This prompted her and Leo to chase after the Shiba siblings. As the two tried to catch up with their friends, Erika could gradually hear the distant soothing sound of music.

Yume no you na izu no omoide/ Such are my memories of Izu, as unreal as a dream.

Osanai no wa boku datta/ It turned out that I was the one who was the child,

When Erika and Leo finally reached the Shiba siblings, the scene in front of them nearly made them throw up. Blood splashed nearly everywhere in the corridors. Dead bodies of terrorists laid around, some were pinned into the wall. All the corpses were brutally impaled with swords, making them no better than mere pincushions made from human flesh, while few other were mutilated beyond recognition. All the fresh signs showed that this slaughter had just happened not too long ago.

"Wh... what in the world..." Leo looked a little bit green as he tried to hold down the urge to discard his lunch through his mouth "... Who did this... this... "

"Whoever do it, it seems that person is not an ally of the terrorists." said Tatsuya as he inspected a sword, which he pulled out from a random corpse. The sword was about one meter and extremely short hilts, looking more likely to be used to thrust than slash at the opponent. However, its weight was one kilo and it was too thick while oddly-balanced, feeling heavier towards the tip, to use as melee weapons in general. What surprised the black hair young man even more was its material, which was something he had never known before and could only describe with the word 'alien'.

But more importantly, this thing... it had no Eidos!

Tatsuya couldn't even believe it. Everything to prove its existence was real, the weight in his hands, the cold feeling of its material, the damage it could cause... They were all here, right in front of his eyes, yet what Elemental Sight showed him in the Information Dimension told another story. Putting his right palm on the blade, Tatsuya tried to decomposed it with Mist Dispersion and the result had proved that his Elemental Sight wasn't wrong. The blade was still in his hand without even a single scratch, not because there was something wrong with his magic but because there was no Eidos for the magic to target in the first place!

It was a well-known knowledge that anything with a physical body would have their Eidos imprinted in the Information Dimension yet here it was, this sword and probably its friends had defied every rule and knowledge of Eidos and Information Dimension! Just what exactly was this thing?

Sayonara mo tsutaerarezu ni/ and time is simply passing by

Toki ga tada sugiteku/ while I couldn't even say goodbye.

Snapping out of her shock, Miyuki continued walking toward the room where the music was coming from, thus signalling her brother to stand up and followed her closely. The moment she reached her hand toward the doorknobs, voices could be heard along side the music

"Is she okay, senpai?" it was the female voice belonged to the girl named Mash Kyrielight.

"Terrified... and currently out-cold due to the stress as well as blood loss. " the pleasant voice of the gardener made Miyuki let out a quiet gasp. "Nearly being raped by two terrorists surely is not a pleasant experience."

"Can you save her?"

"Piece of cake. And instead of eavesdropping, could you four lads out there just come in here? I won't bite."

Glancing at his friends for a second, Tatsuya cautiously stepped in front of Miyuki to shield her in case something happened, his Trident was drawn before turning the doorknobs and let the scene greet his group. Two terrorists were in their respective pools made from their own blood, each had three swords impaled through their heart, throat and skull. On the other side was Watarimono Yuuto who was holding an injured second year students in his arms bridal style. Between the two sides was Mash. The clothes he had seen in the noon were replaced with a set of short armor dress while a strange giant shield was raised toward Tatsuya, her eyes changed from the eyes of a kind girl into the eyes that was usually seen in a warrior or more precisely, a protector.

"Fou! Fou! Fou!"

And let's not forget the cute fluffy little white furball, who was standing on four next to the shield holding girl while doing its best to intimidate the four teen. If it had been a normal situation, both Miyuki and Erika would have squealed at the adorable attempt while even Tatsuya would have chuckled at how Primy's tail was (angrily?) wagging around.

"Relax, Mash. No need to so tense like that."

"But senpai..."

"I doubt they are the rats that bastart told us." commented the gardener casually before indication his head toward Tatsuya who was pointing his Trident at him "And would you kindly stop using that Mystic Eye on me as well as Mash, please? While my assumption about it might be wrong, it still makes me feel like you're undressing me and that is reeeeaaaallllyyy creepy."

Despite a brief moment of shock due to how Yuuto knew about the existence of Elemental Sight as well as the unfamiliar 'Mystic Eye' phrase, the CAD in Tatsuya's hand kept pointing at the gardener's back as Yuuto gently laid the injured student on a long table.

"What. Are. You?" asked Tatsuya slowly as he emphasized every word

"Onii-san!" cried Miyuki but Tatsuya just ignored her as he continued to press forward. Behind him, both Erika and Leo who had the expression of confusion marched on their face

"My eyes only saw her presence in the room before we opened the door, there is none of you two and your pet. And here you are..." Tatsuya's head nodded toward the injured girl as Miyuki slowly realized what her brother was implying "... I ask again. What. Are. You?"

"In a sense, I am human." Yuuto seemed like he wasn't fazed in the slightest as the pleasant tone didn't change in a slightest, his right hand was digging through his trousers pocket "And while I more or less understand what you are implying..."

The gardener's eyebrow suddenly raised up a little bit as he checked the student's pulse before an amusing look seeped into his eyes.

"... What make you think I would answer?"

The moment his hand was out of his pocket, an audible gasp could be heard from Miyuki the moment her eyes saw what was between his fingers while the frown on Tatsuya's face deepened as theories started forming in his mind. Did he use some kindmagic to hide his Eidos or at least its imprint in the Information Dimension? Was there even anything that could do that?

"Here is your second life. Treasure it." Bright blue lights started emitting from the pentagram sapphire as Yuuto put his palm on the student's chest. After a few seconds when the light finally died down, the group of students watched in marvel as every wounds had been healed while the pale skin had returned to its natural color.

"Done." the gardener clasped his hands lightly before he took off his blazer and covered the unconscious girl. Miyuki could feel her eyes became blurry while her heart started beating faster as the familiar scene was playing in front of her. He was kind just how she had thought "Now, is there anything else you need? Those Blanche wankers out there won't go away by themselves."

Almost instantly, Miyuki stepped forward as the small velvet appeared was taken out before any questions could come from from Tatsuya

"Savi... I mean, Watari-san..." she shyly presented the velvet box to the young man in front of her "... Is... this..."

The sound of phone ringing immediately interrupted what she tried to say as Yuuto raised his hand to stop her and took out his phone.

"Hello? Oh hey, Van-Fem." the four students quickly took out their phones only to see that the signal was still jammed. How could the gardener's phone still work while their couldn't?! Unless... "What? Hmm...And?... Hell no! You still owe me for cleaning your mess back in the fast food chain!..."

... Regardless, Yuuto's phone was their chance to call reinforcement from police while in Tatsuya's case, his special force.

"... Fine. I will look into it, you bloody lazy vampire." growled the gardener in annoyance before turning back to Miyuki "Okay, now where were..."

"Why is your phone still functional?" Once again, the conversion was cut off, though this time was by Tatsuya

"Pardon?"

"The phone signal has been jammed since the start of the attack, yet you just received a phone call." a look of understanding dawned on the gardener's face "Unless you are the one..."

"... who jammed it? Yep, the jamming is my doing or more precisely, my Bounded Field's doing." despite Tatsuya's intimidating expression, the pleasantness never disappeared in his voice as he playfully wagged his right index finger. Of course, the phrase 'Bounded Field' hadn't escaped Tatsuya as he filed it away in his mind "Can't have those Blanche wankers called for help, can I? No worry, the jamming will stop when I'm done with these wankers."

"But we need to call for help!" cried Leo "They are terrorists and we are just students! We don't have..."

The pointy look Yuuto shot at the brown hair male student instantly made him clamp his lips closed before he could finish whatever he was saying and gulped loudly. The pleasantness in his eyes disappeared as Miyuki shuddered due to the sudden appearance of the cold aura that started emitting from the gardener. It was much more terrifying than the time the school's sound system had been hijacked by the Alliance

"Answer me, you useless wanker." it was clear that Leo was using all of his will so that he wouldn't let out a girly scream at the sight of a veeerrryyyy pissed off gardener "What. Does. This. Bloody. School. Teach. You. And. Others?"

"M-ma-magic, sir!" squealed Leo in a high-pitched tone and Erika could only pity her friend while hiding behind Tatsuya's back along with Miyuki. On the side, Primy had jumped onto the top of Mash's head and shielded her eyes from the scene with its two front paws.

"Good." Tatsuya was torn whether he should intervene with this or not since in a sense, Leo brought this to himself "So basically, you are not unarmed right?"

Leo could only nod his head for he couldn't even believe in his voice anymore.

"So tell me, Mr..." suddenly the coldness disappeared as if it had never been there in the first place, politeness and pleasantness once again took the place "... Sorry, but what's your name?"

"I-it's Sa-Saijou Leonhard, sir." A shaky answer managed to come out from Leo's throat. Was he off the hook?

"Ooohh. It's nice to meet you then, Leonhard-san." the gardener shook Leo's hand in a friendly manner as Leo breathed out a sigh of relief. The first year believed he just had lost a few years of his life just by standing near such terrifying... presence.

"... Um... Yes... The pleasure i... Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch!Ouch! My hand! My hand!"

In just a blink of eyes, the friendly handshake changed into a bone-crushing one, thus making Leo let out a chain of painful yelps as the aura came back full force

"So tell me, Mr. Saijou Leonhard." No matter how much he tried, the gardener's grip left no chance for Leo to escape and Leo could tell a few more years of his life would be taken away if he had to endure it for the next minute! "What exactly don't you and other student have? Weapon? Every single one of you students already posesses a dangerous tool that could easily cut off one's head..."

Somebody!

"... Number? The bulk of the terrorists is already annihilated. Hell, you can even crush them by sheer number if, and only if, you're willing to sacrifice..."

Anybody!

"... Or you mean experience? Then what are the instructors, the second and third year students in your eyes? Civilian? Chopped liver?..."

Please save his soul and this Saijou Leonhard would worship that person until the rest of his life!

And apperantly, whatever God out there had heard Leo's desperate plead as the door of the room suddenly opened

"They're here!" Mash quickly sprang into action and raised her shield up, blocking all the incoming bullets shot by three terrorists standing at the door. Holding the shield at her chest level, Mash used it as a battering ram and knocked the terrorists out cold by running into the three shockeded terrorists.

"Dear oh dear..." The moment the grip on his hand loosened, Leo immediately hid behind Erika's back with such a speed that Erika wasn't sure if Acceleration could even keep up with.

"Almost forgot about these bastards." the gardener fixed his sky blue tie a little bit before turning to the group of students or more precisely, Miyuki "Sorry Shiba-san, your question will have to wait for a while. Let's go Mash. Time to catch those rats."

(Chapter end)


Author's... rant: This chapter came much later than I expected. Anyway, this arc has become much longer than I had anticipated _(:3 」∠ )_. To be honest, I'm still not entirely satisfied with a few minor details here and there in this chapter but since my current writing skill is still lacking, this will have to do for now until I can revise them. Anyway, I need to address about one thing about Tatsuya getting no love in this fic which had been raised in a review by Bisaster but I kinda forgot ahahaha... ε=┌(;・_・)┘Anyway, Tatsuya is not the main character so of course there will be a lack of his presence. Now looking back, while I certainly don't hate Tatsuya, at the same time I can't like him no matter how much I WANT to like him, which is also a minor reason why I create an OC instead of outrightly using Tatsuya ( and to some extend, Gudao) when the idea for this fic first came to my mind. His character does not allow him to create utter chaos and madness while his skewed emotions along with his status as a living weapon for the Yotsuba only make it worse (the anime is even WORSE since basically Tatsuya is turned into a bloody tin can!). Beside, my main writing theme is not suitable for main characters like Tatsuya anyway.

Heck, maybe, and I mean just may be, I will try to do a crossover between Gintama and Mahouka where Gin and Tsukuyo adopted Tatsuya and taught him to bullshit everything and troll everyone around him until no one dare to oppose the LORD Hideaki Sorachi! Muwahahahahahaha! "ψ(`∇´)ψ

And speaking about Mahouka's author, another I'm somewhat annoyed about that Tsumoto Sato was how he explained magic or more precisely, Tatsuya's magic. He threw a lot of knowledge, logic, reason mumble jumble to explain how Tatsuya could create and achieve such power and feats while I only need one sentence to explain and many of you will agree with me *inhale*

"BECAUSE HE IS SHIBA TATSUYA AND HE IS AWESOME!".

Done. Yep, only that.

Anyway, that's all for now. I will see you guys in the next update and please, read and review!

Oh, and Happy (soon) Lunar New Year!