On that same day the news of the public forum spreads like a wildfire and in the commotion of chatting students Tatsuya manages to spot the person who ambushed him the other day, seeing him talk to a girl and take off when he sees him.
"Excuse me, who was that?" Tatsuya asks.
"Oh, that was the Kendo team captain Kamono Kinoe " the girl says and Tatsuya remembers the same, looking into him later with his army intel access and finds the connection between him and blanche, which is that his brother is the head of the Japanese seat of blanche.
|the next day - school auditorium|
Many of the students, especially the 2nd class students have gathered for the forum, where four chosen speaker of the 2nd classes are trying to make their point, with Mayumi opposing them as head of the student council.
"The students from the lower courses are being hindered in all regards, this is the problem we're facing." The first speaker of the 2nd courses exclaims.
"I would like you to be more specific with this." Mayumi says.
"The magic-sport clubs have a higher budged than the non magic-sports, where more 2nd course students are present. This is an example of favoritism of the first class students." The next speaker says.
"The budget, as per regulation is only dependent of the clubs achievements. Even a unpopular club like legball has the same budget as any other club, it's the prize moneys and popularity of the teams that bring a higher, self-earned budget." Mayumi explains.
"Listen everyone. I'm not denying that there is a certain discrimination present. But the student council often voices itself against this and what happens after that lies with you. Many of you have grown to accept words like weed and bloom, but if you wouldn't be bothered by it then there won't be this discrimination anymore someday. The only difference between course 1 and 2 is that course 1 has teachers present, while course 2 has more self-reliant teaching." Mayumi tells the students.
"Course 1 or course 2, we're all students in this academy. And we each and everyone should make the best out of our time here." Mayumi says, ending her speech and the forum, since the other speakers are all too emotional to bring a contribution.
When Mayumi is about to deliver a closing speech an explosion rocks the building and some students suspiciously get up, reaching for their cad.
"Arrest them immediately." Mari orders over her com set and the disciplinary members around the room arrest everyone, safe for one of the speakers, who takes a cad out of his sleeve and shoots a lightning bolt at Mayumi. Sosuke runs in front of her, taking the hit, absorbing the magic with his antinite and shoots the student through his knee with his gun-making magic, making him collapse and drop his cad, which Mari quickly picks up.
When a gas grenade flies in through a window the student council vice-president quickly forms an air bubble around the container and the escaped gas, before sending it flying back out of the room.
Moments later 3 armed gunmen enter the hall, all wearing gas masks and bodysuits.
Mari kills one, by filling his mask with nitrogen, while Sosuke already took care of the other two, the two attacker lying on the floor in a pool of blood with Sosuke twirling a combat knife around his finger.
Mari then gets reports of an attack at the science building and Tatsuya volunteers to go check it out, his sister tagging along.
"I'm surprised you're not going with them." Mari tells Sosuke, who walked back to the stage.
"Leaving the commander and the client unprotected during battle is reckless." Sosuke says coldly, before putting up his happy mask again, adding "I'm talking about you two beauties of course." Putting his arms around Mari and Mayumi's waist.
"I have a boyfriend." Mari shouts angrily, slapping him in his face, making him release her.
"You're mean. I'm you a compliment here and this is the reward." Sosuke says grumpily, pulling both girls with him off the stage.
"What are you doing? Let us go." Mari complains and is about to use her cad on him, while Sosuke calmly drags the two along however.
"Sosuke, what's wrong?" Mayumi asks, looking at the now empty stage, which blows up in a shower of wood, with a handful of goons storming the room moments later.
"Haha, your precious student council president is dead, now everyone let's join blanche together." The leader of the small squad says, only for him to go flying into the rooms wall.
"Do you realize what would have happened had you succeeded? I'm going to slaughter you all." Sosuke says devilishly, his knife glowing eerily.
"Sosuke, don't! We're fine." Mayumi pleads, snapping him out of his rage and he faces the scared crowd including Mayumi and Mari.
"Your lucky day." He says, all of the men only falling down unconscious with Sosuke gone from sight, having taken position on top of the building. Seeing Leo fight some men and sees enemies sneak up on him.
Sosuke creates a rifle with his magic and shoots the three men down, with Leo turning around to the three dead in surprise.
Inside the building Mayumi says, "Alright everyone. Mari and her men will have everything under control soon." trying to calm the students down.
In the meantime, Miyuki, Tatsuya and Erika stop Mibu and her blanche friends from stealing valuable school data, before beating them all.
Later that day Tatsuya, Mayumi, Mari, Sosuke, Leo, Erika and Miyuki are listening to Mibu explain how she got mixed up in blanche. How she remembers starting to resent the first class students when Mari declines a challenge to a duel, saying that Mibu is too weak. Upon hearing this Mibu is confident that she complimented the girl's Kendo abilities.
Tatsuya upon hearing about the girls memory problems assumes some kind of mental manipulation was used on her.
"Is there a magic which can warp emotions and memories?" Sosuke asks curiously, having the same instinct as Tatsuya after listening to the young swordswoman's story.
"Yes." Tatsuya simply answers.
"It's true, sadly there are certain magics which can alter a person's psyche. Do you two think this is what happened here?" Mayumi asks.
"Would make sense right? The gaps in memory, the different version of the conversation with Mari-senpai." Sosuke says bitterly, having a flashback to the tests the scientists did on him, when they implanted the cad board into his body, which controls his antinites and determines his magic abilities.
"What we need to do now is find out where the members of blanche are right now if you ask me." Tatsuya says.
"You don't plan to fight them I hope. It's way too dangerous." Mayumi says worried.
"I plan to annihilate them." Tatsuya replies.
"I agree, that's above our league." Mari says.
"We should leave it to the police." Mayumi suggests.
"If we do that Mibu might be facing charges for assault and robbery." Tatsuya tells them.
"Yes. The police shouldn't investigate this. But the matter of the fact is the enemy is a terrorist group. No one of the council is willing to risk their fellow students lives with a reckless attack." Jumonji tells him.
"I don't plan to involve anyone else in this matter." Tatsuya informs them.
"Come on, I'll join you, it'll be like old times, eh?" Sosuke says, looking at his fellow soldier.
"Fine." Tatsuya agrees unfazed.
"I will come too." Miyuki says.
"Nah, it's better if we handle this alone Miyuki." Sosuke tells her.
"Don't. If you're just doing this to protect me, don't so it. I have to face my own mistakes." Mibu tells the two of them.
"Sayaka, I'm not doing this because of you. Our lives are being threatened by this enemy and everything that threatens my life or my sisters I will destroy." Tatsuya says decidedly.
"And I'm just pissed they tried to hurt such pretty ladies." Sosuke says playfully, winking at the girls in the room, making Erika chuckle.
"But Tatsuya, how are we going to find out where the terrorists are?" Miyuki asks.
"Sosuke?" Tatsuya asks.
"Right your favor. Uhh, where is it again? Uhm has anyone seen my jacket?" Sosuke asks, looking for his student uniform.
"Sosuke." Erika says, tossing him the clothing he hung over a chair.
"Thanks Erika." He thanks her, catching it and gives Tatsuya a tablet.
The teen then types in something only he and Sosuke can follow due to his incredible speed and after a short while they see a satellite scan of the headquarters of Blanche.
"Huh, what did you search for?" Sosuke asks surprised.
Tatsuya only shows him the search of 'blanche+ japan'.
"Oh, that's how blanche is written? And I was typing in blank the whole time." Sosuke laughs, making the others look at him funnily.
"I think it'd be better if I accompany you. You will need the help." Jumonji tells them.
"We'll come too." Erika says, putting her arms around Leo and Miyuki's neck.
"Uff, fine but you're all waiting in the car." Sosuke agrees grumbling.
"Do we have a car that will fit so many though?" Sosuke asks aloud.
"I do." Jumonji tells him.
"Well alright then, no time like the present right?" Sosuke says, heading out of the hospital room.
"He is peculiar." Mari says.
"Come on, let's hurry up or he'll leave without us." Erika says, running after Sosuke.
|2 hours later|
The group is sitting in their car in front of the large storage building which houses blanche.
"Alright, here's how it'll go. Jumonji, Erika you two will take care of any stragglers that try to escape from the back and Leo, Miyuki. You do the same over here, Okay?" Sosuke asks, getting nods in reply.
"What will you two be doing?" Erika asks.
"Raising hell." Sosuke says seriously, his eyes focused and cold like Tatsuyas, while he grabs his blade from a pouch on his left hip, twirling it between his fingers.
"Come on Tatsuya, oh and Jumonji, you should probably use your shield ability as of right now. There will be debris falling." Sosuke tells the man, before he and Tatsuya leave the vehicle, jumping over the fence into blanche's compound.
"Let's go Chiba." Jumonji says, taking off to get in position at the back of the compound.
"So, let's switch roles this time alright? You just tell me where to hit." Sosuke tells Tatsuya, who then points at the top of the building. Sosuke creates a Sniper rifle with his magic and shoots his first target.
This continues a few more times, with Tatsuya sensing the enemies positions and directing Sosuke to them.
"Working pretty neatly, eh?" Sosuke says, shooting off another round, which kills another terrorist in the upper floor.
His shots are seen by the remaining group, appearing like short laser bursts to them.
"Hmm impressive." Jumonji says, recalling his shield he summoned as instructed.
"Why? What are those beams?" Erika asks.
"Bullets. High speed rounds, made entirely out of magic. They follow a similar principal as my shields, but they must be much higher concentrated for them to pierce through an entire building without strafing from their target." Jumonji says, re activating his shield in front of him and Erika.
"Bullets huh? Sounds like Sosuke's work." Erika says.
"I agree." Jumomji says.
"That were all the targets in the upper floors." Tatsuya tells Sosuke.
"Good anyone else on ground level beside terrorists?" Sosuke asks, grabbing his knife again.
"No, they are all armed but one, but he's wearing a antinite ring, as are some others.
"That won't them do any good against this." Sosuke says his dagger's blade glowing red and gradually getting bigger.
"I haven't seen that ability of yours yet." Tatsuya remarks uncaring.
"It's new. I installed it after you made me the ankle weights." Sosuke tells him.
"I didn't know you could change your internal cad programs." Tatsuya says intrigued.
"It was risky, but the army gave me a machine, which allows me to access the cad remotely, though it's only stable when I'm sleeping." Sosuke tells him.
"Interesting." Tatsuya says.
"Hmm. Tell me if I've missed anyone." Sosuke then says, holding his blade outwards, the blade angled horizontally.
Sosuke then slashes his blade in front of him, releasing more of his stored up energy, cleaving the building in front of them in two, killing every person on the first floor.
"What just happened?" Erika asks confused, she and Jumonji having seen a brief flash of red running through the building.
The top half of the building then slowly slides down one side, shocking Erika and Jumonji.
"Did one of them just cut a building in half?" Erika asks.
"It appears so." Jumonji replies.
"You got everyone." Tatsuya says.
"Look, it was easy and you didn't have to delete anyone with your blue devil stuff." Sosuke tells Tatsuya, putting away his blade before they regroup with the four others standing guard.