Ain't that a game-changer?
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Chapter 2 : Too many weapons.
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"And there, you have to use this kanji, not this one, it could be badly interpreted."
Harry nodded at Maya and wrote the new kanji she had taught him just before.
While he could easily learn to speak languages orally by entering people's heads and studying it in their mind, where he could stop time, it wasn't the same with writing it and knowing exactly the nuances in each language.
Every language had different registers going by level of familiarity, and as Maya's new fiancé, he really needed to know everything about formal speech and how to recognise and use insults in the kind of setting he would be in.
Seemed Maya was big on insults and threats … he could relate, people were less annoying when they knew you were able to send them to their graves while barely lifting a finger.
He had had to frighten the servants as they kept trying to clothe him and bath him … he didn't need it and it made him restless when he had too much people around him. He had promised he wouldn't kill anyone without being attacked in the first place to Yotsuba Genzou … it was hard.
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"Stand up, still no external magic!" Ordered the black-clad Head of the Yotsuba Family. He had a short curved katana out and beckoned Harry to attack him with a smirk.
Harry followed the blade with his unnaturally focused eyes and blocked the sword strike with his magic-reinforced hand. That was the only thing he had from his time in Dahan's laboratories, his skill in fighting and killing people.
They had encouraged him to experiment and find other powers, even if they died when he found yet another mean of killing people, insane fanatics from a desperate nation.
"You're not making it easy" Harry rasped, he really wasn't used to be physical with his enemies after he had freed himself up, they hadn't managed to keep him from using magic, even with their useless weird metallic rings.
"Never consider your magic as a solution to everything, sometimes you will need to be fit and to use physical force" Genzou warned the child with a sigh. "And you will need to become used to be around others and even be attacked without automatically killing them."
"I didn't do anything to your servants" Harry retorted a bit heatedly.
"I know, but I also saw that you're barely keeping yourself in check when I attack you, same each time you pass someone in the corridors when you're in a bad mood."
"Too many weapons with them every time" a mutinous Harry told the Yotsuba Head with a glare.
"A spoon or a plastic duck could hardly be considered as weapons by normal people" Genzou Yotsuba countered with an eerie smile. Harry knew why the man smiled, his power could turn everything in a room to be lethal in its execution.
Grim Reaper, an example of mental interference magic, the user sent them an image of their death, anything could do as a way to die, and then, it had to happen no matter what as long as he met the person in the flesh once more.
Powerful but costly unique magic, Genzou had confided to him that he couldn't have made it out of Dahan without Harry's help in slaughtering everything they came across in their getaway. They had completely destroyed the sub-state's army and magician contingents.
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"Midori-san?"
Harry turned at the unexpected call and sent an inquiring look to Maya's twin as he stood still.
"How is Maya?"
"Maya-san is well, she's recovering nicely and doesn't seem to take everything that happened afterwards too hard" Harry reassured the concerned sister. "She's also much less aggressive towards you" he added before leaving when she sat, tearing up and gave him a wave.
"You really want me to play it nice with Miya!" Came the accusatory shout from Maya as he entered her room. Harry didn't even glance at her as he put his writing supplies on her desk, he already knew she would be pouting.
"She's your sister, Midori-sama is right to try and help you restore your close relationship to Miya-sama, Maya-sama."
The girl beside Maya was a new addition to her life and to the Yotsuba's organisation. Shocked by their heiress' kidnapping, the whole Family had decided to enact a new policy regarding the most important members of the Yotsuba Family.
As they couldn't possibly secure every location their members went to and worked or studied at and knowing they couldn't just disappear and stay in hidden properties of the Family, it had been decided to create the Guardians.
The Guardians were people who devoted their life to protect the members' life with their own. They could have their own lives but had to keep in mind to be completely available to protect their charges at all times.
Harry had been considered as a Guardian for Maya, but ultimately, the discovery of his magical prowess and the Saegusas' fiasco made them select Harry as Maya's future husband.
Harry and Maya knew that the choice had been a way of the Yotsubas to anchor him to the Family without risking to have a main branch child inheriting his unknown magic.
Because Maya was unable to have children, the now engaged couple also suspected them of waiting for Maya to want children, like any proper Japanese woman, her aunt would have said, and had selected a beautiful teenager as Maya's Guardian.
"I thought you were supposed to protect me from people with bad intentions toward me?" Asked the black-haired twelve year-old.
"Maya-sama, I'm indeed here to make sure you're protected at all times and if Miya-sama tried anything against you, I would, of course, stop her from attacking you and neutralise her if there was a need for it" Maya's Guardian swore in an offended tone.
"You shouldn't take Maya's words to heart, Yukiko-san, Miya-san's power is a bit too much to consider, and I wouldn't like for Miya-san to attempt to use it on me either."
Mind Redesign was Miya's unique magic ability. It enabled her to manipulate emotions in the mind of her target. Trying to do well, she wanted to spare her sister from the trauma associated with what she had lived …
Midori, continue and suffer the consequences. Harry had the urge to chuckle at Maya's voice in his head but didn't, he liked to be alive.
"I spoke out of turn" Yukiko apologised with a bow to Maya and Harry sent her a nod. Maya could be irrational at times … and proud, she really was a proud girl …
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"You've been quite quick to replace me."
Maya looked up to the older boy and glared murderously to the fourteen year-old, making him step back hesitantly.
"I wouldn't have had to find a new anchor to cope if a piece of trash hadn't shirked his responsibilities after promising me the moon" she answered coldly while looking around with uncaring eyes.
"Is that all you see people as? Anchors for you to keep your sanity?" Koichi goaded her while suppressing a wince.
Yotsuba Maya didn't spare a glance to the teen as her irises went completely red and darkness began to encompass the area around them. The other students of their middle school ran from the courtyard as the teachers became panicked at the powerful magic being used by the girl.
"I hope you didn't like living" Maya told the terrified Saegusa as his sight began to darken and he became completely rooted to his spot. The girl was beginning to stand up when a hand was put on her shoulders and her furious stare met Harry's calm emeralds.
Maya, I thought we couldn't kill anyone even if they attacked us? Harry asked Maya as he shared his willingness to help her if she needed it.
Err … we can't … Papa will be angry, I lost my temper. Maya answered, her eyes slowly returning to their amethyst colour.
Harry looked toward the boy and sneered when he saw that he was still alive as the darkness receded and he dropped on the ground, blood trickling from one side of his head.
You didn't kill him. He sent her as he had a faint expression mirroring the disgust he felt as he saw why the Saegusa had willingly angered Maya. The guy was forced to cancel the engagement and couldn't even keep his friendship with Maya because the other families of the Ten Master Clan were scared shitless of the Yotsubas.
What had happened in Dahan was a mystery for the people of the world. But the higher-ups in Japan and many people who knew how to read the situation knew who had destroyed one of the most advanced magical nation in the World and crippled the Asian military for decades.
That the Yotsubas had lost only less than thirty people in the attack had clearly rattled the other Great Families of Japan and put their leaders on edge. Harry smirked, he would have to relay this to Genzou-san, the old man liked to hear how his Family was the best and the strongest.
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"Hey! So you're the newbie?"
Harry's first day at school ... he already hated it, he really preferred Maya's part of the school, she surely didn't have to deal with the kind of brainless wannabe bully attacking the transfer students at lunch.
"I have to go and meet someone in the ..."
"I don't care, shitty brat! The guys told me you were acting like a stuck-up prick and didn't even introduce yourself to the class."
"Yotsuba Midori" he introduced himself, enjoying how they suddenly became cowed by his predatory gaze. There had been a reason why the teacher hadn't even tried to do the class greeting and had gone straight to continue her last class.
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"I didn't think it would be so easy!"
"Little brat probably thought he would just have to use his magic and we'd run."
"Or that his name would protect him."
The two men driving the car laughed heartily as they sped up on the highway, Harry staring at them from the back as he barely restrained himself from letting his bonds fall after he had cut them.
Harry didn't have to wait long until the car slowed and stopped. Harry looked outside and saw a warehouse with a lot of people around it ... he smiled.
Harry focused magic in his clenched fist and looked positively giddy as his two surprised kidnappers were brought to his fist and their bodies began to take positions a human body shouldn't ever take to the sound of bones snapping and them screaming.
The two men soon stopped crying as their bodies continued to shrink and be compacted around Harry's hand, the boy smiling victoriously. Gravity, one of the branches of his magic he controlled the most.
Harry cancelled it and didn't even glance to what fell from his arm before using Gravity's opposite, Rejection to send the car at high speed against the people now circling around it in pieces.
"Shit! Get him back!" Ordered one of the thugs in front of Harry as several evaded the parts of the car heading toward them. Harry didn't wait for them to regroup and began ruining their minds one by one as he walked toward the only one who seemed to have enough magic in their group and was looking at his colleagues with wide eyes.
Harry soon had to dodge under a vine and was surprised to see the man with several seeds out on his hand and one being the origin of the vine that tried to seize his arms. Harry tried to attack the man with his Mental Warfare but didn't get past the barriers the man had on his mind and didn't force the issue.
Black flames soon pooled around him as he eyed the plant-grower and Harry sent him a beatific smile before everything became engulfed in his Black Fire.
AN: And here it is, the second chapter!
So yes, somehow I don't think anyone should be surprised, Harry will be a powerful little guy.
And thanks Tsunashi777, I had this idea a long time ago but hesitated on how to develop it and write a fic around it. Finally, I found how to turn it with integration of the two universes.
So yes, there will be a return to the Magical World and Dumbledore, soon, I guess.