Author's Note: Weather report from where I am from: cold and snowy. I am not really going into details about the quiz, you can watch episode 125 on Veoh if you want quiz details.

The Story So Far: Hiruma has blackmail on one of his stalkers! And the Deimon lot is heading towards Oujou!

Hidden

By: Bar-Ohki

Chapter 8: Hidden by Knights

Shin Seijuro and a few of the other members of his school were standing in front of Tsubasa Tama, a middle aged woman with black hair (dyed of course) and dark brown eyes. She was petit with a little bit of pudge that wouldn't leave her body no matter how much she dieted. She was dressed in a purple woman's suit and wore large, circular glasses.

Shin opened his senses and saw that, unsurprisingly, Tsubasa-sensei was a Mage, along with all the other students around him. Oujou had a small magical population, all of whom had had an encounter with Tsubasa-sensei (usually her confronting the student about how there was going to be no magical nonsense at school).

"I want all of you to be aware that during the festival today, we might get a very… strange guest." Tsubasa explained, choosing her words with care.
They have the ability to eat magic, so I urge all of you to pay extra attention to your magical energy. If something starts eating it, leave immediately and head straight here. Do not try to confront the magic-eating guest, you will not win that confrontation."

"Ma'am?" One of the Mages raised a timid hand. "Why is Shin-san here?"

"Seijuro-kun is a Sensitive. If the special guest shows up, Seijuro is to trail him and let the rest of you know where our guest is." Tsubasa explained.

"Just how powerful are you Shin-san?" One of the other students asked him.

"I can See magic auras." Shin answered simply, then turned to Tsubasa. "Who is our 'special guest'?"

"You've met him." Tsubasa assured him. "He attends Deimon Private High School."

Shin paused a moment and thought about all the people he knew from Deimon. All of them were apart of the American Football team. The manager was a Mage, and their center and ace runningback were Sensitives. Shin's eyes widened in realization, Hiruma Youichi, Deimon's quarterback, had a very strange, inhuman aura that pulled magic towards itself.

"…Yes I have." Shin nodded, knowing that Tsubasa-sensei was surely referring to Hiruma.

"Good. All of you are dismissed." Tsubasa announced, shooing the students away with her hands. Everyone left quickly.

Shin met up with Takami (quarterback), Sakuraba (wide receiver), and Otawara (center). They all gave him an acknowledging nod and proceeded to walk around the school festival.

-with the Devil Bats-

It hadn't taken very long for the Devil Bat team to brake off into groups. Kurita and Komusubi had started in on the food stands (much to the pleasure and displeasure of the people running the stands). The three Huh-huh Brothers had started participating in the various fair games. Hiruma and Musashi wandered off on their own to do whatever those two do when left unattended.

Hiruma walked past a craft stand and stopped, smelling something tasty in the air. He looked around and made eye contact with the vendor at the stand. She was a short girl, with large glasses, brown hair, and freckles. The moment Hiruma's eyes met hers, she gasped and collapsed. Everyone around gasped and stared at the now-unconscious girl.

Hiruma blinked once, slightly confused. The good smell was gone and he felt full in a strange way. Musashi turned around and quirked an eyebrow at his friend, wondering why they had stopped. Hiruma shrugged it off, this was not the first time he'd smell something good then stop and feel full after the smell went away, in fact it happened everyday. Today was just the first day someone had collapsed in front of him.

"That girl just collapsed." Hiruma remarked causally, not really caring a lot about it.

"Ah." Musashi couldn't help but to agree. He wished Kurita was here to confirm whether or not the girl had been a Mage. Very sincerely, Musashi hoped the girl was not a Mage.

"Lets go round up fatty." Hiruma changed the subject as he drifted away from the collapsed girl and the resulting state of mayhem.

"Sure."

-with the White Knights-

Shin's cellphone buzzed in his pocket, making him stop to take it out and look at it. This cellphone was the only electronic object Shin could interact with and not destroy, and the only reason why it held this status was because of the serious amounts of spells cast on it.

The little screen told him that Tsubasa-sensei was calling. Shin decided to answer.

"Hello." Shin greeted his teacher. Sakuraba, Takami, and Otawara stopped and waited to the side, giving Shin space to have his conversation.

"He's here and has already done damage! Go find that demon right now!" Tsubasa yelled into the phone and hung up. Shin said nothing as he ended the call on his end.

"What was that about?" Takami couldn't help but wonder.

"Deimon is here." Shin answered simply.

"Hey! Sakuraba, lets go and beat Deimon!" Otawara was pointing at the quiz stand where Sena and Taki (Deimon's idiotic tight-end) sat at a podium.

"Wha-!?" Sakuraba protested as Otawara literally hauled him up onto the stage.

"…Looks like we'll have to compete Shin." Takami observed. Shin nodded.

It did not take very long for all the teams to gather and begin one of the world's most amusing quizzes.

Shin found himself feeling like somewhat of a fool when he realized that he didn't know any of the answers. The only grace was that Otawara and Taki were being bigger fools than him.

The crowd gasped when the announcer was hauled off the stage. Shin knew Hiruma had done the hauling, he could see Hiruma's distinctive aura through the wood of the stage.

'Its not pulling any magic.' Shin's eyebrows went up in mild surprise. It appeared as though Hiruma was done 'eating' magic for the day.

Hiruma jumped onto the stage and posed a question about Ballista, shocking several members of the crowd and unsettling Takami.

Shin calmly answered the question, ignoring his buzzing cellphone.

Tsubasa-sensei was not pleased.

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This chapter did not want to be written, that is why it took so long.

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