Important Author's Notes: To those reading this chapter, this is an edit to the previous one I uploaded and at the same time an update. I added some bits into this chapter that suppose to be in the next chapter. I decided to merge the previous Chapters 1 and 2 into one single chapter make it longer. Starting on the next chapters, I'll be uploading longer ones.
Fate/EXTELLA: In Veneficus In Mundo Eidos
Novus Ideocentrism
Chapter 2: Queen of Night - Maya Yotsuba
North District.
It is a district in north Hsinchu City, Taiwan with an area of 15.73 square kilometers. It is the city seat of Hsinchu City and the smallest of the city's three districts. As a progressive metropolitan area, tall and sophisticated buildings were rampant alongside its huge number of human populace going back and forth on the streets whether by vehicles or by foot.
While most streets are busy, there are also avenues that were almost empty. On one of this pavement road, a brown-haired lad wearing a black T-shirt and brown short pants cautiously traversed the unfamiliar area. In his arms was a Japanese black-haired girl in a frilly dress whose limbs are still tied up, which he was carrying in a bridal fashion.
He had arrived at this area via air travel, in a supernatural way of speaking. Of course, he made it sure that no one saw him when arrived there. It will be troublesome if someone would saw a boy flying in the sky and as far as what Rani had taught him in the past, supernatural things are being kept away from most of humanity.
His brown rondures scout the place in every step he took, eyeing for things or individuals that would pose a threat to him in some way or another. The last thing that he wanted was some stranger questioning him what he was doing with a tied up girl, which can be misinterpreted as if he was some douche or a criminal. Everything from there will spiral into something that wasn't the real case in the first place.
Hovering just right a few centimeters from his face was his Code Cast: View Map in a form of a holographic cartogram that he could only see. Visuals of buildings and streets which were in top view position were displayed in detail on the terminal, along with several gray dots that represent the people living in this area. The names of streets and buildings were also displayed as well, hovering at their respective place.
After carefully striding at the people-devoided street, Hakuno came upon an architecture made of concrete. It was an apartment-type constructed dwelling, about 3 storeys high and likely aged, judging from its somewhat rugged appearance. Looking at the virtual map, it appears to be that the entire accommodation was abandoned.
"This place looks suitable." The brunette said softly as he examines closely the building in front of him. "Yes, this will do."
With that, the lad entered the complex. He then knelt and laid the female that he was carrying until now gently on the floor, but not before dusting some dirt from the floor first. The next thing he did was to close the entrance, to the apartment's confined walls by lodging a piece of metal between the doors' handles.
The brown-haired lad then went back to the girl who, despite being somewhat conscious, was in a state of what looks like to be some kind of paralysis. His eyes then wandered on the black metallic restraints both on her wrists and feet. He first unstrapped the ball gag on her mouth before moving on removing the restraints on her upper and lower limbs.
Noticing how both cuffs can't be nudged with his current physical strength, Hakuno then resorted in using magical means to separate the bindings from the lass. His Magic Circuits flared to life as the pseudo-nervous system began converting his life force into magical energy. Said converted energy kick-started a certain Code Cast that was long ago embedded in the lad's Spiritron structure.
"Hack."
The brunette felt the sudden slight tremor of his Spiritrons as it established a connection with the Greater Spiritrons and Virtual Spiritrons in the environment, Prana being the nutrients for such possible interaction. The metallic bands that were holding the girl's hands and feet tightly close suddenly came off in a second. With all the restraints gone, Hakuno gently helps the young lady in a comfortable sitting position.
The Code Cast: Hack is a program that was essential for every Wizard. It could be said that it is one of the few basic spells that Spiritron-Hackers obtained during their journey in the art of Spiritron-Hacking. The program has many uses in and out of the battlefield.
When applied in the art of battle or self-defense, the program targets the victim's Spiritron structure, their soul itself, causing sudden disruptions all over the structure which then manifests in the physical world with the target being perceived as being stunned and paralyzed without any physical intervention. When used outside fighting, it can hack, literally, any working and malfunctioning objects like a computer, a vending machine or even an entire government's database. It can also be used in mundane things such as opening jammed doors or even uncuffed someone from their keyless restraints, like what he was doing right now.
In addition, the program works in a "conceptual level" much like how its magecraft predecessors have been doing in the past until their demise.
With the restraints already out in place, Hakuno then cupped the lass' cheeks with his hands.
"Miss, can you hear me?" The lad spoke, his brown eyes looked intently at the individual's magenta ones that were half-lidded. "If you can recognize my speech or understand it, move your eyes in any direction if you can."
It was slow yet the girl somehow did what he asked by moving her eyes left and right, which eased the brunette a little. With a nod, he then fired another batch of magical energy from his fingertips, with the intention of knowing what was the cause of the person's current plight. Quantum particles that cannot be perceived by normal means fluctuated in accordance with the Code Cast that he activated and within seconds, another virtual interface presented to himself.
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{{MATRIX}}
— STATUS —
Name: Maya Yotsuba
Age: 12
HP: Yellow
MP: Green
Ailment: Paralysis (Drug-Induced)
Noble Phantasm: None
Key Word: Yotsuba, Ten Master Clans
Strength: E- (E) | Endurance: E- (E) | Agility: E- (B) | Mana: E- (C) | Luck: E- (C)
Meteor Stream: E (A) | Flash Cast: E- (A) | Psion Transfer: E- (A)
— PROFILE —
Description: A member of the Ten Master Clans and the youngest daughter of Genzou Yotsuba of the Yotsuba Clan. Born with an innate magic called Meteor Stream.
Meteor Stream: An A-rank Convergence-Type Magic which controls the distribution of light in its area of effect. Its power is especially amplified in a closed space such as rooms or tunnels.
Flash Cast: The Yotsuba secret technique to cast at fast speeds without the use of a CAD. It is made possible by mentally "carving" the images of the Activation Sequence into memory, allowing the user to recall the Activation Sequence directly from memory instead of a CAD to construct the Magic Sequence of the spell in the Magic Calculation Area of the brain. It can only be used with single systematic spells that are not overly long or complex.
Psion Transfer: The Yotsuba's unique ability to transform information into Psion signals and transfer that information through the nervous system and into another person's subconscious Magic Calculation Area through physical contact.
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Hakuno's eyes widened a bit as the virtual interface displayed bits of intel on the girl.
View Status.
It is a Code Cast that literally displays the status of a person or a thing to the user, a must have Code Cast for Wizards considering its benefits in times of need. In terms of combat, it allows them to have an edge against an opponent that they have no information of, learning their abilities and taking advantage of their weakness if there was any. It was one of the programs that really helped Hakuno during the entire Holy Grail War, more so while trekking Dungeons filled with various Enemy Programs.
Like the Code Cast: Hack, View Status can also be used outside of combat. It can grasp information on things that it affects with. Take the building, for example, if the brown haired lad used View Status on it he will acquire some knowledge of the building from the day it was established down to every material used by its builders.
Reading the information that was laid in front of him, Hakuno raised a brow as his eyes gazed at the obvious particulars that took his interest. It seems to be that this girl happens to be a Wizard with a type of Code Cast that manipulates the distribution of light, not too mention that she's part of a prestigious family he has never heard of. However, this puzzled him even more.
How did a Wizard like her got kidnapped by those men? If anything, all of them should be dead before they can get a hold of her judging from how this Meteor Stream Code Cast of hers seems powerful from its description alone. Did she drained her Prana before those, pardon for the term, goons appear before her?
"Unlikely. Her MP bar is still full to the brim." The young Wizard thought, trying to figure out how such talented Wizard got seized when she got a powerful spell at her behest. "And there's that Ten Master Clans..."
Then there are those terms such as CAD, Activation Sequence, Psion Transfer, and Magic Calculation Area which he didn't have any knowledge of. The brunette shook his head, it wasn't the time to be drowned in these certain queries. Now that he knows the cause of the girl's current state, all he needs to do is to get her back in shape.
Placing his right hand on her forehead, Hakuno once more flared his magical energy as he invokes another Code Cast; Recover. Recover is a Code Cast that heals the target's HP or health and cures any status effects like paralysis, sleep, and other ailments including deadly sickness. The target being induced by this specific spell will be back at their full optimum state; that is to say, in a condition where the individual hasn't contracted any kind of illness.
The girl, which the brunette now knows as Maya Yotsuba, was encased entirely in a warm green light of Code Cast: Recovery. The young Wizard watch closely as his Code Cast did its magic. The light then died down and Hakuno purposely steps back in order to give the black-haired girl some of her personal space.
The girl wearing a violet colored frilly dress, who had now regained full motor functions of her body, slowly blinked her magenta colored eyes. She then raised her hands, twitching each finger from both as her rondures gaze at them. The brunette could see the spark of being marveled in her eyes.
Well at least, she's back to normal he guessed...
The female, who was very pretty by the way, took some time in observing herself before her magenta rubies looked straight at him. From those majestic orbs, the brunette could see various emotions from it. He had an inkling what those emotions are but decided to keep his silence.
The girl raised her left hand, her delicate finger pointing at him. At that point in time, Hakuno was ready to answer her questions as much as he can but he didn't expect the words that came out from the lass' lips making him blink at the sudden, unexpected query.
"You... You can fly?"
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Out of all things that she could've asked, it was these three exact words that came out from Maya's lips.
No one could fault her though.
It isn't every day that a practitioner of Modern Magic such as herself would meet someone who can use Flying Magic. To the best of her knowledge, such magic was a rare kind that even such practitioners can be said nonexistent. However, right in front of her was someone who could do such a thing.
Not to mention that it was a boy roughly at the same age as her!
This revelation was quite enormous and profound to the black-haired female that she unconsciously forgot that she was kidnapped a few minutes ago. Not to mention even drugged by a powerful paralyzing sedative, but Maya Yotsuba couldn't care less about that. What grasped her entire attention is the fact that this brown-haired kid in front of her didn't even use any kind of CAD to use his spells.
"Is he an Ancient Magician?" The young lady thought, magenta eyes still fixated on the boy, which she deduced as a Japanese native judging on how he speaks Japanese fluently, in front of her. "But I didn't even see him use any chants or even devices used prominently by practitioners of Ancient Magic..."
Even in her semi-paralyzed state, Maya was aware of her surroundings back then. The black-haired female Yotsuba had sensed the boy's Psion fluctuations whenever he cast a magic spell, four times if she counted it exactly. Whether it was her close proximity to him as to why she can detect his Psions, Maya wasn't sure of herself.
But what she was sure of is that this boy in front of her isn't just your run-of-the-mill magician.
Yes, Maya Yotsuba was very sure of it. Aside from his flying magic, this brown-haired lad managed to eliminate the drug that was injected into her which caused her to be in a state of paralysis in the first place. Did he have a magic that can flush out any unwanted and ill medicinal substance from the target's body?
"Yes, but that's just a one-time thing only."
The boy replied in a calm and relaxed tone, and the girl realized that the brunette was very confident in his set of words. As if it was a knowledge that was already too common for him, already anchored to his experience right off the bat. However, his answer made Maya's brows to perked up on the oddity of his statement.
One time? What did he mean by that?
"One time?"
"You know, External Code Casts and their nature..." The boy replied once more, spouting terms that were very unfamiliar to Maya which caused the girl to stitched her eyebrows.
"External Code Casts? What are those?" The lady thought. "Is it some kind of term used by Ancient Magician practitioners like how Psion is to Modern Magicians and Chi is to Ancient Magicians? Maybe it's better to ask him about this."
"I'm sorry but I'm not familiar with the term," Maya said truthfully, her head shaking right and left. "Is this External Code Cast the name you Ancient Magicians specifically give to your magic?"
As her words left her mouth, the brown-haired lad gave him a surprised and confused look. His brown rondures almost asking if she was joking or serious.
"You don't know anything about Code Casts?"
Maya shook her head at the boy's query, earning the brunette another batch of confusion on his already bewildered expression. For the female's part, she never heard about Code Casts. Even her teacher who is an Ancient Magician refers to magic of both Ancient and Modern sides simply as 'magic'. She never heard such terminology being spoken through words by her mentor?
"Maybe he's part of an older lineage of magicians..." The black-haired lass mentally said to herself, her eyes staring at the boy had already cupped his chin as he pondered in thought, his brown irises gazing at the floor as if it was more interesting.
The lad then raised his head to her level and the female Yotsuba could feel his brown rondures making eye contact with her magenta ones. Now looking at him, Maya unintentionally appraised his looks. He is somewhat average in terms of appearance, the black-haired girl noted, but quite tall, maybe taller than Kouichi...
Her magenta orbs widened a bit when she remembered her fiance. She then reached for her phone which she knew she had placed inside her pocket only to grasp nothing. This made her demeanor somewhat sour.
"Those guys took my phone..." Maya internally mused, her lips twitched downward. "I hope Kouichi-kun is okay..."
To be honest, the female Yotsuba doesn't have any clue on what those abductors had done to Kouichi. All that she could remember was that she and Kouichi were doing some sightseeing around Taiwan's International Magic Association building before someone maliciously hit her in the gut and injected her some kind of drug. She could hear her fiance's voice of struggle as she was carried by her kidnappers.
She hoped that nothing bad happened to him.
"Ah, pardon me for not introducing myself." Maya began, her hand placed in her chest. "My name is Maya and I'm a Modern Magician, a practitioner of Modern Magic. May I know the name of the magician who saved me from my kidnappers?"
"Hakuno." The lad answered in an even tone, though the Yotsuba noticed the confusion in it. "Hakuno Kishinami."
"Do you mind if I call you Kishinami-san?" Maya paused a bit, seeing that the boy didn't mind she continued. "Are you perhaps an Ancient Magician?"
Now it was the brunette's turn to be puzzled, judging from how his right brow raised at her words of inquiry. This reaction was never left unnoticed by the girl who was looking at the boy's current expression of perplexity. From his looks alone, it seems to be that he was not familiar with the term.
"You don't call yourself a Wizard?"
It was the young Yotsuba's turn to be perplexed as her magenta orbs blink owlishly at the brunette who appears to be in the same confusing plight as him.
"Wizard? What's that?"