SECOND CHANCES
Chapter 7: Road Trip Finale
Disclaimer I don't own Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei
AN: Proof reading to follow. Need to finish my itinerary for the day. I working at home
Yotsuba Ayame possessed the Superpower known as Elemental Sight.
This Superpower allows her to connect to the Information Dimension at the highest possible level.
This ability, this power had serve her well in her time as the Head of the Yotsuba. This power had even help the Yotsuba a great deal in the past and present.
This power is Ayame's favorite in her repertoire of abilities and powers. She favored this power so much that she often times visit the Information Dimension just for the heck of it. Ayame enjoyed the solitude that the world provided and she enjoyed the fact that only she had access to such a remarkable world.
That is why she was genuinely surprised and intrigued when she saw another being in this world that only she used to have an access in.
"My greatest failure as a mother is not being able to pass my eyes to any of my children or to my grandchildren." Ayame stated while looking at the figure with her in the Information Dimension. "Still, I am delighted, although a bit disappointed, that someone else has my eyes. Good morning, Tatsuya-san." Ayame greeted the boy that has the life of her favorite grandchild in the palm of his hand.
"Yotsuba Ayame-sama." Tatsuya greeted curtly and politely.
Ayame raised a bow at the respectful tone that the boy use to greet her. She was an infamous magician in her time. Even in the present day, she was infamous, but her name was whispered in fear and reverie mostly in the underworld.
"You know me?" Ayame asked in curiosity.
"Only by reputation." Tatsuya confirmed. "This is the first time I met someone with my eyes." Tatsuya admitted, eyes narrowed in interest.
"Admittedly, I share your curiosity. As you may have observed, none of my children or my grandchildren were able to inherit my eyes." Ayame told Tatsuya with a faint smile on her lips. "Which begs the question, how were you able to get [Elemental Sight]?"
Tatsuya looked contemplative for second before answering. "I will sate your curiosity when we meet each other, face to face."
Ayame nodded in acceptance. Patience is a virtue that she had learned to value in her long life. "Another question then, you know we are watching you, correct?" Ayame already know the answered to her inquiry but a verbal confirmation would be a sign on how compliant Tatsuya would be in manipulation.
Ayame is quite aware that Tatsuya is not just a capable and powerful magician, he is also aware of his value, and dealing with people that knows their value can be difficult. A verbal answer from Tatsuya would mean that he would be willing to be 'manipulated' and 'used', for the right compensation of course.
"I am aware. Why do you think I've utilized such flashy methods in securing Maya-san's safety?" Tatsuya answered simply.
"You are trying to sell yourself to us?" Ayame was delighted by that answer.
Strategic-Class magicians are rare. Strategic-Class magicians with Tatsuya's skill level is even rarer. . Strategic-Class magicians with multiple Strategic Class Magic is almost impossible to find.
"In a way, yes." Tatsuya once again confirmed.
"Why?" As much as Ayame would love to have Tatsuya under the Yotsuba, she knows that she needs to comprehend Tatsuya's reasoning in joining the Yotsuba. A magician of Tatsuya's caliber will not be bought under the family's command without a price.
The price would be worth it, but a reasonable, more favorable price one would be preferable.
"I will tell you when we meet face to face." Tatsuya told her, and again, Ayame did not mind to wait for an answer.
Tatsuya was selling himself to the Yotsuba. There was no other buyer. Ayame was willing to wait to get her answers.
"That's acceptable." Ayame nodded in acceptance. "What's your next move?"
"I will give Dahan a scar that they will never recover from." Tatsuya stated witch such a bland tone that it made Ayame smile viciously.
"You know, that is not necessary." Ayame told Tatsuya, although her tone of voice speaks the opposite of her verbal response. "What we are going to give you for this service is enough to last you and your sister a lifetime."
"It is very necessary in my perspective." Tatsuya countered. "What do you say about the Yotsuba getting such a reputation that even countries would fear it? What do you say about the Yotsuba being so feared that no entity in this world would ever think, much less considered or dream, of crossing the Yotsuba ever again. What do you say about the Yotsuba being Untouchable?" Tatsuya offered, his voice emotionless but the confidence behind each of those words was undeniable.
Ayame's grin became wide and malicious. That thought that the boy gave her, it was from her most desired dream. It was as if the boy read what she desired the most
"I would say that I hope you have a decent size cock between your legs and that you know how to use it, because you will be using it in my eldest granddaughter's cunt for years to come if you got that through."
Ayame was very much willing to whore Miya out to Tatsuya and his sister to have the world fear her family.
(Scene Change)
Tatsuya would be the first to admit that he is a sociopath.
He does not have a particular set of morals that he operates in, and what morals that he has, he would unshamefully abandoned if it becomes necessary.
Tatsuya only cares for a single person in this planet, the rest, he would not care one iota if they died at this very moment. In Tatsuya's eyes, the world can burn as long as Miyuki is safe and happy. Nothing else matters but Miyuki's happiness and safety.
Tatsuya does not care about country, wealth, land, creed, race, sex, or any other vague concepts that most men would fight and die for.
Tatsuya, although he would not say this out loud, fights for love. He fights for the love of his little sister. Tatsuya would destroy the world if his beloved Miyuki orders him so.
He had done it before, and he would do it again without any hesitation.
Because Tatsuya fights for Miyuki's safety and happiness, he was willing to fight for the Yotsuba once again. Regardless of his prior experience with the Yotsuba of his times, most of it being negative at best, he is willing to bow to the Yotsuba Clan because it was convenient for Miyuki's safety in this time period.
And he was willing to give Dahan a scar that they would never recover from.
Tatsuya knew for a fact that the Yotsuba change due to the Dahan's foolish endeavor of kidnaping and violating Yotsuba Maya.
Yotsuba Maya terrified Tatsuya not because she is a very capable Magician. Push comes to shove, Tatsuya knew he was capable of beating the Queen of Night. He had been capable of such a feat since he reached the age of 11.
Maya scared Tatsuya because of her ability to outmaneuver him in every conceivable scale.
Yotsuba Maya is a psychopath, but she is a highly functioning psychopath, with a genius intellect and a cunning mind that Tatsuya could not predict in any way, shape, or form.
The Yotsuba Maya that he was with right now is not the Yosuba Maya that he had grown to fear and respect. True, Tatsuya could see the potential of this Maya to become the Queen of Night. The intelligence was still there, so is the cunning and ruthlessness, but the psychosis and the insanity were absent.
Tatsuya would prefer to have Maya grew up without those aspects in her character.
So he would once again fight for the Yotsuba.
He would whore himself out to the family that had tormented and belittled him for most of his life.
He would fight for the family that he had wiped out a few days ago.
For Miyuki, there is nothing that he would not do.
(Scene Change)
"[How would you like this to be handled?]"
Those eight words gained the interest of both Yotsuba Genzou and Yotsuba Ayame. Both former and current heads of the Yotsuba looked at the powerful teenager curiously.
Tatsuya called to report that he, his sister, and Maya have reached the Wuzhou Province, and that they were merely 30 minutes away from the Japanese Embassy. After providing them with that information, Tatsuya requested an exclusive audience with both Genzou and Ayame, an audience that they granted.
The ruling members of the Yotsuba understood why Tatsuya wanted an exclusive audience when Genzou, but Ayame is a stretch. True, she was a former head of the family, but she had seceded her position to Genzou and she had mostly allowed her son full reign over the family, with only minimal interference from her part.
So Tatsuya asking specifically for Ayame for this audience was bizarre, and a bit suspicious to say the least.
At least Maya was also in present in their makeshift conference. Her, and Tatsuya's sister.
"How would we like to handle what?" Ayame asked, curiosity peeked.
"[How would you like to handle the extraction?]" Tatsuya asked, his wording much clearer. "[There is a military presence in this province. If my count is correct, they have over 1,000 soldiers patrolling this province. I am also not putting any stock in the Japanese Embassy not being compromise. In theory, it should be easy for us to head to the embassy and secure a room to wait for you and your people to get us, but it would be the height of foolishness for us to not expect getting drugged before being spirited away to another facility.]" Tatsuya explained to the two legendary figures of the Yotsuba.
"[The embassy is compromise.]" Genzou confirmed to the three teenagers.
"How would you like to handle this situation?" Ayame inquired, eyes directly on Tatsuya.
Yotsuba Ayame reminded Tatsuya of the Yotsuba Maya that she had known for his entire life, although in Tatsuya's eyes, his Great Grandmother felt more dangerous than the infamous Queen of Night.
With that thought, Tatsuya gave her an honest answer. "[I would turn this entire province into a smoking crater under the sun.]" Tatsuya gave that statement with a casual tone of voice that everyone, aside from Ayame, did a double take on his person.
"Do it!" Ayame commanded eagerly.
"No!" Genzou rejected feverishly.
"[Why not?]" Tatsuya inquired, eyes turned to Genzou. "[They kidnapped Maya-san, and they were going to violate her. I think teaching this country how stupid that is and giving them a warning to never attempt such folly again is to yours and your family's benefit.]" Tatsuya reasoned.
Miyuki internally cringed. That was the logic of the Yotsuba of their time.
"I agree with Tatsuya-kun." Ayame stated with a firm tone. "Let them reap what they sow."
"No!" Genzou repeated firmly. "As much as possible, I don't want another province to be eradicated." Genzou added strongly, eyes fixed on Tatsuya, daring him to disobey.
Tatsuya looked at his Grandfather apathetically before nodding. "[Very well, I won't turn this province into a crater.]" Tatsuya promised. "[Still, I would need to do some damage in the province. Wide scale destruction here and there, and they would be force to scatter their soldiers throughout the province. I will try to stretch their army thin.]" Tatsuya looked contemplative for a few seconds.
"[How soon can we expect you?]" Tatsuya asked his Grandfather.
"Four to five hours." Genzou answered simply.
"[That's doable.]" Tatsuya exclaimed with a nod. "[I'll do my best to also damage the Military Barracks here and I will also clear out the embassy of all of its people. Do you need anyone alive?]"
"Just the head Ambassador of the Embassy." Ayame interjected before her son could speak. "I would love a conversation with him." Ayame said darkly.
"[That will not be much of a conversation.]" Maya and Miyuki said in unison, both knowing what the woman would do with the traitor.
Maya knew her grandmother very well, while Miyuki was starting to see where her Aunt learned her brand of ruthlessness from.
Tatsuya nodded in compliance. "[He lives then.]" Tatsuya had a thoughtful looked formed across his face. "[Everything that I would do within the next six hours would be flashy and destructive. I would appreciate it very much if this won't be trace back to me or to your clan. Is that doable?]"
"That is a doable request." Genzou assured the young boy. It was a reasonable request. Tatsuya was probably an unregistered Strategic-Class Magician and being register would be too much of a hassle for the young boy.
Ayame nodded as well, although she would not deter any rumors tying a new and powerful Strategic Class Magician into their clan. Information is one thing, rumors are another.
"[Then we are done here. I will turn this entire province into a warzone, but I do my best to minimize the damage as much as I can.]" Tatsuya promised the two legends in the screen.
"[Bye Grandmama, Otou-sama!]" Maya waved goodbye to her family as the screen went blank.
This left Genzou and Ayame alone in the makeshift conference room.
"You know, if we call Tatsuya-kun now, you can change your stance on Tatsuya-kun reducing the entire province into a crater." Ayame told her son. "I would be more convenient for us." Ayame added.
"No." Genzou denied his mother, rolling his eyes at his mother's innate bloodlust. "As much as I want Dahan to suffer, there is no need for wide scale genocide."
"I disagree." Ayame stated. "Like Tatsuya-kun said, it's better for us in the long run to teach the ruling class of that country that a repeat performance of this incident would result into their oblivion."
"Tatsuya-san is not one of our magicians." Genzou argued.
"He is selling himself to us." Ayame pointed out. "He is aware that we are watching him. He is aware that we know that he possesses multiple Strategic Class Magic. He knows that we would offer him a place in the family, and that we are going to offer him much for him to bind himself to us. The next four hours would be him raising his stock in our eyes. He is already ours, the only question that needs to be ask is the price needed for his compensation."
(Scene Change)
At the age of Eight, Yotsuba Maya took Tatsuya to a mission as part of his training. Tatsuya still remembers that mission quite vividly. After all, Maya had ordered him to eradicate an entire city, and he obeyed without question.
Like caring and protecting Miyuki, obeying the Yotsuba Maya of his time is already second nature to him.
That is why that Yotsuba Maya should never exist.
"This would be much easier if Genzou-dono allowed me to level this entire province to the ground." Tatsuya stated as he, Maya, and Miyuki casually overlook the market area of Cenxi City. The three were situated in a café that has an excellent view of the market place, although it was not much. Cenxi City was more of a rural town than an actual city.
"You are feeling rather blood thirsty today." Maya commented while looking at the hundreds of people lingering in the market area.
"I am just thinking of ways to prevent another incident like this to happen again." Tatsuya told her. "I figured a province removed from the map would be an excellent deterrence for future stupidty."
Miyuki chuckled at her brother's way in showing protectiveness. "Careful Onii-sama, your fangs are showing." Miyuki pointed out.
"I am just thinking logically." Tatsuya defended himself. "So, any request?" Tatsuya asked as he gestured to the Marketplace a few dozen yards from them.
It might have been callous, even psychotic and demonic of them to casually chat about the deaths of hundreds, even thousands of people, but quite frankly, all three them were beyond the point of caring.
Tatsuya outright did not care about the number of people that he will be putting under this day. He did not know how to care about people that is not his sister.
Miyuki was taught at birth to never consider any people hailing from Dahan as human beings. Also, in Miyuki's eyes, those who would die by her brother's might deserve it and they should be honor to die by his hands.
Maya, well, she felt guilt that many people were going to die today, but they fired the first shot against the Yotsuba unprovoked. In Maya's eyes, whatever happens next, they deserve.
"Do you have something that goes boom?" Maya asked while making an exploding gesture with her hands.
"Onii-sama has that, but I think being quiet for a bit is a much more preferable option." Miyuki stated, not wanting for her Onii-sama to bring out Material Burst just yet.
"I have something quiet in my repertoire." Tatsuya told his companions. "I haven't practice that spell in a wide area though." Tatsuya said as he drew his gun-shape CAD from his coat.
"But I want something that goes boom!" Maya whined goodheartedly.
"In the next county." Tatsuya told Maya. "But for now, let's do quiet." Tatsuya said as he took aim.
Tatsuya defined the entire dimensions of the Marketplace, all 50 sq miles of it, before casting his magic.
In a blink of an eyes, a chasm of earth spikes of varying size, some as large as a grown man and some as large as a small house rose from the ground. Those spikes swiftly and brutally impaled everything and everyone within the market while the entire land change into a brutal landscape.
"1,346." Tatsuya exclaimed the number of people that he had just offed, his tone dry and unfeeling.
"Onii-sama, what was that?" Miyuki asked, eyes turning towards her brother, ignoring the slaughter that just took place before her.
"[Overhaul]." Tatsuya answered. "It's a magic that allows me to dissemble before reassembling it into any shape that I want." Tatsuya created this magic utilizing his innate magic, [Elemental Eyes] to define the composition of his target, [Decomposition] for disassembly, [Regrowth] for reassembly, and the Artificial Magic Calculation for the shape manipulation.
"Brutal!" Maya breathed out, her voice lacking fear or concern. If Maya was being honest, being around Tatsuya this few couple of days desensitize her from mass killings. Mass killings is Tatsuya's default answer in solving problems, and who was she to criticize her friend's methods.
"Before anyone could suspect us, let's go to the next district, shall we?" Tatsuya called out his companions. He could see that people were gathering to the destruction that he had cause and though it was small, he did not want the locals to see three Japanese children near ground zero
"Should we leave a tip?" Maya asked with a laughed.
"I think that would be cruel of us." Miyuki stated while looking over her shoulders. There was no one but the three of them in the café, her brother made sure of it the moment they enter the quaint establishment.
"Let me just grabbed the last cookie over the counter. Its like anyone would be enjoying the pastry here for a long time." Maya said uncaringly.
(Scene Change)
Yotsuba Ayame let out an appreciative whistled after seeing the newest Strategic Type Magic that Tatsuya performed.
Ayame knew none of children inherited her ruthlessness or her bloodthirstiness. Genzou might be as vindictive, Eisaku might be as paranoid, Motosuke might enjoy a good fight as much as her, and Yume might possess the same temperament as her, but none of her children possess the desire to utterly dominate and eradicate their enemies like her.
This Tatsuya boy seems to have that trait down to pat.
"Is that boy going to bring war in our doorsteps?" Yume inquired, nose crinkle in dismay at the sight of such destruction.
Ayame gave her daughter a glare and Yume immediately stiffened. "Those dogs kidnapped Maya-san. As far as I am concern, we are already at war with them. If I have my way, I will have every man, woman, and child in Dahan butchered." Ayame considered herself an artist and she considers her children and their children her masterpieces. Those who would attempt to harm her creation, she would destroy.
No one touches or harms her family.
Especially Maya. Ayame has high hopes for her.
"Should we contact Tatsuya-san? Ask him to tone done the destruction?" Miya proposed, although the fascinated looked in her eyes spoke the opposite of what she is proposing.
Power is always attractive, and Miya appears to be developing both lust and fascination towards the young powerhouse.
Miya is a very curious child, and watching Tatsuya use magic in unprecedented manner and scale invoke a feeling within her that Ayame could comprehend and use.
"And risk the chance of offending him by telling him that we are stalking him throughout the last few days?" Ayame inquired with a raised brow. She did not intend to stop Tatsuya from scarring Dahan. They kidnapped Maya and threatened to mutilate her. What Tatsuya would do to them, the blood that he would spill, they deserve.
"We watch, we monitor, and we enjoy the show. We shall not do anything else." Ayame stated with a tone that told everyone within earshot that she would not entertain any argument that would suggest otherwise.
"The negative attention that the boy is garnering…" Yume began, not wanting to drop this subject.
"Would be dealt with by us when Maya-chan and those two siblings step foot in Japan." Yasuyo exclaimed, cutting off her sister-in-law. "We are still at war. Destruction of that magnitude is commonplace."
"But not in succession." Yume argued.
"Regardless, any negative attention garnered by Tatsuya-san, we will remedy, no matter the severity or magnitude." Ayame told her daughter, her voice cold and her tone severe. "For the safety of the family, especially one of our jewels, there is nothing we would not do, no price too steep for us to pay." Ayame stated, disgust evident in her tone.
Yume is a pleasant girl, genial and obedient, but she is a coward. Ayame blamed that flaw to Yume being the youngest of her children, and thus spoiled by the rest of the family.
The youngest in the family always has it easy.
"Whatever happens, as long as Maya is delivered back to us whole and undamaged, Tatsuya-san and his sister will have the protection of the Yotsuba." Yasuyo said in finality.
'He will be under us anyways.' Ayame thought with a small, scheming smile on her lips.
The Yotsuba Clan would benefit greatly by having such a dragon under their command.
(Scene Change)
"I see now why Big sis wants that kid in the family." Yuuma said as he looked at the destruction that the boy cause and the landscape that he had change in a whim. "Brutal, absolutely brutal." Yuuma added with a smile on his lips.
"I don't know what's more concerning, Tatsuya-san's lack of concern for human life or his willingness to wield such destructive power without any concern for consequence." Eisaku commented.
"Stop complaining!" Motosuke told his elder brother. "Just because you're the one who is going to sort this out doesn't mean you have the right to gripe about his methods. Also, he is protecting Maya-chan." Motosuke defended Tatsuya.
"There is defending and there is this." Eisaku gestured to wide chasms of spikes that replaced the Cenxi City Market.
"Those rats deserved it." Motosuke stated darkly.
"Most of them were civilians." Eisaku pointed out.
"Again, your point being?" Motosuke asked rhetorically. "Those cunts from Dahan kidnapped Maya-chan, meaning it doesn't matter who or what they are in their country. They are cattle in my eyes."
"Precisely Backpack!" Yuuma exclaimed joyfully.
"I am not your Backpack!" Motosuke flushed, remembering how his uncle use to give him piggyback rides while shouting that he was his favorite Backpack.
Yuuma just laughed at his nephew. "You are all ways going to be my Backpack." Yuuma wrapped one of his massive arms around Eisaku. "Just like this one would always be my favorite Boombox!"
"I am not a boombox!" Eisaku stated as he tried and failed to remove himself from his uncle's grip. "Who even uses a boombox in this day and age?"
Sometimes, the Yotsuba brothers wondered if there mother assigns their Uncle Yuuma in their missions just to annoy and torture them. They love their Uncle Yuuma very much, but he is an acquired taste most of the time.
Genzou ignored his siblings and uncle in favor of looking at Tatsuya.
Tatsuya did not enjoy slaughter that he executed, not by a longshot, but there was a look of disdain that cross his sister's face as he butcher a slew of Dahans.
That look of disdain was not directed at Tatsuya. Quite frankly, Genzou knew that Miyuki loves her brother to such extent that he could kill babies and she would kiss the blood off of her brother's hands without hesitation. No, the disdain in Miyuki's were directed at the Dahans, and that disdain was not newly found. That disdain was conditioned into her.
"Peculiar."
(Scene Change)
"If you had told me that we are going to be on top of a skyscraper, I would have brought a recliner and cute two-piece to sunbathe." Maya informed Tatsuya while laying down on a cloth that Miyuki laid for her.
Currently, the trio were in the Longxu District, specifically in Longxu Town. There were on the highest building in the quint, rural town.
Even in today's era, rural areas were getting urbanize, although Longxu Town still had this rural feel in its surroundings.
"It's really a pity that this place would be decimated in a few seconds." Miyuki said, sighing sadly. This place was beautiful, all things considered. Longxu Town is a small, quaint town, surrounded by remarkable forestry. The two town was very easy to look at.
And this town would be decimated in a few seconds.
"Having second thoughts?" Tatsuya asked his sister. If there was a person in this earth capable of stopping Tatsuya with nothing more than words, it would be Miyuki.
Unfortunately for the people of Dahan, Miyuki would not stop her beloved brother.
"For what this country did to our Obaa-eu, they deserve everything that you would throw at them." Miyuki stated without any guilt or shame in her voice.
"Very well then." Tatsuya raised his hand, preparing for another wide scale destruction.
Personally, Tatsuya hope that the damage that he is inflicting upon the Wuzhou Province is enough for the Yotsuba to gain back their Untouchable reputation. If he understood Yotsuba Ayame correctly, and the woman was too much like the Yotsuba Maya that he knew in his time, then everything that he is doing would be connected to the Yotsuba one way or another.
If it wasn't enough, he will cross the bridge when he gets there.
"So, how are you going to do this?" Maya asked as she stood up and walk towards the left side of Tatsuya. Miyuki had his left.
"You requested something with explosions, right?" Tatsuya asked as he took aim at three dozen vehicles.
"Yeah I did!" The smile upon Maya's face reminded both Miyuki and Tatsuya of their aunt, of the Queen of Night.
"I'll grant you that wish." Tatsuya waved his hands at the streets below.
Before Miyuki's and Maya's eyes, three dozen vehicles disappear from the streets. Each disappearance generated an explosion equivalent to that of a High Explosive bomb.
Each explosion ravage the road below, damaging the buildings and the people around them.
"That was a bit tamed compared to the explosions you normally make when we teleport." Maya observed the damage below them. Normally, a teleportation generate enough explosive force to wipe out a city block. The explosions that Tatsuya generate through each teleport were tamer in comparison.
Each explosion was equivalent to that of a dynamite bomb. Still impressive, still destructive but not to the degree that Maya was accustom to.
"Ideally, this spell should not generate any force when executed. I've been refining my [Warping Magic] after each used to minimize the excess energy release after each warp." Tatsuya explained before he pointed at the sky.
Miyuki and Maya looked at the sky to see all the vehicles that Tatsuya teleported hovering strategically throughout the town.
"How are you making them float?" Maya asked in curiosity.
"I removed the gravity within a certain parameter of those vehicles. I am able to remove the gravity of a certain matter, but if I do that, those vehicles would be launch to the atmosphere, which is counterproductive with what I intend to do." Tatsuya pulled out his CAD before taking aim. Identifying and tagging the vehicles in the air, Tatsuya cast [Overhaul].
The vehicles momentarily turned to dust, Miyuki and Maya could see blood spilled out from some of the vehicles, before rapidly returning back into original shape.
Tatsuya nodded in satisfaction before he resumed the flow of gravity back to those vehicles.
Miyuki and Maya watched at the three dozen vehicles descended to the ground.
When the first vehicle touch the ground, an explosion that can only be achieve from a ballistic missile.
This phenomenon repeated 35 times.
Tatsuya had to hold both Maya and Miyuki in place as the multiple explosions that suddenly erupted throughout Longxu Town generated enough wind force to reach them from their vantage point, and it had enough strength to knock the two ladies backwards.
"Onii-sama, what was that?!" Miyuki inquired loudly as she covered her eyes with one hand to avoid dirt to enter her eyes and another hand secured her skirt in place.
"I converted the matter on those vehicles into antimatter, and when matter and antimatter meet, they tend to generate explosions." Tatsuya explained nonchalantly. "We are done here." Tatsuya told his companions.
When the wind died, Maya looked at the aftermath of Tatsuya's latest attack. The town that once stood peacefully a few seconds ago looked to be ravaged by a bombardment.
Longxu Town was in flames.
"A part of me feels pity for them." Maya said after a second of looking at the destruction upon her.
"Don't." Tatsuya told Maya. "Don't pity them. They don't deserve it." Tatsuya offered his left hand to Maya. Miyuki already wrapped herself around Tatsuya left side.
Maya took the hand that was offered to her before replying. "Your right."
Pity does not have any place in the heart of the Yotsuba.
The moment that the higher ups of Dahan decided to kidnap Maya, everyone in the country has become collateral.
(Scene Change)
"I think you should call the kid and have him level the entire province to the ground." Yuuma recommended to his nephew. "It's better to die with one swift blow than to die by multiple shots." Yuuma exclaimed, his comment spoken from experience.
"Or you can call the boy and just tell him to clear the embassy and wait for us to arrive." Eisaku gave his own recommendation. "The kid is getting too hot for my taste."
"He hasn't been caught yet." Motosuke pointed out. "And whatever the kid is doing, whatever damage he is inflicting, I say that country deserves it."
"Do you want war to be brought in our doorsteps?" Eisaku asked his brother incredulously.
"No, I don't, but I also want that backwater country to learn that there are consequences when they dare try to touch any of our family." Motosuke answered his brother strongly.
"The kid is not affiliated with us." Eisaku pointed out.
"Yet." Motosuke rebuked. "You honestly thing mother would let that boy go after the things that we have seen him do?"
Yuuma laughed at that statement.
"Knowing sis, she would have all eligible young woman in our clan line up for the boy to choose from." Yuuma exclaimed with amusement and seriousness in his voice. "Sis won't let that kid walk from the Yotsuba. Kid is too powerful, and he doesn't look to be trying at the moment."
Yuuma chuckled a bit more. "I wonder what we would get if the boy actually tries."
That thought sent a shiver up the Yotsuba brother's spines.
(Scene Change)
"They are beginning to panic." Maya commented as she and her friends were eating in a High rise restaurant.
The group were now in Wanxiu District, and they decided as a group to have lunch.
The three went into a High Rise Restaurant, and after they were serve their meal, Tatsuya erased everyone in the restaurant without pause.
It amuse Maya that the establishment serve them food before Tatsuya eradicated them.
Back to Maya's initial statement, from where the three were dining, they were watching as the local law enforcement ferried the people out of the streets. It seems that Tatsuya's two previous attacks had cause mass mobilization of the local police and the soldiers stationed in the province.
Maya could see men in police and military uniforms beginning to roam the streets.
"Would this be troublesome?" Maya asked while taking a bite from her spring rolls.
"Far from it." Tatsuya assured Maya before pointing the barrel of his CAD to the streets below. "Is 1000 yards wide enough?" Tatsuya asked his companions.
"It is, Onii-sama. No need to exert any effort against this riffraff." Miyuki answered before cutting a piece of pork and offering it to her brother.
Tatsuya accepted the offered piece from Miyuki before pulling the trigger and activating his magic.
Maya watched in utter awe as people, vehicles, and buildings flew up to the sky like rockets. Buildings around them were unearth from their foundation, vehicles were rendered weightless, and people appeared to gain the ability to fly without any knowledge or form of control.
"You removed the gravity within 1,000 yards of us." Maya said, her attention turned to Tatsuya. She was beginning to wonder if her friend had a limit when it comes to Strategic Class Magic.
"Within 1,000 yards of us, correct." Tatsuya confirmed. "When you removed gravity from an object, they don't hover, the object would ascend into the sky very quickly. Aside from the building that we are in right now, I removed the gravity within 1,000 yard radius, and everything caught within the radius would ascend to the height of 3 kilometers. Which reminds me, we should really finish our meal quickly. I don't want to be anywhere near this place when I return the gravity in the area."
Maya thought of what would happen if Tatsuya returned the gravity, and she cringed lightly. "That would be a mess." Maya commented.
"Very much so." Miyuki agreed with a nod.
The three continued with their meal their pace increasing a bit, although they still dined with perfect posture and manners, thought it was mostly Miyuki and Maya. Tatsuya ate so robotically that he did not break any table etiquettes.
"So, when we get back to Japan, what are your plans?" Maya asked her friends, engaging in some small talk.
"We will get in touch with some of our family, and we will go from there." Tatsuya answered simply.
"You don't sound like your looking forward to it." Maya commented, noticing that her friend's voice was more hallow than usual.
"Onii-sama does not have the best of relations with our family." There was bitterness in Miyuki's voice that made Maya flinched.
Family is an important concept to Maya. It was a concept that her parents and uncle had driven into her. Family is the most important thing in the world, and everyone in the family should love and respect each other. Those were the concept that Maya understood when family is discuss.
Family hating each other is a foreign concept to Maya.
"They love you, and that is enough for me to coexist with them." Tatsuya told his sister gently.
Miyuki released a cute huff, flattered by the compliment her brother gave her but was still visibly displeased. "That is not good enough for me. Your precious and amazing, it shouldn't be too difficult for them to accept that."
'A beloved daughter and a hated son.' Maya thought with a frown.
It was hard to hate Tatsuya in Maya's opinion. Sure, Tatsuya has a limited emotional capacity, though Maya things that was due to his upbringing and conditioning as a magician, and he is very quick to resolve problems with violence, although Maya things that was due to Tatsuya being a guy, but he was an okay guy to hung around with. He was honest and blunt, protective like a lion towards his cub, and caring (for his sister).
Tatsuya is a cool guy in Maya's perspective.
"Well, before you guys have a reunion with your family, get to know mine first. My sister would like both of you!" Maya stated, knowing that her friends would be great for his twin, and her twin would be great for the two.
Maya could already envision her sister putting some personality into Tatsuya and a backbone to Miyuki.
Maya likes Miyuki very much, but in her opinion, she was too submissive towards Tatsuya.
"We'll gladly meet her." Tatsuya said, with an emotion in his voice that Maya could not put a finger on.
"Yes, happily." Maya could sense anticipation, sadness, and even grief in Miyuki's voice, which was peculiar.
"We'll let's go." Tatsuya set aside his utensils and sat up.
Miyuki and Maya followed suit, each girl taking either side of Tatsuya.
Tatsuya pointed his CAD above and casually pulled the trigger.
The three teleported, with Tatsuya not bothering to suppress the energy release with this warping.
The energy release by the teleportation blew half the building into rubble.
A second later, everything that Tatsuya sent to the sky descended to the ground hard.
Tatsuya slaughtered over 5-digits worth of people with his last magic.
(Scene Change)
"At this point, Tatsuya-kun just needs to decimate the entire country and be done with it." Ayame exclaimed, greatly enjoying what she was watching.
"He is a vindictive child!" Yume commented in disapproval.
"I blame his training and conditioning." Yasuyo stated.
"Don't put all the blame in those factors alone." Yume snapped at her sister-in-law.
"He has beautiful magic." Miya, unlike her aunt and grandmother, was focused solely on the magic and power that Tatsuya wielded. Yes, it was horrible that people had to die for her to witness such phenomenon, but Dahan took her sister. She has no pity for them.
"Yes, he does." Ayame agreed with a greedy smile.
(Scene Change)
"Changzhou District." Maya breathed out as they stood in the center of the district. Maya would not admit it out loud but she was nervous to be around so many people. Fortunately, her nerves were calmed due to her companions.
Tatsuya was enough of a deterrent to prevent another kidnapping.
Also, Tatsuya seemed to have made their little group invincible again. Between her and Miyuki, all eyes should have been drawn to them.
They were that beautiful.
"So, what kind of calamity are you going to bring into this quaint town?" Maya asked, her attention turned to Tatsuya.
Maya was very much convince that Tatsuya is walking, breathing force of nature.
"I am going to use [Decay]." Tatsuya announced, CAD pointed to the ground. "It's slower than I would have liked, but it should have the psychological effect that I want to inflict on the population." Tatsuya explained before pulling the trigger.
Maya expected the magic to take affect immediately. Everything that Tatsuya does is quick and efficient.
But the magic did not take effect, which was worrisome. Maya looked at Tatsuya, a question in his eyes.
Tatsuya gestured to her feet, and Maya followed his gazed.
The ground in front of Maya began to crumble.
In fact, everything around the three of them began to crumble.
Maya watched, although she felt it more than saw, an unknown energy expand from their position. As the energy expand, Maya saw everything that the invincible energy touch get reduce to dust.
The ground, the people, everything was getting disintegrated.
Maya felt a tugged on the back of her collar before her sight was assaulted by multiple colors. Before she knew, the three of them appeared above the district.
Above the sky, Maya saw the devastation of Tatsuya's latest magic.
The magic that Tatsuya cast was a [Disintegration Magic]. It was a slow but thorough [Disintegration Magic]. The scariest part of this magic was that it was spreading.
From her vantage point, Maya saw the magic, [Decay], spread and increase its area of effect. Everything that the magic touches, organic or inorganic, was reduce to dust in three seconds flat.
Like Tatsuya said, the magic was slow, but it was potent and scary. This was evident as the people below them, those who notice what was happening began to panic.
In a matter of seconds, as hundreds began to slowly disintegrate in the middle of the District, a mass panic was triggered followed by a stampede.
People began trampling over each other as they tried to outrun the curse that Tatsuya casted upon their land.
They tried to run from death, but death caught up with them nevertheless.
The road started to become sand. The buildings when Tatsuya's [Decay] finally reached it began crumble and collapse, the debris hitting the panicking civilian under them.
Maya witness as an entire city fell as a domino of disintegration befell them.
Maya looked at Tatsuya and asked, voice serious, lacking its usual cheerfulness. "Are you a God?"
"There is no such thing as Gods." Tatsuya told her before casting his Teleportation magic once again.
(Scene Change)
"What is he?!" Eisaku asked, horrified at the sight of a magic that actually spreads like a plaque.
"A destroyer!" Yuuma said, a bit of fear in his voice.
(Scene Change)
"I think we have found the nearest thing we have for a God in this world." Ayame stated with a laughed as she put a hand on Miya's shoulder. "Seduce him. Having him as your husband would be your greatest achievement."
(Scene Change)
The trio made a cursory stop in Mengshan County.
The three of them did not bother sightseeing. It was not worth the effort as everyone was rushing home and the country, or what remains of the Wuzhou Province was in the verge of mass hysteria.
Tatsuya was gladly helping in the process of drowning the entire province into mass hysteria.
Mengshan County is a tourist spot. In the province, it has the most forestry, natural stone formations and waterfalls.
It is a beautiful Country.
So Tatsuya decided that it did not its God-given beauty.
Tatsuya pointed his CAD upwards, and with a press of the trigger, a heat wave descended upon the country.
The heat wave triggered a forest fire in under ten seconds. In fifteen, the houses and buildings burst into flames as well, the intense heat cracking and damaging everything it could. The organic matter that the heat wave hit also combust into flames.
"Let me guess, you removed the atmospheric layer protecting the town, causing the sun's radiation to travel into this town unfiltered." Maya guessed.
"Correct." Tatsuya confirmed. "We are standing on the only area where the sun's radiation is being filtered." Tatsuya told Maya before pointing his CAD to the sky once again and pulling the trigger. "I've returned the atmosphere back to this District."
"How merciful." Maya said, still a bit shock at the repertoire that her friend possesses when it comes to wide scale destruction.
(Scene Change)
Tatsuya teleported the trio to Teng County, specifically into Pingfu Town.
This is where the Military Barracks was located, and Tatsuya teleported them a kilometer away from said barracks. They were looking over the Barracks on an incline hill.
It still impressed Maya how Tatsuya could erase explosions before they happen. Explosions tends to be extremely fast, and the fact that Tatsuya could anticipate and intercept a phenomenon that happens in less than a second was truly admirable.
The Pingfu Barracks covered an area of ten kilometers.
Half of the land were for military purposes. There were facilities that were used to hold and maintain machines for war, ranging from jeeps to tanks to airships as well as facilities for keeping arms. There were several training facilities scattered in the area as well. What got Tatsuya's interest were the communication towers and facility in the center of the barracks.
The other half were for commercial and housing purposes for the soldiers living in the Barracks.
Tatsuya looked over the entire land with both his normal and special eyes.
"10 Kilometers." Tatsuya stated, a look of contemplation on his face. He was thinking of a way to eradicate all life within 10 Kilometers efficiently.
"So, how are you going to handle this?" Maya inquired while watching a storm of activity below. Even two kilometers away, Maya could see people mobilizing from the Barracks. Tanks and jeeps were moving out, carrying countless soldiers, and airships were also starting to fly out of the area.
Maya was sure that they were task to find and kill the Magician who was causing all the destruction in the province. Maya found this entire thing amusing. Maya would bet her virginity that this country could throw every single soldier and magician that they have against Tatsuya, and they would not even scratch him.
"Miyuki, could you come closer to me." Tatsuya requested to his sister.
Miyuki, like lightning, stood besides Tatsuya, her body almost touching his. "Of course, Onii-sama!" Miyuki purred excitedly.
Tatsuya casually wrapped his left arm around Miyuki's waist before pulling her into his chest, their bodies flush to each other.
Miyuki let out an excited squeak at the sudden action of her beloved before adapting quickly. Miyuki wrapped both arms around her brother's muscular form, leaning forward for extra measures so that she can fully enjoy the pleasant sensation that her brother's body always gives her.
"Do you need me at your right?" Maya asked coyly, which earned her a glare from Miyuki.
"No need." Tatsuya told her as he pointed his CAD at the Barracks. "I just needed Miyuki to be in my arms. I hate reducing the attention that I have on her."
Miyuki perked up before smiling happily. "Don't worry Onii-sama! I am always by your side." Miyuki assured her brother, her grip on his person tightening.
Maya swore that Miyuki rubbed herself on Tatsuya's left side, which amused Maya.
'Brocon Princess.' Maya thought with a giggle.
"Good." Tatsuya stated, a slight hint of happiness in his voice.
Tatsuya pulled the trigger and Maya watched eagerly to see what kind of plaque her powerful friend casted upon the land.
Even from where she was standing, even though she could barely define the shape of the people below her, Maya saw people collapsing onto their knees. Using one of the few magic that she could use without a CAD, Maya enhance her eyesight to see everything happening below her in detail.
Maya saw people collapsing to the ground, hands on their throats as if someone was choking the life out of them. She watched as a slew of people from the Barracks started relieving themselves of their bowels.
A few seconds later, the people that collapsed lost consciousness, their blood vessels breaking and their eyes popping off from their skulls. Maya observed with interest as blood began to pour out of the bodies. The blood spilled onto the ground was boiling.
Deactivating her Magic, Maya looked at Tatsuya. "You simulated the vacuum of outer space with the Barracks, all ten kilometers." Maya concluded after seeing the devastation that her friend unleashed upon those still in the barracks.
"Correct." Tatsuya confirmed. "This magic is called [Chamber]."
Maya pitied the people that died through this magic. Their deaths were not instantaneous. It was slow, it was torturous, and it was hell.
And like that, Maya got over her pity.
Tatsuya waited a full minute before lifting his magic.
A minute in a vacuum should be enough to kill everyone in the barracks.
Still, there were some useable machines in the Barracks so Tatsuya casted [Deep Snow] to freeze the entirety of the Barracks.
Maya whistled in appreciation as she once again witness the first ever Strategic-Type Magic that Tatsuya ever performed in front of her, only this, in a greater scale. "Wow." Maya breathed out.
"A kingdom of ice for my Princess." Tatsuya teasingly told his sister, his lips pressing on her temple.
Miyuki had a giddy smile on her lips as the pleasant sensation course through her from where her brother press his lips.
"I am thankful for the gift." Miyuki exclaimed, her cheeks red for the affection that her Tatsuya was giving her.
Once again, Maya rolled her eyes at the affectionate siblings.
"A husband and a mistress…" Maya whispered loudly. "Onee-sama should cuddle with me for my hard work."
(Scene Change)
"I know their siblings, but those two look good together." Yasuyo stated, eyes on the lovely siblings in the screen.
"Are we even sure their siblings? They look nothing alike." Yume pointed out.
"They are siblings. Their biological material matches perfectly." Ayame narrowed her eyes. "Too perfectly to be a coincidence." Ayame looked at Miyuki.
Ayame wanted Tatsuya for his power.
Ayame also wanted Miyuki.
Biologically, the girl was too perfect, and the things Ayame could do with that perfection is unimaginable.
(Scene Change)
The trio were now in Cangwu County, and they were a few meters from the Japanese Embassy.
Considering what Tatsuya has been doing in the past few hours, the trio expected the Embassy to be heavily guarded.
They were correct in their assumption.
On the gates of the Embassy, right in front of them, were a dozen armed men, some jeeps with mounted automatic rifles, and a tank was on the other side of the gates.
"Let's go." Tatsuya told his companions as he walked towards the heavily guarded gate.
Miyuki and Maya followed. The two ladies were amused as the three of them walked right in front of the guards, none of them even looking at their direction. There amusement increase when the three of them got pass the gates by phasing through the metal bars.
"Can you teach me [Perfect Diffusion]?" Maya asked as the three continued walking towards the Embassy building. [Perfect Diffusion] is the perfect stealth magic. It did not just hide their physical presence, it also hid their magical signatures. Considering the calamity that Tatsuya was raining down upon the province and the fact that they have yet to be caught was a testament to the power of this magic.
"Can you also teach me [Permeation]?" Maya requested again when she phased through a guard that walked right in front of them.
Phasing through object is just cool, and Maya wanted to add it to her Magic library.
"If you are able to, I'll consider it." Tatsuya answered as the three walked into the embassy through one of its walls.
Tatsuya had never been into an international Japanese Embassy before, but he knew the layout of the Dahan Japanese Embassy like the back of his hand. The Yotsuba festered their hatred towards the Dahan to their children and they sang the praises of the previous generation to the current. Tatsuya was taught the history of the Yotsuba, on how the Yotsuba decimated Dahan. The plans that were enacted, the people that were assassinated, the organization and the facilities that were destroyed, Tatsuya knew all of it like the back of his hand.
Tatsuya knew the layout of the Embassy, so it took him less than five minutes to lead his group to the head consulate's office.
There sat the man who had sold his aunt to Dahan in one lifetime.
Keigo Chisaki, 47 years old, non-descript ambassador. Japanese descent, and a traitor to his country.
Tatsuya did not care that he betrayed Japan. He had no loyalties to his country. But he cared about the fact that this man had sold his aunt like cattle to this country.
A lifetime ago, Keigo Chisaki was hang, drawn, and quartered by the Yotsuba. He and his entire line was snuffed out.
In this lifetime, hopefully he was the only one who dies.
Brandishing his gun-shape CAD, the CAD that had ravaged that had ravaged the Wuzhou Province, Tatsuya pulled the trigger to erased the consulate's bodyguards, and before the man could react, he close the distance and kicked the man hard across the head.
Tatsuya knew that he concuss the man.
"I think I head a skull break." Maya commented with a wince.
"I was aiming for it." Tatsuya assured Maya before pointing his CAD at the window of the office. "I am clearing the area." With a pull of the trigger, Tatsuya cast a field of [Decomposition] to the embassy and its surrounding area.
Everyone in the embassy was identified, and aside from the three of them and Keigo Chisaki, everyone was erased, their dust carried by the wind.
(Scene Change)
"I have seen cleaner battlefields." Yuuma commented somberly as the Yotsuba retrieval squad finally entered Wuzhou Province airspace. The group looked below, and though they saw Tatsuya decimate the province, this was the first time they saw the damage dealt first hand.
"It's like a God appeared out of thin air and decided to flex his power." Motosuke commented grimly. Six out of the seven counties were noticeable damage, and it was not just negligible damage.
It was not an over exaggeration to say that Tatsuya scarred the entire province, probably to the point that of no recovery.
"It only took two hours and one guy with the power of nuclear bomb." Eisaku commented, shivering at the amount of damage that Tatsuya cause to the province.
They deserved it for what they did, Eisaku would concede that much, but it was still harrowing to think that a boy barely in his teens did all of this damage.
"[We are arriving in the embassy in ten minutes.]" From the pilot seat, Hayama informed everyone.
"Okay, game plan, we take Maya-chan and her companions, and then we fly out of this backwater country as fast as we can." Genzou told his brothers, uncles, and the one dozen volunteers that accompanied them.
"And if that God becomes hostile, tell him that there is a cute girl waiting for him back home as well as the many other benefits that he can enjoy by throwing his lot at us." Yuuma added seriously while preparing a set of spears.
"No." Motosuke rejected his uncle's statement. Motosuke likes Tatsuya, and he is very grateful for the service that he gave the Yotsuba, but he would not sell Miya to anyone, God in human form or not.
It was Motosuke's greatest wish that his family can marry for love.
The next ten minutes were the longest ten minutes of Genzou's life. It passed by too slowly for his taste, but when he felt the aircraft slowly descends, he jumped into his feet and immediately opened the entrance ramp. Genzou did not hesitate to jump out of the aircraft mid descent.
Although it seems that there was no danger to his person as he felt foreign yet harmless magic wrapped around him. The magic slowly floated him safely to the ground, and a second later, he found himself being hugged by a familiar set of arms.
"PAPA!" The sound of his youngest daughter's voice filled him with relief. Genzou hungrily and greedily wrapped his arms around her daughter's body, happy that his daughter was safe and unharmed.
The embrace was joined by Motosuke and Eisaku while Yuuma encompassed all four of them with his large arms.
Behind Maya, Tatsuya and Miyuki looked at the scene with carrying degrees of emotions.
"Was our version of the Yotsuba this overt when it comes to familial affection?" Miyuki asked her brother, happiness and envy clear in her voice.
"I don't know." Tatsuya answered simply, eyes looking at the four legends before him.
Among all of them, the siblings only met Eisaku, and they never saw him display such open affection to their aunt before.
"What now, Onii-sama?" Miyuki asked her brother, uncertainty in her voice.
"I will protect you forever. I will be beside you forever." Tatsuya assured her. "Whatever happens next, nothing will still harm you." Tatsuya added, his hand taking Miyuki's.
Miyuki smiled at those words. "Good enough."
The siblings began to walk towards the loving family, a body being dragged behind them.
Yuuma was the first to notice them. The gigantic Yotsuba let go of his nephews and grandniece before moving towards the two who guarded Maya for the family.
Yuuma embraced the two tightly. "Thank you for taking care of my favorite hat!" Yuuma told the two cheerily, while the two siblings exchange looks.
Both were told by their mother that Yotsuba Yuuma was a nutcase. Apparently, there was credence in those words.
"And look at that, you two have even brought me a new punching bag." Yuuma said excitedly as he looked at the head consulate of the Embassy.
The ambassador was gagged, and by the looks of things, both arms and legs were bent in an angle that it should not be bent.
If Yuuma had his way, the man would be bent like a pretzel. Regardless, Yuuma took the barely conscious man from Tatsuya and dragged him uncaringly into the aircraft.
With Yuuma liberating the traitor from Tatsuya's grasp, Maya dragged her father and uncles to the siblings.
"Papa, this are my two friends. You know them already but it's better to meet them in person." Maya excitedly gestured to Tatsuya. "Pops, this is Tatsuya, you know him as Magician who has been carving this place up, and this is his cute sister, Miyuki." Maya introduced the siblings to his family.
Miyuki bowed at the three, doing her best not to lose her composure before the granduncle that she knew, and two other legends of her family.
Tatsuya merely extended his hand at Genzou. "You raised a magnificent woman." Tatsuya exclaimed casually, ignoring the blush that appeared on Maya's face.
"I know." Genzou replied before taking Tatsuya's hand and shaking it cordially. "Thank you for your service." Genzou stated, voice filled with gratefulness.
"Think nothing of it." Tatsuya told his grandfather. "I know that you have a lot of question, and I would admit that I have things that I would ask of you, but can we postpone any conversation until we get back to Japan. I don't want to be in this country any longer than what is necessary." Tatsuya requested.
"Agreed." Genzou could wait to talk to the boy. He will give him that courtesy.
"It's like we've jumped into a time machine." Motosuke commented, still taken back at the resemblance between his eldest brother and Tatsuya.
"Agreed." Eisaku stated, eyes fixed on Miyuki. Her resemblance to Yasuyo and the Yotsuba twins was eerie.
With the pleasantries exchange, Tatsuya and Miyuki were lead to the aircraft.
Maya was carried to the aircraft by her father, and she enjoyed the care that her father showed her.
Yotsuba Genzou is a very affectionate father, and considering what happened and what almost happened to Maya, Genzou did not have any intentions of letting his daughter go for quite a while.
Tatsuya held Miyuki's hand tightly as they entered the airship. Two dozen eyes turned towards them.
They were Yotsuba operatives, none of them the siblings were familiar with. But there was one person that the siblings were familiar with. Hayama Tadanori, the head butler of the Yotsuba Clan and their aunt's confidant.
The sight of a young Hayama was bizarre for the siblings to see. They were used to seeing him as a grandfatherly old man who ran the family estate with precision and efficiency. To see him with black hair instead of white and without wrinkles or any sign of old age was an experience for the siblings.
The siblings stated at Hayama for a complete second before they were ushered to a seat besides Genzou and Maya.
The attention that the two gave to Hayama was not missed by everyone.
"You met them before." Yuuma asked the friend of his nephews and his second favorite chef.
Hayama shook his head, a bit unnerved at the attention that the two gave him.
Securing his daughter besides him and having the siblings stationed in front of him, Genzou ordered Hayama to take off.
Hayama shelf his curiosity to the back of his mind and commandeered the pilot seat once again. A few seconds later, the aircraft was in the air.
"We are finally going home." Maya said in relief. This entire trip was an experience. Between getting kidnap and almost getting experimented on to watching arguably the best Strategic-Type Magician work, Maya was almost tapped out.
Unfortunately, things have yet to be fully settled.
"Miyuki, shield." Tatsuya ordered with a tired and frustrated sigh.
Before anyone could react, Miyuki erected a shield around their aircraft.
Less than a second later, rockets were shot into their vessels, which Miyuki's shield block with such efficiency that the aircraft did not even budge due to the shockwave of the explosion.
"Hayama!" Genzou called out, and immediately a holographic screen appeared before those in the passenger's room.
Everyone in the room watched as three fighter jets flew besides and in front their aircraft.
A voice echoed into the aircraft.
"[Unidentified aircraft, follow this plane's orders and land immediately.]" A man ordered authoritatively in mandarin.
Fortunately, everyone who heard the command can understand the language.
"You have got to be fucking me." Motosuke growled as he got ready to fight.
"Can we talk to them?" Tatsuya asked, feeling a bit irritated by the turn of events.
"Certainly, we can." Yuuma told Tatsuya. "Hayama, if you would."
"[Unidentified aircraft, obey our orders.]"
Yuuma nodded at Tatsuya, but Tatsuya looked at Genzou for permission.
Genzou looked conflicted for a second but decided to trust Tatsuya. Genzou nodded at Tatsuya, acquiescing the situation to his care.
With a deep breath, Tatsuya replied. "We deeply apologize, but we are unable to comply. We are from the Japanese Embassy, and due to the sudden attack on this province, we are extracting all important consulates in the area. In accordance to the Japanese-Dahan Military agreement and the Cross Country Border treaty between our countries, we are requesting safe passage out of the Wuzhou Province." Tatsuya replied with perfect Mandarin.
"His multi-lingual." Eisaku commented with a raise brow.
Tatsuya waited for a second before the sound of gunfire echoed in the aircraft.
They were being fired at, but Miyuki's shield held firm.
"[Unidentified aircraft, this is a warning, please land or we will shoot you down.]"
Tatsuya sighed in irritation before casually unbuckling his sister from his chair. Tatsuya pulled Miyuki to his lap and held her firm. Regardless of the position that her brother put her in and the full body blush on her person, Miyuki kept the shield up.
"Do you believe in God?" Tatsuya asked, almost mockingly.
"[WHAT?!]"
"I said do you believe in God?" Tatsuya repeated himself as his eyes glowed dangerous. "Because if you do, start praying to him…" Tatsuya held onto Miyuki for dear life as he removed his sight off of her completely.
Tatsuya shuddered in disgust in not 'seeing' his sister with his special sight but he took solace in knowing that he was holding her in his arms.
Miyuki is still alive and she is in his arms. That is all that matters.
Tatsuya locked onto every lifeform within the Cangwu County.
There were 846,702 living in the county and Tatsuya tagged every single one of them.
That took Tatsuya a tenth of a second.
And it took Tatsuya another tenth of a second to cast his magic.
The entirety of Cangwu County, all 1,074 square miles of it, was suddenly enshrouded in Darkness.
"Prepare to meet your God." Tatsuya told the pilot mockingly.
Within the dome of darkness, countless flashes of lights pierced through the darkness.
Five seconds later, the darkness receded.
The fighter jets that were harassing their aircraft crashed to the ground, their vessels were littered with holes.
Every single one saw what Tatsuya did. They saw what magic Tatsuya used.
They turned their attention to Tatsuya, all eyes widen in shock.
Maya especially because the magic that Tatsuya performed was hers.
That magic was her [Night].
And it was performed in a scale that was impossible for her to replicate.
Tatsuya ignored every gaze directed at him but one. Tatsuya pressed his lips to the exposed neck of his sister. "Are still here?" Tatsuya asked, voice having a touch of fear.
Miyuki stiffed at the kiss that her brother gave her before nodding swiftly. "Still here." Miyuki assured her brother.
Tatsuya sighed in relief as he set his 'special' eyes back at his sister.
He would never, ever do that again.
(Scene Change)
The trip to back Japan happened swiftly. Tatsuya, not wanting for another confrontation, warped the aircraft from their current airspace to the airspace close to the Japanese Border.
Those who have not experience Tatsuya's teleportation magic were impress by such a powerful magic.
The trip back to Yotsuba Controlled territory was in relative silence. Everyone in the passenger room were still shocked at the last magic that Tatsuya performed.
They thought that only Maya could use [Meteor Stream]. To discover that someone can use that magic too, and to a scale that was unfathomable even for a Strategic-Type Magic shock everyone to the core.
The magic that cannot be defended against, utilize in a scope of an entire city, the thought sends shivers down everyone's spine.
Still, there was no hostility directed towards Tatsuya or Miyuki. They couldn't do such a thing considering that they save Maya from a horrible fate.
"We're landing." Genzou announced as he turned his attention to Tatsuya.
Maya was asleep, her head on her father's shoulder, and Miyuki mirrored her, with her head resting on Tatsuya's shoulder.
"Can I request a room for my sister and I?" Tatsuya requested. "I would like to freshen up before I answer any questions." Tatsuya explained himself.
"That would be acceptable." Genzou would do anything to delay Tatsuya's meeting with his mother. Tatsuya showed himself to be a valuable prize and weapon, and Genzou knew his mother enough to know that she will do everything in her power to have Tatsuya under her heel.
"Hayama-san, when we get back, please have a room and a change of clothing ready for our guests." Genzou ordered his friend.
"Of course." Hayama replied as he landed the aircraft.
Tatsuya immediately moved and carried Miyuki bridal style. Genzou mirrored this for Maya.
Both Motosuke and Yuuma laughed at how mirror like this entire scene is.
Both Genzou and Tatsuya stepped out of the aircraft, and Genzou found himself being crowded by his wife and other daughter.
Tatsuya and Miya exchange a looked, with Tatsuya offering the younger version of his mother a nod and Miya offering him a beautiful, thankful smile.
Tatsuya looked at Miya.
This Miya was different, unburden with guilt and shame, untouched by darkness and regret.
"Pretty, isn't she?" A voice that reminded Tatsuya of the Queen of Night reach his ears.
Turning his attention, Tatsuya found himself face to face with another legendary figure in the Yotsuba's history.
Yotsuba Ayame.
"She is." Tatsuya agreed with a respectful nod.
Ayame smiled at that answer before her eyes shifted at the slumbering form of Miyuki. "A rest and a meal." Ayame offered cordially.
"That would be ideal." Tatsuya replied in a positive.
Before Ayame could give a command, Hayama appeared besides Tatsuya. The two exchange words before Hayama gestured for Tatsuya to follow him.
As Tatsuya followed Hayama, he could not help but feel a set of eyes permanently trained on his person.
(Scene Change)
Tatsuya was silent as Hayama led him into a vacant room. Miyuki regained consciousness when they entered the Yotsuba Main House, but she did not shown any indication that she wanted him to let her down.
Tatsuya understood her sister's current predicament. He may not have any connection towards the Yotsuba Clan, but Miyuki was well love by the family and she was a shoe-in as the next head of the family in their time. Considering that they are out of their timeline and the that he change the events that would have led to their existence, there are a lot of uncertainties in their current predicament.
Still, Tatsuya took this gamble and he was willing to see this through.
His life was simple, as long as Miyuki is safe, everything would be fine.
If Miyuki was threaten, well, he destroyed one universe, a second would not be a problem.
"Is this room should be sufficient enough." Hayama asked as he opened a guest room for the siblings. Hayama suspected the siblings would prefer to remain together so the room had two beds.
"Thank you." Tatsuya replied as he bowed his head to his once superior.
"Your change of clothes will follow. Towels are in the washroom. I will collect both of you when Genzou-sama summons you." Hayama informed the two siblings.
"That is acceptable." Tatsuya stated as he entered the room.
Hayama was about to close the door when Tatsuya told him something peculiar. "You are a good man, Hayama-dono."
Hayama froze at the honorific that Tatsuya used on him before closing the door to give the siblings some silence.
Now alone, Miyuki spoke. "What now, Onii-sama?"
Tatsuya looked at Miyuki seriously. "We show them the truth."
(Scene Change)
Maya waited excitedly for her friends to enter the dining hall.
The entire family was gathered…. Well not everyone, but Maya's favorite relatives were gathered in the dining hall, everyone waiting for her friends arrival.
"You'll like Tatsuya-kun." Maya assured her twin who sat besides.
Miya was holding Maya's hand tightly, not letting go of her. Maya enjoyed the gesture of her most favorite person. Miya was more reserve with her affection that Maya, so Maya enjoyed every loving and caring gestured that Miya gave her.
"She would." Ayame said with a tone that suggested that Miya did not have a choice in the matter.
"Mother…" Genzou began threateningly at his mother.
Ayame could only smirked at her son.
Before any conversation could begin, the door of the dining hall opened, and Hayama was shown to be leading Tatsuya and Miyuki into the room.
Miyuki looked like an angle descended from the heaven with the Yukata that she wore, her yet to fully mature curves highlighted by her robes, while Tatsuya looked to be a Yakuza Boss with his expression and his aura.
Everyone in the room looked at their guest before eyes shifted at Genzou and Yasuyo.
Those two siblings, standing side-by-side, reminded everyone of the current patriarch and matriarch of the Yotsuba.
"Are you sure both of you do not have artificial children's that we don't know of?" Ayame asked, her voice serious. "I am not going to be upset considering the results, but I would have like an input for that kind of project." Ayame added.
Genzou and Yasuyo gave the former head of the family a glare for that brazen accusation.
Tatsuya and Miyuki walked towards the dining room and bowed at every people in the dining room. They all noted that both siblings gazed stopped minutely longer at Yume, Eisaku, and Miya.
It was clear to their train eyes that Miyuki almost stumbled at the sight of Miya, and that there were numerous emotions brewing in her eyes at the sight of her.
Miya, for her part, once again searched for her memories if she had ever encountered the two.
Tatsuya helped Miyuki to her seat before taking the seat beside her.
"You all have questions, am I correct?" Tatsuya began, getting to the point at hand.
"Yes, we do." Ayame confirmed, a smile on her lips. "But, we extend our thanks for rescuing Maya-san and keeping her safe." Everyone in the table bowed their heads in thanks at Tatsuya's direction. "And if you want, we can eat first before you can tell us your life story." Ayame offered cordially.
Ayame might be curious to death, but courtesy is courtesy, and Tatsuya had done the family a service.
"Thank you for the offer, but I'd rather have your curiosity sated before any of us go forward." Tatsuya turned his gazed at Yasuyo. "Yasuyo-sama, you have a magic called [Recall], a magic that can extract memories from a target and transfer it to another, am I correct? Use it on me, and start from my conception." Tatsuya requested, eyes fixed on Yasuyo.
Again, this request shocked everyone in the table but Miyuki. For one thing, [Recall] is a family secret. Secondly, those who knew [Recall] outside of the family would never allow their life to be bared by strangers.
The first to recover was Ayame. "Yasuyo-san, do it." Ayame told her daughter-in-law. Yasuyo looked at Ayame in surprised. "He offered and volunteered. It would be inelegant of us if we do not answer this gesture of trust from our honored guest." Ayame stated.
"You know, there is no need for that." Genzou told Tatsuya. "You have been completely honest with us. We have no reason to be suspicious of you."
Eisaku and Yume did their best to not show any emotion to that statement from their brother.
"This is necessary." Tatsuya pressed. "The questions that you all have, it is better to show the answer than me telling you. It's quite unbelievable you see, and I prefer the relations between this Yotsuba and us to be clear of any form of suspicion. It is preferable to air out everything between me before we move forward." Tatsuya told them calmly. "So Yasoyu-sama, if you would please."
Genzou and Yasuyo exchanged looks before Yasuyo walked towards Tatsuya, Genzou following from behind.
"Should I leave?" Hayama inquired as he stood dutifully behind Tatsuya and Miyuki.
"Stay." Tatsuya told Hayama, eyes not leaving the approaching husband and wife. "This involves you as well."
Hayama was confused but a look from Genzou indicated that he should obey.
"This would hurt." Yasuyo told Tatsuya as she entered the necessary commands into her CAD.
"No it won't." Tatsuya assured the matriarch of the Yotsuba. "There is nothing that you can do that can hurt me." Tatsuya stated simply, as if it was a fact of life.
Yasuyo looked at Tatsuya intently, once again nothing the resemblance of him and her husband, before putting her hands on both sides of his temple. With a deep breath, Yasuyo casted [Recall] on Tatsuya.
With that, those in the room, saw the future of their Family and Clan.
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