As pnned, Yuuji and Tatsuya headed directly to the Hachioji Special Detentioer with Mayumi and Mari after school.
Mari led with Tatsuya by her side, while Mayumi walked leisurely with Yuuji, following them from behind.
Although Tatsuya knew about his newly formed romantic retionship with Mayumi, the couple didn’t engage in any dispy of affe, such as hand holding, on their way there.
Mayumi was still too shy to reveal her retionship with Yuuji to her friend, so Yuuji respected her decision and acted like he would before being her boyfriend.
Walking through the detentioer, which funed simirly to a prison but with a better overall liness and appearahey soon arrived in the room with a pstic pk numbering 707.
“Yuuji-kun, Tatsuya-kun, we’re going here.”
Purely out of habit, Mayumi grabbed Yuuji’s ahe two boys into the room o room 707. The gesture wasn’t missed by the keen-eyed Disciplinary ittee chairwoman, but with more important things at hand, it went past her pletely. She entered room 707, leaving that dispy of affeayumi did to the handsome first-year boy as a fleeting thought that quickly disappeared to the back of her mind.
The room Yuuji entered was aremely small, prison cell-sized room. But, uypical prison cell, there was no bed of any kind. Just a desk in the er with an in-built puter-like devistalled into it sidering there was a rge s at the ter of iit, and a rge one-way gss that allowed individuals in this room to see through the room door but not vice versa.
Iher room, they saw Sekimoto Isao sitting on a white mattress that rested on a simple, steel bed.
And right after, they saw Mari enter his room, shog the nky third-year student that had bee even paler than he reviously.
“W-Watanabe?!”
Intimidated and nervous, Isao grasped his right wrist, where his CAD would usually be, out of habit, only to be remihat all of his belongings had been fiscated. The only thing he has in his possession now was his own body and the hospital robe he was wearing.
“W-What are you doing here?”
“I came to hear your expnation.”
“...Even you ’t use yic here!”
For obvious reasons, usage of magic without permission rohibited ientioer. And the rule was further enforced by the use of magic jamming devices with antinite as its core po. However…
“Really now?”
As if blown by a light breeze that should here inside a small room with crete walls in the basement, Mari’s short hair began to float and sway lightly.
In the moment, Isao also felt a light breeze caress his fad blew his hair. Immediately, his eyes widened in shock. He quickly covered his nose and mouth, but in his panievitably sucked in some of the gas Mari cocted with her magibsp;
A groan of pain resounded from his throat, and in the moment, his body rexed. His arms fell onto his p as his eyes gzed over in a daze.
“Is that st-based mind trol?”
Tatsuya asked, immediately reizing and ing up with a pusible guess as to what Mari just did in those few moments.
“Is this your first time seeing it, Tatsuya-kun?”
“Yes.”
“Is it your first time as well, Yuuji-kun?”
“Yes… But perhaps it’s to be expected of Mari-senpai to have such fine trol of her magic.”
“Fufu, perhaps~”
Without having to wait long, Isao quickly spilled out every sihing with Mari’s spell loosening his mouth.
“After copying over the data from the demo mae, I was supposed to gh Shiba’s personal belongings.”
“What were you after?”
“The relic…”
Yuuji’s eyes narrowed at the mention of the relid the two beside him followed suit.
But just as Mari was about to question Isao further about the relid who ordered him, the bring sound of a siren resounded.
The three immediately exited the room and saw the emergency sign, alerting the eentioer of an intruder, dispyed in the s on the wall.
“Yuuji! Tatsuya-kun!”
Mari quickly appeared from the other rht after in a panid looked towards the three and the s.
“It’s an intruder… And it seems he’s after Sekimoto Isao…”
Tatsuya narrowed his eyes towards the end of the hall. Yuuji, Mayumi, and Mari followed the dire of his gaze and saw a rge, muscur man in a seemingly regur jacket and long pants, walking through the empty hallway. The heavy sound of his boots, apanied by the loud siren, echoed through the hallway at a leisurely pce as he looked around, searg for his prey.
“Yuuji…”
Whispering under her breath, Mayumi g Yuuji to firm her suspis for but a moment, not wanting to tear away her gaze from the ining danger before her. And treat misfortune, he nodded and stepped forward in a protective manner, firming all her fears.
Yuuji had told her about his enter with the man before them now, and his nod firmed that it was ihe same man. The maing tiger, Lu Gang Hu.
Lu Gang Hu, although a force to be reed with in bat, perhaps didn’t have subtlety in spades. And upon notig their presend seeing Yuuji and Tatsuya, a look nition appeared on his ferocious fabsp;
“Chairrepare for bat and be careful. He is aremely dangerous man.”
Mari’s eyes, which had been glued on Lu Gang Hu’s figure, turowards Tatsuya in shock. Endless questions filled her mind regarding their current situation, but she knew better than to ask them during su emergenbsp;
With a nod, she stepped forward along with Tatsuya. She took out a jet-bck, regur device, and the moment she swung it, two sharp, razor-like bdes of the same length broke out from it, f a slick, jet-bck sword that tripled its inal length.
Lu Gang Hu growled with ched teeth, dispying his razor sharp fangs, and moved into a stanbsp;
Then, in a dispy of immense speed, the maing tiger leaped into a hunt with both hands ched into fists.
In a rea to his dash, Mayumi activated her magic, creating three light blue magic circles that floated around Mari and Tatsuya. And from it, a torrential rain of icicles struck Lu Gang Hu.
But, with his entire physique enhanced by magic, both permaly through bodily modifications and temporarily through spells, the icicles didn’t even slowed him down. And the moment he came in close, Mari let out a battle cry and brandished her sword towards him.
“Haaaah!!!”
“Kkhh!!”
Perhaps not calg in the speed in which Lu Gang Hu was dashing at, Mari struck the palm of his hand with the handle part of her sword, effectively makitack useless and allowed the maing tiger, whose speciality was melee bat, into aremely dangere.
At least, that’s what Lu Gang Hu thought.
But in that moment, his well-honed instincts detected danger. And when he go the left, he saw the other part of the bde had circled around and moved towards him.
“Kuh-!”
In a dispy of lightning speed rea and surprising flexibility, Lu Gang Hu bent backwards, almost to a 90 degree angle, and dodged the uping bde.
And when Mayumi fired off aorrent of icicles right above him, taking advantage of his off-banced form, the beast leaped backward again and again to avoid all her successive attacks as well.
A look of shock colored the top special ops batant officer. He truly didn’t expect this level of resistance from what seemed to be a group of high school students.
But, he had orders that must be pleted, no matter what the circumstances were or no matter what the ay be.
The look on his face ged from that of a stoic soldier to that of a ferocious, yet trolled, beast.
He moved into a martial arts stand with both fists pulled back to his waist, fag up. Then with a swift and powerful movement, he turned both fist into cws and raised them before him, creating a powerful whirlwind that surrounded his entire figure.
Seeing this, Mayumi tio she amounts of powerful, sharp icicles towards him. But unfortunately, every single one was either deflected or destroyed by the powerful whirling winds.
Then, ohe whirlwind dissipated and the figure of the maing tiger appeared once again, he charged forward once again with terrifying speeds and an even more terrifyiermination.
Mari went into her stance, raising her sword hand in front and elongated her bdes, revealing the three jet-bck bdes ected by stro flexible cord which were currently hardened into steel using Reinfort Magibsp;
But to her shock, Lu Gang Hu suddenly disappeared from her sight. And a moment ter, she heard loud thuds on the wall tht.
Her eyes immediately turowards the sound, and as she feared, Lu Gang Hu appeared once again and now, he had passed her and was quickly approag Mayumi and Yuuji.
“Mayumi!”
“Chairwoman!”
The moment she tried to go after him, Tatsuya grabbed onto her shoulder and stopped her from recklessly charging in towards the extremely powerful and deadly soldier.
She turned and looked at Tatsuya in shod anger. But upon seeing his calm expression as he gazed forward, she stopped. Slowly looking back towards Yuuji and Mayumi, her eyes widened in shock when she saw the terrifying, powerful invader dangling his feat ferociously as his entire upper body was seemingly held by an invisible for mid air.
She looked down and saw Yuuji, with his left arm raised in front, gazing at the maing tiger with a calm, icy gaze.
He lowered his hand and Lu Gang Hu’s body began leaning forward until he arallel to the ground as if he was trolled by Yuuji’s hand movement.
Then, he lowered his arm, and the maing tiger smmed into the ground, instantly creating a massive spider web cra the crete floor beh him.
But when Mari thought it was the end of it, the ground tio crad the crater grew deeper and deeper as an increasing amount of pressure a tinued pressing Lu Gang Hu into the floor.
Groans of pain and struggle were the only thing that could escape the ched teeth of the Great Asian Union’s special ops soldier as his body felt like it was being crushed by a mountain.
He could hear not only the crack of the floor, but also his limbs and ribs that had begun to break one by one, pierg his muscles and ans. Blood trickled down the er of his lips. And before long, darkness enveloped his eyes as he fell unscious.
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Yuuji and Tatsuya were standing before the rge s tv in Yuuji’s living room. On the s, the beautiful figure of Fujibayashi Kyouko sitting in the car was dispyed.
“We’ve, unfortunately, failed to capture their leader, Xiang Shan. However, thanks to you two and the two dies capturing Lu Gang Hu, we were able to take the entire mobile espionage unit into custody, so I’d call that an overall win. Thank you.”
“We should be the one saying that, Kyouko-hank you for helping us iigate this matter.”
“Fufu~ I didn’t know I raised you to be such a sweet talker.”
Kyouko giggled in amusement, c her lips with her fingers, as she smiled brightly like a loving sister.
“On paper, perhaps. But quite a few manufacturers like Izumo Eleid Tsukumo Magic had fallen victim to them, you know?”
“Ah, so that’s why their stocks dropped tremendously…”
Yuuji mused in realization. He didn’t know what the Great Asian Union invaders’ did to those two panies, but he did short sell a lot of their stocks and got quite the profit from it.
He thought it was just a d his <
“Oh did you~? Then you should treat me to yakiniku on a while~ Don’t fet y sister, okay~?”
“A-Ahahaha… Okay…”
“By the way, about the Relic, where did the leak inate?”
Tatsuya asked, and a sigh escaped her lips as her expression quickly ged to beied.
“I’m embarrassed to say, but the army’s ating data was leaked. So every single magic research facility that had received payment from the army was targeted.”
“I see… Thank you foing out of your way to tact us.”
“You’re wele. Have fun at the test in two days.”
“Mm. Thank you, Kyouko-nee.”
“Tell Miyuki and Aika I said hi~”
The call ended and the two sat back down on the couch together. Tatsuya closed his eyes and leaned back to the incredibly soft sofa, exhaling deeply as he rexed his mind and body.
“Tired?”
“More so worried. Although we know what will happen in the petition… No, because we know what will happen then, I ’t help but think about it sistently.”
“...Now I feel a bit ashamed for not thinking about it as much as you.”
A small smile appeared on Tatsuya’s fabsp;
“Don’t be. I’m sure your mind is fully occupied by your lovers. You have a tall task ahead of you. g for one girl so pletely is difficult enough. Not to mention three, and iure, even more sidering your appearand tendencies.”
“... Are you teasing me?”
“Of course not.”
Yuuji turned his head and looked at Tatsuya, who was rexing with his eyes closed while smiling, suspiciously.
There was an urge in his heart to deny it, but he katsuya was right.
He had been trying his best to make them the happiest they could be and protect them. Even though he knew full well they could protect themselves, he didn’t want them to be in the slightest bit of danger if he could help it.
That’s why he had been busying himself by w hard to earn money for a future where they could do anything they want without a worry in the world.
Not only Aika, Erika, and Mayumi, but also for Mira, Yuna, Nina, his aunt Aika, and perhaps… more iure.
As Tatsuya said, sidering his tendencies, appearance, and… fetish, he’s more than likely to get into a retionship with even mirls iure. So he o learn how to care for his lovers properly and divide up his time and attention as equally as possible. Fast.
“Well… I ’t deny it. And there’s so many things I o learn so I give them the love, care, attention, and time they deserve.”
“Although I might not be of help in this department, I will still offer it. If you need any help or someoo talk to, I’ll be there for you.”
“Thank you, Tatsuya. I really do appreciate it.”
Tatsuya nodded slightly, his lips still curled into a smile. Then, Yuuji joined him and rexed his body by leaning bapletely on the coubsp;
“How about you? How is your retionship with… Miyuki?”
Yuuji snuck a g Tatsuya as silence fell betweewo. There wasn’t any apparent ge to Tatsuya at first, but Yuuji noticed the disappearance of the slight smile that he had before on his lips.
“...It is well.”
At his reply, a froeared on Yuuji.
“...You may not uand the se because of your… stitution. But your feelings towards her, your desire to protect her, make her happy, all of them, they’re ions and feelings they installed in your brain. They’re yenuiions and feelings.”
“...”
“And we all know how genuine Miyuki’s feelings are towards you. You’ve seen how hurt she was, both in the anime and in real life, when you are hurt. So… try to uand it. I know it won’t be quick. But try… try to uand your sister’s feelings… and your own. For her sake. And for yours as well.”
Yuuji kept his gaze at Tatsuya as he kept his silence.
“We are rades who met tally through the chat group and came to trust each other after seeing our respective… stories. But after spending time with you, I’ve e to sider you aremely close friend of miatsuya. Ohat I could entrust my life to. And I don’t want to see such a precious friend of mine suffer.”
“...”
“I want you to be happy. And I know that your happiness lies with Miyuki. Once you accept her feelings and relearn how to love, I’m sure you will find your well deserved happiness along with your beloved.”
“Yuuji…”
He turned his head towards Yuuji and opened his eyes to look at the man he had e to trust and treasure. And listening to his words, a million thoughts crossed his mind as he looked down to his right hand that he raised in front of his fabsp;
“...I’ll try. Thank you… Yuuji.”
Yuuji’s lips curled into a relieved smile as a small sigh escaped from it.
“You are weled. And just like what you offered me before, let me offer the same to you iurn. Feel free to talk to me if you want any advice. Though if it’s reted to Miyuki, perhaps Aika or the girls would be better. After all, I’m still learning how to care for the ones I love as well.”
“I will take you up on that offer.”
Tatsuya nodded, and offered up a fist to Yuuji, which he bumped with a grin.
“Alright! Now, as our first step in being a better man for our beloved dies, let’s go out and treat them to dinner”
“That is a good idea. It’s just in time for dinner as well.”
“Great! What are you thinking? Yakiniku? Sushi?”
“Let’s ask them. We will be treating them, after all.”
“Haha, good thinking.”
Yuuji stood up from his seat and raised his arms high into the air, stretg his body.
“Alright! Let’s go tell them. They must be in my room.”
“Yes.”
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