3:20pm Yokohama Iional ference ter Hall.

  “As the distance closes betweehe electric repulsive pulses increase geometrically…”

  Wearing noise g headphones, Suzune expined her team’s designs fluently with the spotlight shining upon her, Isori Kei, and the rge device which sisted of two massive steel ns suspended horizontally in mid air by four steel beams ected by a steel pnk that was lowered by s onto the stage. A wire from a regur device pced on top of the steel pnk was ected into be steel ns, lettirical energy flow through both steel beams.

  As Suzune paused her expnations, Kei raised his arm and activated a spell that lifted the left steel n up and towards him. Then, he released it, causing the steel n to fall and hit the other, creating a pendulum-like effect where both steel ns keep hitting each other bad forth due to being pushed by the force from the fall of the other.

  “When objects possessing strong b forces of like charges draw closer, the repulsive iion increases, making it impossible for them to collide. However…”

  Suzune pressed a button oablet, and suddenly, both steel ns smmed onto each other, causing a thunderous g that reverberated throughout the entire hall.

  Everyone, including Aika, Erika, Mayumi, Tatsuya, Miyuki, and the others who were watg from the audience’s seat couldn’t help but cover their ears from the thunderous noise just like everyone around them, even though Aika and Tatsuya knew what was ing.

  But after the sound dissipated, everyone looked back at the stage and saw that both steel ns no longer hit each other. They were both swinging in opposite dires, but when they were about to sm into each other, a force repelled them from one another.

  “It is possible to reduce the electric repulsive force through magic.”

  Suzuapped another button iablet, dispying a simution of b’s Force Occe that they’ve made to the audiend the visualized effect of the b’s Force trol spell that they’ve developed.

  “This year, we have succeeded in developing a magic sequehat will reduce the apparent b force within a restricted area to 1/100,000.”

  The light dimmed, and the steel ns mae was lifted up. In its pce, another device rose from beh the stage, lifted up by a stage elevator. This time, it was a tall, regur shaped mae where a gss der sat at the ter with a piston within it. On top of it was a horizontally coiled pipe inside a gss taihat led into the gss der below it.

  “Without aernal impetus, a nuclear rea will immediately e to a standstill. Our school’s Gravity trol-type Nuclear Reactor takes advantage of this effect. Ohe rea stops, it cools the hydrogen gas through a Vibration-type spell to a level that the tainer withstand.”

  Kei pced his hand onto his tablet, activating a spell, whi turn activates the nuclear reactor. The motor below began to move, causing the piston ihe der to move up and down at increasing speeds.

  “At this time, it allocates the heat it has collected to Gravity trol and b trol energy. Through Gravity trol-type magic, the pistons tio rise due to internal energy, and the hydrogen gas, now cooled to optimum levels, is sent to the heat sink tank. At this time, a highly-ranked magi is required to keep this experimental device operating, but with improved effi energy retrieval and by using Release-type Magic as a substitution, we are fident that a Gravity trol-type Thermonuclear Reactor requiring a magi only for the initial activation be actualized.”

  A rousing round of appuse reverberated throughout the entire hall as First High fiheir presentation.

  Behind the curtains, supp them from behind the stage, Hirakawa Koharu let out a sigh of relief as the presentation ended. And behind her, Yuuji appuded along with the audienbsp;

  “Good work, Hirakawa-senpai.”

  “Ah… Thank you, Yuuji-kun. Hah… I was so nervous. I’m amazed at how fidently Suzune-san and Kei-san could present it in front of so many people…”

  “I’m sure you will give an amazing presentation as well if you were in their pce, HIrakawa-senpai. After all, I’ve listeo you expining the principles behind the experiment multiple times before.”

  Koharu turowards Yuuji in a fluster and pouted her cheeks.

  “G-Geez, I-I was just excited to tell you about our project!”

  “Ahahaha! I know. I was just teasing you.”

  “Goodness…”

  “But I’m serious about the previous point. I’m sure you will be able to expin it as amazingly as Ichihara-senpai.”

  “...While I don’t think so, I’m still grateful. Thank you.”

  “You’re wele.”

  Just then, a familiar, young voice of a boy broke the cozy atmosphere betweewo.

  “That was an amazing presentation.”

  Yuuji and Koharu turowards the void saw the famous, bck-haired first year student of the Third High school, niamed Cardinal Gee, Kichijouji Shinkurou approag them with a smile.

  “Abandoning the challenge of a sustained nuclear rea, and going for the actualization of an itent nuclear rea through Loop Casting was an inspired idea. Truly, I appud you and your team’s brilliance, Hirakawa Koharu.”

  “U-Uhm… T-Thank you… I-It’s an honor…”

  Yuuji and Koharu tidied up the desk and moved over to let Shinkurou set up for his presentation, which would be in a few minutes.

  And as he set up his ptop, Shinkurou tinued.

  “Gravity trol-type magic is used in Flying-type magic as well. It’s a ventional application of the spell. The b trol-type spell is a variation on the Molecur Binding ter-spell, isn’t it?”

  He turned around. But instead of Koharu, his eyes nded on Yuuji.

  As the one who was the engineer of Kiryuu Aika, the first testant in the NSC to use flying magic, Shinkurou had strong beliefs that the mastermind behind such fine and ingenious use of the spell was the man before him.

  And seeing Koharu’s surprise only served tthen his beliefs. But Yuuji kept his ral smile and answered calmly.

  “If you are implying that I am the one behind the thought, then you are mistaken. After all, I am just a bodyguard of the “mastermind” you are talking about.”

  He turowards Koharu, who immediately looked down with redly blushing cheeks and fidgeted at his praise.

  Although it was true that he was the one who kept boung off ideas with Koharu, Kei, and Suzune while they’re w together, he was by no means the “mastermind”. He simply used the knowledge he gained and learned from dealing with magid helping Tatsuya with his projects to hopefully help the three brilliant minds reach the clusion they’re meant to reabsp;

  A catalyst. But even that would be too generous of a description for himself acc to him.

  Shinkurou kept smiling and replied.

  “Well, either way, we’re not going to lose to the both of you. In fact, this time, we will definitely defeat you in this test.”

  “Then I wish you good luck, Cardinal Gee. Because you will to stand against the brilliant minds of our team.”

  “Y-Yuuji-kun!”

  “Heh, we’ll see-”

  Just then, a massive sound of explosion apanied by a massive earthquake shook the entire hall.

  “What’s going on?!”

  Koharu fell into Yuuji’s embrace as the shaking knocked her off her feet, while Shinkurou held onto the table before him as he looked around. But instead of an answer, anround-shaking came to him instead. Then another one. And another.

  Yuuji immediately went out towards the stage and alight from it, nding right in front of the stage before the first row of seats along with Koharu, Suzune, and Kei.

  Aika and Tatsuya, who knew beforehand of the “events” that would happen, immediately run towards Yuuji to vene. While Erika, Mayumi, and Miyuki, who were told about the possible “problem” that were most likely to happen, also followed after the two.

  “Yuuji.”

  “Yeah… It’s beginning…”

  Suzune looked between Tatsuya and Yuuji with widened eyes before she focused her gaze oer.

  “Y-Yuuji-kun? What do you mean-”

  “Ichihara-senpai. Please five me, but will you join up with Mayumi and Mari-senpai? Things may bee hectid extremely dangerous in a few moments.”

  Right after those words left his mouth, the massive double doors to the back, the doors to the middle-west side of the hall, and the doors to the fro side of the hall burst open. And from it, seven uniformed men armed with rge, rifle guns appeared.

  But the instant they ehe hall…

  “Don’t move! Just do as we sa- UWOOOHH!!”

  “GHHKKKKK!!”

  “AAAAAHHHHH!!!!”

  *Crack**Crack**Crack**Crack**Crack**Crack**Crack*

  In an instant, all seven gunmen were suddenly lifted up into the air and crushed. The sound of bones breaking reverberated along with their screams and the sounds of their guns falling onto the ground.

  The panic sounds suddenly went silent as ead every student, judge, and audience all looked at the floating men in shod fusion.

  Then, their eyes all gathered to the front of the hall, where Yuuji was standing with his left hand lifted up into the air.

  “Calm down, everyone! In times of trouble, the st thing us, magis, should do is panic!”

  His smooth, charismatic voice bellowed throughout the hall, snapping them out of their daze as they began looking at each other.

  “Members of the Joint Security Team, please apprehend the hostiles and help calm your fellow students!”

  Immediately, many members of the security team present within the hall move to apprehend and gather the gunmen as they were slowly bei back down to the ground by Yuuji, while some others help calm the other students.

  “Stay alert! Watch the entrance for any signs of hostile reinforts!”

  ““Yes!””

  A group of students ing from various ic highschool all immediately followed Yuuji’s orders and began manning all the entrances into the hall.

  As they did, Leo, Mikihiko, Mizuki, Honoka, and Shizuku also came down from their seats and gathered towards Yuuji.

  “Y-Yuuji-kun! Are you alright?”

  Honoka quickly ran towards him in a hurry, followed by Shizuku and Mizuki who wore simir expressions.

  “I’m alright. How about you guys?”

  “Mm, we’re fine. But what are we going to do now?”

  Leo looked at him and gowards the entrance by the right side of the stage.

  “The magis on guard duty are still battling the intruders at the frorance. We will o get rid of them before we could even think of evacuating these many people out of here.”

  Yuuji gowards Aika, Erika, Mayumi, and Tatsuya, who all him.

  “Mayumi, will you stay here and help our udent cil President with leading the students while we get rid of the hostiles?”

  “Mm. I will do my best. Please stay safe.”

  Yuuji nodded, his lips curled into a soft, loving smile, before he turowards Suzune, Kei, and Koharu.

  “Please stay with Mayumi and the rest of the students. We will be helping the security team outside to fight the hostilities. The st thing we should do is bring our brightest minds, who might be their target, with us.”

  “...I uand. Please be safe.”

  “Mm. We’ll leave it to you. Be safe, Everyone.”

  “P-Please don’t be careful!”

  “We will.”

  With that, Yuuji exited the hall along with Aika, Erika, Tatsuya, Miyuki, Mizuki, Honoka, Shizuku, Leo, and Mikihiko and headed towards the frorance of the Yokohama Iional ference ter.

  Sounds of explosions, gun fire, crete breaking, and battles were still prevalent on their way.

  And when they reached the main hall entrahe group hid themselves behind the wall while Yuuji peeked from the er to assess the situation.

  Leo walked fidently towards the front of the group, but before he went out of cover, Tatsuya grabbed the back of his colr t him back, causing him to fall onto the ground.

  “The enemy is using anti-magi high-speed bullets. You will be filled with holes before you could even reach them.”

  “Ahahaha… You’re merciless, Tatsuya.”

  Mikihiko ughed helplessly before Erika tinued his words.

  “But thanks to that, he’s been spared from being swiss cheese.”

  In the midst of this chaos, Yuuji calmly assessed the situation using his Elemental Sight.

  He knew now the exact location and number of the hostiles irance hall. But before he could move out and dispatch them, a familiar, heavenly softness and heaviness captured his arm.

  “Fufu~ Leave them to me and Yuuji~ Let’s go~”

  “E-Eh? W-Will you be okay, Aika-san?”

  “Don’t be reckless…”

  Honoka and Shizuku voiced their worry, but Aika simply smiled at them and made a peace sign over her wink.

  “It’ll be eazy-peazy~ Especially since Yuuji will protect me~ Right~?”

  Yuuji turo look at his beloved and thought for a moment.

  Even knowing how powerful she actually was, as someone who loves her with all of his heart, there art of him that didn’t want to expose her to any danger. After all, if she was hurt… His heart would definitely hurt much more.

  Just thinking about it made his blood freeze and his body tremble in anger and fear. But…

  “...Alright.”

  “Yay~!”

  He couldn't deny her wish… She wao fight with him. She wao be his strength. And she trusted him to protect her. There was no way he could reject those feelings, especially when she was this adamant.

  So instead, he will protect her with his life.

  “The’s go.”

  He held her hand tight and Aika hugged his arm just as strongly as they went out of cover and walked towards the middle of the entrance hall.

  The magis in suits, who have been battling the hostiles using the thick pilrs as cover, all turowards Yuuji and Aika in shobsp;

  All of the armed hostiles, who were dressed in yellowish brown uniform just like the ohat infiltrated the ter hall, immediately focused on the couple who suddenly walked out in the open as if they were walking down ay street.

  Immediately, they all poiheir guns at him and fired.

  “You! Be carefu- Eh?”

  One of the guards yelled in surprise and almost went out of his cover to protect the students. But his entire body froze in pce, just like all of the uards and invaders alike who saw the se.

  Before them, the couple simply stood there, unscathed, with tens e, anti-magi, high-speed bullets floating in front of them.

  “F-F-Fire again!”

  “UWOOOHHH!!!”

  “DIEEEE!”

  Their screams and curses were quickly drowned by the thunderous sound of gun fire. And as they tio press the trigger, their battle cry quickly turo screams of fear as every single one of the bullets simply stopped in mid air right before it hit the couple.

  Their hands, which had been holding onto their guns and trolling the recoils, began to tremble as they finally registered the absurdity of the situation. And eveheir guns stop spitting its heavy bullets, their fingers still hold onto the trigger in hopes that something that could hit the high school couple would e out and save them.

  But no matter how much they pressed the trigger, only the clig sound of their empty magazine resounded.

  As they froze in fear, the girl with Goddess-like beauty then raised her hand forward. Crag lightning began to ma around the couple as their hair began to blow from the ent wind.

  And in the moment, a single word that would signal their destined defeat escaped her luscious pink lips.

  “Raikou!”

  In a blink of an eye, multiple lightning struck ead every single one of the invaders with a thunderous roar. The ground shattered from the impad massive shockwaves shattered the gss windows in a powerful bst.

  And when the dust settled, all hostiles id unscious on the ground with plumes of smoke rising from their badly burnt body.

  “Yay~! Magical Girl Aika’s great victory~!!!”

  Aika twirled eically on one foot. Her skirt fluttered, lifting up slightly to reveal a bit more of her smooth, thick thighs, and her long, glossy hair fanned out beautifully in the wind before she smmed her other feet back down and made a peace sign over her wink while her other haed on her hip. And as she did, colorful twinkling stars seemed to explode from behind her.

  ““...””

  “Tehe~”

  Erika, Tatsuya, Miyuki, and the rest all stared at her speechlessly. Both at her impressive dispy of might and the st bit that totally ruined her amazing image…

  Oher hand, Yuuji simply sighed helplessly aed her head. He was already more thao her shenanigans.

  “Yes yes, what a wonderful magical girl you are.”

  “Fufu~ Of course~!”

  Giggling with a bright smile, Aika nuzzled her head to his hand before hugging his arm again wheopped petting her.

  “...So, what’s the pn now?”

  Leo asked.

  “We need more intel… I’ve anticipated something bigger to be going on, but without proper intel, we’ll simply be blindly making our way through a maze full of bullets ah traps.”

  “In that case… Why don’t you use a VIP feren? That’s where they hold meetings for politis and eic groups, so you should be able to access all kinds of information.”

  Shizuku spoke up. As a daughter of an affluent family’s head, she has experienced ing to various high-profiled pces exclusive to only the most iial and rich. And knowing how iial and powerful the Kitayama household was, it was no wohat she had visited such a pce before.

  “That’s amazing… I ’t believe you know about a room like that.”

  “My father brought me along here once… I know the security and access code as well.”

  Yuuji smiled and nodded appreciatively to her.

  “That’d be amazing. Thank you, Shizuku.”

  “Uhn.”

  Despite her still maintaining a stoic expression, a blush quickly became apparent on her cheeks from his praise. And with that, they all head to the VIP feren with Shizuku in the lead.

  Ohey arrived at the massive, luxurious feren, Shizuku quickly made her way to the trol pao access the features in this room. With her knowledge of the security and access code, she was able to quickly gain full trol of the system and dispyed the entire map of Yokohama onto the rge main s in front of the room.

  Then, several X marks appeared on various locations iy, signifying the presence of hostile groups in those locations.

  A full on assault on Yokohama.

  “Brother…”

  Yuuji gowards the couple of brother and sister as Miyuki stared at her brother worriedly. Knowing what was happening and the high possibility that her brother’s identity as a soldier would be revealed to their friends, ending his “normal daily life” in high school.

  But, even uanding that through but a look of her sister’s worried expression, Tatsuya simply smiled aed her head softly.

  “The situation’s quite dire… If we loiter arouoo long, we’ll probably be captured by the enemy. But even if we tried to escape, there’s no viable transportation.”

  “So should we evacuate to the shelter?”

  Mikihiko suggested.

  “That would probably be the most realistic option…”

  Yuuji nodded in agreement.

  “The’s go to the shelter through the path above ground.”

  “Eh? A-Above ground? But wouldn’t that be more dangerous?”

  “Fufu~ You’re right but wrong at the same time, Mizuki-~”

  “Huh? What do you mean…”

  Aika winked and poi one of the X marks that’s located right above the underground path.

  “It’s not a direct path to the shelter, so the ce of entering hostile forces is bigger! And it’s better to enter them above ground, where we have more space to fight on than in a narrow underground tunnel~”

  “Oh, I see…”

  “Aika’s right. But before that, there’s something we must do first…”

  Yuuji gowards Tatsuya, who uood his iion and him.

  “Eh? What are you going to do?”

  Leo asked.

  “I want to destroy the demo maes so they won’t fall into the wrong hands.”

  They then quickly made their way to the main ference hall backstage where their devices were stored.

  They used aor to access it directly without having to gh a possibly still hostile-ied path. And when the elevator door opehey saw Mayumi, Mari, Kanon, Kirihara, and Sayaka already there with Suzune, Koharu, and Kei fiddling with the main panel ected to their devices.

  “Eh? Why are you still here…?”

  “I’m deleting the data to prevent it from being stolen.”

  “Mayumi… What are you doing here? I thought you’ll be with Nakajou-senpai and help with evacuating the students…”

  Yuuji asked, his eyes staring at her in disbelief.

  He khat she would be here from the anime, but with his request for her to help Azusa evacuate the rest of the students, he thought she wouldn’t be here.

  “We ’t just run off and leave you behind now, we~?”

  A beautiful smile bloomed on her fad her milky white skin blushed as she directed her loving, g gaze at Yuuji. No matter how strong she knew he was, or if Aika and Erika were there with him, there’s no way she’d simply leave him alone in such a situation.

  Her smile and words stunned Yuuji as he stood there frozen, his gaze never leaving Mayumi’s. But before he could fully relish in the love she showed him, a familiar, baritone voiapped him out of his daze.

  “Tsubakihara? Saegusa? I thought you’d gone on ahead and evacuated?”

  Juumonji Kazuto, along with Hattori Hanzou and Sawaki Midori, approached them with strict, steeled faces.

  “We’re deleting the data.”

  “Does it take that many to do that?”

  “Nakajo-san has takeher students to the underground tunnel.”

  “...You should get going as wel-”

  “Juumonji-senpai! Please send reinforts to Nakajo-senpai’s location!”

  All three of them, as well as Mayumi, Mari, and the others all turo Yuuji in shock when he suddenly raised his voi a panic.

  “Is there something wrong?”

  Midori asked, his face immediately showed a heightened alertness just like Hanzou and Kazuto.

  “The underground tunnel isn’t a direct route. With hostiles having infiltrated the ference hall and present along the locatiohe sea, they might enter hostiles on their way to the shelter. And in such a narrow path, they might be forced to fight against hostiles with all of the students behind them.”

  Their eyes immediately widened and Kazuto immediately issued an order.

  “Sawaki, Hatto after Nakajou now!”

  ““Yes, sir!””

  The two immediately head off before Juumonji turns his attention ba both groups.

  “I’ll patrol the area once more to make sure there are no more stragglers. You should quickly make your way to safety as well. Kirihara.”

  “Yes!”

  Upon his name being called, Kirihara immediately went after the Extracurricur Activities Federation Chairman as he left the two groups behind.

  And with nothing else to do but to aplish the only thing they came to do in the back stage, Yuuji and Tatsuya helped Suzune, Kei, and Koharu with deleting the data of their research from the stes in the device here.

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