"High school uniforms really don't suit you... Even if your body is seventeen, you still reek of an old woman."
Aoko slightly furrowed her brows, the corner of her mouth twitching. "Hey, isn't that going a bit too far?
"Despite how I look, I'm only twenty-five this year.
"If that makes me an old woman, then wouldn't Touko, who's twenty-one, count as one too?"
Twenty-five... Had she jumped here from eight years in the future!?
Touko Aozaki narrowed her eyes.
So that was it... Aoko had traveled back to this era from the future!
Before she could think it through, Aoko suddenly began sprinting toward Touko.
"I was only playing with you just now. Now I'll show you a little of my real ability, okay? Circuits, connect!"
With nothing more than an effortless lift of her left arm, the magical energy generated within Aoko had reached a level visible to the naked eye... No, the difference was so great that it could practically be heard.
It was a crisp sound Touko had never heard before.
Her overwhelming speed of magical energy generation was faster than the flow of blood. Setting aside the vibrations caused by magecraft, the mere fact that activating her Magic Circuits alone could unleash a shockwave was enough to astonish the modern magecraft world!
The younger sister before Touko's eyes was practically the strongest fantasy of the Age of Gods—the Dragon Kind.
"..."
Covered in goosebumps, Touko drew Rune symbols in the air.
She opened a protection of victory. No matter how Aoko cast her magecraft, it was repelled by the barrier formed from the strengthened crest's power.
Aoko, however, didn't care in the slightest. She didn't even bother responding.
"Magic Bullet, deploy!"
"Tch, you can deploy them without loading?"
Touko shuddered again.
She couldn't even see