Saegusa Mayumi's events in this year's Nine Schools Competition were now completely over.
Watanabe Mari's Surfing Race final was the day after tomorrow, and the Mirage Star competition would begin on the seventh day.
Shiba Miyuki's Mirage Star and Ice Pillar Break events were scheduled for the ninth and fifth days of the Nine Schools Competition, respectively.
Kitayama Shizuku's remaining Ice Pillar Break event was on the same day as Shiba Miyuki's.
"By the way, Tatsuya, that magic you came up with for Kitayama today, Aerial Dynamic Mine, was really impressive!"
Watanabe Mari turned her gaze toward Shiba Tatsuya, who was sitting in a chair.
"Right. It sets up several virtual wave sources in the scoring area, then applies vibrational waves to solid objects."
"Rather than directly using magic to shake the targets, it creates a field that alters the phenomenon and applies vibrational waves to them."
"According to this mechanism, once the waves spreading out from the spherical sources touch a target, the virtual vibrations turn into real vibrations inside it and destroy it!"
"It really is an excellent idea."
Even now, Ichihara Suzune was still impressed by Shiba Tatsuya's genius whenever she thought of the magic.
The activation sequence for this magic wasn't actually difficult to construct. Any engineer with a B-rank license could write it.
What Ichihara Suzune found so fascinating was Shiba Tatsuya's inventive idea. The Speed Shooting competition had been held many times, and everyone had focused on increasing the speed and accuracy of their magic or improving their own ability to observe.
But no one had ever thought of setting up wave sources and using them for targeted detonations.
"As expected of you, Ichihara-senpai. That was an excellent analysis."
"Though this magic was only usable because Shizuku's processing ability is so outstanding."
A faint