Tsukasa Hajime, all bluster and no substance, raised his right hand. Lined up on either side, more than thirty Blanche members in total raised their guns and took aim at the same time.
Though emphasis was placed on the development of magic, in the year 2095, firearms advanced by high technology were likewise terrifyingly powerful.
Faced with one dark muzzle after another, Mayumi's expression turned far graver than Mahiro's, whose face did not change at all. In secret, she had already pressed a button on her CAD.
She was preparing to cast magic.
But in the next second—
Click!
Perhaps there had been such a sound. Perhaps there had not.
But what was clear was that every firearm in the terrorists' hands had been disassembled into parts, clattering and scattering all over the floor.
"No, impossible!"
Hajime panicked.
There had been no sign of the other party activating magic at all. How had he done that?!
"Didn't you say you were going to shoot me dead with bullets? Why not continue?"
Mahiro spoke in an utterly casual tone as he walked toward Hajime step by step.
The dull thud of his hard soles striking the cement floor was as if each step landed on Hajime's heart.
Once, then again.
Hajime retreated again and again, cold sweat already rolling down his face.
He did not know just how terrifying Yotsuba Mahiro was. The only thing he knew clearly was that the other party's physical skills were powerful—powerful enough to deal with magic barehanded!
Added to that faint, almost imperceptible pressure, it had already set his heart pounding wildly!
But when Hajime looked at Yotsuba Mahiro, he found that Mahiro did not seem to be on guard in the slightest. An idea immediately formed in his mind.
A cold sneer appeared once more on that hateful face.
If anyone was to blame, blame his own carelessness!
"Yotsuba Mahiro, become our comrade!"
With a gesture full of theatrical flair, he threw down his non-prescription glasses, brushed up his bangs, and looked straight at Mahiro.
His eyes released an eerie light, and an invisible fluctuation instantly surged toward Yotsuba Mahiro's mind.
Sure enough, just as Hajime had expected, Mahiro stopped in his tracks.
"Mahiro-kun, you...?!"
Seeing him stand there motionless, Mayumi's heart gave a jolt.
It seemed things had taken a bad turn!
"Hahahaha, useless, useless! He's already fallen under my Evil Eye! So what if he's a member of the Ten Master Clans? Isn't he obediently my captive now?"
Hajime laughed wildly, his face twisting along with it.
To deal with Yotsuba Mahiro, he had even gathered all the sunny crystal stones here just to be safe, and had specially equipped everyone with guns and daggers.
Now it seemed all of that had been completely unnecessary!
Hadn't he still been controlled by his Evil Eye!
"If I'd known this, there was no need to use that useless sow Mibu Sayaka. It would've been better to let me handle it myself! Hahahaha!"
With the trump card that was Yotsuba Mahiro in hand, Hajime felt that he could already do many things.
Even if he was an abandoned child of the Yotsuba Family, he could still be used as a pawn to infiltrate the Ten Master Clans, then slowly plot from there!
Hajime indulged in his fantasies of the future, as if he could already see the grand scene of himself ruling over Japan's magic world!
All magicians would prostrate themselves at his feet!
And Hajime's arrogant manner completely enraged Mayumi, who normally had the gentlest temperament.
She gripped her CAD tightly in her hand and began to activate magic...
"Huh?"
A hand caught hold of her device. She looked up and saw none other than Yotsuba Mahiro!
There was not the slightest sign of him being controlled!
"Oh~ In other words, the rumor at school that Mibu-senpai and I were dating was spread by you?"
Mayumi was startled, as if she had heard something unbelievable.
So Mahiro-kun was not dating Mibu after all?
For some reason, in a corner of her heart, she actually let out a sigh of relief!
"Haha, of course! It's just a pity that useless sow was too stupid. I helped her that much, and in the end she couldn't even take down a student who'd just enrolled... Wait, why aren't you under control?!"
Only at the end did Hajime suddenly react. He immediately looked across.
Only to find Yotsuba Mahiro looking at him with a strange expression, a playful smile on his lips, and that gaze was as if he were looking at an idiot.
"Evil Eye, an extra-systematic magic that interferes with consciousness, is essentially hypnotic magic from the light-wave vibration system... You must have used this magic to tamper with Mibu's memories, didn't you?"
"Still, I really didn't expect you to dare use simple hypnotic magic on a magician of the Yotsuba Family."
"You truly don't understand what the name 'Yotsuba' means..."
"Or are you looking down on me?"
The composure around Yotsuba Mahiro had vanished, replaced by a terrifying killing intent that spread over the surface of his body.
It draped over him like an overcoat.
The Yotsuba Family's ancestral specialty was mental-system magic, such as Genzo Yotsuba's Reaper's Blade, Yotsuba Miya's River of Oblivion, and even the various branch families had varying degrees of expertise in mental interference!
And Yotsuba Mahiro was an outlier even among them!
Not even Yotsuba Miya, known as the "Ruler of the River of Oblivion," could rewrite his mental structure. And they thought mere hypnosis could control him?
That was not how daydreams worked!
"How is this possible... How can it have no effect, you brat!!!"
This time, Tsukasa Hajime panicked completely.
He had no choice but to panic. The method he took the most pride in had actually lost its effect!
But to Mahiro, this was a trivial matter of no importance.
He raised his hand toward Tsukasa Hajime.
"Since you refuse to surrender, then be on your way!"
"Eek—!"
"Quick... hurry up! Go! Shoot! Stop him!!!"
To Tsukasa Hajime, a Yotsuba Mahiro who was not under control was like a savage beast, leaving him with no strength to regain his dignity.
Fortunately.
His subordinates were all very obedient. Though they cast puzzled looks his way, they still drew tactical daggers and took out rings to launch their attack.
The Crystal Sun Stones set into the tips emitted a silent noise that enveloped them.
"Ugh..."
Mayumi staggered two steps backward and let out a small cry. The magic she had already been on the verge of releasing, as well as the Multiple Observation she had long since activated, were also strongly disrupted as a result.
Calculation interference.
Against magicians, it was an enormous countermeasure.
But as Tsukasa Hajime looked at the boy standing there without moving, his expression had already turned dark as water.
He knew very well that this boy was not the same as that little girl beside him...
Even using nothing but physical techniques, the number of people present might still not be able to stop him!
At that thought, Tsukasa Hajime had already begun slowly backing toward the rear door.
"Trying to run?"
Mahiro's calm voice sounded softly.
Those words seemed to become a catalyst, prompting Tsukasa Hajime to turn his head and break into a run!
But Mahiro started laughing.
The game of cat and mouse... It had been a long time since he last played. He rather missed it.
He looked at the terrorists gradually closing in around him, then turned his head and said to Mayumi:
"Mayumi-senpai, what comes next might be a little bloody. I suggest you close your eyes."
After leaving behind those words, he moved.
"That monster!"
Perhaps because he was completely unaffected by the Crystal Sun Stone, and because their leader had fled, Mahiro's movement ignited the fear in the hearts of everyone present.
This group of people actually raised their tactical daggers and slashed toward him.
"Fools."
Faced with the incoming blades, Mahiro merely turned and dodged lightly, while his hand swept across the opponent's body in passing.
Riiip!
The body was torn open on the spot, and the blood that sprayed out splattered all over the floor.
"Guh!"
That person wanted to scream, but he could not make a sound at all.
Because before the sound could turn into a scream, Mahiro's hand had already stabbed into his heart.
One down.
The cleansing magic activated with it, gradually separating the blood staining Yotsuba Mahiro's body and face before evaporating it.
But even after he was restored to his original state, the smile Mahiro cast their way looked like that of a demon in their eyes.
Not to mention that in the next second, Mahiro charged into the crowd and began his slaughter.
Like a wolf among sheep, these people had no power to resist at all.
Mahiro, on the other hand, killed faster and faster.
Every time his hand-blade rose or fell, it took a life with it.
In less than a minute, the only people left standing in the entire hall were Mahiro and Mayumi.
"...Mahiro, isn't killing them all a bit bad? Don't we need to leave one or two alive as an explanation?"
"Explanation? To whom?"
Mahiro turned back and looked at Mayumi, his gaze calm.
"Mayumi-senpai, I said it from the start. This is a war of annihilation. And what a war of annihilation means is wiping out everyone, leaving no survivors."
"Only by doing this, by making it so the people at the Metropolitan Police Department can't find any leads, will Mibu-senpai avoid being held accountable."
"If you're afraid of taking responsibility, Mayumi-senpai, that's fine. Just push everything onto me. If the people at the Metropolitan Police Department have anything they want to say, let them go say it to my mother."
They were going to pressure Maya Yotsuba and blame him for not leaving a single terrorist alive for them to investigate?
Unless the people at the Metropolitan Police Department were tired of living, they wouldn't have the guts to provoke the famous Queen of the Dark Night like that.
Besides, they were all terrorists. What need was there for interrogation or explanations?
Didn't they know? Only suspects needed interrogation. Terrorists only needed a list.
However, looking at his back as he turned and chased after them, Mayumi puffed up her cheeks in displeasure.
That obviously wasn't what she had wanted to say...
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