The Infinite Dimensions Starting from The Irregular at Magic High School

Two thousand would not have been an exaggeration.

So those who could gain admission to First High School were all the elite of the elite among magicians.

Basically, they were all from the main and branch families of the Ten Master Clans, the Eighteen Assistant Houses, the Hundred Families' offshoots, the Numbers families, and other major clans.

There were no ordinary people at all.

Or rather, among magicians who placed so much importance on bloodlines, ordinary people could not exist.

"Since everyone is an elite, I actually think there's nothing particularly wrong with this two-course system."

Under Mayumi's gaze, which was so astonished she was almost about to speak, Mahiro explained, "In truth, the school's purpose in doing this is nothing more than to motivate students with slightly worse grades, or those at the bottom, to climb upward."

"And it also benefits the students who originally had excellent grades."

"By the way, Senior Mayumi, do you know why people put catfish into the tank after catching tuna?"

"Sorry, Mahiro, I'm not too sure." Mayumi shook her head. She did not understand what this had to do with the two-course system.

"Heh." Mahiro chuckled softly. "I didn't understand at first either, but later someone told me it was because only by putting catfish into the tank could those tuna stay excited and tense at all times."

"It's just like the two-course system. The Course 1 students are the tuna, and the Course 2 students are the catfish."

"The Course 2 students' 'frustration' stirs up the pond, using that to stimulate the pride of those Course 1 students."

"And as the Course 2 students keep working hard to climb upward, they also have the chance to go from catfish to tuna."

"So I'm saying there's nothing wrong with this kind of system. Rather, aside from the names, there isn't actually much difference in anything else."

They participated in club activities all the same and used the school's facilities.

The only differences lay in the subtle variations in their uniforms and whether they received "individual guidance in practical magic skills."

The former hardly mattered, while for students from various families, the latter was already a trivial issue.

In other words.

"The only thing with problems is the people..."

That was right. The problem lay with the students themselves.

Mayumi understood that very well too.

The Course 2 students had forgotten that they themselves had originally entered First High School as elites, and had "willingly" fallen to the status of weeds, believing they were nothing more than spare parts for the Course 1 students.

And those Course 1 students, with their lofty arrogance, called themselves blooms.

An environment that should have fostered mutual competition had instead become a stagnant pool.

"Mahiro, what you're saying makes a lot of sense, but..."

Mayumi pondered for a moment, then sighed softly again and shook her head.

"If this were applied to ordinary people, that reasoning would be fine. But magicians are different. In the world of magicians, talent decides everything."

Talent was determined by one's innate bloodline.

So, in the end.

Catfish would always be catfish, and tuna would not change either.

Both their identities had already been decided by their entrance exam scores.

"That is the flaw in the system."

Mahiro spread his hands and smiled as he looked at Mayumi Saegusa. "Just as I said before, the people who can enter First High School are all elites to begin with, right?"

"And the reason Course 2 students are Course 2 students isn't because they themselves are poor. The main issue is still the evaluation system."

"Their talents simply aren't suited to the entrance test, which is why they ended up as Course 2 students."

"I believe that even now, there are plenty of talented people among the Course 2 students."

Mayumi fell silent.

Indeed, many of the students among the Course 2 students were quite talented.

For example, Mibu Sayaka from the second-year kendo club, nicknamed "Kendo Komachi," was a true kendo genius.

Her swordsmanship had reached the "inka" level, already surpassing the Public Morals Committee Chair, Mari Watanabe.

She had also inherited her family's "Weighted Blade" magic, making her completely suited for actual combat.

"And also, Senior Mayumi."

Seeing that Mayumi seemed to be silently thinking, Mahiro continued without the slightest concern, "There are plenty of talented people among this year's new students too."

"Oh my, are you referring to yourself, Mahiro?"

The student council president, whose thoughts had been interrupted, gave the underclassman two years her junior beside her a knowing smile, the corners of her lips curving with a little devilish arc.

"How could that be? What kind of talent am I?"

Mahiro smiled and waved his hand in denial.

But in Mayumi's eyes, that was pure modesty.

How could a magician born from the Ten Master Clans be mediocre?

"I'm talking about my landlord, Shiba Tatsuya. He and I are both freshmen. His magic engineering skills are clearly excellent, and he's good at everything from development to CAD tuning, but he still ended up as a Course 2 student."

"Huh? Shiba Tatsuya... do you mean that Shiba?"

Mayumi blinked in surprise, then gave a small nod of understanding.

She had heard about him from the teachers.

His younger sister, Miyuki Shiba, had served as the freshman representative and entered the school with the highest grades, while her older brother, Shiba Tatsuya, had averaged an incredible ninety-six points across seven subjects on the hundred-point entrance exam.

In particular, he had scored unprecedented full marks in magic theory and magic engineering!

And yet, because he had come dead last in the practical magic assessment, he had become a Course 2 student.

At that thought, Mayumi suddenly noticed a blind spot.

"Wait, landlord? Mahiro, are you renting a place right now?"

"Yeah."

Mahiro paused, then sighed helplessly.

Thinking that he had finally caught a chance to thoroughly smear Maya's name, he put on a pitiful, aggrieved expression and said, "I'm not like all of you. Even though I carry the Yotsuba surname, in reality I'm just a roadside weed the Yotsuba family casually threw away."

"The head of the Yotsuba family, that heartless old woman Maya Yotsuba, kicked me straight out the Yotsuba front gate and told me to get lost and rent a place outside. I even have to work part-time jobs to earn my living expenses."

"Look, I still can't even afford a CAD..."

That was actually true.

Mayumi carefully looked Mahiro over, only to discover that he really did not have even a single CAD on him.

While she could not help feeling sorry for Mahiro, she was also startled, as if she had discovered some huge secret.

So the Yotsuba family was actually this cold and unfeeling?!

After all, with how expensive CADs were, they were not something part-time work could cover.

Not to mention the subsequent tuning costs!

The Yotsuba family clearly owned a CAD company. Even if they really had kicked him out, they should at least have given him a magic device for self-defense!

Because he had spent so long chatting with Senior Mayumi, by the time Mahiro arrived at the auditorium, most people had already taken their seats.

Since there were no assigned seats, whether one sat at the front or the back was entirely up to personal choice.

However, judging by the scene, that did not seem to be the case.

The newly admitted Course 1 students were basically all sitting toward the front.

The Course 2 students, meanwhile, were seated in the rear rows.

The divide was clear.

Even though no one had forced them to do so, it had naturally turned out this way.

Mahiro, however, was the type to look down on unspoken rules to begin with, and he could not be bothered with this so-called rigid convention.

Fond of quiet, he directly found a secluded spot in the back row and planned to take a nap.

"Um..."

Not long after he sat down, a soft, timid voice reached his ear.

He opened his eyes and looked over. Just like the voice suggested, what came into view was a pair of girls.

"Excuse me, is the seat beside you empty?" the girl wearing glasses asked.

"Yeah, go ahead."

"Thank you."

After thanking him, the girls sat down beside him one after the other.

Mahiro's gaze repeatedly sized the two of them up.

There were clearly plenty of empty seats around, yet they had deliberately come over to sit beside him.

Perhaps they, too, had no interest in the entrance ceremony and had come to this quiet corner to slack off.

After a brief conversation, he learned their names.

The beautiful girl with glasses, a bob cut, and an extraordinarily massive chest was named Mizuki Shibata.

The lively, boyish-looking beautiful girl beside her, with eye-catching fiery-red short hair, was named Erika Chiba.

In terms of appearance alone, Erika could almost compete with Miyuki.

Their surnames were even more noteworthy.

He was not too sure about Shibata, but those glasses were not ordinary glasses. They were used to suppress a hypersensitivity to psion emission light.

And Chiba was one of the Hundred Families.

Sure enough, ordinary people were the rare ones at First High!

"Hello, Shibata, Chiba. My name is Mahiro Yotsuba."

Mahiro said it in as friendly a tone as he could manage.

Even so, it still made Erika cry out in surprise.

"Huh?!! Yotsuba? As in that Yotsuba Clan?!"

Her reaction was almost identical to Mayumi Saegusa's.

It really made him wonder what kind of bizarre image his bargain-bin mother had built up around the Yotsuba Clan.

And Erika's startled cry drew angry looks from the students in front of them, especially the Course One students.

Erika hunched her shoulders and whispered an apology, then sat back down in her seat.

Beside her, however, Mizuki asked curiously, "Erika-chan, what's wrong with Yotsuba? Is there something off about it?"

The naturally ditzy girl seemed not to have caught on until Erika leaned in and softly explained it in her ear. Only then did she understand.

Her eyes gradually widened as she looked at Mahiro, and just as she was about to cry out in surprise, Erika promptly clapped a hand over her mouth.

"There's no need to react that strongly, is there? Children of the Ten Master Clans are people too. Once they reach the right age, they have to go to school."

Mahiro sounded a little helpless.

"Student Council President Mayumi Saegusa and Club Alliance Chairman Katsuto Jumonji are both students at First High, aren't they?"

"That's clearly not what I'm surprised about..."

Erika Chiba muttered under her breath, then quickly regained her energy and changed the subject.

"By the way, Yotsuba, you're clearly a Course One student, so why are you over here in Course Two territory stealing a seat?"