"Right, the go-home club!" Yunyi repeated. "If you don't go home after school, there's something wrong with your head!"
Hearing that answer, everyone present felt that the one with something wrong with his head wasn't any of the people taking part in club activities, but Yunyi himself.
His answer, however, put Mayumi Saegusa on her guard.
She guessed that Yunyi was undoubtedly an infiltrator. Given his identity, he should have been trying to fit in at First High School. But judging by the way he was acting, he didn't seem to be planning to do that. Could there be some hidden scheme behind it?
At that thought, she promptly said, "Since you're not planning to join any club activities, Yunyi, why don't you stay with the student council and help me take care of things? I think you should be more than capable of handling it, right?"
Yunyi froze for a moment and looked at Mayumi Saegusa in confusion.
Does she really want to keep me under her watch every second of the day?
He wanted to refuse, but when he saw the determination in her wine-red eyes, Yunyi decided to accept. There was just one thing he needed to clear up first.
"Doesn't the student council refuse to take Course 2 Students? So does that make me an unofficial member?" Yunyi asked.
"No, this is a personal invitation from me. It has nothing to do with the student council. What, are you dissatisfied, Yunyi?" Mayumi Saegusa asked in return.
"Not at all." Yunyi shrugged. "But since it's a personal invitation from you, Mayumi, is there any pay?"
"You want to get paid, too!" Mayumi Saegusa snapped at Yunyi.
She really wanted to grab Yunyi and give him a good thrashing! Otherwise, she was afraid that one day he would make her so angry she would die!
"Fine, fine. I'm just a poor, hard-luck tool person. There's no justice in this world," Yunyi grumbled. Then he speared a piece of meat from his tray, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed furiously.
The sight left the others torn between exasperation and amusement. Mayumi Saegusa in particular had a more carefree smile on her face than anyone else!
The lunch break soon ended, and the afternoon was set aside for the various clubs to recruit new members.
After saying goodbye to the others, Tatsuya Shiba left the student council room to patrol the area assigned to him. Everyone else had work of their own, leaving Yunyi alone in the student council room with little to do.
After being bored for quite a while, Yunyi finally decided to do something. He took out his terminal, brought up a screen, and began drawing on it with a special stylus.
At first, no one paid any attention to what he was doing. But at some point, Mayumi Saegusa had come to stand beside him, carefully watching him draw.
One drew while the other watched. After that had gone on for who knew how long, Yunyi put down his stylus and let out a long breath.
Looking at the drawing outlined on the terminal screen, he raised the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Are you drawing a manga?"
Suddenly, Mayumi Saegusa's voice reached his ears.
Yunyi looked up and saw her bending over slightly, staring at the terminal in front of him.
As Mayumi Saegusa drew closer, a faint fragrance reached Yunyi's nose. He instinctively sniffed, making a slight sound.
Mayumi Saegusa seemed to realize that the action was inappropriate. She hurriedly straightened up and moved a little farther away.
Yunyi said nothing more about it. He pointed at the terminal in front of him and said, "Does looking at it remind you of anything?"
Mayumi Saegusa looked at Yunyi in confusion, then looked back at the terminal and fell into thought.
The drawing on the terminal looked somewhat crooked. By professional standards, it could hardly be called pleasing to the eye. But if she corrected and refined those images in her mind, the scene that emerged seemed to be...
"Could it be..."
Something had occurred to Mayumi Saegusa, but just as she was about to say it, Yunyi pressed a finger to her lips.
"If you've guessed it, you've guessed it. But if you say it out loud, that's another story," Yunyi cautioned her in a low voice.
Mayumi Saegusa nodded blankly, but her mind was full of one question: How is this possible?
What Yunyi had drawn bore some resemblance to the scene Mayumi Saegusa had witnessed the day before. With that to go on, she could naturally guess that the drawing had something to do with Yunyi's magic.
Her guess wasn't wrong. The drawing did have something to do with Yunyi's magic, but it wasn't the most crucial part, so he had no intention of hiding it from Mayumi Saegusa.
Once deployed, the Domain Magic Fool's World could control the activity of every psion within the domain, but apart from that control, it had no offensive power of its own. The offensive magic he had used before had all been derived from Domain Magic.
At their core, psions were merely a special kind of energy particle. Magicians could cast magic by constructing techniques to activate psions, and Yunyi could naturally achieve the same effect by controlling them.
But to Yunyi, the magic that existed in this world, whether Modern Magic or Ancient Magic, was rather different from the magic in his memories. If his magic had to be classified, it should be placed in a new category.
After deploying the Domain Magic Fool's World, Yunyi could control psions at will. He could even make psions themselves fuse, split, or transform themselves—things that were very difficult for Modern Magic users to do. Of course, this was also the result of many years of study.
But that was not all Fool's World could do. Within the range of this Domain Magic, Yunyi could draw on images from his memories and have the psions under his control manifest them as magic. The Fire Dragon's Roar and Heavenly Fire Burns the City he had used before had both been produced this way.
Of course, to successfully manifest an image from memory as magic, the image had to be extremely clear. If the image in his memory deviated while he was directing the psions to manifest the magic, the resulting magic might collapse as a consequence. So Yunyi often drew to deepen his memories. His drawing skills, however, were rather painful to look at.
To Yunyi, this was a significant secret. But Mayumi Saegusa had seen him cast magic with her own eyes, so letting her see this could hardly count as revealing a secret. Besides, even if she did tell others what she had seen, how many people would believe her? Most would probably dismiss those facts as Mayumi Saegusa's nonsense.