The fourth day of the tournament: the rookie battle.
"It's a match between Shizuku Kitayama!"
Chiba Yeyou glanced at Shizuku Kitayama, who was standing in the center of the venue wearing headphones, and sighed somewhat absentmindedly.
Since the Nine Schools Competition began, he seems to have paid little attention to his classmates. The Icicle Destruction and Defense that Chiba Yeyou participated in before was just a preliminary round.
"It really feels like it's been ages since I've seen you all."
Chiba Yeyou glanced again at Tatsuya Shiba, Miyuki Shiba, Honoka Mitsui, and the others sitting to her left.
"You've been in charge of Watanabe -senpai and the president's competition lately, and you even participated in a preliminary round yourself. You also took time to look after Hattori. With all that busyness, it's no wonder you haven't had time to meet with them!"
Sitting to Chiba Yeyou's right, Mayumi Saegusa recounted what Chiba Yeyou had done in the past few days. Suddenly, she realized that her junior was indeed quite busy. He had done so much without her noticing, and even helped Mari Watanabe escape an ambush.
It has become a general consensus that Mari Watanabe was able to continue the competition unscathed because if it weren't for Chiba Yeyou's efforts in adjusting Mari Watanabe's CAD and adding new magic to give him a huge advantage, thus eliminating the opportunity for those people to make their move. Even the usually serious Katsuto Jumonji smiled and thanked Chiba Yeyou.
"The main reason is that the timings are mostly staggered."
Chiba Yeyou could only shrug helplessly.
"By the way, you have to treat me to a big meal after the Nine Schools Competition. I really didn't expect that a first-year student like me would have to handle so much work."
Chiba Yeyou blinked at Mayumi Saegusa.
"Okay, as long as we get first place overall, I'll definitely treat you to a big meal!"
"Ha?"
Chiba Yeyou stared at the cunning girl with disbelief.
"I've done what I was supposed to do, and all I participated in was a basically insignificant Icicle Destruction and defense match that didn't contribute much to the score. Why should I only get a big meal if I'm first in the overall match score?"
Chiba Yeyou looked at the playful girl who winked at her with displeasure.
"Mmm!"
"It might not just be about eating then!"
Hearing the tickling sound in her ear, Chiba Yeyou declared that this first place had to be from the First High School, no matter who else came, it wouldn't matter, I said it!
"Hello!"
"I said, you two, that's enough!"
Mari Watanabe watched the two flirting with annoyance, rolling her beautiful eyes wildly, giving off an expression that said, "I'm really full."
Compared to Tatsuya Shiba's expressionless face, Miyuki Shiba was a little envious. She would glance at the blockhead next to her from time to time, and her envy would only grow stronger.
"Speaking of which, this is the first time I've witnessed Tatsuya's skills as a maintenance engineer in actual combat!"
Mayumi Saegusa promptly changed the subject.
"Don't worry, President, my brother's strength is absolutely no problem!"
Miyuki Shiba's confidence in her older brother was unparalleled, and she made her promise without hesitation.
"Yes, I acknowledge Tatsuya's abilities. I just wonder how well the CAD software, which was personally adjusted by Tatsuya- kun from beginning to end, will perform. It's something to look forward to!"
Mari Watanabe also had some expectations. If Tatsuya Shiba could also be very strong, then the matches he was in charge of would have a real advantage.
This is also how Mari Watanabe benefited from Chiba Yeyou's work. Now she genuinely believes that an excellent maintenance engineer is an indispensable asset to an excellent mage, after all, the performance difference between the CAD systems Chiba Yeyou handled and those other CAD systems is truly outrageous.
"Senior, don't expect me to be as good as Chiba Yeyou. Although we used similar methods when we were doing tests, the operating environments we created were completely different systems."
As Tatsuya Shiba spoke, he glanced at Chiba Yeyou.
Tatsuya Shiba genuinely found Chiba Yeyou's system building method impressive. Although he hadn't painstakingly researched it or even looked at it in detail, it was undeniable that just watching the match between Mari Watanabe and Mayumi Saegusa showed how terrifying that improvement was.
Wow, that's amazing!
Upon hearing Tatsuya Shiba's words, Chiba Yeyou glanced at him and inwardly praised him.
Chiba Yeyou is different from other CAD designers. He has his own understanding of the internal system construction of CAD. Although he only replaced some of the internal construction of the CAD used in the competition, this has already made a very strong optimization to the original CAD performance.
I thought it wouldn't be discovered so quickly, but as expected of Tatsuya Shiba!
" Tatsuya- kun, there's no need to belittle yourself. As far as I know, it's not just Kitayama; the other contestants are also receiving rave reviews!"
"Today, some contestants also brought their own CAD software for him to debug."
Suzune Ichihara chimed in from the side.
"If Chiba Yeyou didn't turn others away, I think even more people would be looking for him."
Tatsuya Shiba seem to care.
"But won't this affect your performance in the game?"
Mari Watanabe looked at Tatsuya Shiba with some concern.
"It's alright, I'll arrange my time reasonably according to the needs, and I'll decline if necessary to ensure it won't affect the competition."
Tatsuya Shiba felt no pressure at all about arranging these small things, and helping to adjust the CAD was not a troublesome thing, nor was it a burden.
"By the way, I thought you'd be waiting for Shizuku Kitayama at the exit!"
"Didn't you set a good example for us?"
Hearing Chiba Yeyou's words, Mayumi Saegusa gave him a disgruntled look.
Tatsuya Shiba was unusually silent, which Chiba Yeyou found quite strange, as he would usually give a reasonable explanation.
"Buzz!"
"Here we go!"
After a starting signal, white frisbee targets flew out from both sides.
Bang bang bang!
With each movement of Shizuku Kitayama, a huge tremor would occur in one area along the path of the white frisbee, shattering the target.
"Use vibration magic on solids?"
"Um."
"The effective scoring zone for Speed Shooting is a cube with sides of 15 meters set in the air, while Shiba- kun's Activation Sequence is set inside a cube with sides of 10 meters."
"Nine points, including its vertex center, are marked as vibration sources. Each point is then managed by numbering. By Activation Sequence, spherical virtual vibration waves are emitted from the corresponding vibration source points. The effective range of the vibration waves is 6 meters..."
After a lengthy and insightful discussion, Suzune Ichihara thoroughly analyzed the magic used by Kitayama.
"Oh, it's over!"