Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - 𝕁𝔸𝔼𝔾𝔼ℝ

Ch. 19 - Yokohama Incident

Reports of activity from GAU personnel were on the rise, as now there was an incident of a student working with a crime organization to foil Tatsuya Shiba. Mari tells Mayumi everything so in consequence, the information reached Hiro extremely quick. There was even an attack on the aforementioned three yesterday while Hiro remained in his classes. It pissed him off that Mayumi prefer Tatsuya accompany them over him- especially with Lu Ganghu, the Man-Eating Tiger, being present within the nation. No matter, Hiro would have to do his own work today if they attacked the thesis competition. The part that lingered in his mind was the fact that he may have to go completely spike mage, which may tear him apart as well as his relationships, his priorities couldn't be that though.

In the presentation hall, there was a wooden-planked stage where those presenting for the the first magic high school stood. Hiro sat beside Miyuki, as Mayumi was up in front assisting to judge the thesis' and theoretical inventions. "I can't help but feel something is.. off." he thought to himself as Maelstrom responded mentally, "I can see why. I wouldn't worry though." the spirit said as he smirked in his mental plain, moving his hand over Miyuki's. She looked up to him and smiled, letting the hand rest there. The two of them had been getting closer and closer for quite some time but, not as close as Hiro may want. As they began to finish up and walk off stage, a rumble was heard with the entire building beginning to shake. It was fairly similar to what they saw at first high during the raid that Blanche hosted against them more than likely: an explosion. The students kept their composure and sat, Tatsuya and Miyuki standing at the front with the Cardinal George on stage.

As Hiro began to stand up the doors were kicked open- with a heavy pulsing sound being heard due to the extreme amount of casting jammers. They began to scream orders, waiving guns at the students: "Don't move! Remove your devices and set them on the floor!". One student had attempted to use magic however, due to the extreme interference from the casting jammers, had a large surge of pain overcome them as they screamed out in pain and collapsed. "Hey! Can't you hear me?!" one of them screamed at the taller Shiba as he began to walk forward, firing shots. Tatsuya knew that Hiro would not be effected by the bullets, thus counted on him to get in the way. His legs quickly moved as he then slid in front of the taller male and crossed his arms, crystallizing them as the bullets shattered into pieces. "Damned monster!" The GAU soldier screamed at the spike mage before pulling out a 6" blade and charging at him just to have his arm grabbed and snapped where he stood.

"Over the years.. you really have dropped your IQ, haven't you?" he asked him as his eyes began to flicker to a purple color- Maelstrom and Hiro now had aligned intent. "Let me educate you." Hiro said with a smile as he grabbed him by the neck and hoisted him over his head before slamming the man onto the ground. A snapping sound was heard as all four soldiers in the room began to aim at him. "By all means. Do it." the young man spread his arms out as they began to focus fire on him, only to see their bullets shatter on contact with him. As soon as they ran out of ammunition, he began sprinting around the room, hardening his arm into a blade as he began to slice through the intruders one by one. This left a bloody mess on the carpet, as he then allowed steam to bellow out of his mouth. He began to walk with the arms of his coat flowing as Hiro slipped his hands into the coat's arms. Shinkuro ran up close to the edge of where the stage was, "Hold on a second! Isn't that crystal manipulation?!" as to which Hiro turned and shook his head. "The Saegusa specializes in something similar, I applied their crystalline magic in a similar way. It is not what you'd think." the overall tone and vocabulary in his voice changed almost instantly- was this really the same person?

Tatsuya walked behind Hiro and tapped his hand onto his shoulder, gaining a nod from him as a few of them began to approach. Leo, Mizuki, Erika, Mikihiko, Honoka, Shizuku. The usual people that were usually around him. "I'll give you the next fun part, Tatsuya." He said with a smile as he exited the room and entered the hall at the very corner. "Miyuki, silence their gunfire." Tatsuya said lightly as she then replied, "Brother.. in order to do that-" being cut off by her taller counterpart offering his hand as she then took it. The gunfire from the GAU suddenly cut as the tall male ran out and began slicing them apart with his bare hands, only a few being able to make it out as Erika, Leo, and Mikihiko were able to suppress most of the rest. Hiro's focus cut out as he began to follow them almost mindlessly to a mapping room, then to another room where he began to focus once again. Mayumi was there along with Mari, they were trying to figure out how to destroy their machine so that it wouldn't fall into GAU hands. The older Saegusa saw Hiro covered with the blood of GAU soldiers and immediately ran over, "A-are you okay? Did they hurt you?!" she asked in a panicked state as he placed his hand on her head.

"If anything, I hurt them." Hiro said, putting emphasis on the last word. Miyuki walked over and asked, "Would you like me to clean you up?" which gained a nod from the young man who was only a few inches taller than her at most. A blue light appeared under him as his clothes were cleaned by Miyuki's magic, a smile coming from him as they then began to make their way to a conference room, which held a map of the area. Kyouko, the 101st Lieutenant stood inside the room already, with Major Kazama entering soon after them. "Special Officer. Information control has been temporarily disabled." Tatsuya in response to this immediately saluted Kazama. The Major looked at Hiro, which was 'that signal' to begin operating at full capacity. They began to speak of the situation, mentioning that a 'special mage' will be covering all of Japan. The 101st IDMB knew exactly who it was, and he stood there simply. "I am hereby ordering you to mobilize. Special Officer. To you all, the JDSF requests this information to be kept confidential under the JDSF protection laws." Kazama said as Tatsuya nodded. Juumonji had entered the room some time ago with Sanada, and stayed quiet until the Captain spoke. "Special Officer. We have the mobile station with the suit you created. Please come with me." which gained a nod from Tatsuya as he began to walk.

Miyuki ran up behind him, "Brother, wait." as she then reached her hands up and cupped his cheeks, him crouching down. Her face slowly inched towards his head as she pressed her lips against his forehead. A large light appearing as a high rate of pushions bursting away from him as he stood up, a warm smile coming from Miyuki as she then stated, "You now have free reign." before giving a princess-like dress bow. As she did this, he smiled back and stepped out with Sanada, meanwhile Kyouko speaking to the students. "All right, follow me, we need to make this safe and orderly." the woman said as Hiro then began to follow her. A good fourth of their journey was completed with them now being outside. It was fairly quiet though- for a literal warzone at least before the hum of mechanized robotic infantry began to arise. "It's sad.. they keep starting the wars, but can't ever end them.." Hiro said cryptically as Mayumi looked to him. His eyes fell down to her, with the sad violet eyes staring into her red eyes as he stepped forward. The limiter would snap nearly instantly as he stepped past her, she would now know what exactly was being limited.

The mechanized robotic infantry came to a halt and began to run their rotors as he stepped up. He took off his coat and adjusted his tie, leaving the coat on the ground as he stepped forward. Hiro arched his back and inhaled as he let out a deep roar- quite different from the one that he had pulled at first high a few months back. The ground began to rumble as spikes shot out of the ground, impaling the robotic infantry into the top of the bridge as they both poked out. One was about ten meters long, with the other only reaching five. Eyes. The windows to the soul. He took a look back and saw sheer looks of fear on his classmates' faces. "Figured," Hiro said as he continued to pace away, looking ahead as Kyouko then followed him with the students... a eerie feeling filling the air as he walked away without a shred of remorse for the deaths of the operators. Blood leaking down the spikes as he stepped passed them, but there was indeed more to come.