Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 3

Chapter 3

INEI YOTSUBA

Magic was a dream of his once, a long time ago. But then it became his chains, keeping him bound, stealing his very self and freedom as those scientists tried to shape him into a weapon of mass devastation.

For more than half his life, the only thing he had for himself were his thoughts. Blessed with the Yotsuba's special Mind Altering Magic, he was able to isolate himself from the controlling device used by those people, and he watched detached from his own skin, alone sitting there in the corner of his own mind as the years turned and his body was probed and prodded upon.

And he waited. Waited. And waited, never giving up, taking in what he could, away from prying eyes, understanding the powers he had been blessed with, until that fateful day.

As the ultimate test, they had tried to push his body beyond his limits, trying to expand his already massive psion reserves using soul generators, abominations created using magician's brains.

Yet the psions had overpowered the control circuits, destroying them, and in that moment, he had struck, taking advantage of the chaos to gain back control over his flesh, as he brought devastation upon his captors.

And then his search would begin, trying to make sense of this world and realize who he was. And figure it all he would.

And now, as he sat opposite the woman whose very genetics had been used to create him, he could see their resemblance.

Yotsuba Maya was Japan's strongest magician, the clan head of the Yotsuba, and one of the Seven Sages. She was approaching her forties yet looked not a day older than a twenty-year-old; her life was a tragic one, though he could say the same for his own.

"Maa Maa! Is that how one greets their mother?" she asked with a chuckle, and he raised a brow.

"I doubt you are capable of feeling such a thing," he asked and saw the butler stiffen at his words, yet his words did not rattle Maya Yotsuba herself, with the woman simply leaning forward.

"Hayama did say that you were awfully well informed for someone your age," she remarked, and he shrugged.

"My circumstances growing up made it so that I was acutely aware of whose blood ran through my veins. So, I was naturally curious when I got free, plus I have a habit of knowing things," he said as he sipped his own tea.

"So, you know of our connection," and he nodded. There was no need to lie to her; in a way, she was his mother. As for her father, he did not really know whose genetic components formed the other half of his genes.

"Yet you never sought us out despite being so close. Why?" she asked, curiosity lacing her tone, and he sighed.

"The truth is the more I found out about you and your family, the troublesome it all seemed, so I kinda just gave up," he replied honestly and that was true. The Yotsuba were complex. Magicians generally were complex, and Japna's infamous Ten Master clans even more so.

But the Yotsuba was a cesspool of ginormous problems and entities. They were Japan's most dangerous family, shrouded in mystery and famous worldwide as the Untouchables.

"You gave up because you thought it all too complex," she asked, with a smirk, and he shrugged.

"It all seemed such a drag," he replied honestly, and she chuckled.

"You gave up all the power and perks that would come with being a Yotsuba just because you thought it all a hassle. You are very interesting, Inei-kun," she smiled.