Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 10

Chapter 10

INEI YOTSUBA

Inei Yotsuba had many secrets, and yet he cared little for most of them. Except the one he could see right now as he stood in his bathroom, getting ready for another day at school, and in the mirror in front one could glimpse at the massive magical sequences carved into his very skin, and that very thing that had taken from him more than half of his life.

An ancient-brain-control sequence, one carved into his skin by one of the biggest names in Dahan's history, Gu Jie. He had another name as well, though he did not know it, yet that did not matter.

Gu Jie was enough, and Inei had promised himself that one day he would find him and exact revenge on him for what he had done to him. It was another reason he had come to Japan, and had known about the existence of Seven Sages, for he had heavy suspicion that this man was one.

The Seven Sages, believed to be seven random individuals chosen by an entity named Hliðskjálf, gave them access to anything and everything in the world, a brainchild of the USNA government.

He believed it was through the very thing that Dahan had managed to chase him everywhere he went. Though he defeated them all, this very thing had made his life a living hell, at least until he had escaped to Nagano, knowing that the mere presence of the Yotsuba would haunt and halt his captors, giving him the time he needed to make sense of himself.

And now he had, and though he had been content to live his life away in that cafe, being a Yotsuba had offered him another path. One that would make it so that no one, not Dahan, Not Gu Jie, and not USNA, would ever be able to lay a hand on him.

Yet it was not easy. Not that he ever expected it to be.

"Why is my life so troublesome," he lamented as he put on the vest before he put on his uniform and left for another day at school, a place he was beginning to get used to. His relationship with the Shiba siblings and his cousins had improved much, mostly due to the efforts of Miyuki, and he had not missed the subtle glances the President Mayumi sent his way when she thought he was not looking.

Though all that would come later, for today, he was going to meet a rather enigmatic figure. On the surface he was the simple leader of a temple, but in truth he was a tried and true shinobi, a master magician whose powers could rival those of Maya Yotsuba.

Yet his true strength lay in his slew of connections making him perhaps the most well-informed individual in the world after that damned American who had created Echeleon III.

"Well, let's get on with it," he said, walking out the door. After riding for an hour and a half, he found himself at the entrance of a temple shrouded in thick clouds, making it hard to see an inch.

He stood there, and shook his head pushing psions through himself and into his eyes activating the Magical Sequence implanted into them, as the world infront of him shifted, the mist vanished in an instant as he found himself looking straight at the man he had come to meet.

"To ever think I would see those eyes for myself," the man snarked as Inei walked upto him, where he sat on the porch sipping his tea idly.

"Illusions do not work on me," Inei said as he looked the man in the eye.

"I will keep that in mind, Yotsuba-kun, or should I call you 'World Cleaver'?" Inei perked up at that name, a name that even Maya Yotsuba did not know belonged to him.

"I do not know what you are talking about?" he replied, and the man shook his head.

"One can seldom hide anything for a shinobi, and I am the best of them," he said as he pointed to the empty space beside him and began to pour another cup of tea.