Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 14

Chapter 13

INEI YOTSUBA

Inei's life was shrouded in mystery and secrets unknown to but a few people. His abilities, more specifically, his possessing not just one but both of the Yotsuba's true magical gifts, was something that only he knew about. Not even the Dahan had ever truly managed to understand his mental-interference prowess.

Magic was a gift, it was a miracle that made possible humanities greatest desires. He himself believed that a person's magical prowess was the manifestation of their desire. Tatsuya and himself were the biggest examples of that.

Tatsuya's magic was a manifestation of his mother's desire to take revenge on the world for what had happened to her sister, and Inei's own magic was born out of his desire to preserve his sense of self and to cut through the bind, keeping him locked up, and through that desire his magic had manifested.

And somehow, this little insect of a man knew of his magic, knew of secrets that he should have no knowledge of. And now, as Hajime Tsukasa looked around like an idiot as they stood in a black-and-white clearing, Inei's gaze narrowed.

"Where are we? What happened?" he screamed as Inei stood there observing him.

"We are in hell," he replied as suddenly the man found himself chained to a cross, unable to move as Inei appeared right infront of him.

"And unless you start giving me answers, you are going to stay in it for a long time," he said and saw the man's eyes widen Inei materialized a thousand metallic nails right behind him. All of them began to move closer, and closer tot he bastard who began to shake.

"This is not real. This is not real!" he screamed, and Inei deadpanned.

"Why don't we put that to the test?" he questioned as a nail entered his hand, literally nailing him to the wood as the man screamed and so on and on it went until he had his answers.

Not that there were many to be had, the idiotic bastard had been given information through an anonymous source, information that only Dahan had, information about his magic, and most importantly, the magical sequence burned into his skin.

And though for Kajime Tsukasa, a lifetime may have been spent in the hellscape of 'Tsukoyomi,' in the real world, only a few seconds had passed, and the purple-haired man's body twitched and shook as his eyes rolled up and drooled dribbled from his mouth.

"What was that?" he heard a gasp from his side. He looked and saw the pale-faced form of Mayumi backing away from him, and he pushed back his hair and shrugged as she covered her mouth, and he finally noticed the blood that now littered the floor, dying it red.

"That was their retribution," and with that, he turned towards the students, who were all shaking, unable to move due to sheer fear.

"Sleep," he used his magic once more and saw their bodies collapse in an instance.

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MAYUMI SAEGUSA

Mayumi Saegusa watched as the Police took away the Blanche members, at least those that had survived. Despite their reluctance to involve the authorities, once Blanche's presence had been confirmed, there was simply no way that the Police would not be involved, only when they would be involved.

Now, the whole incident was being painted as a terrorist attack in which the students were brainwashed and used against their will, and their fates all now rested in her hands as the Student Council president.

This was a huge mess, one that could have devolved into something absolutely horrendous if not for the boy beside him.

She had always known that Inei-kun was powerful. He was a Yotsuba, and that name carried a certain level of significance, but what she had seen in that building was unlike anything she had ever seen.