Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 18

Chapter 18

MORISAKI SHUN

Morisaki Shun was a member of the numbered clans and was hailed as one of the prodigies of his clan. He had expected that coming to First High would allow him to cement his place in the upper echelons of the Magician Society of Japan, and yet that hope had been dashed on the first day.

Shiba Miyuki, the black-haired topper of the matriculation exam, was a rarity unlike any other. Blessed with both unparalleled beauty and magical prowess, she was the perfect asset for him and their clan to further themselves in Japan's magical society.

It was widely known that magical prowess was quite intimately related to genetics, and he believed that she would be the perfect asset for himself and his clan to rise from their current status and join the infamous Ten Master Clans, and if not those, then the 'eighteen' numbered families.

She was a naive girl, blessed for sure, yet the magical world was rather cut-throat, and so he planned to offer himself as a guide through this perilous world, and yet all his plans had been foiled.

He could hardly understand her obsession with her brother, who was nothing but a peasant compared to himself. He was a simple course for two students, one of whom did not know his place.

Even now, he was convinced that in their match, the bastard had used some sort of trickery, or if not him, then it was that bastard Yotsuba had made him lose.

And even now, thinking about that white haired bastard made his heart boil.

Yotsuba, a name they were all told to fear from the day they were born. The boogeymen of the magical world, and yet they were known for their secrecy, and so when a first-year had appeared bearing that second name, he had thought it to be a simple coincidence.

Yet it was not that, and it was indeed the real thing.

And he had learned firsthand why those bastards were as feared as they were.

That bastard had intervened in his plans, crushing them, humiliating him infront of Shiba Miyuki just to pounce on someone else.

By now, that bastard's affair with the school's Saegusa Princess was quite the gossip, and it was rumored that the boy was blackmailing her to be his girlfriend.

He looked up and searched the bus for that bastard, but, to his surprise, he did not find him.

"Hattori-san," he began as he stood up from his seat.

"Yes, Morisaki-kun," the vice president answered.

"I do not see Inei-kun in the bus. Has he decided to drop out of the competition and disgrace the First High School?" he asked, hoping for an affirmative answer. Despite his protests, he was locked up in a team with the bastard for the Monolith Code.

Despite the protests of the two other team members and the team engineer, the council refused to budge.

"Inie-kun chose to stay back because the President was late. He will reach the venue with President Saegusa and escort her to the building. We had to leave because the larger buses were faulty, and so the school had to dispatch these smaller one's and divide the students into sections," the man answered as he stood up and looked around.

"Now listen to me. In case of any emergency, I want each and every one of you to listen to me. As soon as we reach the hotel, we will wait in the parking for the bus with the engineering staff and the female first-year contestants," the Vice President answered, and he was the only one who had supported him and his friends in their request of removing that damned Yotsuba from their team.