Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 24

Chapter 24

MAYUMI SAEGUSA

A few things were going right for Mayumi Saegusa as she sat beside the bed of her dear friend Mari, who was resting. As Mayumi sat there feeling rather ominous about all that had happened until this point.

The Nine School Competition was supposed to be a joyous affair, one worth celebration and elation as they utilized their gift of Magic to present a softer image of magicians all over the world. It was a platform to allow students to hone and showcase their mastery over different magics, and yet this year, the competition had spelled nothing but trouble.

First, there was an attack on their buses, and now there is this. A possible attempt at influencing the competition that had left her dearest friend bedridden. And though the doctors had assured them all that Mari was fine and was set to make a full recovery, Mayumi could not help but feel frustrated over her constant failures.

She was the school president. It was her damn job to protect the students, a job that she had been failing at until this point.

But not anymore, she thought as she looked out the window at the clear skies above, her red eyes glinting in the darkness of the room, a sign that she was actively using her innate magic, Multi Scope.

While calling her a prodigy, many believed that she had that title because of the quantity of the scions or her rather fast activation speed, yet the truth was while she was indeed blessed in both of those aspects, what made Mayumi Saegusa a true menace was this magic.

"Multi-Scope" allowed her to combine her magical sight with her natural sight allowing her to visualize an object from all around, similar to how a radar would.

And so now, with her competitions done, she would take over the burden of protecting the students from whichever entity was responsible for all the mayhem. For that, she would reply to her magic, pushing it beyond her limitations as she kept an eye on their hotel.

And it was because of that she felt him. His psions felt like a massive firelight in the darkness as he walked to the roof, making her frown. Then she felt another presence appear there—one foreign to her, yet, for some reason, she found it familiar.

'When had she felt this presence?' she asked herself, and for some reason her frustrations grew as she felt him halt and engage this person in talk, and she closed her eyes, as she turned her attention to the rooftop and saw him standing there, still clad in his clothes from the Ice Pilars' Break having only taken off the Black Coat.

And there she was, dressed in black clothes that made her blend into the night. He mouthed something to her and began to walk forward, jumping on the edge of the building before his psions roared forth.

"Inei-kun," she gasped, imagining the worst when suddenly he jumped, vanishing from his sight.

As much as she tried, she could find no trace of him anywhere in the building. Then, an instant later, the person standing beside him vanished as well. Mayumi bit her lip as she expanded her magical sight. The expansion gave her a headache, but she was able to locate him once more.

And all she felt at that moment from his expression and the psions emanating out of him was dread as he stared down a man. An employee from the Competition she realized rather quickly, and she got an inkling at what exactly was going on here.

The man fell down as Inei-kun's magic roused, and then she felt it suddenly. She felt them. Two cars.

One of them stopped outside the very building Inei-kun was in, and she saw two robotic-looking men walk in and enter the building. Just looking at them unsettled her of the sheer feeling their magic gave. It was unnatural, and yet those two were not what troubled her the most.