Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 26

Chapter 26

KATSUTO JUMONJI

"I will convey the message," Katsuto answered as he ended the call from his father's butler, who told him of the latest directive from the Ten Master Clan.

The Nine School Competition was coming to a close, with only two events remaining. The Female Mirage Bat and the male-specific Monolith Code were the only two events left, and they were essentially the highlight of the event. This year, they were considerably more special, especially in the first-year division, where Masaki Ichijou was set to face Inei Totsub in the final. Of course, this was not set yet, but the matches were set this way.

However, if the directive he had just received was anything to go by, then they would not let that happen. The Ten Master Clans had issued him a directive, which he was to convey to Inei Yotsuba to make the boy pull out of the competition, and he could easily reason out why.

The Yotsuba heir had humiliated and mocked the rest of the clans, and having the boy drop out of the competition would allow them to save face—or at least they thought that way.

Well, he was not sure the boy would see it that way. Masaki will not be happy either way, but he was just the messenger, and yet that was not the most interesting piece of news he had heard.

No, he and everyone in Tokyo right now had their eyes glued to the television as they watched news reporting on the strangest occurrence from the city.

'Three Floors of the Tokyo Tower had simply vanished over night.'

Three floors were removed from existence, cut off, and erased like they were never there. The act was so clean and precise that it even took the people twelve hours to realize that they were gone. The floors were all private, owned by a foreign entity, with separate wirings, and everything so forth.

Even the building management realized later that such a thing had happened. And right now, it was frank speculation about just what had happened.

Though the top magicians of the country already knew of just what had happened and exactly who resided on those floors.

No-head-Dragon, an anti-mage organization tracking its roots to GAA, the very organization behind Blanche and the recent attack on the students at school. An organization that supposedly had a vendetta against the Yotsuba, and it was now clear that the Yotsuba were not afraid of retaliating.

There was a gag order on the whole affair by the Master Clans, and yet to those who were close to the menace that was Inei Yotsuba it was evident that this was his work, that this was the Yotsuba—or him making a statement, reminding the world of their status as the infamous 'boogeymen of the world'

After all, they weren't called the Nation Destroyer Yotsuba for no reason.

And for some reason, his childhood friend was deeply involved with this Yotsuba, someone who was hailed as the most wanted by USNA, and had just eradicated a criminal syndicate in a single night.

"Just what trouble have you landed yourself into, Mayumi?"

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MAYUMI SAEGUSA

Mayumi watched the news cycle repeat the story from earlier in the day about several floors from one of Tokyo's high risers simply vanishing overnight as the second last day of the Nine School Competition was set to begin. Katsuto had asked her to come for a meeting, and she was rather surprised when she found Inei-kun already there waiting for her.

Her feelings about the white-haired Yotsuba were complicated; in a way, until today, no boy had ever made her feel something like this. She wanted to protect him, to stand by him, and heal all the little broken things about him, of which there were many.