Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 39

Chapter 39

INEI YOTSUBA

Inei had suspected Maya's plot. Of course he had, but still he was surprised that she had gone through with it. Nonetheless, it had simply allowed him to achieve his own goals. He had hoped that with the Yotsuba name Gu Jie, GAA and the USNA would have left him alone, letting him live his life in peace.

But he was wrong. So very wrong.

The name had done nothing to stop them, and they had reacted to his presence as he had expected. With greed, fear and war. And if that was their desire, then he would give it to them.

War.

And as he left his mother's solar he found himself walking into the garden, and the place was occupied by the very person he had come to see.

Mayumi stood there looking down at a rose plant forlornly, dressed in the ceremonial garbs of the head of a Master Clan, a set which she now sat in having replaced her father as the head of Saegusa clan.

"So, you are going away?" she asked, and there was both concern and worry in that tone as she turned to look up at him, and despite the look in those eyes he resolved himself for what he had to do.

"I am," he answered, and saw her lips thin as she looked down.

"I never thought I would experience a war while I was but a teenager, it all seemed to far fetch in those lessons at the academy," and indeed a few months ago war was but a nightmare and now it was a reality enthrusted upon them by the greed of men, and the revenge of a woman.

"Believe it or not I hate war this as much as you do," he said pushing away a strand of hair behind her ear as he pulled up her face.

"I would much rather spend my time with you than fighting our enemies abroad, but this has to be done," he assured her.

"They will not leave me alone, neither GAA nor the USNA. We could broker peace today, and then they will attack us again tomorrow. If not tomorrow then years later, again and again, Until one day perhaps their attack will be successful, and they would achieve their purpose and mayhaps kill me, even worse may harm you," he told her and that was what drove him to the extreme for Inei himself detested war, detested it for the devastation it would cause, for the deaths it would bring, for the orphans it would give.

"I cannot let that happen. Not to you," he said as he caressed her face.

"Never to you," he promised and she knew.

"I know, but it is also dangerous, unpredictable. You will be in the vanguard, anything could happen to y..." and he put his finger on her lips as he stopped her from saying any more.

"Two years," he said and watched her eyes widen.

"That is the time I have given myself," he said, and it was a tight timeline specifically given that they were talking about a transcontinental war.

"I am going top wrap this up in two years," he assured her, as he kissed her on the forehead.

"Then I am all yours...."

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Weeks later, a solitary plane flew over the largest military base of operations in GAA as the city braced for a retaliatory strike.

Their radars failed to pick up on the plane signal which was but a simple and small plane, carrying barely ten people. The small size blinded it to even the most sensitive radar technologies, and as it flew over the military base the planes door slid open as a solitary figure came out and looked down below.