The Irregular at Magic High

Chapter 8

Ever since Tatsuya was a junior high first year student, or to be precise since October, this kind of chaos would occur and finish before a relative peace would settle upon the grounds every morning. The disciples would return to their own exercises, and the only ones who would remain before the main building would be the siblings, Tatsuya and Miyuki, along with Yakumo.

"Sensei, here. Would my dear brother like some as well?"

"Ooh, Miyuki-kun, thanks."

"...Please wait a little."

With one hand Yakumo, still sweating, took the cup and towel from Miyuki with a smile while Tatsuya, breathing roughly and sprawled out on the ground, raised a hand in acknowledgement before painstakingly picking himself up. 

"Brother, are you alright...?" As Tatsuya struggled to rise, Miyuki, with a worried expression, knelt down beside him without concern for her clothes and began to wipe him with a towel in hand. 

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Neither of them noticed the warm expression Yakumo was making as Tatsuya took the towel from Miyuki and, after a pause, gathered his strength and sprang up. 

"I'm sorry, I ended up getting your skirt dirty." Tatsuya's jacket was, naturally, also stained with dirt, but Miyuki did not need to point that out. 

"This much is nothing." Miyuki smiled in response and instead of brushing off her skirt, took out a thin mobile terminal. The front of the device was almost entirely taken up by a force feedback panel, upon which she began entering digits. Miyuki was holding a type of general mobile CAD. The most popular form is a bracelet, as the risk of dropping a mobile is considerable. The advantage of Miyuki's CAD is that it can be used with one hand. Since advanced magicians dislike having both hands occupied, these are preferred. A complex pattern of light was drawn with the left hand holding the CAD, as the magic was initiated. The tool of a modern magician, in place of wands and tomes, a machine produced by magical engineering: the CAD. This device, which incorporates synthetic materials that convert psion signals into electric signals, uses the psion from a magic ritual to produce a collection of electronic magic—the activation ritual. The activation ritual is the blueprint of magic. Within it exists information equal or greater to the combined data of lengthy incantations, complex symbols, and rapid shift mudras. Mages infuse Psion particles inherent in their bodies into the activation sequence output by the CAD, and feed that from the subconscious magic processing system present in all magicians into the magic operations area.

Here the activation sequence is expanded, and all the necessary parameters input, in order to assemble the magic ritual. In this way, the CAD allows the processing of all the necessary components for magic in a single moment. Evanescent clouds appeared out of nowhere and wrapped around Miyuki from her skirt to her black leggings, all the way down to her sandals. Particles also flew out from the air, and poured from Tatsuya's back all the way around his whole body. After the thin mist cleared up, the uniform and jacket of the two were immaculate as ever.

"Would you like breakfast, dear brother? If sensei wants, you may join as well." Miyuki, as if that had been only natural, asked in a light tone as she raised the basket. In fact, Tatsuya knew full well that such an amount of magic was indeed "nothing at all" to his sister.

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Both Tatsuya and Yakumo were sitting down on the veranda, stuffing themselves with sandwiches. Miyuki held a sandwich in one hand, and with the other gallantly serviced Tatsuya by handing him tea and plates. As he watched this scene with a smile, Yakumo had sensed ill will coming from somewhere. After wiping his hands and mouth with a towel held out by a shaven pupil, he put his hands together and bowed towards Miyuki, whispering something in a quiet voice,