Mahouka Koukou no Re Volume 2 - Ch 11

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In a world dyed in a madder red,

A large all-terrain vehicle reflected the rays of the setting sun as it sped through the city,

Before smashing through the main doors leading to the factory. "Nice work, Leo."

"......Nah, that was nothing."

"Man, that was exhausting."

All of a sudden, Leo was asked to encompass the entirety of a large all- terrain vehicle speeding along above 100 kiloters per hour with high level Fortify Magic at the mont of impact, an extrely taxing task that consud all his reserves.

"Shiba, this is your plan. Call it."

Tatsuya accepted the authority and responsibility that Katsuto offered without any hesitation.

"Leo, you remain here on guard.

Erika, support Leo and take care of anyone trying to flee."

"......Is it okay to not apprehend them?"

"There's no need for such a risky action. To ensure minimal risk, just take them out.

Kirihara-senpai and the Group Leader should loop around the left to the back entrance.

Miyuki and I will enter here."

"Understood."

"OK, let's do it. I'll take care of every single one of the stragglers."

"Tatsuya, be careful."

"Miyuki, don't force yourself."

Leo and Erika both accepted this arrangent, so they did not reveal any displeased expressions.

With blade in hand

but not drawn

Kirihara charged away, with Katsuto leisurely following behind.

Tatsuya and Miyuki both walked into the dark interior of the factory with the sa ease as if they were entering a convenience store.

They encountered the enemy much sooner than expected.

Heedless of cover, Tatsuya advanced fearlessly out into the open, where their opponents stood in neat lines in the center of the eting ground area.

"Welco! Nice to et you, Shiba Tatsuya-kun!

And this hi-sama must be your sister, Miyuki-kun, right?"

"You must be the branch commander of Blanche."

Tatsuya coldly interrogated the man who had his arms spread out in an exaggerated welcoming motion.

Roughly 30 years of age. Unusually young for this line of work.

He wore rimless glasses atop his tall, lanky figure. From his outward appearance, he seed like so sort of scholar or lawyer.

"Oh, forgive my rudeness.

Just as you said, I am the commander of Blanche's Japanese branch, Tsukasa Haji."

There was no sense of pressure, but that may have been a biased opinion. In Tatsuya's mind, this man gave off the impression that he was an intellectual of a failed revolution.

However, based on those ridiculous actions and srized tone of voice, a glimr of emotions as dark as the deepest abyss could be detected.

"Is that so?"

Even though he had seen through his opponent's wild antics, Tatsuya didn't flinch. It didn't matter which of the seven Hells he was in; Tatsuya would've already beco accustod to it. He did not need to ascertain the relationship between this man and Tsukasa Kinoe of the n's Kendo Club, so all he did was ask this question, then firmly nodded his head.

Although he didn't verbalize it, his attitude was enough to express his intent. Tatsuya removed the silver CAD from its holster.

"Hm, a CAD. I thought you would bring firearms at least.

That being said, you're a bold one. You ca forward without any heed to nearby cover.

No matter what kind of Magician you are, you can still be killed by bullet wounds!"

"I am no Magician."

Tatsuya's reaction was completely unlike soone under the threat of a sniper, causing the Blanche commander to stare at him with widened eyes.

"Oh, so that's how it is. You're still a student.

I forgot that detail after seeing you charge in like that."

"You talk too much.

Well, for you to incite these people, there must be so angle behind it."

"For your age, you're pretty good.

Using such a penetrating attitude to view things at your age makes you too rigid. At this rate, you're going to be an old-tir very quickly."

Ridiculous movents and tone. Along with those self-delusional words.

That being said, Tatsuya had no intention of playing along with Tsukasa Haji's nonsense.

"At any rate, I advise you to surrender.

All of you, throw down your weapons and place your hands on your heads."

"Ha ha ha ha, aren't you a Weed that doesn't excel in magic? Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't use such a taboo term.

But, where exactly does your confidence co from?

If you think that magic is the be all and end all, then you're making a terrible mistake."

As he was laughing, the wildness surrounding Tsukasa Haji seem to multiply as he raised his right hand.

To the left and right, so twenty odd mbers of Blanche raised their weapons at the sa ti.

Apart from pistols, they also had assault rifles and semi-automatics mixed in.

"You have to be equals to even reach the bargaining table, so I'll give you another chance.

Shiba Tatsuya-kun, join us.

I heard from my little brother that you can use Cast Jamming without resorting to Antinite. I am very interested in that ability.

In regards to this exercise, I have spent a considerable ti preparing for it. A lot of ti and resources went into indoctrinating those damnable students so they would do my bidding. I am greatly aggravated by the waste of all that ti and effort, but if you are willing to join us, I am willing to overlook all that."

His face revealed a frivolous smirk, the wildness tucked behind a mask of righteousness. It was a face that would have inspired terror in Miyuki had Tatsuya not been there. If she wasn't with Tatsuya, Miyuki undoubtedly would have felt her hackles rise at this man.

"As expected, this was your goal.

Having Mibu-senpai approach

and ordering your little brother to ambush

was to test the depths of that Cast Jamming ability?"

"Hm, I do like smart children.

But to understand so much and still waltz into here without a care in the world reveals that you are still a child.

Nevertheless, children can still be stubborn.

Even when they know they have no chance of winning, they still refuse to obey."

"And what of it?"

"Yeah......

Then, let's do this."

His movents were more like those of a con artist than of a scholar.

He threw the fake pair of rimless glasses aside, raised his forehead, and caught Tatsuya's gaze.

"Shiba Tatsuya, beco one of our companions!" Tsukasa Haji's eyes took on a strange glow.

Tatsuya's already few expressions disappeared, his right hand holding the CAD dropped as if every ounce of strength had been sapped away.

"Ha ha ha ha ha, and now you are one of us!"

Tsukasa Haji abandoned any pretense of hiding the wildness about him. Even though the aura about him did not command respect or awe, it was still sothing worthy of a leader's mantle.

"The first thing you shall do, is to personally execute the little sister that ca along with you!

To die at the hands of your beloved Onii-sama is probably your fondest wish!"

This wasn't acting any more. He had already beco accustod to giving out orders.

Truly, he had already forced many people to obey him.

His twisted smile revealed his complete confidence in his own abilities.

"......It's about ti to stop with the monkey antics. Anyone who even sees you would be embarrassed on your behalf."

However, that expression was transfixed at Tatsuya's mocking words. "Consciousness Interference Type Non-Systemic Magic, Evil Eye.

Even with that lofty na, the truth is that the light emitted from the eyes sends out hypnotizing waves, using the speed of light to bypass the limits of human sensory abilities, directly influencing the opponent through sight using light wave oscillation type magic.

It is rely a tangent from brainwashing techniques, a skill that could be replicated with a projector: hypnotism.

While this ability voids the need for lugging a machine about and is able to control an opponent's consciousness, at the end of the day, that's all it is.

Prior to the formation of the New Soviet Federation, this was a technique that White Russia developed after extensive research."

This wasn't magic. Tatsuya froze his opponents with his words alone. "Mibu-senpai's mory was probably rewritten in the sa way."

"Onii-sama, if that's the case......"

At his little sister's wide-eyed question, Tatsuya nodded without any expression on his face.

"The errors in Mibu-senpai's mory were too extre for it to be entirely natural.

If this was brought about by sothing she had misheard, it is true that this result may occur.

However, this sort of misunderstanding should disappear and cool down in ti."

"......You, despicable scoundrel."

Miyuki's proper mouth bit out this furious sentence. Maybe the flas of fury had lted the ice within. "......You, why......"

Tsukasa Haji groaned, speaking as if struggling with asthma. The wild smile was gone from his face. Without it, the only thing that remained was a frail scholar used to giving out orders, but unwilling to dirty his own hands.

"What an insipid fellow."

Tatsuya did nothing to cover his biting words.

"Using the right hand to remove the glasses to draw attention from the left hand manipulating your CAD. Did you think such cheap tricks would work against ?

As long as the Activation Sequence can be seen, then I know what magic you are using and can easily defeat it.

For sothing as trivial as your magic, removing a small portion of the Activation Sequence is sufficient. Without the hypnotism component, Evil Eye is nothing more than a simple light show."

Tatsuya had already lost interest in the con artist whose tricks had been unraveled.

"How can this be......? To do this...... Who the hell are you......?"

"Speaking of which, 'you' refers to two people, right? Being too verbose will remove that monster mask from you as well."

At this ti, Tsukasa Haji finally realized.

The youth's features and muscles slackened only after he judged Tsukasa Haji's magic to be completely neutralized.

From the very beginning, this young man never considered Tsukasa Haji to be on the sa level as a human being.

He didn't see Tsukasa Haji as a human. Tsukasa Haji's features, na, personality, even consciousness were immaterial to this young man.

Tsukasa Haji finally realized that.

For this young man, Tsukasa Haji was nothing more than an "enemy". An "obstacle".

And now, after determining the appropriate solution, all that remained was to remove this obstacle.

"Fire, damn you all, fire!"

This was not the ti to act regal or majestic.

He didn't even have ti to recognize the confused looks in the eyes of his companions, no, subordinates.

Thoroughly consud by the fear that even primitive animals dread, Tsukasa Haji gave the order to shoot.

But "W-what......"

"What the hell is this?"

Not a single bullet was fired.

Full blown panic erupted in the area.

With a clatter, the various pistols, rifles and semi-automatics collapsed into pieces.

Just as the n squeezed the triggers, their weapons were broken down to their components.

In the midst of the chaos,

Only Tsukasa Haji possessed the composure to flee. Not a single one of his companions followed him. "Onii-sama, please pursue imdiately.

I will handle this."

"Understood."

Tatsuya strode towards the deepest part of the factory. The crowd parted automatically around him.

Tatsuya did not pay any attention to them, remaining focused on the fleeing Tsukasa Haji alone.

If they let him pass, the remaining Blanche mbers could only sit around and wait to be arrested.

Only one of these mbers thought to hurtle the knife in his hand at Tatsuya.

The instant that thought crossed his mind. "Foolish plebeian."

Normally, this voice would be both charming and cute, but now it only brought despair.

"Just punish them a little.

These people aren't worth any more of your ti."

"Yes, Onii-sama."

A statue completely covered in frost tilted and fell over between the two conversing siblings.

Only one of them dared to raise a hand towards Miyuki's Onii-sama. That asinine man was already frozen.

However, for her, this level of retribution could be said to be sufficient, but at the sa ti unsatisfactory.

A sufficient reason.

An unsatisfactory result.

Before the young girl's slim figure, two rows of n stood there, unable to move at all.

Both ntally

and physically.

The floor was covered by a solid layer of white frost.

The only place that shared the sa season as the outer world was a small circle that spread around where the young girl stood.

The white mist condensed into a tornado. The frost turned the air bitterly cold. She raised her right hand.

In this reality, she stood like the Queen of Ice about to render judgent upon the damned.

"You are all very unfortunate."

Her tone was entirely different from usual.

However, these words that were filled with majesty, judgent, and authority were in no way incompatible with her appearance.

"If you had not raised your hand against Onii-sama, I had planned to go easy on you."

The cold air slowly rose.

Gradually, the cold corroded their bodies.

The faces of the n were contorted with sheer terror and utter despair. "I am not rciful like my Onii-sama."

The white mist rose to throat level.

"Pray. Pray that you will retain your pitiful lives."

The chilling air that utterly covered the n from head to toe abruptly turned the atmosphere solemn.

Wide Area Oscillation Speed Magic "Niflheim". Silent screams perated the deepening mist.

No one lay in ambush.

So his opponent already considered whether to split his forces, Tatsuya thought.

For Tatsuya, who could readily detect any existences around him, ambushes were aningless.

In the next room, ten remaining mbers of the terrorist cell were waiting for him.

With ten assault rifles.

Tatsuya clicked the trigger of his CAD from the other side of the wall. Physical obstacles were no impedint to magic.

Tatsuya was only able to freely manipulate two magics. The first was "Decomposition