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Saturday evening.
The villa where Tatsuya lived had an unexpected guest.
Feeling their approach with "Elental Sight" which he wouldn't confuse with anything, Tatsuya got up from the workstation and went to the parking lot in front of the entrance.
A large sedan with tinted windows stopped smoothly. A young man ca from the driver's seat. Simultaneously with it, from the left rear passenger place there was a girl.
The young man was Hanabishi Hyougo. The girl is Sakurai Minami.
After leaving, Minami remained standing, holding the door. Hyougo shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
Soon after holding Minami's hand, a beautiful girl erged from the back door, as if coming from another world.
Miyuki raised her head and her black silky hair swung. Tatsuya and Miyuki's eyes t.
"Onii-sama ...!"
With a voice full of emotion, Miyuki clung to Tatsuya's chest.
Tatsuya gently caught Miyuki's body, gently hugged her and whispered in her ear.
"You still ca."
"I wanted to see you so badly Onii-sama ..."
" too. ... But Miyuki, you were wrong to co here."
After Tatsuya's words, Miyuki's body quivered slightly, and she reluctantly backed away from him.
"... Tatsuya-sama and I haven't seen each other for a long ti."
Miyuki completely forgot that Hyougo was there. But even without him, in this situation it isn't known where the eyes and ears can hide. With a reserved face, she bowed to Tatsuya.
"Right. Even though it's been less than a week, it seems like we haven't seen each other for a long ti."
This response with undisguised emotions was quite unusual for Tatsuya.
Having sent Hyougo away after asking him to return tomorrow night, Tatsuya led Miyuki and Minami inside the villa.
Each of them had a small bag of luggage. In actuality the villa wasn't just prepared in advance for Tatsuya's needs, but also changes of clothes for Miyuki and Minami.
Preparing for the trip here, Minami showed disgust on her face when she heard about it from Miyuki.
Her personal clothes were placed where she herself does not live, in addition to the place where a person of the opposite sex lives, almost no different from her own age. Although she didn't seriously think that he would be interested in her underwear, she couldn't do anything to get rid of this unpleasant discomfort.
Miyuki it seems didn't care at all.
That's why their bags were so light, but when they entered the house, Pixie took them both. Both Miyuki and Minami were strongly against Tatsuya carrying them. More specifically, the non-humanoid robot-porter, managed by Pixie politely took their luggage.
Since the bags were taken away, there was no need to go to the bedroom. So the two girls, following Tatsuya's invitation, sat on the living room sofa.
"You haven't had dinner yet have you? Let
prepare sothing."
Hearing this from Tatsuya, Minami imdiately jumped from the sofa.
"Tatsuya-sama, I'll cook."
Her voice was relatively calm, but her eyes were shining with enthusiasm. Seeing this, Tatsuya imdiately refused to discourage her.
"... Understood. Pixie, switch the equipnt in the kitchen to manual mode."
" I refuse."
Pixie's answer was completely unexpected.
If this were due to the impossibility of executing an order (for example, there is no connection with the system), then this could be understood. But it was an obvious lie, since it's known that she has the ability to access the switch to manual mode. But if this is so, then this should apply to so kind of malfunction. According to their programming, no machine can resist the orders of the owner. Realizing that Pixie isn't a simple machine, Tatsuya again gave the order.
"It is forbidden to refuse. Pixie, switch the equipnt in the kitchen to manual mode. This is an order."
"Does the master prefer food cooked by this person?"
Tatsuya felt a headache. After coming to this villa he felt that Pixie had a little increased awareness of her "personality". Although she had just expressed her opinion against Tatsuya's order for the first ti, but before that there were many cases when she did sothing, like making a decision herself before Tatsuya gave her any order.
But that's why you couldn't give her too much freedom.
"It's not about preferences. Pixie, it was an order."
"... I am obeying."
Perhaps it was only Tatsuya's imagination, because such a function wasn't built into it, naly the displeased voice Pixie had answered when she switched the kitchen equipnt into manual mode.
"All right. Pixie, enter standby mode."
"Yes."
It was already 100% imagination that Pixie looked upset while walking to her place in the corner of the room, where she sat on a chair and froze like a doll.
In contrast to this, Minami happily went to the kitchen. Tatsuya and Miyuki decided to pretend that they didn't hear her whisper "I won."
After preparing the al, serving Tatsuya and Miyuki, cleaning and washing dishes, preparing the bath and bed, Minami, at last, showed that she was satisfied. Recalling that facial expression with a desire to serve the master, Tatsuya brought Pixie out of the waiting mode and left the rest of the work for her. There wasn't any remaining housework, but there was still a security issue, so Pixie didn't complain.
With this, everything will be fine. Tatsuya ntally scolded himself for being "distracted," and turned his gaze to Miyuki, sitting relaxed on the opposite side.
They were not in the living room or in the dining room.
They sat opposite each other at a table on the balcony. (The table was taken to the balcony with the sa kind of non-humanoid robot as the robot- porter. This villa used many different robots, but Pixie was the only humanoid among them type.)
It was already after 9 pm, but it wasn't cold outside even in light clothes. The peninsula of Izu is a mountainous area and it's near the end of May so it wasn't hot or cold. The temperature was just perfect and the breeze was refreshing, unlike the urban area.
Miyuki narrowed her eyes and held the hair fluttering in the wind. She had a strange face, but it seems that the change of the location has improved her mood.
"Tatsuya-sama, this is a pretty nice place."
"Indeed. Another enjoyable season."
Penetrating the darkness of the night, the light emanating from the room fell on Miyuki's white skin. Black silky hair swaying in the wind flowed like flickering stars, and pearly black eyes glittered with their mysterious light.
After one glance at Miyuki, the sense of reality weakened. It was impossible to believe that it exists in the sa world as you. Even Tatsuya is now deep in this feeling.
"This inhuman beauty, is it divine or diabolical?"
"... Tatsuya-sama, when you look at
like that ... it's embarrassing ..."
Miyuki's voice restored Tatsuya's composure.
Miyuki, sitting on the other side of the table, blushed, lowered her eyes and fingered her knees.
Tatsuya finally realized that he was staring at Miyuki, forgetting about everything.
"Sorry. I looked around."
"But that you ... look at you? This is ..."
Miyuki finally blushed and froze. Tatsuya realized that his restraint was broken.
He realized that the one that wanted to et the most was not Miyuki, but himself.
Tatsuya thought that this is a serious problem, when emotions cannot restrain themselves. At the sa ti, he felt jealous of people around the world, because the enjoynt of this beauty wasn't limited to them alone.
"You're right, I'm sorry. Since I apologized, could you show
your face?"
"... Yes."
Miyuki slowly lifted her face, which still remained blushed. Her raised eyes t Tatsuya's gaze, and she looked away shafacedly.
"... I need to talk seriously with you about sothing."
In fact, Tatsuya also felt uncomfortable, but fortunately, it wasn't difficult for him to suppress his emotions.
"... It's good."
What was the feeling in this voice?
Miyuki looked steadily into Tatsuya's eyes, although there were still signs of redness around her eyes.
"Did you co today because you know about tomorrow?"
"That's right."
Miyuki sighed and asked in return.
"And you, Tatsuya-sama, do you know about the fact that not only Juumonji-sempai will co tomorrow?"
"Yes. Fumiya told ."
"Here's how ..."
There was a brief silence.
"... Miyuki. I don't want you to do anything dangerous."
"I know."
Again a short pause.
"I will not get involved in the battle between Tatsuya-sama and Juumonji- senpai."
"The purpose of Juumonji-sempai's visit is a conversation."
"Tatsuya-sama you too must understand that this isn't the only thing that will occur."
"Yes ... probably."
Tatsuya sighed.
The sigh wasn't because of the predicant, but because of the expectation of an imminent collision.
Tatsuya acknowledged Katsuto as a strong enemy whom he didn't want to fight if there was a choice.
"Tatsuya-sama."
"What?"
"Juumonji-sempai will use that secret technique?"
"Who knows, because it shortens the life of the magician."
The two recently learned about the trump card of the Juumonji family.
After Katsuto took Tooyama Tsukasa under his protection, the Yotsuba main house realized that the clashes with Katsuto couldn't be avoided and told them the secret of the Juumonji family. For this they remained debtors to Maya.
"If he uses it, then I think that even for Tatsuya-sama the battle will be difficult."
"Miyuki. You got permission from Maya?"
Tatsuya already knew what Miyuki would say.
"No, this is my own decision."
"Stop it. This is my personal battle. It will be hard to convince her."
"There's no need to persuade them. I want it myself. I'll take responsibility for myself."
"Miyuki, calm down."
"I'm calm, Tatsuya-sama. No, Onii-sama ..."
Miyuki's perseverance was enough to prevent Tatsuya from inserting a single word in response.
"In the end, I'm only the younger sister of Onii-sama. After becoming the next head of the Yotsuba family, I will marry the son of the current head. I will no longer have the opportunity to be associated with Onii-sama like just now ..."
Miyuki broke off because she realized she was going to cry.
"Even if I deserve Maya-sama's anger, I want to at least sothing to be useful to Onii-sama."
Miyuki hesitated only for a mont. Then she sent her determined eyes to Tatsuya.
"Onii-sama. I will remove your seal."
"Miyuki, what are you ...?"
Not "Release" but "Remove."
"I ant exactly what I said. I want to make sure that Onii-sama is never again troubled by this limit imposed by other people.
"No, wait. This, of course, isn't impossible, but ..."
Tatsuya got up, not even trying to hide that he was nervous.
"It puts a heavy load on users. Not only on those who are sealed, but also those who maintain the seal. Correct Onii-sama?"
However the determination on Miyuki's face made Tatsuya sit back down.
Tatsuya's "Material Burst" is sealed with the Outer-Systematic ntal Interference magic "Pledge" by Tsukuba Toki the head of the Tsukuba family, a side branch of the Yotsuba family. In Tatsuya's case it not only blocks his greatest weapon, but his magical power is cut in half.
"Pledge" is a magic that prohibits specific decision, and limiting the magical power is just a side effect.
The unique feature of this magic is that in order to maintain the effect of ntal intervention, the magical power of more than just the user themselves is needed.
When you try to prohibit sothing, it's aningless if this effect can manifest only when you look at the object. Even prison guards don't watch prisoners constantly. In addition it's considered inefficient if one magician can control only one person.
Therefore the "Pledge" of a couple of people, the user himself and the subject of use, is usually supported by the magic power of a third person. If the decision-making constraint is non-permanent, then the use subject can do it himself. In the case where it is sotis necessary to temporarily release the restriction, the third party that's close to the subject provides the magical power.
In the latter case, the "key" for the temporary removal of the restriction is transferred to a third party that provides magical power.
When using this key in the user's mind, the "prohibited" entry is rewritten to "temporarily released". To return the "prohibited" status you must again perform the ceremony, in which the owners "key" is reinstalled using the reactivation switch for the original user.
In Tatsuya's case, Miyuki is the owner of the "key". If Miyuki does not reactivate it then Tatsuya's seal will be removed, but the effect of releasing "Pledge" is temporary. As long as Miyuki continues to supply "Pledge" with magical power, the seal will gradually gain strength, so leaving it can be dangerous for Tatsuya.
Tatsuya's "Material Burst" was impossible to contain with the magical power of only Tsukuba Toki. For this reason, in the "Pledge" imposed on Tatsuya, the condition that "the Magic Calculation Zone be connected to Miyuki" was added. This is the so-called bilateral relationship between Tatsuya and Miyuki in their "Pledge." And that part of the "Pledge
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