Mahouka Koukou no Re Volume 4 - Ch 8

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It's the fourth day of the tournant.

There's a break before the finals, five days from now, and the fight between the 1st Years in the Newcor's Battle will take place in the anwhile.

So far the results stand with First High being at number one with 320 points, Third High being at number two with 225 points, and the positions of third place and below being a wild free-for-all between the other schools. The difference between first and second place is a massive 95 points. However, the battle is such that even that point difference could potentially be reversed if Third High is able to win the Newcor's Battle by a large margin, which for them is not impossible. Conversely, even if First High doesn't manage to win, yet they avoid a huge difference in points, final victory would still be theirs.

The aim for every school is overall victory, but in this case, as only half the points gained from the Newcor's Battle will be added to the overall ranking, to the competing 1st Years what they are fighting for in the Newcor's Battle is their own glory. The spirit in these matches is in no way inferior to the finals themselves.

The order is the sa as the finals.

Today's events are Speed Shooting (Qualifier, Finals) and Battle Board (Qualifier).

They differ from the finals in that the schedule for Speed Shooting includes the won's event in the morning and n's in the afternoon, with everything being finished in one stretch (the reason being that the Speed Shooting finals is carried out straight after the opening ceremony, and there's no way to finish everything by the morning.)

Not just Speed Shooting, but CAD adjustnt cannot be carried out in the middle of any event, so the major work of fine tuning whilst listening to the contestants' specifications is done by the engineers in between matches.

That's why engineers are basically always around the players they're responsible for during the match. In order to ensure as much as possible that contestants from the sa school in the sa competition are not competing at the sa ti, the Convention Committee have made nurous adjustnts to the titable.

However, in events like Crowd Ball where many matches would occur in a day, overlaps can't be helped, and engineers would often be paired as a duo of main and sub.

This can occur even in the sa competition, and one engineer cannot be responsible for another match occurring at the sa ti.

Even if that match ostensibly occurs at an unrelated ti.

"Honoka is in the last race huh......"

"Yes! It's in the afternoon, so it doesn't clash with the won's Speed Shooting!"

Honoka, grinning earnestly while subtly emitting an overbearing pressure, made Tatsuya relive the heat of being popular.

Tatsuya was responsible for the won's Speed Shooting, won's Icicle Destruction, and Mirage Bat.

He didnt get himself assigned to that host of won's events because he was a womanizer, but because there was a strong backlash against him from the n's 1st Year division.

Not only that, but he was in high demand amongst so of the won's 1st Year contingent.

For example Miyuki, Honoka, Miyuki and Honoka, Miyuki and......in other words, those two had appealed rather earnestly. But here lay a problem.

Miyuki's sheer magic power was most suited for the competition Icicle Destruction.

Both her classmates and the council knew full well her proficiency in slowing down vibrations. When all is said and done, cooling magic is pretty much second nature to her.

Miyuki's participation in Icicle Destruction was decided, as well as in Mirage Bat as the star athlete and ace of the won's team

the problem was what Honoka would participate in.

In terms of First Highs practical results, in first place was Shiba Miyuki, second was Kitayama Shizuku, third was Morisaki Shun, and fourth was Mitsui Honoka. Therefore amongst the 1st Year female students Honoka ranked right alongside both Miyuki and Shizuku in practical excellence, but in truth her skills were not particularly suited for a sporting magic competition.

Her specialization in magical illusions involving manipulating light was impressive, but Shizuku's ability in high output vibration and acceleration was more suitable for Icicle Destruction.

It was a given from the start that Tatsuya would be responsible for Miyuki. Not even the seniors were foolish enough to try and challenge that.

So in order to be looked after by Tatsuya, it's most reliable to get into the sa competitions as Miyuki, but for the number one, number two and number three top players to appear in the sa competition is not a very sound strategy. ......or rather, it's impossible.

Therefore it would fall to a competition which does not overlap, but unfortunately, Shizuku was also more suited for Speed Shooting. The competition had initially called for contestants to enter in their field of expertise, so you could say she had little hope of being considered from the start.

Following that train of thought, it was decided that Honoka would compete in Battle Board and Mirage Bat. (The organizers had at first floated the idea of Battle Board and Crowd Ball, but due to her own wishes and the vocal support of her friends, she was able to get into one event with Miyuki.) ......In a situation like this, with her line "the events won't clash