Magika No Kenshi To Shoukan Maou:Volume 5 Chapter 2

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Chapter 2 – Discarded Fox Diary

Part 1

The collapsed Karin was immediately transported to the school infirmary.

And then Headmaster Amasaki informed Kazuki and his companions that were gathering besides Karin’s bed―he entered the gravity of bearing the burden of a student’s fate into his voice.

“A seal would be performed on her Stigmata to make her unable to use magic power completely. I have made an arrangement with the Knight Order for a <Stigmata Suppression DeviceLimiter>. It’s the newest measure for illegal magician with minor offence.”

“You are not going to use <Stigmata Removal Operation> that was recommended for Otouto-kun before?”

Kaguya-senpai asked. In comparison to seal by tool, removing Stigmata by operation was thought to be a more fundamental solution. But Headmaster Amasaki shook his head.

“If the link between Stigmata and Diva is destroyed, the injury to the mind cannot be avoided. The former Headmaster Otonashi that advanced the research by his own accord claimed that it had become a technique for practical use, but in reality it’s still too inhuman. Even the illegal magicians that are caught by the Knight Order are currently restrained using Limiter.”

“That thing called limiter, what kind of item it is?” Kazuki asked.

“What is called Limiter is a tool that read the wavelength of the magic power that flow inside the Stigmata and make it so magic power cannot flow into the Stigmata. On top of fixing this tool on her, she is also going to be sent to a <detention facility>.”

Detention facility―the establishment that detained the illegal magicians that the Knight Order captured. They were safely managed there, at the same time it was also a facility for keeping them away at a distance so that they wouldn’t become a victim of persecution and revenge.

It could also be reworded as [the prison you wouldn’t be able to leave until you die].

“Please wait a second, there is no need to go that far right!?”

Kazuki objected in panic, but Headmaster Amasaki opposed imposingly.

“Why do you think so? Of course there is a need to go that far. You realize if the limiter is broken or removed, this girl is just going to use dangerous Summoning Magic again?”

“Headmaster, the logic that she is [dangerous because of illegal magician status] is also going to be completely disadvantageous for our position that claimed the safety of Hayashizaki Kazuki and the others though.”

Liz Liza-sensei interjected in the middle and covered for Kazuki. “What kind of pretext is used to send the girl to the detention facility? Is there a basis to hand down an even more harsh treatment compared to Hayashizaki and the others?”

“There is. This girl while there were still students in unconscious condition remaining in the match venue, used a large scale offensive magic. Her riskiness has already been proven.”

A resolute fury stained the words of Headmaster Amasaki―in regard to someone that exposed the students to danger. ‘I’m going to send this girl to a detention facility for sure’, that was the kind of face that he was currently making.

“That was because of Hayashi Shizuka’s order that made her did it! This girl was just manipulated! Despite so, for this girl’s life to be closed here, I won’t allow such behavior!!”

“How could you know that she did it just because of the brainwashing? How much of it was by Katsura Karin’s own will, how much of it was not, can you really judge it accurately?”

“That…when the person concerned herself wakes up we could ask her…”

“The word of the person concerned herself couldn’t become a proof.”

That was just like a suspect that cried of his own innocence in a trial. There was no persuasiveness inside it at all.

“Hayashi Shizuka is the mastermind of everything, Katsura Karin is just get dragged into it. Katsura Karin is completely innocent…if such thinking is considered normally, it sounds forced don’t you agree?”

“But to be punished just for doubt and simply get sent to detention facility like that…!”

He got the reason of Headmaster Amasaki that regarded Karin as danger. However, even so…!

“Don’t fuck with mee―!”

At that time, a voice came beyond the curtain that partitioned them from the neighboring bed.

“Don’t screw around, I won’t allow you bastard to send Karin-chan to a place that looked like jail huh!!”

The curtain was opened violently. The source of the voice was Mibu Akira. The girl too together with Asamiya-senpai fainted at the final, just like that they were laid on the bed beside.

“Karin-chan didna’ do anything bad…no really she might do something just a little bad but…but Karin-chan isn’ someoneee bad okay!”

“That’s right―, what Aneki said you know―!”

Snapping at the headmaster the moment they woke up, the small statured protégée Asamiya-senpai too gave her backing at that timing.

Facing defiance from unexpected place, Headmaster Amasaki made a shocked face.

“…You two, are you going to give testimony that Katsura Karin was brainwashed? …But the testimony of the both of you is not going to fly. Both of you also continued to fight even without under the brainwashing of Joka. Both of you were also conspired with the sleeper agent of China by your own will, a dangerous element.”

Sometimes he really felt like wanting to say something like [choose your words a little more carefully] to Headmaster Amasaki.

Against that high handed attitude, Mibu-senpai and Asamiya-senpai became even more worked up.

“I was fightin’ for Karin-chan’s sake! Karin-chan…honestly I don’ know how far she was brainwashed. There is also some aspect of Karin-chan that choose to fight. But, that was only because she was made to choose! Karin-chan’s [own will] was not regarded at all! This girl just wanted to get recognized by her stepsister as family!! I wanna help her with that. Me and also Karin-chan doesn’t give a damn one bit about whether China is backing us up or whatever! No way I’m fighting for such thing!!”

“Wishing to get recognized as family…?” Kazuki was dumbfounded and leaked out a voice in a murmur.

“Karin-chan is not a bad child! Even if she doesn’t get slammed into prison she could still start over!”

“Hmph.” Headmaster Amasaki snorted his nose without changing his attitude.

“If she could still reform than that way is better. She is still a young girl of fifteen years old, even I think so. But why you can declare that so confidently? What’s your basis? If the worst possibility should happen what are you going to do?”

Mibu-senpai faltered. After looking down with anxious eyes, she said a [girlish basis].

“…Because that girl always made lonely eyes. If she really had gone bad, if she didn’t give a damn on the world and despaired, she won’t even feel any loneliness or the like. If she had really gone bad then she gonna become a monster that keep cool no matter what screwed things she get done. But it’s still not too late for guys that get lonely. If a kind hand is reached out to ‘em by someone, there is no way it’s too late for ‘em!!”

From that words, the infirmary became enveloped in silence.

That was by no means a logical argument, but it had the persuasive power of a pleading from the heart.

Was there something inside Kazuki that couldn’t get to agree with this development, he had a feeling that he could understand her argument.

This was a conceited talk but, never once Kazuki felt of Karin as strong.

The girl always raging and shouting at Kazuki, always clinging on Hayashi Shizuka [wanting to get approved]. That frailness completely like an infant raising a crying voice was really transparent.

Hayashi Shizuka used such girl’s weakness to the bone without leaving anything untouched.

Even in the case that brainwashing magic was not even used, that was already the same as brainwashing.

I…if there existed a powerless person that got oppressed and fell into fate of sorrow, it was something that I couldn’t allow.

As expected I wanted to help Karin. Even in the case of the existing possibility that the girl was a future [enemy], even so he wanted to discover the possibility of happiness for the girl.

“It’s not worth considering. What you called as your basis is only a really subjective story from your side.”

Despite the bitter face that Headmaster Amasaki was making, he cut Mibu-senpai’s argument without a second thought with a sentence.

“Anyway you two don’t forget that you are also someone in suspicion. No matter how much you said that she is not bad, it was nothing more than your attempt to cover for your comrade.”

“Shit-, is it because we are delinquents…! Really until now we just kept doing whatever the hell we wanted and then suddenly askin’ to just believe what we are sayin’ it’s really askin’ too much but still…”

Mibu-senpai dropped her shoulders dejectedly, Asamiya-senpai too “Aneki…” had her eyes glistening with tears.

“Mibu-san why did you become a delinquent…rather than saying delinquent, why didn’t you spend your school life seriously as a knight candidate until now?”

Kaguya-senpai once again inquired about Mibu-senpai’s real intention.

“I didn’t…even though I didn’t even wanna become something like a knight I was forced to enter the Knight Academy, of course I won’ have any motivation. No way I’m gonna go along with it.”

”Yes, before we also had a talk like that hadn’t we?”

Until now Kaguya-senpai had already tried to reform Mibu-senpai many times and it really weighed on her mind.

“But that kind of you really made so much effort like this with all your power in this battle election. For the sake of this child named Karin. Why in the world would you do that?”

“…Karin-chan was treated like shit by Shizuka. I too am this academy’s shit, that was why I wanna do something. Really, I don’ even know about things like with China or Japan at all.”

Kaguya-senpai was suddenly became flustered.

“I said that you are delinquents but, I don’t think that you are this academy’s shit or the like at all! I just thought that I wanted us to do our best together as a fellow Knight candidate, that’s all!

“I get it really. But I couldna’ take an offered hand like that! Because that’s too shameful right!? When I got treated kindly, that just made me got aware of my own wrong!”

“Aneki…” Asamiya-senpai watched over Mibu-senpai whose eyes were wet with tears.

“Actually I, wanted to enter confectionery school…and become a cake store owner!”

“Ca, cake store!?” Hearing that too unexpected words, not only Kaguya-senpai, everyone too was surprised.

“What’s strange with that, isn’t cake store the best! I’m gonna open my own shop in a small town, getting the auntie and the girls going home from school as my regular…. At Christmas or birthday, if there is something to celebrate everyone is gonna come to my shop, picking out the cake with eyes bright with hope…. For the sake of answering that hope every morning I’m gonna wake up early, I got confidence in my magic power so I’m gonna make my own flavor with Alchemy Cooking, everyone gonna say that it’s delicious…even though I have a dream like that…this arm that is for the sake of whipping up cream was suddenly got fixed with Enigma!”

From Mibu-senpai’s eyes, tears were overflowing in drove, spilling out messily.

“That’s why…what responsibility of knight, I don’ know anything like that, like that I rebelled against the academy. I don’t have any plan of doing anything mistaken, so I don’t plan to reflect on myself or anything like that. But…I noticed it while looking at Kaguya-chan.”

“M, me? Looking at me?” Kaguya-senpai pointed at herself and blinked with surprise.

“Kaguya-chan was always piling up harsh training on herself, she even challenged dangerous quest energetically. Moreover many times she reached out her hands to shit like me sayin’ [let’s do our best together]. Not just that, despite being the student council president of the Magic Division she insisted to have an equal relationship with the Sword Division…even though there is dissenting opinion, she stuck to her own will for the sake of those guys in weak position. …That made me think if this kind of person is what a [knight] really is. I got aware of that. If no one is fightin’ as a knight then it’s gonna be like that [Tokyo Great Destruction] fifteen years ago, there is gonna be no place for cake store. If no one is gonna fight…even I get it that I canna’ just waste away the great power that I finally got my hands on uselessly like that. But after thoroughly saying [This academy is the one that’s bad] [I’m not the one that’s bad] continuously, I slapped away Kaguya-chan’s hand. There is no way after all that I coulda just suddenly say shameful things like [I’m going to aim as a Knight]! Kaguya-chan is just too bright, I cannot take that hand…. When I see Kaguya-chan….my own shittiness is just too pathetic!”

“Aneki is seriously…Kaguya-chan’s fan really…”

Asamiya-senpai too, together with her elder sister figure Mibu-senpai became messed with spilling tears.

“Err, someone like me is really not that great.” Kaguya-senpai was all shook up.

“I want to become like Kaguya-chan, so I secretly piled up magic training. But this late I already cannot go back to become an honor student. Then at that time Shizuka came invitin’ me into the battle election. If I made great showin’ in the battle election then maybe everyone woulda looked at me differently. Everyone would get to recognize that I’m not a shit, that I coulda take Kaguya-chan’s offered hand unashamedly like that, that was what I was thinking.”

“Me and Aneki, didn’t get told of Shizuka’s objective or anything like that. We know that girl sometimes gave us special training in a secret location, she called us out. She planned to make us pawns that are easy to handle and also quite strong as suits the occasion. For that girl we are nothing more than pawns. But for us whatever those guys' objective are doesn’t really matter at all.”

“But gradually the matter about ourselves too didna really matter! Karin-chan had much more crappy experience than someone like me, compared to her my worry is just a simple half-baked thing…she was treated like trash by Shizuka! If we complained or whined that Shizuka beat us blue until magic intoxication…after that, we became reluctan’ to say any complain to Shizuka…”

…Mibu-senpai definitely received brainwashing. But what was overwritten by the brainwashing was not their motive for fighting but only the pecking order between them.

“Please I beg you Kaguya-chan! Just like you what you try to give to us, reach out your hand to Karin-chan too! You’re an ally of justice right!?”

Mibu-senpai caught hold of Kaguya-senpai’s shoulders, while doing that she brought her tear stricken face near.

“I’m, I’m not really an ally of justice though…”

“Inside me you are ally of justice anyway―!!”

Mibu-senpai kept shaking Kaguya-senpai’s shoulders. Looking at that appearance, Kazuki too naturally sympathized. …Kaguya-senpai reached her hand to me too, I was saved by her.

“Headmaster Amasaki, we don’t need anymore reason or proof don’t you agree? Right now I absolutely don’t want to think that these two are lying.”

“Ugh…” Headmaster Amasaki’s expression soured.

“Before, I became concerned whatever happened to the illegal magician that I captured, so I had went to inspect the detention facility. …It’s no good you know, to do something like sending a child to that kind of place because of false charges.”

Hikaru-senpai that was once went through bitter experience because of Karin too, that gentle face of hers distorted in sorrow.

“Tou-san, if you are a teacher then there are times when you had to have faith in your students even without any proof right!? In drama this is not the time to say such things!”

Mio who was until now had kept quiet and watched the situation gave her assistance to Kazuki as well.

“Ughh…even though papa is just taking a prudent stance for the sake of the academy, even up to Mio…”

Headmaster Amasaki made a grimace that add even more wrinkles in his wrinkled-covered face.

“Well then headmaster, at least please wait before sending her immediately to the detention facility. I will take the role of monitoring Karin for a while and make sure of Karin’s true feelings. Just like when before Kaguya-senpai did that for me and I was put in the Witch’s Mansion!”

“Yo, you―, you’re gonna help Karin-chan!?”

“Don’t say stupid things! Katsura Karin is aiming for your life, you know that!! If you asked what is the most dangerous, it’s to be put and left here near you, that’s the number one danger!”

“Saying it in reverse, the only one who can prove that this girl is not a dangerous character by being together with her is only the target, just me. Moreover even in the case that the girl bared her fang as an assassin, I am already beyond her ability to kill. If it’s this girl that’s impossible.”

“Kazuki, didn’t your heart got stopped once already?”

From the side of Kazuki that was saying so while puffing up his chest, Mio made a swift tsukkomi and flustered him.

“Tha, that was just because I didn’t understand the opponent’s technique that’s why I intentionally got hit to test it, that’s all! A second hit won’t succeed anymore! I had perfectly grasped this girl’s true strength!!”

“Certainly only seeing from the match, I think the difference in strength was evident. Nevertheless can you really assert that so certainly? If for example you are to be attacked when sleeping...”

Kaguya-senpai murmured worriedly.

“Hayashizaki-style is surprise attack proof.”

“When we first met, didn’t I creep up behind you unnoticed and pranked you [Who― is it?]?”

Kaguya-senpai too launched a swift tsukkomi, Kazuki was “Tha, that was because senpai didn’t have any killing intent!” and made some justification in fluster. Moreover, just before this, he was just got pranked [Who― is this?] by Beatrix.

This was bad, from some time ago he let out too many excuses. The persuasiveness was just too doubtful even if he said so himself.

“Nii-sama…that being the case are you planning to don the <War Preparation Spirit>?”

As if to throw out a life saving boat, Kanae said that.

“War Preparation Spirit?” Everyone other than Kazuki tilted their heads. In place of Kazuki, Kanae made her explanation.

“Hayashizaki-style is an old school of Iai. Iai’s original doctrine is [to never let show an opening no matter what kind of time, always being ready to draw sword and counterattack immediately no matter against any kind of attack], like that. Surprise attack doesn’t work against Nii-sama is a fact. Hayashizaki-style can detect [killing intent] even while sleeping….What is called killing intent is not a concept that like an occult. Killing intent, namely the emission of offensive-like magic power. In order to be able to sense it even in the subconscious, the subconscious of oneself has to be mastered―that is the War Preparation Spirit. In short it is one kind of a Trance technique.”

The surrounding bunch felt the persuasiveness inside Kanae’s words and “I see” nodded their head.

“Putting on War Preparation Spirit, in short if I sleep with my mind still in a half-awakened state, even if I am attacked in my sleep I could immediately wake up. That’s why it’s impossible for Karin to kill me. Headmaster, please give me time to spend with Karin! …If you recognize me as a possessor of the power of King then please!”

King. With that word brought out, Headmaster Amasaki grudgingly accepted that proposal.

“…One week. After one week the student general meeting will be carried out, the counting of the votes will be performed and the seat of the Chief Student Council President will be settled. Until that time, kept Katsura Karin company and don’t leave her side for even a moment. Smell out her true feeling.”

One week…if there was that much time then it was enough.

“You said don’t leave her side for even a moment…Certainly if she is a dangerous character then a monitoring around the clock is needed but, then that means Kazuki is going to have a life of constant attendance with this child Karin? For one week too?”

Mio talked in whisper. And then with a blushing red face, she claimed an unparalleled thoughtless remark.

“…That’s totally unfair!!”

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