The Irregular at Magic High School, Vol. 08: Reminiscence Arc by Tsutomu Sato and Kana Ishida

Author:Tsutomu Sato and Kana Ishida [Tsutomu Sato and Kana Ishida]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2018-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

I heard a sound from outside like a firecracker.

Obviously, they weren’t having a festival or anything of the sort. The gunshots were now such that even my ears could pick them out.

And gunshots weren’t the only thing that approached. Several sets of footsteps came near and stopped outside the door.

Miss Sakurai moved in front of Mother and me. She’d charged her CAD bracelet with enough psions to expand an activation sequence, but it was difficult to maintain a state like this—where you could use one immediately—for so long. Miss Sakurai’s technique was incredible as always.

Her back was the only thing I could see from where I was, but she was probably glaring sharply at the door.

“Excuse us! Private First Class Kinjou of the Second Paratrooper Division!”

I could feel Miss Sakurai’s tension loosen slightly, but she stayed on her guard. I felt relieved at hearing the voice from outside, too. It looked like the soldiers on the base had come to meet us.

Outside the opened door were four young soldiers. They all looked like second-generation Leftover Blood, but I didn’t particularly care. That was just the character of this base.

They were holding hot machine guns; they must have run here for us while trading gunfire with the enemy.

“We’ll show you to the underground shelter. Please come with us.”

I expected him to say as much, but I couldn’t help hesitating. If we left the room now, we’d be separated from my brother.

“I’m sorry,” said Miss Sakurai to Private Kinjou before I could, “but one of us has gone outside to see what’s happening.”

As expected, the private frowned and expressed disapproval. “Part of the enemy has already pushed deep inside the base. It’s too dangerous to remain here.”

To an extent, that too was the expected answer.

But Mother’s remark was wholly unexpected. “Then, please take those people over there first,” she said. “I will not leave my son out there.”

Miss Sakurai and I silently exchanged glances. When you thought about it, her insistence was only natural. But we couldn’t expunge a sense that something was wrong.

“Ma’am, I…”

“You said your name was Kinjou, right?” pressed the man who had been watching us. “You heard what they said. Lead us there first and leave them here if you have to.”

The four soldiers, faces stern, looked at one another and began to discuss this in hushed tones.

Miss Sakurai used the moment to make a suggestion to Mother in a low voice. “I don’t believe it would be difficult for Tatsuya to find us if he asked Captain Kazama.”

“I’m not exactly worried about Tatsuya,” whispered Mother in reply. “That was just for show.”

That was Mother’s reply, whispered in response. I desperately tried to stop my shaking knees. How could Mother be so cold…?

“Then…?”

“Call it intuition.”

“Intuition, my lady?”

“Yes. My gut tells me we shouldn’t trust these people.”

Immediately, Miss Sakurai went on full alert again.

I, too, forgot my knees were shaking.

We weren’t talking about a regular hunch. This was Mother’s intuition, as someone once feared as the Mistress of Lethe.

Mother’s magic of specialty wasn’t perception or prescience—it was mental interference.

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