Tatsuya: I want to be in his place

Miyuki, Honoka, and Satomi entered the field, and the three of them looked at each other before they nodded. Even though they came out from the same time, their turn was different, so they would go on this event at different times, and Satomi was the first one.

Satomi stepped forward, standing on the top of the pillar on the field along with the other contestant. There was no worry or hesitation, and only confidence could be seen in her eyes since she believed in her engineer. Then the moment she heard the announcement of the start of the event...

<Start!>

Satomi leaped to the sky, showing her graceful and smooth movement to win this event!

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Looking at Satomi, Haru knew that he didn't need to worry. As for Miyuki and Honoka, he felt that it was too stupid to worry about them, considering he knew very well about their ability and their chances of losing were very small, especially when he took care of their CADs.

"Well, I'll prepare for my event in the Monolith Code," Haru said.

Mari looked at Haru and asked, "You're not going to watch?"

"No, I know that they'll win, so whether I'm here or not, the result won't change," Haru said.

"No, I feel that the result with change, especially with Honoka." Suzune looked at Haru and said, "If you're here, I'm sure that she'll be full of spirit, right?"

"..." Haru.

"Well, I'll stay here for a bit," Haru said with a sigh.

Mari, Mayumi, and Suzune smiled then watched how the three girls from the First High dominated the entire Mirage Bat event.

---

Tatsuya, as the brother of Miyuki, felt a bit uncomfortable at this moment, wondering what was happening at the Nine Schools Competition. He knew that something had happened, especially when he met the three intruders last night, but at that time, he didn't think too much, or rather, he might not want to be involved in that matter, considering all of her priority was to protect Miyuki.

Tatsuya thought to ignore it until he heard the commotion on the checking tent, even though no one cared much about this problem and only talked about whether Kudo would really marry his granddaughter or grandniece to Haru, which caused Fujibayashi Kyouko to blush and feel embarrassed, feeling quite annoyed by her grandpa, Tatsuya didn't care much about and what he cared the most was about what had happened there?

Even though Tatsuya had a connection with the army, he didn't have a connection with the police or the committee. He tried to ask Erika before since he knew that Erika was related to this matter. Still, she didn't tell him anything, considering she felt that he didn't need to know, and it wasn't good to let a lot of people know about this problem, since the more people knew, the more something unexpected might happen.

As for Miyuki, she only smiled and told her brother that nothing had happened, which made Tatsuya helpless.

Tatsuya didn't really like being kept in the dark like this, and he even thought to call his aunt to ask something, but he stopped since he knew that if something really happened then, his aunt would call him directly, but since nothing had happened, then there was nothing that he should be worried about.

Tatsuya stood in the back area of the audience seat, watching many people see whether he could find someone suspicious while glancing at the match from time to time since he had to admit that the quality of the CAD was made by Haru was amazing.

Even though Miyuki didn't use Flying Magic, the way she leaped to the sky wasn't much different from flying. Her every movement was so graceful, stable, and smooth. It could be said that no one could pick a fault on it, which made Tatsuya even more amazed by Haru's ability.

"Dammit! How can they get such complex movements from such small activation sequences?!"

"It's like they have Silver Taurus over there?!"

"..."

Tatsuya looked at the crowd of people who thought of Haru as a Silver Taurus, which made him frown. He didn't know why, but if possible, he wanted to tell them that he was the Silver Taurus.

Tatsuya then touched his heart and wondered why he felt this. 'Am I so childish?' He was wondering why he felt that he had always wanted to compete with Haru, and even though he knew that the relationship between Haru and Miyuki wasn't what people thought, he was also annoyed when he thought that Haru and Miyuki might be together, even though he knew that his emotion had been erased, leaving only his emotion over Miyuki.

Tatsuya knew that Miyuki was his little sister, and in the future, she would leave him and would marry someone else, but when such a thought crossed his mind, he was wondering why it felt so uncomfortable.

'Why?'

No one could answer this question, considering Tatsuya didn't have a hobby to talk with someone and he also didn't think that it was good to talk about this matter to anyone either. His personality was also quite secluded since he still couldn't believe anyone other than his little sister. Looking at Miyuki, who won the battle, then walked back, he saw her clapping her hands with Haru with a smile on her face.

"..."

Tatsuya only silently watched them and somehow, he hoped to be able to change Haru's position.

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When the Mirage Bat event ended, it was time for the Monolith Code, and it was Haru's turn to bring his team to victory.

In the Nine Schools Competition, both the Mirage Bat and the Monolith Code could be said to be the most popular events, which was why when the First High came out, everyone quickly cheered and waited for the match to start. The seats for the audience were fully packed, and some people even crowded together to watch. If the committee didn't help and handle this situation, then someone might be hurt, and there might be some accident.

Luckily, everything was solved and everyone waited for the match to start patiently.

On the other hand, Haru looked at his two teammates, Morisaki and Mikihiko. "Well, even though the days are short, we have been talking to each other and getting to know each other for the past few days so for now, all you need to do is to believe in me. Believe me that I can bring you two the victory." He then extended his fist toward the two of them.

Mikihiko and Morisaki smiled and did a fist bump with Haru's fist.

"Alright, let's win and become popular with all the girls in all Magic High Schools in this country!" Haru shouted.

"..." Mikihiko and Morisaki.

Both of them sighed and somehow also felt relief. In their mind, if Haru wasn't a pervert, then this guy would be such a perfect leader, but it might be because he was imperfect that they were very comfortable with him.

"OOOOOHHHHH!!!!" 2x

Mikihiko and Morisaki shouted together, swore to become the most popular guys in all Magic High Schools!

But...

"Why did you take out the camera?" Morisaki asked with a confused expression.

"Wait, did you record us?!" Mikihiko asked with a blush.

"Well, let's focus on the match," Haru said and left.

"Wait!!!" 2x

With all of that, the three of them entered the battle and started their first match against the Fourth High School.