Introduction

  Early morning Sunday, June 9, 2097 year. Exact time: 5:06.

  The plateau area in the east of the central part of the Izu Peninsula was attacked by large-scale magic.

  A magical attack, presumably carried out by the magic of the strategic class "Fog-bomb " by Igor Bezobrazzoff, a formally recognized state magician of the strategic class of the New Soviet Union, partially or completely Destroyed 27 private villas. Fortunately, there were no casualties, but 11 people were seriously injured.

  An explosive attack of this magnitude had so few casualties, because it was a Malozaseljonnyj district, and in the off-season there were few guests in the villas. All the wounded were from the people working in the Villa managers.

  However, the undeniable fact was that the State territory was subjected to an unreasonable attack, threateneding the life and property of the civilian.

  On the same day, the Japanese government appealed to the international community, expressing its vehement protest against the assailant, whose identity had not been established, and asked to extradite the offender without calling the country to which he was drawn.

  Despite the fact that the attack was quite sudden, and also held early at dawn, the self-defense forces were able to capture it from close range, from the surrounding areas.

  However, with the fact that this video convincingly proved an unreasonable proactive attack, it was also suspected that the Japanese army had previously guessed about the sudden attack and used it to obtain material for diplomatic negotiations, and that Most threw the civilian to die.

  Some courageous journalists directly asked the representatives of the self-defense forces about these suspicions, but the self-defense forces, naturally, categorically refuted these "groundless false accusations."

  Chapter 1

  Seeing the mines lying on the floor, Miyuki froze in place and cried. But the panic took her briefly.

  No, she was still in a panic. But her body came out of stupor.

  "Minami-chan!"

  She rushed to the lying mines and knelt beside her. Near the mines already had Pixie, checking the pulse, attaching fingers to the wrist. Miyuki sat down from the opposite side and brought a hand with the nose of mine.

  Her panic-stricken appearance weakened a little when she discovered that she was breathing. However, Miyuki turned pale when she touched her neck.

  -cold... The pulse is very weak..., they!

  Miyuki raised her eyes to Tatsuya, looking at him with a hopeful glance.

  The kind of Minami repeated for Miyuki the last minutes of Honami, for which she itself was not able to care.

  -Pixie, the state of Minami!?

  Tatsuya also did not conceal impatience. He turned to Pixie in a rather rude tone.

  -No injuries, but the temperature, pressure and pulse-all at a dangerous level, master. In this state there is a possibility of death from exhaustion.

  As if sensing the impatience of Tatsuya, Pixie responded with an active telepathy, not a machine voice. Tatsuya forbade Pixie to use telepathy without permission, but now he doesn't rebuked it. It was not the case to take care of such problems.

  Tatsuya put his left hand onto Minami. In this hand he had no CAD.

  In his right hand, he still held the CAD "Trident " in the form of a large pistol, which he used to intercept the attack. To take the left hand CAD for "recovery " He had no time, and to go for the cartridge with "recovery ", he lacked the presence of the spirit.

  Tatsuya activated "restore " with his own powers.

  "Recovery " is the magic of returning Jejdosa to its original state. It tracks the history of Eidos changes and overwrites the current Eidos copy of the Eidos from the selected state (in most cases, this state is free of damage or wear).

  Phenomena are accompanied by information. Events whose information is overwritten are changed according to this information.

  Overwrite information to change the phenomenon. This is the modern "Magic ".

  "Eidos " Information about the phenomenon has a restorative force, and the prescribed false Eidos over time is overwritten by the original Eidos. Therefore, the changes caused by magic are unstable.

  However, "Eidos from the past " is undoubtedly an information body that describes the actual phenomenon itself. If there are no contradictions in the information, the Eidos will not be corrected. However, the adjustments that are inherent in the flow of time remain.

  Objects Eidos overwritten by information from their own past are fixed in this state as if time had elapsed, but there were no external influences.

  "Recovery " Tatsuya does not modify "investigation " in causality, as it does the usual magic, and changes "consequence ", modifying its "cause ".

  This magic, going against the flow of time and reviewing the definition of peace, was directed at mines.

  ... He read the information about the body Minami, rewinding back the history of change.

  He couldn't find the cause of the exhaustion.

  ... He read the history of the changes of the Psion information body accompanying the physical body and mind.

  The cause of exhaustion still could not be found.

  Tatsuya deepened even more in information about a girl named Sakura Minami.

  ... He read the history of changes in the structure of the Psion information body that binds the physical body to mind with his mind.

  It was hard for Tatsuya from the past. Five years ago, he couldn't do it with Honami.

  Although he grew up a lot since that summer, he might not have been able to do that for six months or a month ago. Access was possible because it was nothing more than a Psion information body. Although he could read the general information, it was difficult for him to read the full details of the structure.

  But the current Tatsuya could do it.

  Free from the vow, Tatsuya returned his true power. Apart from the fact that he was now free to use the Material Burst, there were also other changes.

  The scope of magic "recovery ", which returns the initial state of Eidos, has also expanded. Now he could track and copy information about the structure "spirit body "-The Psion of the information body directly associated with the mind, which before that its power could not reach.

  He saw that the spirit body was torn in many places.

  It was in a state covered with holes, representing a lack of information in this particular place.

  The Psion information body seemed to be localized missing holes because its regenerative ability weakened. But it was not the cause of Minami's weakness, but the result.

  Even if to restore the damaged Psion information body, if not to return the initial regenerative ability, it cannot be called a fundamental cure.

  However, if you leave the damage damage to the information body associated with the mind, the damage to the information body that accompanies the physical body will occur, and the state of the body would only worsen.

  The spirit body transmits the commands of the mind to the physical body. The damaged spirit body transmits the damaged information to the physical body.

  The physical body receives from the mind the erroneous order to destroy.

  As a result, the physical body can only work with the efficiency inherent in the damaged state, despite the fact that it is not physically damaged.

  But it was necessary to make at least this, as first aid, as temporary measures, that did not come to irreparable deterioration. So.

  "Recovery " Tatsuya returned the Psion information body and mind to its original state.

  The structure of the Psion information body accompanying the physical body and the structure of the Psion information body that binds the physical body to the mind, he rewrote information about the structure corresponding to the moment of time before the attack was received.

  The recorded information from the past became information from the present after the adjustment was automatically made taking into account the time that has elapsed since then.

  — The temperature returned to 35 degrees Celsius. blood pressure and heart rate also came out of danger zone.

  Pixie telepathy reported improved status.

  However, there were no signs that the consciousness was being returned to the mind.

  Pixie, bring a futon and lay Minami on it.

  Yes, sir.

  -Miyuki, preheat the area around Minami to the temperature coinciding with her current body temperature.

  Yes!

  The home automatic robot, controlled by Pixie, came in motion. The magic of Miyuki began to act on the floor and air.

  Not confirming the result of these actions, Tatsuya ran to the background. No, he didn't call the number 119 *. He called the main house of the Yotsuba.

  [Common number for all emergency services in Japan.]

  "Tatsuya, did you want something?

  Despite the early morning, Hayama appeared on the screen without any traces of mess in his clothes. And Tatsuya was still in his pajamas. But Tatsuya didn't have time to take care of it, and Hayama didn't reproach him.

  I apologize for the appearance.

  Starting with such an introduction, he immediately moved to the main topic.

  — The villa was attacked by the magic of long range. Presumably, the magic of the Tuman-Bomba was used.

  Hayama eyebrows raised sharply. That was the only sign of his surprise.

  -Was there any damage?

  Asked Hayama,

but with signs of tension in his voice.

  "I have no scratches on me or any on Miyuki." However, Minami came out with symptoms that resemble the overheating of the area of calculation of magic. I did my best help, but she needs special treatment.

  When Hayama heard the phrase "overheating the Magic Calculation Area", it changed slightly in the face. Although the concern in his face could only be seen in a very short period of time, it was sufficient to understand that as a senior employee of the Yotsuba family, he could not ignore the "overheating of the Magic Calculation Area ", which was allegedly the cause of death 1st head of the family, Yotsuba Genzou.

  — ... I got it. I'll take care of the hospitalization. I'll send you a Hyogo, please wait a bit.

  I'm counting on you.

  After reaching his goal, Tatsuya interrupted the connection.

  Around the villa, where Tatsuya lived, was built a barrier radius of about 1 kilometer. It was a field of magic of the mental intervention of the Tsukuba family, a side branch of the Yotsuba family.

  This magic peeling the place away from people, forcing them to unconsciously avoid this place. And it concerned all people who have no resistance to the magic of mental intervention, whether they are magicians or not. And also this magic served as a "human sensor ", telling the user about the people infiltrators in the covered area.

  However, from around midnight, one specific vehicle was parked inside the area covered by the barrier. It was equipped with adjustable suspension armored, painted in camouflage colors. Although at first glance it was possible to determine that the vehicle belongs to the self-defense Forces, but the users of the barrier of the Tsukuba family did not notice its existence. In addition, although he drove along public roads, there were no reports on the civil systems.

  Armored to withstand explosive waves of the Tuman-Bomba, because it was almost pressed to the ground due to the fact that the adjustable suspension was understated to the maximum. There were 4 soldiers inside the armored.

  — ... Psion sensors do not fix new responses. Apparently, the attack ranged magic is over. "One of the soldiers told the commander sitting in the front passenger seat.

  Clear.

  Sitting in the front passenger seat, Lieutenant Colonel Kazama, who is the commander of a separate magically equipped battalion of brigade 1-0-1, responded to the chosen from the battalion subordinate, without turning his head.

  This was not an impoliteness on the part of Kazama. Although from the point of view of the commander of the officer there was nothing strange, but he did not turn because he was busy.

  Kazama for several hours motionlessly sat with seductively eyes, straight back, and clasped his fingers in a specific gesture.

  And not only when armored stopped, and since then, when he was driving. The upper half of the body Kazama held perpendicular to the surface of the earth, as if shaking from the movement armored not transferred to his body.

  The barrier of the Tsukuba family is not spotted armored thanks to the technique of Kazama.

  Magic that prevents detection, "Cloak of invisibility " of the technician Tengu.

  Don't see what you see. Don't hear what you hear.

  This magic does not block or interfere with the light and sound waves, but interferes in the consciousness of people and makes them believe that "This is not there ".

  This magic was opposed to the discerning barrier of the Tsukuba family, not letting the operator of Magic Notice the touch of the barrier.

  Armored remained unnoticed only because the technique of Tengu Kazama surpassed the barrier of the Tsukuba family.

  Kazama did not move and was in full concentration because during the confrontation with the barrier of the family Tsukuba he had no time for anything else. Even for Kazama, who had the famous nickname "Dai tengu ", it was difficult to resist the caster of the Yotsuba family.

  Retreat.

  You got it. Completion of observation, preparation for retreat.

  Following the short order of Kazama, the officer sitting in the driver place turned back and handed over the instructions.

  Each member of the squad took out the media from the surveillance devices issued to them. The two junior officers moved the devices to standby mode and one after the other reported "preparation for retreat completed ".

  I lift the body.

  Simultaneously with the voice of the officer sitting on the driver, the suspension lifted the armored from the ground. Armored, literally lying on the surface of the Earth, switched to the mode of driving off-road.

  -Preparation for the shipment is complete.

  Hmm? Hold on.

  Kazama did not give permission to begin the movement of the pending order officer. Keeping his gesture with his hands, he opened his eyes closed from midnight. Immediately after that the external microphone armored caught the approaching sound of the motor.

  Around the villa, where Tatsuya lived, was a deployed not a people's barrier. In the nearby small house for this purpose shifted duty the operators of the family Tsukuba, a side branch of the family Yotsuba. As a result of rotation it turned out that on that day in this House there was Yuuka, inherited the right to become the next head of the Tsukuba family.

  However, the Tsukuba family did not realize the importance of the mission assigned to them, so as to force their crown daughter to be on duty at night. Awakened the feeling of a wave of powerful magic, Yuuka flew into the room of support of the barrier ritual in the sleepy form and flung over the pajama dress.

  -Damage Report!

  From such too worn appearance of the next head of the family the face of the young man-operator was stretched. As the degree of exposure to Yuuka was zero, the confusion of the young man seems to have been from the area "Even hundred love can sour ".

  "It looks like the ground part is almost ruined. "However, he firmly answered his question.

  They could now lead this relatively quiet conversation, because the bedroom and the barrier support room were located in the basement. The present part of the "Observation house " (not for the observation of the villa, but for the observation of the people approaching the villa) was located in the basement, and the ground part was for disguise.

  Reason?

  Yuuka awakened the magical waves. Although she could guess and not inquire, but being still half asleep, she thought she could make a mistake and decided to ask.

  "It was an attack of extremely powerful long-range magic. Presumably, an explosion was caused in the sky, and a focused shock wave was formed.

  -focused shock wave was caused by magic?

  -No, it seems that the explosion was controlled directly to achieve this result.

  -Hmm...

  Frankly speaking, Yuuka not understand this mechanism very well. However, she had a hunch about magic that could combine power and control.

 

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