3rd Person POV
It was currently breaktime. Team Kiyo is currently on the waiting room, enjoying their 30 minute break.
Meanwhile when they're resting, Maya came into their room.
Maya: "Allright everyone, 30 minute break is over. Now we're going to begin the 3rd round of the Grand bout. Are you guys ready? the other side is waiting."
Tatsuya: "Of course."
Kiyo: "You're not even participating anymore...."
Lina: "Hey, that's rude."
Miyuki: "Ahahahah, I guess he just can't help it when it's for insulting Onii sama."
Manabu: "Let's go, everyone."
The rest: "Yeah."
Ballroom
The 4 rebels and the 3 Octagons are now present. They're now face to face again.
Akashi: "Good job beating Daiki on the first round, Kiyotaka."
Kiyo: "Am I supposed to say thank you? well, I think I should. Thanks, I guess."
Erika: "Our showdown ended up dissapointing, Mahesvara."
Tatsuya: "What can we do. Luck is an important factor in this system after all."
Miyuki: "Karasuma san is not here?"
Nanami: "What's the purpose of bringing a loser here."
Daiki: "I can hear that!" Daiki screamed from the audience seat.
Lina: "Eh...so he is there. And I thought you guys didn't bring him."
Maya: "Allright everyone, due to the rules, now the only one that can participate in the remaining rounds are Lina chan, Miyuki, Nanami, and Tsukasa. Is it clear?"
Everyone" "Yes."
Kiyo: (so either Miyuki or Lina will end up fighting Akashi. I can't say that I'm not anxious....)
Maya: "Allright, here's the match up!"
The screen lits up and shows the match up.
Round 1-Shiba Miyuki vs Akashi Tsukasa
Round 2-Angelina Kudou Shields vs Yoshida Nanami
Kiyo: (Miyuki and....Akashi?)
Akashi: "Hm, Miyuki? not a bad opponent, I guess."
Miyuki: "Let's both do our best, Akashi san."
Nanami: "Guess I'll end up fighting you, blondie."
Lina: "You're going down, gloomy chick."
Maya: "Allright, remaining members, please seat back on the audience seat."
Kiyotaka, Tatsuya, and Erika proceeds to go to the audience seat. Beside them were Daiki, who's already there.
Daiki: "A shame that you can't face Tsukasa eh?"
Kiyo: "I don't particulary mind. I don't think Miyuki can beat him tho..."
Tatsuya: "It would be best to not underestimate her, Kiyotaka."
Erika: "And it would be best to not underestimate Tsukasa too."
Tatsuya: "Of course, I'm not underestimating him. But rather, I'm interested on how he operates."
Everyone then turned to look at the stage.
Akashi: "Now then..." he puts his hand on his pocket "Shall we?" he took out his phone.
Miyuki: "Yes." Miyuki also took out her phone.
Akashi&Miyuki: "Duel!"
Duel Initiated
Shiba Miyuki vs Akashi Tsukasa
Event: Battle
The hall was silent.
Tatsuya: "Battle?"
Kiyo: "There are too many meanings to the word 'battle'."
Erika: "They're right. And there isn't even a dueling space for this?"
Nanami: "So....what's the purpose?"
Daiki: "Hah...probably they just had to throw hands or something."
Maya: "Actually, you have a point, Daiki."
Daiki: "Wait what?"
Maya: "Battle event is simple. Fight to your heart's content. That's all. Beat each other up with everything in your arsenal. That's that."
Hearing this, Tatsuya and Lina became worried.
Tatsuya: (Battle, huh....this kind of event would put Miyuki into a disadvantage...)
Lina: (I get that Miyuki is athletic but.....she can't fight hand to hand that well...)
Erika: (Heh...our win is guaranteed.)
Nanami: (It's game over from the start....)
Daiki: (Poor girl.)
Kiyo: (Oh you've gotta be shitting me....)
Back to the arena
Miyuki: "It seems the event are rather unpleasant for me eh, Akashi san."
Akashi: "I have no time to listen to your excuses. Get ready." he said as he preapared his stance.
Miyuki: "Well well, let's not be so hasty, okay?"
Akashi: "Are you going to talk your way out of this situation? because sorry, this is not Fairy Tail."
Miyuki: "Nonono, of course not. Rather, I have a proposal, Akashi san."
Akashi: "Hoh? tell me about it."
Miyuki then raised her left hand.
Miyuki: "How about we spice things up a little?" her INSTA screen then lits up.
Everyone raised their eyebrow at the sudden developement.
Tatsuya: "Ah, there is that option."
Lina: "Nice thinking, Miyuki!"
Erika: "Heeh....so she's trying to fight magic to magic? can't say I won't be interested."
Nanami: "Indeed."
Manabu: "Oh? so I'm going to see a fight between magicians? can't say I'm not curious."
Nagumo: "Right? I approve your idea, sister Shiba!"
Kiyo: (A fight between magicians, huh.....interesting.)
Maya: "fufufu, I see. It's not a bad idea. After all, the rules did say you can use everything in your arsenal. Do you mind, Tsukasa?"
Akashi: "Of course not. In fact, it's been a while since I felt the thrill of fighting magicians."
Maya: "Then, I will bring you guys to a deserted place in our world. Is it fine?"
Miyuki: "We don't mind. We can go all out without anyone there. You brought your CAD right, Akashi san?"
Akashi: "I second that. And as for CAD, yes, don't worry. I got it under control."
Kiyo: (A fight between magicians....this will be exciting.)
Both Tsukasa and Miyuki held Maya's hand. And light started to glow.
Maya: "Dimension cross."
The 3 dissapeared.
Mahouka world
Deserted place
The 3 magicians arrived at the deserted place. Or rather, a vast rocky desert like dimension 28, but with less heat.
Maya: "Allright you two, get in position. I'm going to use my INSTA to broadcast this to dimension 39."
Akashi: "Yes."
Miyuki: "Sure."
After they both took their positions, Maya turned on the interdimensional camera feature to send a broadcast in dimension 39
Dimension 39
A projection then appears, they saw Miyuki and Tsukasa on their respective positions.
Nagumo: "Holy shit, their technology is frightening."
Manabu: "I second that."
Kiyo: "But seriously, the angle sucks."
Tatsuya: "Well, the angle we got depends on aunt Maya's hand position after all,"
Erika: "Wait, I'll call her." Erika took her phone and called Maya. Believe it or no, the Octagon's phone can call between dimensions.
Mahouka world
Maya: "Erika? what is it?"
Erika: "Can you fix the camera angle, Maya san? it's kinda....bad.."
Maya: "Ah, sorry. I forgot to do that. I'll do it right now."
Erika: "Thanks!"
Maya then puts her phone aside and takes off her INSTA. And after that, she made her INSTA float like a drone camera with her magic.
She then took her phone again.
Maya: "Is it better now?"
Erika: "It's perfect! how did you do it tho?"
Maya: "I take off my INSTA and make it float. Simple, right?"
Erika: "I see...."
Maya: "Anyways.....Tsukasa, Miyuki, are you ready?"
Miyuki: "Yes!"
Akashi: "Undoubtedly."
Maya: "Battle starts, now!"
Miyuki started tapping her CAD to cast her spell.
Miyuki: "Cocytus!" a wave of cold mist the approaches Tsukasa.
But before the spell reached him, Tsukasa already moved out of its range.
Akashi: "Cocytus, huh....you almost froze me to death with that."
Miyuki: "Keep in mind that I will go all out, Akashi san."
Akashi: "So do I."
Tsukasa then boosts his speed with magic energy to move faster to reach Miyuki.
Miyuki: "Not a chance. Decelaration zone!"
With the spell, she slowed Tsukasa's move down.
Akashi: "Tch."
Meanwhile, the audience.
Erika: "Heeh, not bad. He stopped Tsukasa's advance."
Lina: "That's the spell she used against me during our fight..."
Tatsuya: "Good, Miyuki. Keep that up."
Manabu: "I'm amazed."
Nagumo: "I feel like I'm watching an anime..."
Daiki: "She's not too shabby. I guess that's to be expected from your sister, Mahesvara."
Nanami: "But it would take more than that to defeat Tsukasa."
Kiyo: (Let's see just how powerful you are with magic plays, Akashi.)
Back to Mahouka.
Tsukasa is currently trying to move himself inside the wave summoned by Miyuki.
Akashi: (Deceleration zone is a common spell. But when it's used by someone skilled, it becomes annoying. Tch.)
Miyuki: "What's wrong, Akashi san? can't move?"
Akashi: "Don't push your luck,"
He closed his eyes and then.
Akashi: "I will get serious too." he activated his Emperor Eye.
Miyuki: (Here it comes, Emperor eye.)
Akashi: "I'm borrowing your technique, Lina."
Lina: "Wait, what?!"
Akashi: "Dancing blades."
A pair of knives moved around from behind him to strike Miyuki down.
Lina: "No way! how did he..."
Erika: "That's what Emperor Eye can do while boosted with magic, missie. It's one of Emperor Eye's special ability. The copy technique."
Lina: "Not fair!"
Miyuki: "It's futile."
Miyuki casted a magic barrier and defends against Tsukasa's dancing blades.
Akashi: "But it made you lose focus." he appears infront of Miyuki.
Miyuki: "Oh no!"
Akashi: "Skyscraper." his Emperor eye then glowed brighter than before.
Miyuki: "W-what?!"
The ground below her then proceeds to crumble.
Miyuki: "W-what kind of magic is this?!"
After the ground crumbled, lava begins to rise from the ground.
Miyuki: (H-how is this possible!)
A demon then rips apart the sky and appeared on the battle.
Miyuki: (A...a single spell...caused all of this?!)
But then, Miyuki focused all of her magic into her body and the world before her begins to break apart, changing it back into normal.
Miyuki: "That kind of illusion won't affect me, Akashi san. And I assume that's the ability of your Emperor Eye again? you seriously put me inside of a Genjutsu after I looked at your eye."
Akashi: "Yes, that's Emperor Eye's ability. But still, you truly are impressive. Not many people can get out of Skyscraper's illusion. But sadly, you're done for."
Above Miyuki, 5 magic circle was formed.
Miyuki: "What's this?!"
Akashi: "5 layered magic circle: Sacred song." he snapped his finger as a beam of light is approaching.
Miyuki: "Which one of us is the one that didn't notice, I wonder?"
A magic circle also appeared ontop of Tsukasa.
Akashi: "!"
Miyuki: "Niflheim!"
A storm of Ice then strikes down Tsukasa, meanwhile the laser created by the 5 magic circle strike down Miyuki, causing a large explosion to appear.
Maya: (Eh, how interesting.)
Nagumo: "D..did that did it? who won?"
Manabu: "I wonder..."
Kiyo: (Amazing....)
Erika: "The match is not over yet..."
Lina: "Yeah..."
The smoke clears up, revealing that Miyuki are still on the perfect shape.
Meanwhile Tsukasa.....
Akashi: "Ahahahah....I almost died if I didn't use Juumonji's Phalanx(a stronk magic barrier)." he said while panting heavily.
Miyuki: "Your spell before did barely any damage to me, Akashi san. A simple magic barrier and it didn't even affect me. Meanwhile you must use something as advanced as Juumonji clan's Phalanx to defend against me."
Audience
Tatsuya: (What's this....Akashi almost died if he didn't use Juumonji senpai's Phalanx to shield himself. But....)
Lina: "Is it just me or....Tsukasa is...struggling?"
Tatsuya: "Yeah. You're right." (Akashi can never beat a single strategic class mage with that level of magic. Unless...wait....Anti-Mage....That's it! his speciality is not attacking. But rather....)
Erika: "Tsukasa's play has just started, folks. Brace yourself."
Nanami: "Heh, I'm going to enjoy this."
Daiki: "It's been a while since I last saw his magic plays."
Tatsuya: (His speciality...is spell dismantling!)
back to Mahouka world
Akashi: "Ah...as I expected, honest magic fight are just not my thing after all."
With his statement, Miyuki raised an eyebrow.
Miyuki: "What do you mean, Akashi san?"
Akashi: "what I mean is..." he took out his gun that he used against Tatsuya before "I'm going to get serious."
The hall place went silence
Tatsuya: (I have a bad feeling about this....)
Silence. Both Tsukasa and Miyuki just stared at each other. Playing a waiting game.
But Miyuki was sick of waiting.
Miyuki: "Inferno!"
But before the magic circle even completes, the spell was destroyed.
Miyuki: "!"
Lina: "No way!"
Tatsuya: (Seriously?!)
Erika: "That's another Emperor Eye's skill. It grants him the predictive ability equal to your Elemental sight, Mahesvara. And combined with Emperor Eye's natural ability, nothing can be faster than his reaction."
Miyuki: "Tch...zone interference!" she casted a magic dismantling spell of her own but.
The magic circuit is destroyed into pieces.
Tatsuya: "That dismantling magic...it's not gram demolition. It's even faster."
Lina: "Wait, you mean his magic dismantler is even faster than gram demolition?"
Erika: "He's right. It's a power up of Gram demolition called 'Gram destruction'. It destroys any form of magic casted by the enemy. If gram demolition makes the magic circuit unbalanced, Gram destruction destroys it as a whole."
Kiyo: "Care to elaborate? I'm kinda lost."
Lina: "Take throwing rocks at people for example. Basically, if you throw a rock to a person that's currently doing their job, of course the person would lose their momentum because they're interrupted. But if you throw a rock at the person's face directly, it destroys the person and momentum perfectly. Which in a sense, the difference between demolition and destruction. One is interfering and one is destroying."
(A/N: Sorry for the shitty explanation.)
Kiyo: "I see. Your magics are hard to understand. it would be simpler if you guys used element magics like those isekai animes."
Tatsuya: "well, that magic concept is just too simple. That's it."
Daiki: "Although I sometimes strunggled with the Psions theory etc tho..."
(A/N: We all do.)
Lina: "Anyways, I'm worried with Miyuki...."
Tatsuya and Kiyotaka can't deny that they're not worried.
All of Miyuki's attempts to release her spells, all destroyed. With the combination of Gram destruction and Emperor Eye's predictive ability.
Akashi: "It's all useless, Miyuki. Your spells won't even come out. Give it up, you're wasting your magic power."
Miyuki: "No....not yet!"
Magic energies begin to surround her.
Miyuki: "Niflheim!"
Wave of cold storm started to approach. But...
Akashi: "Again with that feeble spell. That was easily destroyed by Mahesvara's gram demolition." Tsukasa raised his gun and casted his Gram destruction. "Then it's child play to my Gram destruction."
(A/N: Tatsuya dispelled both Miyuki's Niflheim and Lina's Muspelheim when they fought in Mahouka season 2.)
Miyuki: "No...way...."
Erika: "There's a reason he was called Anti-Mage, you see. He killed his targets not by honest magic fights. But by making his targets can't use magic and then killed them with his superior physical strength."
Tatsuya: (I see. So that's why he's called Anti-Mage. His magic's destructive power itself is even worse than average even with Emperor Eye's copy. But his dispelling technique....it's out of this world.)
Nanami: "That unique magic plays of Tsukasa, and his immense overall ability."
Daiki: "Is the reason he's called the Anti-Mage, magician slayer."
Both Tatsuya and Lina are just silent.
Lina: (So this is Anti-Mage, huh....no wonder USNA puts a bounty on his head. He's a menace to the magic society. And luckily for me, I didn't run across him.)
Tatsuya: (Even I would be troubled against him. I'm kinda worried for you now, Miyuki....)
Nagumo: (Magic....all that power...amazing. I swear on my pride I will get those powers myself.)
Manabu: (I'm at a lost of word....)
Honami: (So this is how the people of Tatsuya kun's world fights.....with Magic...it must be depressing to always have to use that destructive power.)
Back to the arena
Akashi: "You dissapoint me. Kneel." He activated his Emperor eye again, and Miyuki lost all the balance she had and brought to her knees.
Miyuki: (T-this is.....Emperor Eye's ability?!)
Lina: "That move....it's another Emperor Eye's ability."
Erika: "While boosted with magic, Emperor Eye can do a lot of things. And that's one of the things Emperor Eye can do. That technique is called Ankle Break that throws his opponents off balance."
Kiyo: "Did he just name his technique based off a basketball technique?"
Erika: "Well, believe it or no. He's an exceptional basketball player too. And a huge basketball fan ontop of that."
Kiyo: "I see...."
Daiki: "Anyways, it seems the match is ending."
Back to the fighting arena
Maya: (It's almost over, huh....)
Akashi: "To be honest...." he walked towards Miyuki. "I expected more."
Miyuki stayed silent on the ground. Didn't move an inch.
Akashi: "But I won't deny I had a good time. But sadly, it's all over."
Tsukasa aims his gun at Miyuki. But....
A sudden burst of magic energy appeared before Miyuki, making Tsukasa retreat.
Akashi: "This.....magic?"
Miyuki stoods up again to face Tsukasa.
Akashi: "Oh? you still had some fight left in you, I see."
Miyuki: "Akashi san...no matter what you do...I won't let you win!"
Akashi: (This magic pressure....tch...)
Tsukasa tries to cast Gram destruction but...
Akashi: (It didn't work?! don't tell me...this is...)
Lina: "T-Tsukasa's gram destruction...."
Kiyo: "Didn't work?"
Erika: "Eh, I never knew that little girl had it in her."
Nanami: "It's truly suprising."
Daiki: "Undoubtedly. If Tsukasa's gram destruction doesn't work on a magic, the only explanation to that is..."
Tatsuya: "Strategic Class Spell." Tatsuya was suprised. He didn't knew during the times he were missing, Miyuki obtained such spell.
A breeze of wild cold air started appearing on the arena.
Akashi: (This spell.....it's the same one as she used when she went out of control after Tatsuya went missing....)
Miyuki: "I never thought I would live to see the day I used this cursed spell again. The spell that was born because of my sadness. But even if it means defeating you, I will not hesitate to use it, Akashi san!"
The magic energy then grow stronger and stronger. But Tsukasa didn't move an inch.
Akashi: "Then show me. Show me if you have the power to do that."
Miyuki: "Gladly."
The magic is then ready to be released.
Miyuki: "Freeze. Glacial Age!"
A wave of cold storm was released in the radius of 10 Km, freezing anything it caught.
Of course, that includes Tsukasa too.
But....
cracking sound
The spell broke apart.
Everyone(Except the Octagons and Maya) were suprised by this.
Akashi: "Tell me, Miyuki. Do you seriously believed I killed strategic class mages without countering their spells?"
Miyuki: "D-don't tell me....y-you...."
Akashi: "Strategic class magic dispelling technique: The Fool's World." He said while holding a card.
(A/N: The fool's world design.)
Akashi: "After years of killing magicians and learning magic dispelling techniques, I've finally reached the ultimate technique of slaying magicians. Which is this, The fool's world."
He then throws his card to the sky and the card transforms into a sphere domain that traps everything in the radius of 5 km.
Maya's INSTA, who're previously floating with magic to broadcast the fight, now falls to the groud. But she caught it casually.
Maya: "You almost dropped my INSTA, Tsukasa."
Akashi: "Sorry. Let me explain what is The Fool's World. It's a strategic class magic dispelling technique. I created this technique myself. With experiments and experiments, I've finally reached it. The ultimate magic slayer technique. What this thing does is simple, everyone trapped in this domain, can't use magic. Basically, I created a pseudo-dimension 39."
Miyuki: "B-but...you can't use your magic too!"
Akashi: "That's the aim."
Miyuki: "Huh?"
Akashi: "Even though I don't have my magic too because of my own technique, I still have my overall ability. And Emperor Eye's natural ability. Which is enough for me to kill any strategic class mages I want."
Miyuki: "N-no...no way..." she then fall to her knees.
Akashi: "It was fun. But then again, what good can a magician do without magic, right?"
Tsukasa approaches Miyuki.
Akashi: "Normally, I only used this technique for assassination. But you forced my hand to use it because of that strategic class spell of yours."
Miyuki stayed silent. She just looked at the ground with despair on her eyes.
Akashi: "Surrender peacefully. Or else, I would just beat you up until you're knocked out."
Miyuki: "I....."
Akashi: "Hm?"
Miyuki: "I concede....I'm powerless against you, Akashi san...."
Maya: "Winner, Akashi Tsukasa!"
Tsukasa then deactivated his Fool's World, making magic return again.
Maya: "Allright you two, let's return to dimension 39." Maya wears her INSTA again and grabbed the 2 teenagers. She can't force Miyuki to return on her own because of how shocked she is. "Dimension cross."
With that, all 3 of them returned to dimension 39.
Dimension 39
Kiyo: (Akashi....just how powerful can you be....)
Tatsuya: (I see. I figured him out now. No wonder he killed strategic class mages. In the end, it's throwing hands all over again. But boosted with his overall ability, almost nobody can survive him in a normal fight without magic.)
Lina: (He...he's a monster. No...a monster would be an understatement. He's just plain dangerous. No title can describe him.)
Not long, Miyuki moved back to Kiyotaka's team's side.
Miyuki: "E-everyone.....I...I'm sorry....I'm so weak....."
Tatsuya then pats Miyuki's head.
Tatsuya: "It's not about weak or strong, Miyuki. I lost too, you see. And I don't blame you. We all did not."
Miyuki: "B-but....onii sama...I-I lost in my own playing field...I can't-"
Kiyotaka and Lina also puts their hand on Miyuki's head.
Kiyo: "Nobody is blaming you, just like what Tatsuya said."
Lina: "Don't worry, Miyuki. I swear I will win my round. Count on it...."
Miyuki then wiped her tears away.
Miyuki: "Yes...."
Akashi: "I admit you have a way with your words, Kiyotaka." Tsukasa approaches them.
Kiyo: "Akashi...."
Akashi: "But you've seen my power, right? be it with magic or no, you're powerless against me. And now that the mahesvara is out of competition, your chance of beating us is even slimmer."
Kiyo: "It is true that our only chance is to have Tatsuya fight you magic to magic. But I doubt he can get out of The Fool's World's range without being caught by you."
Tatsuya: "Oi, that's harsh. But I admit, with The Fool's World in play, not even I had a wide chance of winning."
Akashi: "What are you going to do now, I wonder."
Kiyo: "My answer is simple."
Both of them then stared at each other.
Kiyo: "I'll defeat you. That's what I'm going to do. Plain and simple."
Akashi: "I see. Then I won't say anything else."
Nanami: "Allright, I hate to break your talk but my round is here." Nanami said as she stood infront of Tsukasa.
Akashi: "Nanami....."
Lina: "She's right. Before you can fight him, I still have a bout with this gloomy chick, unfortunately."
Kiyo: "Lina....."
Erika: "Heeehhh....this will be interesting."
Tatsuya: "No doubt."
The whole ballroom then becomes silent.
Nanami: "You're going down, blondie."
Lina: "You're going down, Gloomy chick."
To Be Continued
Hi BigFrog Here, I Hope you enjoy the chapter xD
A/N
Another 3000+ words chapter. Sheesh
And, here's a magic to magic fight.
I think I make Tsukasa too OP? nah, I think no. Because.....
For Tsukasa's power, even though he can copy techniques with his Emperor Eye, he still can't use it to the full potential because his speciality is magic dispelling. So for offense, he's not that good. All he has is his own magic which is....pretty average and copied technique that he used lacks offensive or defensive power since he himself is not a good attacker with magic.
4th round next chap!
And please suggest me what volume should I adapt after the winter break special. It's been a while since I do a COTE volume adaptation.
Updates will be quite irregular because I have to think of the plot going forward.
Class points at November
Class A-1820(Arisu)
Class B-1290(Honami)
Class C-1210(Ryuuen)
Class D-1140(Suzune)
Sorry if it had an uncomfortable pace and boring
Feel free to critisize the chapter!
Published date: 10-06-2022