Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - Volume 19 - Master Clans Conference (III) - Chapter 12.1

Chapter 12

It was 10 P.M. by the time Tatsuya and Miyuki arrived home after their dinner with Katsuto, Mayumi, and Masaki.

Although it wasn’t a particularly late hour for a high schooler, Minami was still awake to welcome them.

“Welcome back.”

Minami wore her maid uniform to greet Tatsuya and Miyuki at the front door.

“We’re back. Did any news come in?”

Minami hesitated for a moment at Tatsuya’s query.

“There were no calls from the Main House, Kuroba-sama, or Tsukuba-sama.”

Tatsuya was waiting for them to contact him about the results of the investigation on the magician that he had tracked down. However, there was a hint of another matter from Minami’s tone.

“I’ll listen to you in the living room.”

“Understood.”

Tatsuya, Miyuki and Minami entered the living room. Tatsuya and Miyuki sat down on the sofa while Minami stood to deliver the news of the event that transpired while they were gone “There was an emergency message from First High.”

“Emergency message?”

“Yes, Miyuki-sama. Although the contents are not very pressing, it had to be sent before the end of the day so it was marked as ‘urgent’.”

“So, what’s the announcement?”

“The school will be closed until Saturday, the 23rd, although the closure might be extended.”

Once Tatsuya’s query was answered, the siblings were visibly surprised.

“…That’s quite sudden.”

“…After the incident at Second High, such an incident took place here today. It’s understandable for the school to take these measures.”

Tatsuya felt the same as Miyuki. So, he made up a somewhat plausible reason and settled on that.

“I see… Still, this is troublesome.”

Miyuki put her hand on her cheek and sighed softly.

“How so?”

At Tatsuya's inquiry, Miyuki subtly averted her gaze in a slightly embarrassed manner.

“Due to the riot that happened after school, I headed back home directly from the police station… and left some personal items in my school locker.”

Tatsuya had judged based on Miyuki’s expression that the personal item was something that she didn’t want anyone else to see.

“Shall we get it tomorrow then?”

Miyuki looked at Tatsuya with a surprised expression.

“But, Onii-sama, isn’t the school going to be closed?”

“It’s just to get some personal items. If we really can’t get in, it should be fine for us to leave it then, right?”

Miyuki didn’t say ìt isn’t something that important’.

“I… see.”

Miyuki was undeniably concerned. However, she decided to take Tatsuya’s offer to accompany her instead.

Tatsuya didn’t go out again that night. He knew where the remote attack that used SBs originated from. Going to the scene was an option, but Tatsuya decided to use another method.

“Miyuki, do you have some time?”

As the hour approached midnight, when it was time to go to sleep, Tatsuya knocked on Miyuki’s door.

“Ah, yes. Please wait a moment.”

He received a flustered response from the other side of the door. He sensed someone moving around in a hurried manner, and Miyuki showed her face before long.

“Please come in, Onii-sama.”

Miyuki was slightly flushed. Probably because she found her attire, which was just a housecoat over her negligee, to be embarrassing.

However, she hadn’t closed the front of her housecoat. It wasn’t because she didn’t have the time.

Tatsuya candidly walked into the room with Miyuki’s invitation, even though she was only in her nightclothes.

“Please take a seat wherever you’d like.”

“No, I’m fine here.”

However, Tatsuya stopped just inside the entrance and didn’t move further inside.

“Onii-sama?”

“Miyuki, I know this will sound strange, but…”

“Yes?”

Miyuki tilted her head at Tatsuya’s unexpectedly roundabout way of talking.

“Can you wake up early tomorrow?”

Why was he struggling so much to say just that…? While wondering about that, Miyuki naturally answered, “Yes”.

“Yes, I don’t mind. But at what time exactly would you like me to wake up?”

Tatsuya’s answer went beyond her expectations.

“I’d like you to come to the underground laboratory around 4:00 AM.”

“…That’s pretty early.”

“Ah, I’m sorry…”

“No, I don’t mind at all!”

Due to her surprise, she unintentionally gave a straightforward response to Tatsuya, but she immediately took back her words that could be taken as dissatisfaction. Since she was worried about appearing as if she was unhappy with Tatsuya, she spoke louder than necessary.

“I see.”

Tatsuya was slightly surprised at her excited reply, but his expression soon returned to one that concealed his hesitation.

“Onii-sama, there’s something else you want to talk about, right? Please, go ahead.”

As she moved closer and questioned him, all she could think about was how she didn’t want to make Tatsuya hate her.

Her untied housecoat fluttered open, and the swell of her bare breasts were visible to Tatsuya through her negligee.

Tatsuya raised his line of sight so that he wouldn't be able to see anything below Miyuki’s shoulders, and answered her question while enduring his discomfort.

“Before coming to the laboratory, please take a bath. Even a shower would be fine, but please cleanse your body before coming.”

“Okay.”

Miyuki answered in a shrill voice. However, she didn’t notice since she was worried that Tatsuya might hear her pounding heartbeat.

“As for your attire, please wear a housecoat over your underwear, no, swimsuit.”

Miyuki was so shocked, she felt as though her heart would explode.

“Yes. I-Is it for tuning a CAD…?”

Since it was the laboratory, she knew that it could be the only reason.

However, she asked him that on purpose to suppress her excitement.

“No, not for that.”

Tatsuya looked away while saying that.

His behavior astonished Miyuki.

That brother of hers was actually being shy!?

“I’ll tell you what we’ll be doing then. I’m sorry, but I’m counting on you.”

Tatsuya said that rapidly while diverting his eyes as he left Miyuki’s room.

As soon as the door closed, Miyuki sank weakly to the floor.

Her hands felt hot against her cheeks.

While strongly thinking to herself, “I must wake up by 3:00 AM,” she scolded her weak legs and headed to bed. Although she felt that going to sleep was impossible, she told herself that it would be outrageous to show up looking awful due to the lack of sleep, and forced herself to sleep.

She might have passed out from overthinking, but this was better compared to being unable to sleep due to her excitement.

Regardless of the fact that she had only slept for three hours, Miyuki woke up at 3:00 A.M. She washed her body conscientiously and put on fresh underwear. Over it, she wore a housecoat with the belt tied. After all, Tatsuya did tell her to wear a “swimsuit,” but she had a feeling that underwear would be more appropriate for this situation.

She brushed her hair many times in front of the dressing table. Despite the fact that Miyuki’s hair never got entangled and it was enough to comb it only once, she brushed through it plenty.

The cosmetics caught her eyes, but she decided not to use any makeup.

This was because she thought that Tatsuya didn’t want it on her. She also used a shampoo that will leave no fragrance, and she didn’t want to put on any adornments. This was how Miyuki interpreted Tatsuya’s statement, “I want you to cleanse your body.”

Miyuki headed for the laboratory in the basement before 4:00 AM. It was the room where they first tested the flying device.

“It’s Miyuki.”

“Please enter.”

Miyuki took one deep breath and opened the laboratory door. Miyuki unintentionally stopped, but entered the room soon after and closed the door.

Her surprise at Tatsuya’s appearance stopped her in her tracks. Tatsuya wore nothing but a tight half-pants type bathing trunks.

Even though there was heating in the hallway, it felt even warmer inside.

For sure, the temperature had been adjusted so that it wasn’t cold with just swimsuits alone.

Miyuki hesitated for a moment.

She loosened her belt, then let her housecoat slip to the floor.

Now, it was Tatsuya’s turn to hold his breath. He had thought Miyuki would be wearing a swimsuit that was similar to a one-piece design that barely showed any skin under the housecoat.

But in reality…

Miyuki was wearing a set of white underwear that was made of mostly lace. Most of her skin was visible through the fabric.

If the color had been red or black, the design would have provoked strong sexual appeal. However, white underwear gave off an elegant impression. Of course, the atmosphere that Miyuki herself created must have had a big impact too. In addition to what she had on her body.

“…Onii-sama?”

Miyuki, whose cheeks were blushed in embarrassment upon close inspection, it was not only the area around her eyes and cheeks, but also everything from her neck to her breasts had turned slightly flushed

she diverted her gaze slightly downwards as she spoke to Tatsuya.

“Please, tell me what you want me to do…”

For example, even if she was commanded “take off your underwear”, Miyuki would not defy it. Her voice indicated her readiness.

“Before we get to the main point, listen to me for a bit.”

“Of course.”

Tatsuya started talking to Miyuki while they stood about two meters apart, facing each other.

“As you know, my ‘eyes’ can’t see the future. I do not have the convenient ability to automatically select what I want to know in the unconscious area and project it into consciousness. The law of causality dictates that I have to select everything consciously. Otherwise, it would be crazy to expect to get to the information I am looking for.”

“I think that it is an amazing ability, being able to reliably get the information you’re consciously looking for.”

Tatsuya didn’t show humbleness at Miyuki’s praise.

“Certainly, but it takes time to filter information like this. Selecting information consciously is more reliable than unconsciously.

Furthermore, at the rate that I have to follow the genealogical tree of cause and effect for this ‘clairvoyance’, it is certain that we will need more resources in the future.”

“Do you mean magical resources?”

“Attention, concentration, perseverance, multi-layered cognitive capability… these are not only related to magic. It is not inconvenient to lump them together with ‘magic-related resources.’ In fact, that would make it easier for a person to understand.”

“OK, I will understand it as such.”

As she was drawn into Tatsuya’s story, it didn’t take long until Miyuki stopped averting her gaze.

After a nod to Miyuki, who looked at him with enthusiasm, Tatsuya continued his explanation.

“Now we’ll move on to discussing the not so well-known details. Let’s start with the current mission. I ‘saw’ the target Gu Jie in Zama.

Thereafter, no ties could be connected to Gu Jie, even without new cause and effect relations. Using only the information directly related to Gu Jie himself, we should be able to locate him. Even still, we need to gather sufficient resources.”

“Are your magic-related resources insufficient? Is there any way I can assist you?”

“No, if I pour all my resources into it I can find a specific individual using special structure information within the country. It wouldn’t even need 100% of it. I think that allocating 70% of my resources to Elemental Sight is sufficient.”

While hearing that, Miyuki knitted her eyebrows suspiciously. But within 5 seconds, she opened her eyes with a startled expression.

“So you can’t find him as you can’t allocate enough hyper-perception resources. Is this because you are spending those resources as my guardian!?”

Tatsuya nodded with a bitter expression.

“I am always allocating half of my Elemental Sight resources for you.”

However far she is away, Tatsuya’s magic removes threats towards Miyuki.

He is capable of such a thing because Tatsuya always “sees” Miyuki.

‘Always’ means twenty-four hours a day without exaggeration.

However, he is watching her with his unconscious sight while sleeping.

He continues to ‘see’ and check if a crisis is approaching Miyuki.

Tatsuya is confident that he will wake up immediately, however deep his sleep may be.

No, that has nothing to do with confidence. It is a system that works with 100% reliability.

Because of that, what is normally possible can sometimes not be done because of a shortage of resources. This was the case right now.

“Onii-sama, please release the resources you set aside for me right now!

I am here. There is no reason to watch me with Elemental Sight now!”

It was only natural for her character that Miyuki said this. Tatsuya was saying that he was unable to complete his mission because of her. Even if it was someone other than Miyuki, they would insist on the same thing.

“I cannot do that.”

Tatsuya shook his head.

“Why? There are no enemies here. This room is in the basement and surrounded by thick walls. It’s a place difficult to penetrate from the outside, even with magic. For example, even if we are attacked with magic, because of the large quantity of sensors installed for experiments you will immediately notice that. I think you know that even better than me, Onii-sama.”

“Your reasoning is correct.”

Bashfully Miyuki stared at Tatsuya who seemed to be embarrassed with question marks in her eyes while waiting for him to continue.

“That is correct… but I can’t do that because of emotional issues that I have.”

Miyuki stopped breathing. The question marks floating in her eyes turned entirely into exclamation marks.

“Miyuki. I am anxious to take my ‘eyes’ off you. Even if my ‘eyes’

leave you for one hundredth of a second, I am thinking about everything I could possibly not ‘see’ about you… that makes me crazy.”

“Onii-sama…”

Miyuki forces herself to breathe. She barely managed to say that one word.

Tatsuya has only one genuine emotion left. The love for his little sister Miyuki. Miyuki also knows this from hearing it from their mother.

But it is the first time Tatsuya himself told Miyuki that he loves her so strongly that it’s making him crazy.

“I understand the logic. You're right next to me, so even if I were to take my "eyes" off you, I would notice right away if something happened.

Moreover, you are not so weak that you would be injured just because I took my eyes off you for a second or two. It's different from that time in Okinawa. I understand that as well.”

Tatsuya averted his eyes from Miyuki and sighed in a self-mocking manner.

“However, even if I agree with your reasoning, my emotions are not convinced. If I leave Gu Jie alone, things like today will happen again.

As a result, I know that the risk of you being exposed to violence will increase. To resolve this situation I understand that I should concentrate my Elemental Sight ability on Gu Jie. This is where my emotions get in the way.”

Tatsuya pointed to his heart with the thumb of his right hand and shook his head as if he found himself to be in a pitiful state.

“I feel like I learned for the first time that emotions are such a troublesome thing.”

Miyuki rushed over to unburden Tatsuya by wrapping his right hand and squeezing it.

“…Is there anything I can do for you?”

Tatsuya made eye contact with Miyuki.

Tatsuya looks deep into Miyuki’s eyes.

“Yes. Miyuki, please lend me a hand.”

“Yes, anything you want!”

This time Miyuki completely forgot her shame temporarily.

Because of this mood, Tatsuya was a little embarrassed.

“I asked myself why I can’t take my ‘eyes’ from you and found one answer.”

While he was questioned by Miyuki’s look, Tatsuya suppressed his bashfulness and voiced his conclusion.

“What frightens me is probably the fact that I cannot feel certain that you are safe.”

“…But Onii-sama. Miyuki is right here.”

Miyuki could not understand why Tatsuya said that he couldn't feel certain about it, even though he could see that she was right in front of him.

“The naked eye can only see light and shadow.”

But there is no other way. What is it that Tatsuya was looking at with his “eyes”? There is nobody besides Tatsuya who knew the answer to that.

“If you usually see with nothing but the naked eye, only seeing light and shadow would be enough to relieve the anxiety. However, this is a problem because I always look at you with my different ‘eyes’.”

The information that can be read by Tatsuya’s hyper-perception far exceeds the signals that can be acquired through the five senses. Tatsuya is constantly observing Miyuki with that hyper-perception, his “Spirit Eyes”. Compared to other people, objects, and landscapes Miyuki is an existence with a by far deeper and overwhelming substance, that for Tatsuya can’t be perceived just by the five senses.

It might be an exaggeration to say that Tatsuya saw people other than Miyuki as shadow figures on a cave wall, but maybe he felt that they were like superficial images.

“By only watching with the naked eye I don’t have the feeling that you are safe. This is obstructing the release of the resources.”

Tatsuya lays his left hand on Miyuki’s hands that are squeezing his right hand.

“Therefore, Miyuki. Let me feel relieved.”

Miyuki, entranced by Tatsuya’s look, was unaware she was nodding.

Tatsuya was sitting just in his swim wear with his legs crossed in the middle of the laboratory. It was neither the full-lotus position, nor the half-lotus position. It was just a relaxed seating position.

No, saying “just” would be an understatement. Miyuki was wearing only a bra and panties decorated with lace, so she turned her back to Tatsuya’s body and had sat down on his crossed legs.

Tatsuya wrapped his arms around Miyuki’s body. He held her left hand with his right and her right hand with his left. As if the position was made to declare “I will never let you go.”

Miyuki’s body was tensed and she was looking down. Her skin, not only the face but her whole body, was slightly red up to the tips of the toes.

She is not “bright red like a ripe tomato” because her excitement and tension were keeping a miraculous balance.To all appearances, it looked like it was bad for her health.

“Miyuki.”

Tatsuya spoke into Miyuki’s ear. The heat of his breath tickled her earlobe.

“Please relax a bit more.”

Contrary to Tatsuya’s words, Miyuki put more strength in her hands held by him.

“T-That’s impossible…!”

Miyuki replied in a strangled whisper. She couldn't scream because she was having trouble breathing properly.

The hands holding hers were big and manly.

The arms passed by her body were tightened firmly and strong.

From Tatsuya’s chest, that was glued to her back, the body heat of a person that is both an older brother and fiancé was transmitted.

Is that violently pounding heartbeat coming from Tatsuya’s heart or her own? Miyuki couldn’t differentiate anymore.

“Your temperature has increased a little. Calm down.”

Miyuki was so embarrassed that she almost died. At least, she wanted to hide her face with both hands. In the current state where her left and right hand was restrained this was not possible. It was comforting at least that he could not see her face because she turned her back to him.

However, it was definitely not unpleasant. Rather, Miyuki was delighted that she was hugged like this.

Therefore she was even more embarrassed.

Even though they're not doing anything particularly indecent?

Miyuki became frantic and told herself so. She was without doubt a well brought-up girl, but as an average 2nd year student in high school

limited as it may be, she had some knowledge about those topics anyways.

Only wearing underwear while participating in physical contact with a member of the opposite sex was unladylike, but this was an extreme case for sure, wasn’t it? Though, she was being hugged from behind.

Tatsuya’s hands are connected to Miyuki’s hands.

Miyuki’s hands are connected to Tatsuya’s hands.

There is no trace of caressing between Tatsuya and Miyuki.

And yet?

(My body seems to be melting away together with my heart…) Even though her mind had effectively shut down, she remained conscious.

Tatsuya’s whispering voice crept into Miyuki’s ear.

“The softness of your skin and the warmth of your body can even be felt with closed eyes. You are certainly in my arms.”

“I am here. Here, where I am protected by Onii-sama.”

The words crossed her lips without thinking.

“Right, Onii-sama?”

“You don’t need to worry about a thing.”

“Feel free to do as you please.”

“Please use all of your power as you see fit.”

It might have been a kind of trance-like state.

A prophecy given by a shrine maiden who is possessed by a god. It was something similar to that.

Miyuki’s words pulled the trigger on Tatsuya’s “power”.

The resources focused on Miyuki became free.

Tatsuya’s “eyes” are dashing through the information sea to look for answers.

He is traversing back and forth the genealogical tree of cause and effect, repeating a process of trial and error many times in one moment?

And finally, he caught the figure of the enemy.

The ringleader of the Hakone terror attack, the ancient magician who manipulated corpses coming from the former Dahan, Gu Jie was dragged out from the garden of sleep by a sudden piercing gaze.

He did not know from where he was watched. It was neither from the inside nor the outside of this room

As if the gaze he had been seen with came not from this world, but from beyond.

Gu Jie deployed a spell blocking formation before attempting to identify the true identity of that gaze. It was a counter magic improved by the Kunlunfang Institute to just get the result without actually tracing the Ursa Major in the ‘Pacing the Big Dipper’ Taoist ritual. This method prevents the intrusion of SBs, but it’s defense capabilities against modern magic are limited. He did not know if it would repel the attack that must certainly follow after the gaze.

An instant after he braced himself, the defense formation was destroyed by a bullet-like Psion burst that was focused into a single point.

Gu Jie constructed a new defensive barrier in a hurry.

Gu Jie held his breath for a while.

There was no follow-up attack.

Any sign of the gaze disappeared.

Gu Jie exhaled in a sigh of relief and checked the damage that he had taken. He felt no pain anywhere in his body, but there were plenty of magic spells that could shave away a person's lifespan without said person feeling a thing.

But strangely, no matter how much Gu Jie, who was well-versed in such deadly curses searched, he could not find an injury caused by the recent attack. There were no signs that a delayed effect or conditional activation type magic had been used either.

It was eerie that he couldn't understand the effect of the attack, but that would have to wait until later. It was certain that this location had been exposed through some unknown means. He immediately decided to move to a different location.

Miyuki regained her sanity when a strong magic sign was emitted from Tatsuya’s body. Before she could become captivated in shame again, Tatsuya let go of her hands and loosened his arms to free Miyuki.

Miyuki got quickly up from him with caution so Tatsuya wouldn’t feel uncomfortable.

Miyuki stiffened when she sensed Tatsuya standing up behind her, but the expected, or rather hoped for, embrace failed to happen. Tatsuya simply walked right past Miyuki.

Tatsuya stopped in front of the door. He spoke without turning back to Miyuki, who was looking at his back.

“Thank you, Miyuki.”

The tremors that ran through Miyuki's body were not caused by the cold.

“Was Miyuki able to help you?”

Miyuki asked this with a voice hoarse from pleasure.

“Yes, of course.”

Tatsuya answered without turning around and chuckled.

“Let’s get dressed before we have a detailed conversation.”

Miyuki's face turned deep red, and she put her hands over her breasts and squatted down on the spot to calm down.

Tatsuya kept his back turned to her and left the laboratory.

It wasn’t even 5 AM yet, but Miyuki didn’t feel like going back to bed now. Even though she was a little sweaty, Miyuki decided to take a shower after she listened to Tatsuya. She changed into a house coat, not the uniform.

When she came to the dining room, Tatsuya had been waiting in training wear at the table.

“Good morning, Miyuki-sama.”

“Morning, Minami-chan.”

Not only Tatsuya was there. Was it because of her professionalism that Minami was completely armed in maid clothes?

“Are you fine with tea?”

“Yes, thank you.”

After Miyuki sat down on the opposite side of Tatsuya, a freshly poured hot green tea was offered to her. The reviving taste cleared and awakened her mind.

“Minami, it’s fine for now. Rest a little.”

“I will do that, Tatsuya-sama.”

Minami bowed and left the dining room. Tatsuya’s words were not because of worry for her. She didn’t resist because she understood that he could not talk in front of her.

Tatsuya waited until Minami completely left the dining room, before he turned to Miyuki.

“Miyuki.”

“Yes, Onii-sama?”

Miyuki’s already straight back tensed even more. When being spoken to by Tatsuya, Miyuki vividly recalled the heat of their bare skin touching.

Miyuki’s tongue and body were tied by the tension of her embarrassment.

“Sorry about earlier.”

But under Tatsuya’s worried look for her, Miyuki’s tension soon melted and then disappeared.

“…I am happy that Miyuki could help Onii-sama, no, rather not being a burden for Onii-sama.”

Miyuki shook her head sideways with small movements without taking her eyes off Tatsuya and smiled bewitchingly.

“Rather than talking about that. Onii-sama, what was the result?”

To make sure Tatsuya couldn’t delay any longer, she changed the topic to the mission at hand.

Tatsuya did not let Miyuki’s solicitude go to waste.

“I caught him for sure.”

“Then is it already settled?”

Miyuki wasn't conscious of it, but she did not consider killing people to be taboo. Or rather, she did not consider Tatsuya killing another person to be taboo.

Any person killed by Tatsuya without a doubt deserved to die.

Her personality had grown twisted in this manner over time, without her being aware of it.

“No, I did not erase him.”

When he caught the information of a being, physical distance didn’t matter for Tatsuya. Both creatures and non-creatures, humans included, can be turned into dust and erased. Tatsuya understood precisely what Miyuki meant with “settled” and shook his head to that question.

“May I know the reason?”

Miyuki’s question didn’t criticize Tatsuya’s decision. She was purely interested in the reason. Miyuki didn’t understand the reason for the commiseration for Gu Jie.

“The goal of this mission is not to kill the enemy. It is to show the society that the terror attack incident was settled.”

Even though Tatsuya’s answer was indirect, but that much was sufficient for Miyuki.

“Do you mean that it is impossible to accomplish the mission when you erase the mastermind secretly?”

“Exactly. Oba-ue told me that she didn’t care if he was alive or dead.

But of course it is best to capture him alive. Even if I kill him I have to show where I cornered him and need to leave a corpse.”

“That means you will have to kill him in a manner where people can still tell that he is the mastermind behind the terror incident.”

Tatsuya nods at Miyuki’s words.

Miyuki was glad that Tatsuya accepted this as correct, but suddenly opened her eyes wide.

“Then, do you have the free time to keep me company here right now?

You located his whereabouts with a lot of effort. Shouldn’t we go out to capture him immediately?”

Tatsuya showed the impatient Miyuki a composed smile.

“It’s OK. I marked him earlier.”

“A mark…?

“Yes. With the method I learned when I took down Zhou Gongjin.”

When he was in Kyoto to pursue Zhou Gongjin, Tatsuya was not able to break Zhou’s Ghost Walker by himself. Zhou Gongjin did not escape because before that Nakura was defeated in a fight with Zhou and the blood that was controlled by Nakura, to be more precise the blood having Nakura’s ‘desire’ in it, revealed Zhou Gongjin’s position.

Tatsuya has no technique to transfer his blood. As a substitute for blood, he developed a magic technique that creates a signal bullet which can be traced over several days. The bullet consisted of a high amount of condensed Psions which he learned to make as a countermeasure against the parasites. He can keep track of the geographical coordinates with this magic and when he comes close to the them. Tatsuya can completely void Ghost Walker with the “spirit” manipulation technique he learned from Yakumo afterwards.

“There was no opportunity in Zama, but I surely shot it earlier. I can locate the whereabouts of Gu Jie without investing more resources.”

At last Tatsuya declared this.

He is going to catch him.

Miyuki didn’t doubt his words.