——As the stroke of night chimed in, Magi and Cian had come back from the hospital. They expected to meet only Kira as Saeko could have already gone home. However, as they went upstairs to the office, there was a man who was on Saeko's desk, seemingly searching for something.“———”They stopped and stared at each other for a moment, but the twins would quickly move and pull out their Grants to aim at the said man.“You guys must be the twi——”BANG! As the man spoke and ignored the Grants pointed at him, Magi was the only one who shot his Grant.“Geez. Aren't you one paranoid idiot?”With his hand extended out, the man caught Magi's bullet as the ice melted out of it. Instead of spreading, the ice was shattered out of it, as if it was but a simple thing. “H-Hey! Why did you fire at him?”Seeing Magi just shoot at someone, Cian shouted at him. They didn't know who he was but it wasn't enough reason for Magi to shoot. “If you're worried that I shot someone who caught my bullet, then
“What the hell...”Standing before Vincent and Saeko, was a tall man with violet hair and eyes. It reached the ground as their clothes showed a majestic and modern design as if both Magi and Cian's clothes were combined. There were no other words to describe it but, that same man had stood in the same place where Magi and Cian were supposed to be in.Vincent stood ahead of Saeko as they were wary of the man, who looked around, dumbfounded.“———”His face was definitely of the twins. However, it seemed far more mature, good-looking, charismatic, and smooth. “Thee...”Lifting his finger to point at Vincent, the nameless man spoke. “——Where's the twin?”As Vincent asked, he gestured for Saeko to get Kira. She refused at first but seeing Vincent break out in a cold sweat even before a stranger meant something bad. Vincent who was left along with such a man gulped down his saliva. The man before him had tremendous berserk magic inside of him. Usually, if one's mana was unstable like t
Recirculating the one who called himself Magician, Vincent and Kira had known each other's combat style for years of working together.One instantly knew when the other would attack, and even with just so little information, they can attack in sync. “Quick Blast!”“Gravitize!”As Vincent emitted a blast from his palm towards Magician, Kira had her punch winded up from behind. They were both about to hit him at the same time.“Hmm.”As the attacks came, Magicians lifted their hands in front of each attack, and with a subtle flick, they cast and mirrored everything. “——?!”Vincent's blast was nullified by what seemed to be an inverted colored version of his magic, and for Kira, her magic suddenly backfired on her as she drops into the ground with a heavy body. “U-Ugh——T-That's not fair!”As Kira dropped into the floor, she tried to reverse it by gravitating herself up instead, but as she could only manage to sit up, the weight on her body felt like it was being crushed. “I suggest
With only a month left for the nearing Mixed Magic Arts Tournament, Magi and Cian became troubled as soon as they were told that they merged. They had no memories of such a thing happening whatsoever, but they had mistaken a scenario similar to it in their dreams. Kira, who decided to cultivate such power had tried to compromise with them by telling them that it was a good thing but the idea of losing control over themselves was something they both antagonized against. It was also the day after that the two had decided to be separated for the time meaning Magi began to shut himself inside the room, looking for answers. There was no telling of when such an uncontrollable event will happen again, and so, it was inevitable the twins began to move their separate ways for now. ***“He just shut me out, man. Can you let me use your room?”In front of Vincent's supposedly room on the fifth floor, Cian knocked in and checked in with Vincent who coincidentally had begun to move out. Howe
——As the next day came, Magi was still indulging in his self-isolation whilst coming up with a solution for two whole days now.Cian on the other hand also remained in his room, which was the closet of the training room. He had been up all night, disregarding that their training will still happen, although separated. Vincent, who was left by Kira to be in charge of their training for today couldn't even convince Magi to come out of his room. He had already knocked thrice, and without anyone answering, he gave up. “T-These misfits...”He left without saying anything. He knew that Cian would be somewhere in the building as well, but he didn't know exactly where Cian was. Unless he left the building and tried to look for another apartment, Vincent would be the one taking responsibility if Cian were to stir up trouble. He was the one who refused to lend him a room after all.“G-Godammit! Saeko! I'll be right back! That idiot must have gone somewhere!”Vincent took his coat and keys to
——With one foot forward to step into the office, Kira finally arrived late in the afternoon. “——Have they arrived yet?!”Rushing in with her rugged breathing, Kira held into the rails of the stairs. At the office desks, there were three people who she could see. Evan, Saeko, and Hina who was busy playing games on their laptop.All three of them looked at Kira as soon as she spoke except Hina looking back at her laptop after. The office was almost complete once again, but one person was missing.“Where is Kurumi?”She was the first one that Kira had wanted to talk to. She was the most versatile mage in them, and thus, her knowledge about the issue at hand would be vital for it.“She went upstairs. To the training room. The usual, I guess?”Saeko and Evan only looked at each other as they worked on a couple of documents beside each other's desks, the one who would respond to Kira was Hina who was still preoccupied with her games. “What about the twin? Did they leave their room yet?”
——Back in Magi's room, there was only one source of light in his room. A light that projected multiple red screens, a succession of failures.“There's nothing. We've simulated everything, but nothing works.”Falling back to his bed, Magi covered his eyes with his arms, exhausted. His face was distinguished with disappointment, seeing how there was no solution to a problem.[These are only simulations. Although we've done over a million of them, this could only mean that your chances are but one over more than a million.]Violet, who observed the simulations closely could only reassure their impossibility. There was no way that their Fusion could happen with stability, nor even prevent it from happening in the worst-case scenario. “So, is this God's saying that it happened because of a coincidence?”As Magi slowly proceeded to accept its impossibility, there was no other choice but to express his frustration by saying something ambiguous. [Do you believe in God, Magi-san?]However, V
“Defending yourself will do nothing!”Repeatedly striking Cian as he tried to block and dodge both of her melees and ranged magic attacks, Kurumi was continuously creating new ways to attack him.Each attack was embued with a different element, fortified by the earth, hastened by wind, sharpened by fire, and frozen by ice. Being limited to one element had brought Cian at a disadvantage, he was both fightings seemingly superior fire magic, and with Ice also on her roster of attacks, she would easily block it with such.He wanted to fight back there was no situation where he could unless he had his pistols, everything would be different. “Did your brother teach you that? To think too much?!”However, just as Cian fell into a trance in his thoughts, he became distracted and allowed Kurumi to slip in a kick from below and between his arms, knocking his chin up. He hardened himself at that moment and so he wasn't immediately knocked out, but it was certain that he was concussed after hi