Although Tatsuya doubted the intentions of Minoru, hearing about holding hands and stroking the back of his hand, but in the end he became convinced that the real intention of Minoru was the treatment of mines.

  -they, does Minoru-kun have such knowledge?

  Miyuki, who listened to mine story with him, asked an interesting question. The treatment of the Magic Zone is a complex issue that the Jocuba family has been exploring for many years and has not yet achieved its goal.

  "I can't say they're gone. As it was possible to see at last year's dissertation competition, understanding "Reason " in Minoru far surpasses the level of student. In addition, the magic of the former ninth laboratory, which has elements of ancient magic, also has in its composition spells of the system of mental intervention. It is probable that Minoru could find the key to the treatment of the Magic Zone in the studies of the former Ninth laboratory.

  "However, jocuby researchers have not ceased to study the area of calculation of magic since the former fourth laboratory. But despite this, the method of treatment is not yet found. In addition, the minor-Kuna has an imbalance between the area of calculation of magic and the physical body. If he had such knowledge, wouldn't he start with the treatment of himself?

  He can learn more about this because he has a similar problem.

  Tatsuya, shook his head, rejecting objection to Miyuki.

  "There is no point in discussing the ability of Minoru here and now. He said he'd find a way to treat mine. Let us perceive the good intentions of Minoru exactly as good intentions.

  — ... Right. Sorry for the useless doubts.

  Tatsuya nodded Miyuki with again looked at Minami.

  "Local doctors are also making a lot of efforts to treat mines. The main house seems to be connecting his research here, and I'm not going to sit around. Be calm and wait for good news. "said Tatsuya to calm mine.

  Well. Uh, Tatsuya...

  However, mine responded with an alarming voice as if it "caused the opposite effect."

  What's that?

  He did not, of course, show signs of anxiety on his part. With a calm face and a calm voice he asked mine to continue.

  "Could you please ask Minoru yourself so that he doesn't try to do the impossible?"

  "Really? "--mentally muttered Tatsuya. It seems that the anxiety that mine showed was not about the success of the treatment, but about the very minor.

  Did you feel that there was something wrong with Minoru?

  Yes. ... He seemed very tense. He looked... As it is not just worried about me, and as if hides some other, more serious suffering...

  -Did minor have a bad feeling?

  No. He didn't look pereutomljonnym or weakened.

  — ... I'm worried, they.

  Miyuki looked at Tacuju with a disturbed face, as if she had been infected by mine anxiety.

  "Minoru is a wise guy. I think he won't do anything reckless...

  Although Tatsuya said so, he himself was not entirely sure of it.

  He did not know the character of Minoru. He could have said that if it was the minor he met last fall, he wouldn't do anything stupid. However, the behavior of the current minor did not correspond to the image of Minoru from that time. Therefore Tatsuya felt such uncertainty.

  Chapter 4

  The first school and the nearest station connected a straight road. Although it has a branch, but it can be said that, in fact, the main road is only one.

  Most of the first school students go to and from school on this road. The only exceptions are students who live within walking distance of the school.

  Tuesday, June 11th, morning. On the mentioned pedestrian route the noise from conversations of pupils has risen. Because all the well-known president of the school council Shiba Miyuki walked quite close with one male pupil.

  And this disciple was as famous as the President of the school council. And in terms of fame in society, it was much more famous.

  The name of this disciple is Shiba Tatsuya.

  It was a return after a long absence.

  Tatsuya-san!

  From the gate to the territory of the first school to its main building led a straight alley. Right after Tatsuya stepped on this road, his called voice was in front of him.

  There was a figure in the opposite direction among the students going to school, and she was not alone.

  Tatsuya-san, can you come back now?

  The people who knew the circumstances had their views saying, "There is nothing to be done with it... " and the ignorant circumstances of the disciples looked at it with curiosity. Honoka, not paying attention to all of them, ran to Tatsuo.

  Yes. From now on, take care of me again.

  With a crooked smile on his face Tatsuya answered Honoka, trying not to cause concern.

  Tatsuya quietly approached Honoka and looked at her back.

  Shizuku, standing behind Honoka, with a confused face hello with his gaze.

  And behind her back with joyful faces stood Eric, Leo, Mikihiko and Mizuki. Erica, noticing glance Tatsuya, slightly waved his hand.

  Tatsuya continued to go towards the school building with Miyuki to his left, and with Pristroivshejsja on the right Honoka.

  The entrance for the course of Magic Engineering was from the entrance of the second stream. This was due to the fact that the classes from A to D and E to H had separate inputs, and the structure of the school building could not be changed anymore.

  Divided with Miyuki, Honoka, Shizuku and Mikihiko, Tatsuya went to his classroom together with Erica, Leo and Mizuki.

  It's been a long time since he was in 3E class. Although Eric and Leo were in class F, they also went to class E.

  We left the party.

  Going to his place at the window, Tatsuya gave his impressions, which were not sarcasm, and quite artless feelings. Erica and the others did not say anything, but only stretched smiles.

  Mizuki sat down to his place, located on the side of the place of Tatsuya, and turned to him face.

  "Given your fusion reactor project, is it okay for you to be here now?

  Well, of course I'm going to be busy. Therefore, it will be difficult to come to school every day.

  Mizuki's face was a little pogrustnelo when she heard Tatsuya's answer. However, she quickly hid it behind a smile.

  Got it. But I'm glad you'll come at least sometimes.

  After the words of Mizuki, prosunuvshajasja through the window into the corridor of Eric nodded, saying, "aha-aha ".

  "Even if you are only a " escort "Miyuki, and you leave immediately as you came, it will be normal. In fact, if Tatsuya-kun is not at all, then there is some sense of dissatisfaction.

  "Escort " Miyuki?

  Tatsuya could not resist the curve of the smile, hearing the words of Erica, completely ignoring the meaning of school attendance.

  But what Eric said was unexpectedly true.

  -By the way Tatsuya, Sakura is very bad?

  Leo worried lack of mines because she was a koha from the club.

  -the doctor says that complications should not remain. But it's going to take a little time.

  -Clear...

  Leo was worried about the state of mines, and Tatsuya was not only concerned about it.

  Of course, the very desire for full recovery was not a lie. But at the same time Tacuju caring the question of what to do with the protection of Miyuki.

  Yesterday she went to school and from school alone. It is quite rare to meet a person who can harm Miyuki, whether it be a magician or a non-magician. Besides, Tatsuya can protect Miyuki even when he's not around.

  However, there are also problems that can be avoided only by having an assistant close by. Even for the Jocuba family it will be difficult to send people to the school grounds. No, it may be possible to send a person to the school staff, but it is impossible to prepare so quickly a pupil who will always be there. And to be an escort only during the hikes to and from school, Tatsuya thought before it was voiced by Eric.

  Tatsuya returned (?) to the first school, not because the excitement of the "Dion project" has calmed down. Last week Tatsuya started countermeasures, so the hype was, on the contrary, heated.

  The fact that the journalists were no longer crowded around the first school was a consequence of that shooting incident.

  Since Silver Taurus's identity has already been disclosed, they did not have to risk their lives to gather information.

  Now it seemed that the excitement, which began in the vicinity of Tatsuya, spread to a global scale. Among the four largest states, the new Soviet Union took the side of the "Project Dion ", and the Indo-Persijskij union, though not made an official statement from the Government, but clearly demonstrated the position of support "project escapes " Tatsuya.

  The Great Asian Alliance has not yet disclosed its position.

  Among other countries: in Europe, mainly support "project Dion "; Countries from West Asia to south-East Asia support project escapes; Brazil and Australia, like the Great Asian Alliance, do not disclose their attitude.

  The fact that both "camps " Do not publicly show hostile attitude makes the situation quite confusing. The thing is that both projects, and "Dion ", and "escapes " coincide in terms of peaceful use of magic. And both projects do not bear the principled position that the enemy should be expelled. Judging by the published materials, the implementation of "project Dion " will not make it impossible to move the project "escapes ", and vice versa. There is only one problem: the same wizards will not be able to participate in two projects at the same time.

  With the recognition that these two projects can coexist, the unfolded war of propaganda between Tacuej and Clark moved forward with a plumb to the side of Tatsuya. It was not the superiority of the intellect Tatsuya over Clark, but was related to the advantage of the "crates response * ". This war was not a competition where there is a judge. Whether it is delays or fraud, but only victory is important.

  [Explanation from the explanatory dictionary for the word used: "Wait and see the enemy's move, before making your move (for example, in stone-scissors-paper see what the opponent will show before you show your answer) "]

  And in the Battle of arguments Edward Clark hoped to go a bypass, using political influence.

  At the time when the first school had already been in first lesson, the commander of Brigade 1-0-1 of the self-Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Saeki Hiromi visited the office building of the Ministry of Defence. There was also a joint headquarters of the Japanese Navy, but the purpose of its today's visit was the Civic section.

  Saeki back to the base before noon. Going into his office of the Commander, she called the Kazakh.

  — ... Tacuju, that is, Mister Shibu Tacuju...

  "No need to be corrected, Lieutenant colonel.

  So interrupting someone else's speech was not like a normal saeki. She didn't even try to hide her bad mood.

  The Kazakh did not puzzled, but rather amused, and he was forced to make great efforts to restrain himself from smiling.

  — ... Beg your pardon. So you were told to persuade Tacuju to take part in the Dion project?

  — The head of the Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no authority to give me orders.

  In the conference hall of the Ministry of Defence, Saeki met with the head of the Department of Foreign Affairs of North America. As Saeki said, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no authority to give orders to the self-defense forces. Everything that was said in the conference room was in the form of a request. But the words spoken in the presence of the Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, in fact, were coercion, or, in other words, an order.

  The military do not like to violate their command system. And the officers have such a stronger manifestation, and Saeki was no exception. Her bad mood was largely explained by this.

  Was this request voiced to Your Excellency, because Tatsuya is a special officer Ooguro Ruuja?

  It looks like it.

  Kazama sighed, not hiding it from the Saeki, who had been a dissatisfied face.

  -it seems that the bureaucrats do not know very well, for what qualities Tatsuo was assigned the title of "Special Officer * ".

  [In the original of this rank 2 writing, abbreviated and complete. Full (ÌØ„ÕÊ¿¹Ù) literally means "officer, acting special duties ". In this case, it was mentioned as a complete one. And the short was made by analogy with the Dvuhsimvolnymi Japanese Military ranks: ÌØξ-a special officer, ´óξ-captain, ÖÐξ-Senior lieutenant.]

  -The status of a special Officer Ooguro in a certain sense outlawed. It's no surprise that office clerks don't know about him.

  As Saeki said, in the current self-defense Forces there was no such title as "special Officer ". To begin with, if you look from a historical point of view, then call Tacuju "special Officer " wrong. It would be more appropriate for him to be called a "militia who has been treated as an officer assigned to the regular army under normal conditions, not temporarily." Since there was no corresponding term for this concept, it was simply called a "special officer" for convenience.

  Therefore, those who did not know the real situation, based on the original meaning of the concept of "officer with special duties ", perceived Tacuju as an ordinary soldier.

  "I think they should know because they are office workers under the jurisdiction of the official legal system.

  Legal problems were solved by self-defense forces themselves, but this problem was "illegal ". The existing system requires the consent of the bureaucrats, so it will be impossible to justify the negligence of the Ministry of Defense officials by saying that they did not know.

  "You're right about that, Lieutenant colonel, but now we have other problems.

  I beg your pardon. The problem is whether we can persuade Tacuju and whether we should be persuaded. Isn't it?

  Apologizing that deviated from the topic, Kazama listed two problems.

  Right.

  Saeki nodded to him.

  — First of all, does the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs understand that Tatsuya is the operator of the "explosion of matter "?

  -based on the feelings of today's conversation, they did not come to them.

  Clear. If that is the case, I can understand why they gave such an absurd order.

  Tatsuya was the greatest magical military force Japan possessed. No, not only the magic, the greatest of all possible forces. The Joker, alone changing the entire World War balance, the fifth ace, creating the strongest hand *.

  [Poker terminology. "Hand " is a combination of 5 cards received in hands.]

  Although the use of such a problem person as "Joker " may be prohibited by rules, but in this world its use is not prohibited. And nobody in his right mind wants to part with him. If they know that Tatsuya is the strongest magician in the strategic class, they will not even think of joining the Dion project.

  "Instead, how about registering Tatsuya as the 14th " Apostle "?

  On the face of Saeki came a surprise. But the silent pause lasted not long.

  — ... That's not a bad idea.

  "Your Excellency?"

  This time came turn Kazama wonder. Because he was just joking.

  "If things worsen even more, we may have to consider this option. If it becomes obvious that he is a magician of strategic class, officials will stop saying that he should be transferred to SSHSA.

  It is so, but...

  -Well, it depends on how the situation will develop. We will deal with problems as they appear.

  Having said that, Saeki made a tired face.

  "And if you temporarily put a question, right or wrong, Lieutenant Colonel Kazama, do you think you could persuade Shibu-kun?

  It's impossible.

  He would not be able to advise Tatsuo to go to America, even if it was possible. Therefore Kazama immediately replied that the attempts of persuasion are useless.

  "Besides, I can't say that Tatsuya has a good relationship with us right now. And my own mistake, when the other day we were caught behind the hidden video footage, only added more suspicion.

  "It was a mistake of my calculations too. In any case, if we try to convince, then success can not wait, but on the contrary, as a result it will only worsen our relationship with him.

  That's what I think.

  Saeki had no objection to the judgement of Kazama.

  — Then, do you think, will we be able to win the favor of Sheba-kun, rejecting the demand of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?

  -Hmm... Who knows...

  On the other hand, Kazama not agree with the idea of Saeki.

  "Whatever we do, Tatsuya won't take part in the Dion project." I don't think he's going to be particularly grateful. Wouldn't it be a better choice to do nothing at all?

  -it is clear...

  Saeki looked down at her hands and pondered. Kazama stood motionless in front of her table and waited for her to say.

  I'll follow your advice.

  You mean you're not going to do anything?

  Yes. The demand of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was not voiced in the proper form, but unofficially. There will be no problems if neglected by them.

  Kazama decided that at least Saeki said so, but she probably planned to ignore the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the very beginning. It was summoned to ask the opinion whether it was possible to benefit from this case, deserved the gratitude of Tatsuya. At least that's what Kazama understood.

  -Lieutenant colonel, thank you for your help, you are free.

  There. Beg your pardon.

  Kazama out of the commander's office.

  At first Kazama thought that it was necessary to tell Tatsuo, but quickly gave up this idea.

  The intentions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or self-Defense forces for Tatsuya are irrelevant. This cannot be a material for restoring relationships.

  Instead it was necessary to confirm the opinion of Tatsuya about registration by the fourteenth "Apostle ", as the conversation about it could become a reality at any moment.