The Honor at Magic High School (魔法科高校の優等生)

Y-Yeah, just a little.

See you later!

Oh...

Sorry, Miyuki, but we're doing this for you and Tatsuya-san!

I'm sorry. I wasn't able to learn anything from them.

There's no reason for you to apologize.

I do believe they're hiding something,

but I can't very well question them without any proof.

But I'm also worried about those two.

It's all right.

Those two are your friends, right? They'll open up to you eventually.

Friends?

Shiba-kun...

Hello.

Or should I say "nice to meet you"?

I guess so. Nice to meet you, Mibu-senpai, was it?

I'm Mibu Sayaka. In Class E. The same as you, Shiba-kun.

Thank you for saving me at the doujou.

I'd like to thank you properly as well as talk to you about something.

Would you mind hanging out with me for a bit?

Onii-sama... I wonder what he talked about with Mibu-senpai.

U-U-Um... Ever since the first moment we met...

Shiba-kun...

I lo-lo-lo...

Wh-What are you thinking, Miyuki?

Well, Onii-sama is good-looking,

so it's no wonder that women are attracted to him.

But when we're at home, I want Onii-sama to belong only to me.

To make that happen...

I must become the kind of sister who's worthy of him!

But...

I do want to make his heart stop. Just a little.

Is this a bit cliché?

Now, this certainly won't do!

Like we're at a highland resort!

This isn't the kind of outfit you should be wearing at home, right?

It's kind of like the energetic Erika!

My stomach!

Now, this should give him a jolt, right?

Thank you for waiting, Onii-sama.

What's going on? It's not even New Year's.

Ara, but...

just getting to be near Onii-sama...

makes every day feel like a holiday!

Now, that's too heavy!

That's no good!

I'd only be subjecting Onii-sama to unnecessary psychological pressure!

Ah, jeez!

What am I supposed to do?

What happened? Are you okay?

Miyuki...

"Student Council Office"

So? Tatsuya-kun?

Is it true that you verbally abused second year Mibu Sayaka yesterday at the café?

Verbally abused?

Details! Mari! More details!

Those are false accusations.

Oh? Is that so?

I have witnesses who observed Mibu blushing red and looking embarrassed.

Verbal abuse...

Onii-sama...

What happened between you and Mibu-senpai?

Freezing Magic without a CAD!?

Your interference power must be unusually potent.

Sorry! I went a little overboard!

Calm down, Miyuki. I'll explain everything to you.

I'm so sorry.

Mibu-senpai asked to talk to me, partly so she could thank me for the incident at the doujou.

But from what I heard from her, she's seriously biased against the Disciplinary Committee.

The Disciplinary Committee?

She said that the reason you cracked down so hard that day

was to score points for the Disciplinary Committee.

I see. She really has it in for us.

I told her she was mistaken about us scoring points...

but I couldn't get her to believe me.

For students disgruntled with the status quo, a conspiracy seems reassuring, after all.

Even if it's totally false.

Am I imagining things?

What the president just said... It's like she knows something.

She also... voiced her strong displeasure with the way students are discriminated against on the basis of their magic grades.

Non-magic-oriented clubs are being discriminated against.

So, they've united and are planning to present their argument to the school

that magic isn't everything.

But...

Senpai, I have a question for you.

You're going to present your argument to the school. And then what?

Eh?

I didn't get a chance to hear her answer, but that comment about scoring points...

She seems to be wildly delusional.

I agree.

Either delusional or else she's being manipulated by someone else.

Watanabe-senpai seems uncomfortable, too.

No question about it! The Student Council definitely knows something!

And Nakajou-senpai is feigning ignorance, but actually...

By "someone else," do you mean...

an organization like Blanche for example?

Huh?

How do you know that name?

"Blanche"?

Ah...

She doesn't know!

It doesn't look like it'll do any good keeping it from you.

This school has been infiltrated by the international anti-magic political organization, Blanche.

Onii-sama, you knew!

What's been happening at this school and the fact that you were attacked by Blanche...

But he didn't say a word that day.

He wouldn't talk to me.

The reason is probably...

Onii-sama's always cherished me above all.

And because of that...

he's always been willing to get hurt himself.

Sorry. I can see that not telling you ended up worrying you more.

Cabinet name "Blanche," open.

The international anti-magic political organization, Blanche, is behind this.

On the surface, they help out grassroots campaigns,

but underneath it all, they're bona fide terrorists.

Advocating the end of discrimination,

they decry the fact that competent magicians receive superior social standing.

Those people attacked Onii-sama and First High?

Those unable to wield magic and those with inferior magic skills

wrap their jealousy and realities in an idea called "equality," and toy with weak souls.

That's Blanche's modus operandi.

Then, the reason they targeted First High...

Just because they have inferior grades in magic,

they're looked down upon as "Weeds" and regarded with contempt.

Right now, that's par for the course at First High which is truly a microcosm of society.

Blanche is taking advantage of that.

Good or bad, magic is a power.

Just like financial or military might.

There's no way that magical might can expand in a society that rejects magic.

In other words, by rejecting magic, they mean to make it obsolete,

and ultimately drain the country of its power.

Is that Blanche's final goal?

Probably.

And there's no way that the Ten Master Clans will ignore them.

Especially the Yotsuba Clan.

Worst case, they'll launch a purge, and we could be dragged into all that.

No, I guess "be dragged into it" is an understatement.

If it's the Yotsuba Clan...

If it's Oba-sama...

It's possible that they might use us as their pawns.

Right before the eyes of the other Ten Master Clans, the Saegusa and Juumonji clans.

If that were to happen...

We couldn't remain high school students, could we?

We'd have to go back to being Yotsuba.

You don't have to be afraid.

No matter how many come after us, I won't let anyone destroy our daily lives.

Onii-sama...

If push comes to shove,

I'll take care of it before the Yotsuba Clan can make a move.

Thank you very much.

This daily life Onii-sama's trying to protect

is also something that I'd like to protect.

And when the time comes, I, too...

The three of us may have been born on different days...

But we'll be together in death!

No, that's not right.

The captain of the Kendou Club, Tsukasa Kinoe.

Although there's no question that he's the one who attacked Tatsuya-san...

...he still hasn't shown his tail.

But today of all days, we're going to get our hands on irrefutable proof!