Magical inferiority: quantum control Chapter 010

“Twenty times?”

“That’s not right!”

“It really isn’t right!”

The three girls analyzed, each speaking a line.

“If it was just a simple increase in your personal mass, even if you couldn’t get up, you wouldn’t be unable to speak a single word.”

Ichihara Suzune rewound the video, pointing at the scene where Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō’s mouth was open but no sound came out.

“…”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō’s mouth twitched.

[Is it really okay for you to repeatedly flog my corpse in front of me?]

Complaining was complaining, and thinking in his heart was thinking in his heart, but it was impossible for him to say it out loud.

“At that time, my legs were already comminuted fractures, I had internal bleeding, and the immense physical burden already prevented me from making any sound. Just making that open-mouthed gesture exhausted all my strength.”

As he spoke, Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō, who had sobered up, also felt that something was amiss.

“This couldn’t be achieved with just a twenty-fold weight amplification!”

Saegusa Mayumi murmured.

“Mm!”

Nakajō Azusa also looked at the screen, nodding in agreement with Saegusa Mayumi’s opinion.

“So the problem lies here!”

Ichihara Suzune took out a notebook and started recording something.

“Vice President, please describe your feelings at that time again. Recall carefully, try not to miss any details.”

Ichihara Suzune looked at Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō and said.

“I remember feeling instantly breathless at that moment, and my raised arm uncontrollably dropped rapidly. My body couldn’t support itself and collapsed in an instant. Then came intense pain, accompanied by a strong sense of dizziness that invaded me. My mind felt somewhat unclear, and my internal organs felt like they had been violently smashed by a large iron hammer. I had an urge to vomit blood, but I couldn’t spit it out even with my mouth open.”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō frowned, recalling seriously.

“You didn’t want to vomit blood but couldn’t; rather, the blood was affected by the magic, trapped within your body, and simply couldn’t come out.”

Ichihara Suzune meticulously recorded, while also analyzing.

“Mm, that should be it.”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō nodded.

“But don’t you find it strange?”

Nakajō Azusa interjected.

“If it was just simple gravity magic, then Vice President, you shouldn’t have sustained such severe injuries!”

“And you shouldn’t have had no ability to resist at all!”

Nakajō Azusa continued to analyze.

“Indeed!”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō nodded. He had been so shocked at the time that he wasn’t thinking clearly. Now, upon careful reflection, it was probably not as simple as just gravity magic as he had perceived.

“It’s certain that he definitely activated other magic, but we don’t know, or rather, it’s a type of magic we’ve never seen before!”

Saegusa Mayumi murmured, looking at the screen.

“Never seen?”

“Could it be magic he created himself?”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō exclaimed in surprise.

“Mm, that’s the only possibility.”

Ichihara Suzune also agreed with this view.

“And don’t you think he activated his magic too quickly?”

“It was unreasonably fast!”

Saegusa Mayumi pointed at Chiba Yūya in the video with a serious expression.

“Is it possible that he started early?”

Ichihara Suzune tried to find a reasonable explanation.

“Impossible!”

Upon hearing Ichihara Suzune’s analysis, Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō immediately shook his head.

“At that time, I was fully focused on the coin and Chiba Yūya. If he had activated magic beforehand, I would have sensed the psion waves. But there were none. I can attest to this!”

“Even if he could easily conceal psion waves, he wouldn’t go to such unnecessary lengths. I could genuinely perceive the psion waves when he activated his magic at that time.”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō was certain that Chiba Yūya had not cheated. He lost, and that was that. He wasn’t so pathetic as to deny it.

Hearing this, the three girls fell silent again.

“Moreover, his subsequent healing magic is also very interesting and worth studying.”

Seeing that she couldn’t analyze anything else, Ichihara Suzune fast-forwarded the video to the scene where Chiba Yūya healed Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō.

Chiba Yūya raised his hand, and a blue light flashed. The pain on Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō’s face in the video disappeared, leaving only a dazed expression. Clearly, his severe injuries had healed.

“Mm, it should also be original magic!”

Saegusa Mayumi’s smile grew even wider.

[Man, you’ve truly piqued my curiosity!]

“It seems this magic is quite high-level, at least A-rank or higher.”

“After all, the Vice President’s physical condition at that time could be said to be terrible.”

“Even the school’s healing teachers would have to put in some effort.”

Nakajō Azusa said, looking at the blue light at the tip of Chiba Yūya’s finger, which was frozen on the screen.

“A-rank?”

Ichihara Suzune murmured.

[After the Nine Schools Competition is the Thesis Competition.]

[A genius who can independently develop new magic might give me some new ideas.]

[I must make him help me!]

[And I happen to have a favor he owes me.]

Thinking of this, Ichihara Suzune’s lips curved into a smile.

“Bang!”

The student council door opened again, and a short-haired girl with black hair walked in.

“What are you all doing?”

The girl curiously looked at the group gathered together.

“Eh?”

“What is this?”

“Pfft!”

“Is this Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō?”

The girl finally saw Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō lying on the ground on the screen.

Although she was somewhat shocked, she also found it normal. Every year, some prodigies would enroll, just like Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō; he was a prodigy of his class.

[Another person knows…]

[Forget it, whatever happens, happens!]

[As long as you all are happy!]

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō thought numbly.

“Mari, are you done with your work over there?”

Saegusa Mayumi asked in surprise.

She remembered that Watanabe Mari was even busier than they were here.

“How could that be?”

“I came to ask you for someone!”

Watanabe Mari found a seat and sat down.

“By the way, who is this guy?”

“Huh?”

“Why does he look somewhat familiar?”

The more Watanabe Mari looked at the person, the more she felt like she had seen him somewhere before.

[Where exactly have I seen him?]

Watanabe Mari inadvertently glanced at Saegusa Mayumi.

[Oh!]

[It’s him!]

“So it’s him!”

Watanabe Mari said, stood up, rewound the video, and watched the entire process. The more she watched, the more solemn her expression became.

“This is our analysis!”

Ichihara Suzune handed over the notebook.

Watanabe Mari read it through, then said, “You missed one point. Don’t forget, he didn’t use a CAD at that time!”

Watanabe Mari said this with a serious expression.

As her words fell, the scene instantly fell silent.

“How terrifying, this guy!”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō sighed, somewhat.

He was thoroughly defeated anyway, and he no longer cared. With just the two, no, possibly three original magic spells Chiba Yūya displayed, he couldn’t decipher them.

Who knew how many other things this guy was hiding?

“Moreover, since he said it was twenty times gravity, but in my opinion, the pressure you endured was at least thirty times as much!”

Watanabe Mari said, looking at Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō.

“We know all that, but what does that explain?”

“We all know he used other magic, but we can’t see it!”

“It’s not magic within the system at all.”

Nakajō Azusa said helplessly.

“But we can analyze what kind of magic he used!”

Watanabe Mari chuckled softly.

“Hmm?”

“Mari, are you serious?”

Saegusa Mayumi’s eyes lit up. Her previous analyses all seemed unreasonable.

“Of course!”

Watanabe Mari said confidently.

“On the surface, it just looks like the Vice President fell, nothing more, but in reality, it’s not.”

“You all, if he manipulated something to collide with the Vice President, wouldn’t the pressure he endured indirectly increase?”

Watanabe Mari asked, looking at the others.

“This…”

The four looked at each other.

Indeed!

How did they not think of that?

“Geocentric gravity!”

Prompted by Watanabe Mari, the four immediately thought of it and said in unison.

“No wonder I suddenly felt the floor was so hard, like I was hit by an iron hammer!”

Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō suddenly realized.

“This person…”

“I want this person!”

Before Saegusa Mayumi could finish, Watanabe Mari directly spoke up, claiming him.

“You’re being a bit excessive, you know!”

Saegusa Mayumi revealed a mischievous smile.

“President, save your charming face for Chiba Yūya-kun!”

“Maybe you can even capture a little husband~”

Watanabe Mari teased.

“You rascal!”

“You already have… Mmph mph mph…”

Seeing Saegusa Mayumi starting to run her mouth, Watanabe Mari quickly covered her mouth.

The three people nearby immediately went into gossip mode.

Elaborate! Tell us more!

“Ding!”

It was the sound of school dismissal.

“So, we didn’t do anything this whole afternoon?”

This sudden sound startled Saegusa Mayumi.

“It seems that way, indeed…”

Nakajō Azusa said slowly.

“You can’t say that, we still have this!”

Ichihara Suzune waved the notebook in her hand.

“Hmph!”

“It’s all his fault!”

“Let’s go, let’s go block him outside!”

“Let’s capture him and make him our coolie!”

Saegusa Mayumi said, about to rush outside.

Suddenly, her figure paused, as if she thought of something. She turned to look at everyone present and asked, “Now, if I invite him to join the student council, to become a student council member, do you have any objections?”

“No!”

“I agree!”

“Such a talent must be brought over!”

“Once he’s here, let me use him for a few days!”

Above were the replies from Hattori Gyōbu Shōsuke Hanzō, who had been defeated, Nakajō Azusa, who was shocked, Ichihara Suzune, who was somewhat expectant, and Watanabe Mari, who came to recruit strong labor, respectively.

“Then come with me and let’s go capture him!”