Volume 32.5 - Epilogue

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Epilogue 

The two who entered a high school that teaches magic as a brother, that is an imperfect irregular student, and as a sister, who is a flawless honor student, had graduated. 

Not as brother and sister, but engaged to each other. 

Not as an inferior student, but as an outstanding student. 

As an honor student that remained as an honor student until the end. 

Was already mentioned what happened to Tatsuya and Miyuki and the people involved with them, but let's look back again here. 

While Tatsuya entered the Magic University, he only minimally attends the lectures and spends most of his time in his laboratory in Miyakijima. He often quit midway through the course, and his credits were not good, and he was definitely a poor student in terms of grades at the university. 

Unlike Tatsuya, Miyuki continues to be an honor student in the university. However, she and Tatsuya act separately more and more often than not, and Miyuki, who had envisioned a "campus life for both of them", was getting frustrated in that regard. 

Lina, who was entrusted with the role of escorting Miyuki, is always with her at the Magic University. Because of that, the two of them, Miyuki and Lina, were secretly referred to as the "white lily and the golden lily" and were eye candy and a target of delusions of the other students. 

Honoka and Shizuku have no distinctive university life at the University of Magic. However, outside of the university, Shizuku began to attend meetings related to the Stellar Reactor Plant, which is sponsored by the Kitayama family, as a substitute for her father, and Honoka began to accompany her as a caretaker and bodyguard during those meetings. And, of course, in Miyakijima too. 

In addition to quietly attending the University of Magic, Erika also travels around Japan on long vacations. Her father told her that she "should train in Japan before the rest of the world" - or rather, he had talked her out of it after an argument. Just before her first summer vacation, she furiously said, "I'll beat that shitty dad before I graduate from college". 

Leo became alienated from his friends from First High. Erika is not happy about it —though she never talks about it. The magical-related knowledge he learned at the High School associated with the Magic University is of little use in his classes at Rescue Academy. There's a lot to remember, and it seems that he's desperate to become a full-fledged rescuer. 

Perhaps the most drastic development was the relationship between Mizuki and Mikihiko. At some point, Mizuki began to attend a vocational school from Mikihiko's parents' house. Rather than living together as a couple, she began to help Mikihiko and with his family's work as she learned about ancient magic. 

Mizuki's house and Mikihiko's parents' house were close to each other, but, in this day and age it was safer for a young girl to stay there than for her to come home late. So she became a live-in at the Yoshida family's house. 

Mizuki's parents had taken the stance that as long as they "take proper responsibility", Mikihiko's father was more confused than Mizuki and Mikihiko when he heard that statement. 

After losing a fist fight with Tatsuya, Masaki was treated by the First High doctor, Asuka Satomi, after that incident, and in April, without any particular hospitalization, he was successfully admitted to the Magic University. He did not completely give up on Miyuki because of the fight with Tatsuya; he takes advantage of Tatsuya's frequent absence to approach Miyuki and is repeatedly chased away by Lina, without learning a lesson. 

Meanwhile, a young girl often enters and leaves the room that Masaki rented for attending the University. When it's said "frequently", it doesn't mean every day or three times a week, in the true sense of the word. But if the other person is a high school student that lives in Kanazawa, you could say "frequently" if it happens even once every two weeks. 

Two beautiful girls come and go in Masaki's room. One of them is his oldest sister, Ichijou Akane, who is in the third year of junior high school. The other, however, is not a blood relative. If you put aside the fact that she is only a third year junior high school student, just like Akane, she was someone who would be considered a concerning company by a third party. 

The identity of the beautiful girl who travelled a long way to Masaki's room with Akane, or rather escorted by Akane, is Liú Lì L?i. She is a former National Recognized Strategic-Class Magician who defected to Japan from the Great Asian Union. 

Liú Lì L?i currently resides with the Ichijou family and attends the same school as Akane. 

And naturally, she is remotely monitored by the National Defense Force. 

Naturally, when she visits Masaki's room, she is also monitored from a distance. Although accompanied by his sister, a high school girl from Kanazawa commuting to a male university student's home in Tokyo may be a morally dangerous picture, but the fact that it's not a problem under the military's surveillance is, so to speak, like an official recognition of the same. Perhaps the National Defense Force thinks that if Masaki continues to be a close friend of Liú Lì L?i, they can incorporate this exiled strategic level magician into the Japanese war effort. 

Speaking of Strategic-Class Magicians, Major General Saeki's plan for a treaty to control strategic class magicians was eventually abandoned without being signed. Germany, France, and the Greater Alliance moved to promote it, but the USNA, the New Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom, which had promised to cooperate with them in the first place, strongly opposed it, so no agreement was reached. 

Perhaps not so much because of this, but because the countries of continental Europe, especially Germany and France, are tightening their hold in regards to magicians. 

Saeki was dispatched to Hokkaido and returned to Tokyo within a year, but by then her influence had been wiped out from the central government. 

The Independent Magic-Equipped Battalion was expanded and reorganized into the Independent Magic-Equipped Regiment, and Lieutenant Colonel Kazama, Saeki's confidant, was promoted to colonel and then appointed regimental commander. In return, he was asked by the army commander-in-chief, General Soga, to cut ties with Saeki, and Kazama accepted this condition. 

Kazama's subordinates from his battalion days, Sanada, Yanagi, and Yamanaka, remained in the Independence Magic-Equipped Regiment, while Fujibayashi, his second in command, retired from service in the National Defense Force. 

After removing her military uniform, Fujibayashi accepted Maya's invitation to move in with the Yotsuba family. While working on the "Information Network Research", a project given to her personally by Maya, the head of the family, she often works with Tatsuya and is considered a member of his team. 

Two years of seemingly peaceful days passed in this way. 

And two years later. The last year of the twenty-first century. 

The year 2100 AD. 

Miyuki and Lina come to Miyaki Island just as the spring vacation begins. 

"We have a new option for you to choose, other than keeping you sleeping. You can choose this option or go back to sleep. I wanted to make sure you had a choice." 

"A new option, is it…?" 

Minoru repeated Tatsuya's words with a look of disbelief on his face. 

"If you're willing to listen to me, follow me." 

Tatsuya signals Miyuki and Lina out of the room —out of the special underground prison first. 

Tatsuya, who had his back turned, turned around, holding the open door with his hand. 

Tatsuya, with his back facing, held the open door in his hand and turned around. 

Minoru stepped a feet out hesitantly, and Minami followed him. 

The place Tatsuya had taken Minoru and Minami to was not the West Bank area where the Yotsuba family's facilities were clustered, nor was it the East Bank area where the plants were lined up. 

It was the south bank area where no buildings had yet been built, just a flat, cleared area. 

A large submarine, about 170 meters long and a maximum width of about 20 meters, is landed there. 

"What the hell is this…?" 

"The name is "Takachiho". It was converted into a spaceship from the new Soviet Union's "Kutuzov" submarine that I sank in an attack on this island three years ago. Even though I said that is a spaceship, it only has a small thrust, enough to maintain itself in the earth's satellite orbit." 

"…What the hell are you going to do with something this big?" 

"I will use it as a satellite orbital station. No, it's more appropriate to call it a space residence than a space station." 

"Are you going to launch this into… space? How the hell… you are going to do that?" 

"We're magicians. So the means is already assured."