Even with the accident in the small gymnasium, it didn't stop everyone's enthusiasm for the recruitment week. Every club in the First High School worked their hardest to invite a new student into their clubs, but if there was one thing that changed, then it was probably someone who had become so famous that the entire school knew about her name.
Erika Chiba.
That name caused a lot of terror in the school, and many students became scared because of this girl wielding a metal bat-shaped CAD. She was like a fish that had returned to the water. In other words, she was so invincible that no one could defeat her, and she received a unique nickname...
"Oni (demon), that's your nickname now, right?" Haru looked at Erika, who had lunch in the student council room.
"That's not my nickname?! How the hell can I get that kind of nickname?! I'm a beautiful girl, you know?!" Erika cried out when she thought that her nickname was something uncute, like an "Oni."
"Isn't it because you happen to smack one male student on his most vulnerable part?" Haru said.
Everyone then quickly blushed, but then they also looked at Erika speechless.
"Th - That wasn't my fault! It was an accident!" Erika blushed and knew that it was her fault, but there was nothing that she could do since it had happened.
"Hmm... Erika, who created your metal bat-shaped CAD?" Azusa asked, after all, how powerful that metal bat-shaped CAD was, and it was so unique and powerful that it made her curious who had made that CAD.
"It's Haru's," Erika said.
"Eh?!"
Everyone was dumbfounded.
"Haru, did you ask Silver Taurus to make that CAD?" Azusa asked in excitement.
Miyuki raised her eyebrow and knew that it wasn't her brother who had that metal bat-shaped CAD. After all, her brother wanted to look at Erika's CAD, but Erika didn't allow her brother, which was pretty much a normal thing. After all, a magician's CAD couldn't be touched carelessly since if it was messed up, it could cost a magician's life, though she didn't know that. After all, she didn't know her brother had asked Erika to look into her CAD.
But Erika's reaction was quite normal. After all, there was no chance when Tatsuya could show his ability since all of that chance had been erased by Haru, so Erika didn't know how powerful Tatsuya was.
"No, I did that myself," Haru said.
"Eh?" Everyone was surprised by his words.
"Re - Really?!" Azusa was still full of excitement.
Haru nodded and said, "Well, I have made a lot of weird-shaped CADs. I have kept the photo on my phone. Do you want to see it?"
"Yes, please!" Azusa said without hesitation and rushed toward Haru to see all the weird-shaped CADs that he had developed.
"Still, why did you make something like metal bat-shaped CAD?" Mari asked with confusion.
"There's no particular reason. I thought it was interesting, so I made it, but it seems Erika loves it," Haru said.
"Oh, this thing is amazing!" Erika said happily while holding the metal bat-shaped CAD that Haru had developed. With that CAD, she might not be satisfied with her small and thin baton again since Haru's thick and long CAD was more amazing.
"Still, I didn't expect you to have engineering skills, Haru," Suzune said while looking at Haru curiously.
"Well, it is just a hobby for me," Haru said.
"You don't need to be so modest. Your customized CAD is amazing, you know," Suzune said while looking at the metal bat-shaped CAD.
"How about we talk about something else now? Erika, I have heard that you have fought with Mibu-senpai. Is that true?" Haru, of course, remembered the beautiful girl in the small gymnasium before, so he was quite surprised when he heard that Erika and Mibu were in an argument yesterday.
Mayumi looked at Haru curiously and asked, "Haru, do you know Mibu?"
Miyuki raised her eyebrow and said, "You know too many girls, right?"
"........"
"Don't misunderstand, I happened to be with Erika on the conflict in the small gymnasium, don't you remember? Of course, I remember Mibu-senpai who fought Kirihara-senpai that day," Haru said.
Everyone nodded when they heard his explanation, but Erika snorted and said, "Say, didn't you just remember her because she was beautiful?"
"........."
Haru was speechless.
"Well, I won't tease you, but that Mibu-senpai is just too troublesome..." Erika explained how Mibu talked to her and invited her to the kendo club while also telling her about the discrimination that happened in Course 2.
Everyone who listened especially Mari and Mayumi, couldn't help but frown.
"Because of that, the image of the Moral Committee seemed to be very bad, not that I care, though," Erika said since she wasn't as weak as Mibu and knew that she was powerful, which was why she didn't care about the discrimination on the Course 2. If someone mocked her, she could beat them up since she was a member of the Moral Committee, which she was glad about.
Haru looked at Mayumi's reaction and said, "Senpai, don't you think that it is weird? I mean, why now? Why do it a lot of rumors about the Moral Committee have received a bad rumor so quickly? Why does it seem that someone instigated this matter as if Mibu-senpai is being... manipulated?"
"........." Everyone's expression started to change when they heard Haru's words.
Mayumi had an awkward smile and said, "As expected, you have noticed it so fast, Haru, but I just don't want to think that someone among the students has instigated this matter."
"Well, Senpai, it doesn't have to be the students who have instigated this matter, and I don't think that they have the ability to think of an idea to spread a rumor around the school," Haru said.
"Say, Haru, please don't round away about it. Do you know who has instigated the matter at the school?" Mari asked.
"Well, it's probably Blanche," Haru said.
"Blanche?!"
If it was someone else, they might doubt where this person heard the name "Blanche," but the one who said it was Haru, a member of 18 Assistant House, so they didn't feel that much surprised.
Blanche is an international anti-magic political organization whose manifesto called for an end to political systems that treated magicians as superior and eliminated the difference in treatment caused by the presence of magical abilities.
"Erika has told me that someone has attacked her before, and they have this strange bracelet on their wrist, and if I'm not wrong, they should be "Egalite," which is a youth group of the Blanche," Haru said.
"Heh, they're too weak to hurt me, but they're very good at running away, which makes me very annoyed." Erika couldn't help but feel furious when she was attacked before. "Say, Haru, can you catch them? Or do you know where their headquarters are, and I can catch them directly."
"Calm down. Right now, they're scattered, and they're not in a place. For now, I want them to think that they have an advantage and then wait for them to gather together before catching them in one swoop, so they will realize that they have made a wrong enemy. Even if we have caught them, the rumor, the discrimination, and the inferiority that the majority of the students on Course 2 feel won't disappear." Haru then looked at Mayumi and said, "Mayumi-senpai, with the way the government did, it is very inefficient, so I have to do it myself, so sorry for not telling you beforehand."
Mayumi became depressed and lowered her head. "It's true that there are people who are against magic, but we've been avoiding confrontation with these people. No, we have been running away."
Haru twitched his lips and didn't really want to make Mayumi sad, and he had to admit that most women were quite unsuitable to become a leader since they were very emotional, not all the women, though since they had always been an exception. "There's no helping it from your position as president."
"Eh?" Mayumi was surprised then looked at Haru.
"With this place as a national institution, we must abide by the country's laws, so we will have to do this secretly," Haru.
There was a light blush on Mayumi's face, looking at Haru shyly and asking, "Haru, are you consoling me?"
"B - But Prez, Haru is the one who is pressing you..." Azusa reminded Mayumi unsurely.
"Drive them into a corner, then follow through. You're quite the master gigolo. It seems that Mayumi was completely ensnared." Mari laughed.
"Ma - Mari! Don't say strange things like that!" Mayumi's face was covered in blush.
"......" Erika and Miyuki stared at Haru, and their eyes were very unkind at this moment.
"Cough! Cough!" Haru quickly attracted everyone's attention and said, "Let's continue our conversation since I know that they will attack our high school in the future."
"!!!"
Everyone was dumbfounded.
"Ar - Are you sure with that news, Haru?" Mayumi asked with a serious expression.
Haru nodded and said, "Yes, if possible, let's invite Juumonji-senpai so we can prepare since we can't expect the governor to do something and if we tell the governor, there's a chance that the news might be known by the Blanche since there is still a lot number of people who hate Magicians."
Looking at Haru, they nodded with a serious expression and started their meeting to stop the terrorist attack that might happen on the school.
"Don't show such a serious expression, in the end, they're just a terrorist, a rat that is hiding on the sewer, nothing less, nothing more, but more importantly Mayumi-senpai, you should use this chance to stop the discrimination," Haru said while looking at Mayumi.
Mayumi looked at Haru's eyes and nodded without hesitation. "Yes."
The terrorist group didn't realize now that their plan had been seen, and it was only a time before all of them were caught.