As Haru had predicted before, Kirihara had lost, and Kanon had won on each of their respective events, which caused Suzune to be more amazed at him. However, he felt that everything was according to his calculation since Kirihara's best magic was Sonic Blade, which was an "Oscillation-Type of Magic." He didn't think Kihara was suitable to become the representative at the Crowd Ball event, but not everyone was as talented as Juumonji, Mayumi, and Mari.
Or rather, Haru had to admit that except for Hattori, the rest of the 2nd year of the First High School was pretty much weak.
As for Kanon, Haru didn't think that her victory was surprising, considering her origin was.
Kanon is a member of the Chiyoda Family, which is one of the Hundred Families. The Magicians of the Chiyoda Family specialize in using Long Range Solid Matter Oscillation Systematic Magic, particularly when it comes to using Earthshaker magic.
The magic that Kanon used at the event was "Mine Genesis." It was a Long Range Solid Matter Oscillation Systematic Magic that created a powerful oscillation that could be applied to any material such as dirt, rock, sand, or cement as long as the solid matter was recognized as the "Earth's surface." The applied area would suffer vertical vibrations that ran perpendicular to the epicenter as the affected "Earth's surface" groans under the magic.
In conclusion, Kanon's magic was similar to Haru's Gura Gura no Mi power to create an earthquake through a vibration, but it had a smaller scale.
With all of that, the second day of the Nine Schools Competition ended, and Haru brought Suzune to his room so they could talk deeper there.
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In Haru's room, the members of the Student Council gathered, listening to Haru's hypothesis, Mayumi couldn't help but be stunned, and as for Mari, she nodded and said, "So all I need to do is to change my route, right? Especially on that sharp turn."
"Yes." Haru nodded and said, "You should also bring Mizuki with you to make sure that the staff won't cause a mess on your CAD." He then looked at Mizuki and said, "Can you, Mizuki?"
"Yes." Mizuki nodded.
"But Senpai, I'll try to clear up the artificial channel so there won't be anything there, and you can go all out at your event," Haru said.
"Can you see the spirit, Haru?" Mayumi asked.
"I have similar eyes to Mizuki, after all," Haru said some bullshit since he didn't want to talk about the power of his "Horo Horo no Mi." His "Horo Horo no Mi" was simply a bug for every Magician who used Ancient Magic. With this ability, it was a simple thing for him to control the spirit and various beings in this world, or rather, he might have already become the master of the underworld if he wanted to.
"........" At this moment, they were wondering whether there was something that Haru couldn't do.
"Still, Senpai, if you don't catch the contestant that might collide into you, your chance of getting hurt will be smaller," Haru said.
Mari thought for a while and said, "I'll do things based on the situation. If I can help, then I'll help, but if it isn't possible, then I won't do it."
They nodded since Mari's safety was more important than anything.
"Well, I won't stop you here for a long time, there's a match tomorrow so we can't stay up too late, right?" Haru said.
They nodded, but somehow, why did they feel that this guy was trying to drive them away?
"What's wrong?" Haru asked.
Well, it might be their imagination, but then, why did Suzune stay?
"Rin-chan, let's go back to our room, there's still something that we need to talk about," Mayumi said.
Mari nodded and said, "Yeah, there's this problem that we need to solve first."
"......." Haru and Suzune.
"Wait, Mari-senpai, let me teach you a magic to catch if a player is suddenly about to collide into you," Haru said.
"Huh?" Mari stopped and looked at Haru curiously.
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In the audience seat, watching the Board Battle game that would be held soon, Haru sat with everyone with Erika and Honoka on both of his sides. His eyes were wide open, watching the artificial channel until he saw the spirit below the water. He snorted inwardly, then hijacked the spirit, controlling it, before he nodded since he knew who was the user of this spirit. He didn't kill this guy but used his telepathic ability to control him, becoming his minion, who would report everything that happened on the No Head Dragon.
"The match is going to start soon, Haru!" Erika said while pulling his sleeve.
"Um, I know." Haru nodded, then looked at Mari who somehow also looked in his direction. He gave her a nod with a smile and said "good luck" through his lips' movement.
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Mari snorted, looking at him from a distance, but there was a smile on her face. She was full of confidence and knew that she could win, but then, she was wondering who would collide with her later.
'Well, thinking too much is useless.'
Mari could only handle the situation when it happened, and if it didn't happen then it was all good.
The moment the match started, Mari quickly became the 1st, but behind her, the player from Seventh High School quickly followed behind Maru's tail, without letting her go, but it was normal, considering the Seventh High School was known as "Seventh High of the Sea", and it was also similar situation as last year.
Mari raised her eyebrow and knew that the person behind her should be the one who was being sabotaged, but she needed to focus since she would arrive at the place where the accident might happen.
Passing through the straight line, Mari knew that they would approach the acute curve, and in this curve, there wasn't any camera, and this was where Haru's words would be confirmed!
When Mari was about to turn, she didn't choose the outer side, but rather the inner side of the turn, when it happened, she suddenly saw the player from Seventh High School who she had left suddenly was approaching her with very fast speed!
"!!!"
When this happened, Mayumi, Suzune, Miyuki, Azusa, Juumonji, and the rest of the people that had heard Haru's words, felt that their hearts tightened since they knew that if there was another incident then Mari would be hurt!
Mari calmed herself and had prepared for this, so she used her magic to neutralize the movement of the player that was about to collide with her, and at the same time, she also used the magic that was taught by Haru yesterday. This magic was automatically used with her Psion, and the player that was about to collide with her was stopped by an air-like pillow in midair.
It happened only for a few seconds, but it made everyone's heart tighten before all of them sighed in relief.
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"What was happening?" Honoka looked at the match with a doubt.
"Something happened to the player from Seventh High School," Haru said simply, but then, he glanced at Miyuki, who also happened to glance at him secretly. They nodded secretly, but didn't say much, and continued to watch the match.
As for Tatsuya, of course, he also noticed this, but because of Mari's incident, he didn't see how Haru and Miyuki glanced at each other secretly before.
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"The magic will end soon, just swim, alright?" Mari said then quickly continued her match, leaving the player that was about to collide with her before, but with this incident, all of them knew that someone or organization really intended to hurt them!