Chapter 1. Introduction to the Academy and the beginning of the conflict.
Akismin Academy is an educational institution founded by the Kingdom of Kleins, in which only those who have managed to learn the power of magic study. The academy itself has its own huge alley, academic garden, library and the academy building itself.
This is the largest enterprise that the kingdom has ever provided, so this academy can be compared to a castle in the same kingdom.
The Kingdom of Kleins is quite strange in its succession to the throne… Here you will think why…
It is customary here to arrange competitions for the hand of the princess, as soon as the previous ruler will already retire.
Almost all other academies in the kingdom simply did not engage in the development of magic, but only prepared ordinary students to work as merchants, etc.
Misato, the second son of the prestigious Takihashi family, was unable to control magical abilities for quite a long time and was without a certain magic mark. As soon as it was time to enroll, he miraculously managed to get this mark from some mysterious girl he saw in the middle of a dark forest. You can call it a miracle, although... everyone who took possession of the star mark received it under strange circumstances.
What kind of tags are these? They determined what kind of magic is most characteristic of a person, for example, Misato moved pretty fast, so his mark turned out to be a star. There is also a moon mark, a red mark and a devil's mark. You will learn about them later.
And so, at the moment, the qualification stage of this competition has already passed. Misato Takihashi takes the 16th place in the last stage of the competition qualification. In joy, he walks through the academy to tell his brother about the victory. At the same time, he sees what is happening at the academy... the girls are rebelling because they are competing specifically for the princess, and not for them. In the garden of the academy stands the Princess Aristia herself. She looks very attractive, slender blonde, dressed in a blue dress decorated with the coat of arms of the kingdom. And what is most unusual, her eyes are both blue and brown...
Misato looked at her through the window and admired her view, but still he was not going to stop for a long time, and he continued to look for his brother
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At the same time, a dispute broke out in the student council office between two of the applicants.
Although both were only at the end of the top 10, they were already confident that each of them would win.
Dinah Clark – the 9th contender, began to claim that he would easily defeat everyone.
In his turn, Machizoto, who is the 8th contender, began to deny this, saying that he should not be arrogant.
Of course, other members of the student council tried to stop these two, but they just ignored them and continued to quarrel.
And this stupid conversation continued against the background, for about an hour and a half, until Karl Takihashi, who is the number one contender among all, came into the room. He exuded a rather strong magical aura, because he had just trained in the gym. That's why these two fell silent at once.
His thoughts were as follows: ugh, how annoying it is for me to have such stupid arguments about who will win and who will not… The main thing is for me not to lose in the top ten myself, and for me to spit out the rest. Even this damn brother, who somehow only recently received the mark, was able to become one of the contenders… How is this even possible? What kind of weaklings fought with him…
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Passing by his classmates, in the middle of the alley, Misato decided to stop and ask them how his brother coped with the competition. What place did you take…
—Don't you know?" Carl took the 1st place of the contender, so... if you want to fight with him, then you will need to try. By the way, I'll have to fight with you next, because you're the sixteenth, and I'm the fifteenth contenders. I look forward to our fight with pleasure, Misato," said Miray, with whom we were quite old friends.
"Hmm, well, I'll be waiting for a fight with you too. But... why didn't my brother tell me about his superiority?
— So there was a reason for that. Maybe he didn't mean to offend you… I don't know in general.
And indeed, Karl did not communicate with Misato, right from the beginning of the competition. According to Misato, this was due to the fact that Carl simply did not have enough time to talk to him. But in fact, it was not quite so. Carl just didn't want to see his hopeless brother next to him. Because when Misato is around, there will definitely be some unpleasant situation.
After walking around a little more and asking around, he was told that Karl had recently been in the training hall. But before going there, Misato decides to go to the student council office to ask them about how Karl managed to achieve such a high place in the ranking.
And when he entered the spacious office in which the entire student council was located, he saw Karl there in the middle of everyone, who was standing and talking to some guy at that moment.
This same guy, seeing Misato, approached him and began to take him out, as if he was an old friend for him. Carl prevented this by pushing this guy's arm to the side, and took Misato aside.
"Oh my God, Misato, what the hell are you doing here… And here you are again getting into trouble, how can you do that. God forgive me for such a brother.
I think after these words Misato understood why his brother did not want to communicate with him and he hurriedly got ready to retire to his room. And so, in the corridor, a certain girl stops him, with sparkling blue eyes, blue hair mixed with pink, silently gives him a note and leaves.
The contents of the note were as follows:
"We invite you to join the team of the lords of the stars, come to the roof of the dormitory at eight o'clock in the evening for details"
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There was noise in the academic garden, it couldn't be worse… Shouts and constant discussions about the fact that Prince Nuris is passing by, who personally came to watch the competition. A lot of girls hid in the bushes to secretly look at the prince as close as they could. But at the same time, the participants of the competition who had just finished their training took place.
The Mizukito brothers thought that someone was following them, because they themselves were quite popular among the girls, although in fact, everyone was only looking at the prince at that moment.
Well of course not everything… The same girl who gave the note to Misato was spying on these two. Why is that? She wanted to help them so that they would not die during the competition, because she knew what evil intent the prince was trying to create by arranging this competition.
And now, at eight o'clock in the evening, it had already become dark on the street a few hours ago, because it was winter outside… Misato comes to the roof of the dorm, staggering all over because she is afraid of heights.
Seeing this, the blue-haired girl was worried and put him on a chair, which she put near the entrance to the roof.
— Listen, Misato! Here's the thing… In general, listen to me! We need to stop this competition for the princess immediately.
— Well, why is that? What good would that do me… After all, if I win, I will marry the princess and subsequently become king as soon as the current king dies.
"You and everyone else are being deceived, Misato… Listen to me... the King is already really dead! And since power in our country is transferred only to the king chosen by the competition, Nuris decided to eliminate all possible contenders for this place by setting traps at each stage of the competition. I even put cursed spells in some of the swords, look carefully for yourself. The girl threw the sword into his hands and, lo and behold, Misato was carried somewhere. But he immediately stopped due to the fact that the girl cast an additional jamming spell.
She also handed him a monocle with the ability to see encrypted spells. And among them was the curse of anti-control, imposed by Nuris himself. To ordinary eyes, these signs were not visible, only a few people in the academy owned such monocles in order to see these spells.
These monocles were invented by Mari Natsuki, who was one of the founders of the Star Lords team.
Why are they called the lords of the stars? The answer is quite simple. Each of the squad members has a predisposition to the magic of the stars.
— In general, Misato, we need your help, otherwise we won't be able to win. You will have the responsibility to grab all those who will shoot at us with a bow and transfer them to our side. Then you'll explain to them what's what. Besides, I have already seen recently that some girls have some strange purple marks on their backs. They are very similar to the magic of controlling people. So be careful.
— L-okay, I'll help you! Just introduce me to the rest of the team. I need to know with whom I will cooperate. And should I do it at all.
We went down the rope to the room of two girls who were sitting at the table and drinking tea while discussing something.
— Oh, Mia, who did you bring to us? Is it possible that at least someone agreed to help us..." the girl said with her mouth full of sweets.
The girl for Misato immediately reminded her of a princess who suddenly disappeared from sight about a month ago. And after that, not a word or a ghost…
"Wait a minute, are you Princess Lin?! But... why are you here..." Misato said in surprise, after which he knelt down and decided to kiss the princess's hand as a sign of respect, but the princess picked him up and said that she did not deserve such respect for herself.
— Why am I here? I was accused of murdering the king. Why me? Nuris set me up... he-he..." Princess Lin began to cry.
— In general, Nuris killed the king almost in front of Lin, going out into the corridor, he sprayed blood on Lin, who was passing by the king's room at that moment, and after that, according to this blood on Lin's clothes, she was found guilty. It was a mock trial of the members of the royal association. And no matter how much Lin challenged this decision, everything was unsuccessful and she entered the academy under the name Rin. Then she already met this girl here – Mia pointed to the pink-haired girl who was Marie.
— Hmm... yes, she met me on the first day she entered the academy. I saw her when she wanted to enter her classroom, stopped her, realizing that she was Princess Lin. She told me to hide it from the others, and only later that evening, in the library, she told me the whole truth about what was happening in the castle. And so, I suggested that she create a team to prevent the prince from illegally seizing power. A week later, we gathered in our free time to sit in a cafe with Lin and this restless swordswoman, Mia, sat down with us. And thanks to her alone, we were able to organize this team here.
Mia was a little embarrassed by such words, but then she looked serious again.
"Misato, are you ready to help us organize an uprising at the academy while the prince is here?"
Misato nodded his head. And now together they must arrange such an uprising that would help them save the lives of all the contenders of the competition.
— Then why didn't you ask others to help you? I think many would agree to help, because the affairs of the kingdom should be known to everyone. And why are there only girls in the team…
— Do you think we didn't ask? Haven't they told anyone else besides you? No one believed us, because they thought that we just wanted to interfere with the competition, because we are girls… You're the only one who agreed to help us! Thank you very much! – Mia, having said this, bowed to him.
Misato was a little embarrassed and then left the room for a while. Why not for a long time? Because it was a women's dorm… And he ran back into the room. So he spent the whole night here, and in the morning the team began to discuss a plan of action.
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The first day of the competition… From the speakers comes the scream of a commentator girl.
Here it is! The long-awaited first battle for the hand of the princess. The opponents in this competition will be:
Karl Takihashi and... Mizukito Mitsuya! But wait a minute… What's it? Why did the academy start burning? Aaa…
There was a deafening explosion from the right wing of the academy, everyone was at the competition, so no one was injured. This explosion was arranged by Mari in order to divert all attention to himself, at the same time Misato attacked from the courtyard of the academy dressed up in his dark cloak, black trousers…
— The battle has been stopped because of the uprising that has begun! Hide in a safe place so that you don't get hurt. The guards of the Academy and others capable of protecting the academy, please stay. The prince shouted into the microphone. And hurriedly left the commentary booth.
The main goal of the star lords is to capture the prince!