(Honestly, now that Yugen is joining us, I can't even see a future where we "mess up.")
After a brief discussion, Tatsuya mounted [Intrepid] and drove toward the detention facility. Yugen had not brought [Dreadnought] with him this time, but the fact that he could effortlessly keep up with [Intrepid] using flight magic made Tatsuya inwardly regard him as an "extraordinary genius."
Both of them had strong one-man-army tendencies, and after living together at the Shiba household, they already knew each other's capabilities. Coordination was therefore not a problem. Precisely because they understood each other's respective domains, Tatsuya could act without having to worry about Yugen.
The motorcycle had been traveling while strictly observing the speed limit up until this point, but once the destination came into view, Tatsuya opened the throttle all the way and leaped over the prison wall.
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The reason Tsukasa Toyama had left Shina and her unit at the Western-style mansion in Karuizawa and come to the secret detention facility on the Boso Peninsula was not to make use of the USNA military magicians being held here.
It was simply to avoid being questioned by Shina and her colleagues who were unaware of the circumstances.
(I wonder what is happening by now. I confirmed that the police were moving, but...)
By the time she had brought Shina to the mansion, reports had already come in that not only the local police but also magicians from the Ministry of Police were mobilizing.
If that was the case, the Chiba family would naturally be the first to act. However, there was the presence of "him" between the Chiba family's daughter who attended First High and Shina.
Therefore, Tsukasa surmised that the person most likely to have sensed something was wrong with Shina and acted first was that very individual.
Cutting off their means of communication to prevent unnecessary investigation had ended up working against her, but at this point, Tsukasa had no way of knowing that the unit she had left behind in Karuizawa had already been arrested on charges of illegal activity.
More importantly, Tsukasa's attention had shifted to how the USNA soldiers being held here should be dealt with.
When she detained them, Tsukasa had explained that they would be treated as prisoners of war. However, at this point, she had never intended to keep them alive and return them to the USNA.
To Tsukasa, enemy soldiers were not people but objects, even if they belonged to an allied nation. And when dealing with people who were immune to brainwashing, that tendency was even stronger.
That was precisely why releasing them carried a very high probability of causing trouble if the survivors revealed that they had been brainwashed and used as puppets.
If the consequences had been limited to Tsukasa personally, that would have been one thing. But she had to avoid those consequences spreading to the National Defense Force, and ultimately to Japan itself.
The Toyama family existed because of Japan, and "Tsukasa Toyama" existed because of the Toyama family.
Based on that line of thinking, just as Tsukasa was about to stand up and recommend disposing of the prisoners, the alarm suddenly rang out.
As if responding to Tsukasa's mutter of, "What happened?", a soldier came rushing into the guard room where she was.
"Sergeant Major Toyama, we have intruders!"
The soldier who rushed in was a noncommissioned officer holding the rank of sergeant. After confirming his rank, Tsukasa questioned him.
"How large is the intruding force? Can't the guards handle them?"
"There are four of them, but every one of them is a powerful magician! The guards alone can't deal with them!"
The moment she heard that there were four intruders, Tsukasa began considering who would come all the way to a place like this.
The first possibility that came to mind was a commander or deputy commander-level member of [Stars], but it had already been confirmed that all individuals who could fit that description were in Tokyo.
If that was the case, the number of possibilities naturally narrowed when considering magicians whom even the National Defense Force could not handle.
The Yotsuba family, the Kagurazaka family, or perhaps the Kamiizumi family would have no reason to attack this place. With that thought in mind, she questioned the soldier.
"I understand. Where is my equipment?"
"I brought it here."
Tsukasa put on the single-lens sunglasses equipped with an information-terminal function that the sergeant handed to her, then put on a headset with a microphone covering only one ear.
The sunglasses' monitor displayed the coordinates of friendly soldiers, but crucially, the intruders' coordinates were not displayed.
Tsukasa found this suspicious, but judged that she could estimate their locations to some extent from the soldiers' coordinates.
"I'll begin providing support."
With those words, Tsukasa activated the Toyama family's magic.
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Yugen had not only worked as an FLT engineer, but had also spent some time assigned to the National Defense Army's weapons development division.
During that period, he had been involved in developing the terminals used by the Toyama family.
Because of that, deceiving the terminal Tsukasa Toyama was using was not a problem for him even without employing Tenjin magic.
The enemy soldiers had brought out high-powered rifles specifically for use against magicians, but Yugen paid them no attention.
He drew [Murakumo], approached the soldiers using [Silent Step], and with a single slash, cut the barrel off one of their rifles.
As the soldier stood there in shock, Yugen pierced the bases of his limbs with thrusts too fast for the eye to follow.
He accomplished all of this in less than five seconds, knocking the soldiers unconscious one after another.
With Yugen's skill, cutting a human body apart would have been easy. But this mission was fundamentally about rescuing the US military personnel, not destroying the secret detention facility.
Although, as a side job, he did have the task of beating Tsukasa Toyama into submission waiting for him.
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