Shirou, who returned from the Fairy Kingdom

This can't be considered cheating, can it?

Because what Shirou taught him was originally taught to him by "Aoko from the future".

"Why are they still using such despicable tricks?"

Orange mocked her younger sister's immaturity.

In her view, such an opponent was not worthy of facing her head-on. As a magician, she could tolerate the low-level methods, but she could not tolerate the fact that a woman who shared her bloodline fought in such a low-class way.

“SWEL——”

Aozaki Touko's slender fingers began to trace the runes.

The rushing air is like a fuse igniting sparks.

The spell enveloped the invisible human body in the air, and flames erupted in just one second.

Aoko, who launched the attack, was unable to resist the magic within the spell.

Rune didn't burn Aoko; instead, he surrounded Aoko with flames.

She fell to the snow with a mournful cry, her scorched body and pleading arms looking like she was in unbearable pain.

But the flames did not go out; they continued to burn until the enemy was completely dead.

Crackle, pop, crackle.

"..."

Aozaki Touko lowered her eyes.

The smoke from the fire obscured her vision.

When Orange saw the figure fall without resistance, she knew it definitely wasn't her stupid little sister.

So she used a familiar with beads?

Although Aoko's side was also in trouble, she had given Aoko several familiars before the incident to patrol the nodes at night.

She thought that even if she lost the Golden Wolf, she could at least exchange it for a Pearl, but she didn't expect the witch to still be chasing after her like a persistent ghost.

Orange clicked her tongue in slight annoyance as she stared at the spot where Aoko had initially stood.

Aoko did indeed become invisible, but her body did not move.

There was a blue circular magic circle surrounding the spot where Aoko was standing.

"—EYWZ!"

Orange inscribed rune patterns on the circular magic circle.

To reveal Aoko's long-hidden figure, Touko switched to her Magic Eyes.

When she opens her eyes again, everything she sees will be captured by her self-modified eyeballs, which are multiple mirror-like magic eyes!

“Eh…!?”

However, the magician's view was blocked.

The space in front of Aoko was distorted, and her figure seemed to be shrouded in the thick fog of the night.

If Aozaki Touko's Mystic Eyes are a reflector, then it's like a Mystic Eye placed at a triangular point.

In Orange's eyes, the world was split in two, and she could no longer discern what was in front of her...?

Although she was momentarily panicked and wavered, she immediately realized that this was probably the effect of the "Mirror of Afternoon Nap".

That mirror was a collaboration between Aozaki Touko and Arisu's mother.

Did I add many functions to it out of interest at the time, but now it has backfired on me...?

Aozaki Touko sighed helplessly, while on the other side, Aoko began loading the Storm Demon Bullet.

The multi-combination magic circle is complete, and the large-scale magic project with more than three sections is complete.

"Assemble - engrave, exchange numerical patterns."

Aoko exposed her right arm, and the glowing mark immediately became visible.

Aoko's arms were brimming with magic, and her eyes were fixed on the orange magician thirty meters away.

The moment she entered invisibility, Aoko began chanting the magic spell.

In the few seconds before Orange noticed her, Aoko's magic trick took shape at lightning speed.

This is neither Project One nor Project Two, but a magical compression of Project Three or more.

A simple attack using the collected and generated cyan ether could unleash a force equivalent to ten tons. Processed with magical inscriptions, and then multiplied by a barrage of attacks, it would obliterate even the school building behind it!

"Orange, prepare yourself—!"

Aoko's voice came from the open space.

Faced with her sister's impending magic cannon attack, Orange had no time to fight back, and couldn't even dodge it.

Her delicate face was distorted by shock and regret—but it wasn't.

"Even if I teach you now, it's too late. But listen, Aoko. Whoever reveals their trump card first in the duel loses."

Aozaki Touko said calmly, snapping her fingers.

At the same time, countless magic markings appeared in the void behind the puppeteer.

Countless words began to appear behind her, blooming like a work of art, blossoming into golden flowers that reached the sky.

That is not limited to hundreds of different forms of magic in Western Europe.

It should have been etched onto the magician's skin.

This is something that Aozaki Touko shouldn't have had.

This should have been known only to their respective family heirs.

—Countless magical imprints, dazzling under the moonlight, were imprinted on the space behind the orange.

Those were the spoils she had plundered from the magicians she had defeated.

Generally speaking, magic crests are unique family heirlooms belonging to each family.

Even among blood relatives, the inheritance of a magic mark is accompanied by high-risk surgery, and the inheritor often needs to spend several years adapting to the new organ (mark).

Aozaki Touko, of course, could not accept other people's magic crests with her own body, so she made these magic crests into external costumes.

Those who were stripped of their inscriptions are now locked up in the facility, since the inscriptions cannot be activated if their owners die.

Now, Aozaki Touko is displaying all the magic crests she has accumulated so far.

"Deploy the magic bullet!"

Aoko did not delay pulling the trigger of the spell because of her sister's strange behavior.

A torrent of light shot towards Aozaki Touko.

The orange doll dismissed it.

With this number of magic crests, even without using any spells, one can easily deflect Aozaki Aoko's fully charged magic cannon.

--However.

A chill ran down Orange's spine.

A strong sense of unease enveloped the puppeteer.

Is everything really going so smoothly?

Would Aoko really be so reckless as to think she could challenge her older sister all by herself?

Was Shirou really the one who taught him the tactic of using "invisibility" to fight against the Mystic Eyes?

Is the thing that distorts vision really using a "nap mirror"?

Something is wrong. I always feel like something is wrong.

The source of all this strangeness...

Orange squinted, trying hard to remember.

She remembered her younger sister wearing her high school uniform when she came to the meeting, and something seemed off...

Tsk... I've been tricked!

A flicker of panic crossed Aozaki Touko's eyes, and she quickly took emergency measures.

What appeared in the night sky were three rune stones.

Their size and the magical power they contain are on a completely different level than the runes written by Orange.

This is the true achievement created by Odin, the Norse god of magic and wisdom.

Aozaki Touko's replica of the "Primordial Rune" reconstructed and split by the Mage's Association.

In an instant, the runes engraved on the three crystal membranes expanded ten million times.

No matter how powerful the magic bullets or cannons are, modern magic cannot compete with them.

Even if Aozaki Aoko is a genius at mana circulation and output, she is utterly insignificant compared to the barriers formed by these stones from the Age of Gods—

"boom--------!!!"

The sounds of explosions were incessant.

Although Orange was prepared, she was still blown several meters away by the shockwave of the explosion.

She fell to the ground in a disheveled state, her black pantyhose under her pencil skirt torn in several places.

The light bullets, which could have been easily blocked with magic markings, far exceeded the scale of what was imagined.

The runes released at the critical moment were instantly engulfed by the light cannon, with two of them exploding and scattering.

incredible……

Even a boulder equivalent to the "Primordial Rune" was destroyed in that single blow!

Let alone Aoko, who has only been exposed to magic for two years, even that witch... Kuonji Yuzu couldn't possibly do such a thing!

Then look at the girl who unleashed that earth-shattering attack.

Aozaki Aoko looked relaxed and at ease, showing no signs of fatigue from having exhausted all her magical power.

There is only one answer that can explain all of this.

Aozaki Touko got up from the ground, bit her red lips, and glared at her unfamiliar sister before speaking.

"………………You're not Aoko from this timeline at all, are you?"

The chestnut-haired girl remained silent.

Under her sister's angry glare, Aoko finally couldn't hold back her expression and revealed a mischievous grin: "Hehehe, you've been found out?"

"..."

Aozaki Touko's shoulders trembled slightly with fear.

Before heading to the decisive battleground (the old school building)—

No, it was probably much earlier than that; Aozaki Aoko's inner self had already been replaced by "the future Aoko".

"As expected of my older sister, she's so perceptive..."

"Future Aoko" stroked her lips, which still seemed to retain some warmth, and said with a seductive expression.

"Unlike some slow-witted idiot~?"

Volume 2, Chapter 142: Orange: Are you three really going to play such a big game in broad daylight?

"...I thought I wouldn't be discovered. I thought I hid it well and even fooled Shirou."

Aozaki Aoko—the fifth magician who descended from the future and took over her body during her high school years—shrugged.

"Sister Orange, may I ask you something? How did you figure that out?"

I tried my best to recreate my behavior and speech from when I was 17, but I was still caught... It's a little hurtful.

While using magic to heal the injuries she had sustained during the impact, Aozaki Touko said with a provocative smirk.