Editing Hagure Yuusha no Aesthetica:Volume 1 Chapter 4 (section)

===Part 7===
 
Ousawa Akatsuki stared at Tanaka, carefully observing changes in his expression.
 
“To be honest, I actually quite admire you. On the first day of school, you were selected by Onizuka. Even if Onizuka punched and kicked you, you still decided to endure it silently, and completely disregard it.”
 
“…If I was to violently resist, it would only be worse. Silently enduring is a better choice.”
 
“If it was just simple bullying, I would say that your words are indeed correct. However —“
 
Akatsuki stared into Tanaka’s eyes.
 
“However, aren’t you stronger than Onizuka?”
 
“…”
 
“I actually noticed it a while ago, I noticed it when I first saw you. Do you still remember what I said to Onizuka?”
 
After a short pause —
 
“—Aren’t there always people who believe that they are stronger than others, and look down upon them.”
 
From that point on, Akatsuki was interested in Tanaka, who was hiding his strength. He originally thought that Tanaka wanted to have low exposure and was someone who did not want to stand out. Even though they had never had a conversation, Akatsuki was still very curious about Tanaka, and even considered that he could possibly become good friends with him.
 
“Unfortunately, it seems I thought too much, you aren’t that type of person. To hide your strength, you allowed yourself to become an invisible man, making the other students nearly forget about your existence. Today’s combat skills training was the same, and you were completely unnatural.”
 
What is his goal for doing this? After pondering through, only one possibility came into mind. Thus, Akatsuki silently waited, waited for the instant that Tanaka revealed himself.
 
“If the terrorist organization that opposes Babel snuck into the campus preparing to cause trouble, the best way is to directly kill people, so their own identity would not be exposed. So I thought, Onizuka’s strength isn’t bad, he also had an arrogant personality, sooner or later he will cause trouble.  Since I could come up with that, the terrorist organization would also be able to think of it, what do you say?”
 
“…Your meaning is that Onizuka intentionally changed the training program for revenge, then after that I took the opportunity to make the training program go out of control? But how can I do that? You may think that the key is on my body, but there are records for borrowing the key, so there is no room for fraud.”
 
“That’s true, but the school does not have a rule that the person who borrowed the key is the one who returns it right? If the person who borrowed the key had an emergency, or perhaps was just too lazy to make that trip, so he asked someone else to return it, this kind of situation isn’t impossible.”
 
Saying up to here, Akatsuki suddenly smiled.
 
“But even if you were the one who returned it, you should still need to write down on the key borrowing record. As for the culprit, who was determined to become transparent, he could not select such a dumb way to reveal himself. So I think that besides changing the program data, and allowing the Cockatrice to rampage in the first arena, the culprit wanted to slip the key into Onizuka’s pocket. But an error appeared in your plans. I was a step ahead and knocked out Onizuka. He did not lose his petty life, did not get petrified and was directly sent to the medical building.”
 
Akatsuki paused slightly.
 
“— So I believe that the key still remains somewhere with the culprit.”
 
“…Even if the key is really with me.”
 
Tanaka’s tone was extremely calm.
 
“It is not evidence that I’ve changed the program data.”
 
“True, that makes sense. Most of the people will probably blame Onizuka, believing that he was the one changing the program data and causing the unexpected loss of control. No one would believe that it was a terrorist that snuck into the school.”
 
Akatsuki shrugged, his expression was very serious.
 
“But as long as someone becomes suspicious, as long as someone notices this possibility, do you think that Babel would simply think of this as an accident? Terrorists are the number one enemy of Babel. Plus he is also an alternative world returnee. Based on the two reasons, Babel can not simply ignore it. If you noticed that the training program data was changed twice, at that time, there will be a formal investigation and the students who were deliberately concealing their strength would definitely become the prime suspects.”
 
“…”
 
Akatsuki’s prediction was extremely impressive, Tanaka was completely speechless. After a moment, he gently sighed.
 
“…Looks like there is no choice.”
 
Finishing his statement —
 
“Gu —!”
 
Akatsuki’s body suddenly flew away.
 
Barely adjusting his posture in midair, after landing, he slid for quite a bit of distance.
 
Then he looked up.
 
“…”
 
From the path between the shoe lockers, Tanaka walked over.
 
With a distance of ten meters between the two of them, they confronted each other in the hallway.
 
“—“
 
What was that attack just now? Akatsuki did not underestimate his enemy, but instead raised his alertness, but he couldn’t believe that he still wasn’t able to react to it. Was it magic? Tanaka’s attack was completely silent. Akatsuki’s had one possibility in his head.
 
“…Space magic?”
 
The magic attributes did not only consist of fire, water, earth and wind. These four elements are the most commonly seen magic. Others include manipulation of light and darkness, and even space and gravity magic.
 
But compared to the elemental magic that requires borrowing the power of elves and gods, magic that controls space or even gravity requires spatial cognitive ability and mastery of laws of physics. This increases the burden for the user. His consciousness must be even more focused. However, Tanaka did not show signs of concentrating, and from the fact that he was caught opened-handly and was still perfectly calm to continue his conversation, Akatsuki considered this to be unlikely.
 
…Even though the possibility is low, it does not mean it is not impossible.
 
Akatsuki thought about the other possibilities. Activating a magic that requires physical<!-- Physical what? Word missing? --> without warning — Could the world really have someone that strong?
 
JPN Babel’s Student Council President Hikami Kyouya and the COCOON members who rule this world should be able to do it.
 
However, Tanaka who rebels against Babel should not be a COCOON member. Among the terrorists, is there someone that strong?
 
Of course. A terrorist organization that composes of young elites, their strength could be said to be on par with COCOON, it is said that a normal army, police, even the New United Nations and Babel are helpless against them
 
“…”
 
Akatsuki swallowed. This isn’t true right?
 
His mouth shook slightly.
 
“Perhaps I am wrong, but —“
 
The Demon King’s daughter’s name was similar to his sister, JPN Babel Student Council President Hikami Kyouya was also a member of COCOON, these series of coincidences seemed like it was the mischief caused by the goddess of fate, maybe this was not an exception either.
 
Ousawa Akatsuki slowly opened his mouth —
 
“—Are you Scarlet Dusk?”