Mahou Sensou:Volume 2 Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3: Magic Festival and Love Fortune-telling

Part 1

It was already October, and the whole academy looked very lively, as the so-called "Magic Festival" was about to take place. This festival was very similar to the typical "Cultural Festivals" that took place in the normal academies, but unlike those, the magic festival - just as its name says - involved activities performed by students using magic. It was held over two days and all the students of the academy without exception were allowed to participate. All the classes that had already entered their second semester were fully dedicated to the preparation of the festival and both students and teachers were eager to succeed in their activities. In Takeshi's class C, there were only the students who were bad at controlling their magic, so they had no choice but to set up a Café. Class B would make a haunted house and Class A would make a kind of 3D movie with the help of affinity magic. The select class, which Mui belonged to, would not participate in most of the events so they would not be seen appearing, which Takeshi thought was a pity. It so happened that most of the students of the select classes were already working as part of the mage staff of their respective communities and therefore had to be absent from the academy very often. It was well known to all that they used to be very busy.

At the cafe set up by the C class, Takeshi and Kurumi had been assigned to act as waiters while Mui and Ida, had been assigned to serve in the kitchen. Kurumi had been chosen as a waitress because like Takeshi, she was not able to help cook or make the uniforms since she had had to practice her magical affinity "Biological Magic" every day since the second semester began. Takeshi and Ida had also been doing the same. However, Kurumi was the one who was showing the best results. Up to that point, she could already transform at will just by holding her lipstick in her hand. Quite on the contrary, Ida was the one who had made the least progress. She had already been told that the type of Destructive Magic he had was of a very difficult type to control, but since that summer vacation when they arrived at the academy, until October, Ida continued to explode in different places leaving great damage. The second time she did it, (after the first time her magic manifested) was in the gym. She was unable to stop her flames and ended up exploding and completely destroying the ceiling. The fifth time it did it, it happened in the courtyard leaving a hole with a diameter of about a hundred meters in the ground. Obviously that damage was immediately repaired using magic. The good thing is that no one was injured because the teachers who were training the students protected them with powerful barriers. Ida wanted to throw in the towel several times, but for some reason she continued training.