Mahou Sensou:Volume 2 Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1: The Grade 1-C in Magic school

Part 1

Outside the hallway window, everything looked normal. Just like the Sakuraya Academy in Tokyo where Takeshi and his friends used to attend, the rooftops of the houses could be seen beyond the huge fence of the sports complex, and even further away, the silhouette of buildings of different sizes could be seen. Of course, if it was a high school built in the center of Tokyo, it had to be very similar to the previous one in every way. However, Takeshi was aware that all that was nothing more than a mirage projected with magic.

By mid-August, Takeshi along with his childhood friend Kurumi and his former classmate Ida, had completed the formal process of transferring to the Subaru Magic Academy.

At the beginning of the summer vacation, when Takeshi attended his previous academy to train at the Kendo club as he always did, he ended up bumping into a mysterious girl by chance. She was a student of the Subaru Magic Academy named Aiba Mui, who also happened to be a wizard belonging to <Wizard's Breath>. She showed up at Takeshi's school, because she was being chased by the <Ghost Trailers>, a rival wizards organization of <Wizard's Breath>.

Mui was injured, so Takeshi carried her and took her to the infirmary. While there, a series of events caused her to almost fall out of bed at one point. Takeshi tried to help her, but they ended up accidentally colliding their lips. Mui was so angry about it, that she inadvertently triggered magic that caused Takeshi to transform into a wizard.

Wizards, are people capable of using magical power which they can visualize in the form of particles of light. When a person is still in his growth stage, he is able to manifest his magical power by simply exposing himself to the magic of another person.

Having been turned into a wizard by Mui, Takeshi was caught in her crossfire against <the Trailers>, and consequently, his childhood friend Isoshima Kurumi and his classmate Ida Kazumi were also turned into wizards. Because of all the above mentioned, Takeshi and his friends had to be taken to the Subaru Magic Academy under the authorization of the headmistress, and it was decided that they would have to be transferred to that place.

While walking in a lonely corridor during the summer vacation, Takeshi looked at his hands. He still couldn't believe that he had become a wizard. Certainly his magic had been awakened. He didn't believe much in being tricked by his own mind and besides, everything he did actually happened, so the whole becoming a wizard thing wasn't a lie. He had traveled through a mirror from his world - which he called "Living World" - to the Subaru Magic Academy, located on a plane they called "Collapsed World". It was hard to believe that it was all just a dream.

Takeshi had already been living in the dormitories of the academy for two weeks. Every time he went to sleep, he feared that when he woke up, he would find himself in his usual room. But so far, that had not happened. There couldn't possibly be such a long dream, so what she was experiencing had to be reality.

When Takeshi opened the door to his classroom at the end of the hallway, a familiar face quickly turned to look at him. She was the only person in the classroom.

"Morning, Takeshi...."

"Morning, Isoshima...."

Kurumi was leaning right in front of the teacher's desk when she saw Takeshi she smiled. He smiled too and when he approached her, she stood up and stretched out her arms.

"Look, Takeshi. Now I have a new uniform."

Kurumi spun around and blinked happily.

"Oh, nice."

Since the Subaru Magic Academy uniform Kurumi wore was the same one Mui wore, he wasn't particularly surprised. It was a white short-sleeved blouse with navy blue stripes, a green checkered ribbon at the neck and a pleated skirt. Takeshi had also been sent to the dorm with his new uniform the night before, but he didn't seem to have any intention of wearing it yet.

Kurumi was standing in front of a desk, attentively waiting for Takeshi's opinion about her new Magic Academy uniform.

In Takeshi's eyes it was not much different from the previous one, but he was aware of Kurumi's feelings, so he replied:

"You are beautiful Isoshima.Whatever you wear will look good on you."

Takeshi gave with a smile and all, but Kurumi looked clearly disappointed.

"So it doesn't matter what I wear, huh?"

To Kurumi, hearing that was like telling her that everything she wears is the same, but obviously, Takeshi wasn't able to notice that detail.