"..."

In the luxurious palace, Hermione was following them carelessly, the wicked little teacher (professor), Misaka Mikoto, Shirai Kuroko, Index and the magical girl group, namely Tohsaka Rin, Tohsaka Sakura, and Ily. Ya and Luvia were eating their dinner together.

While eating, Hermione turned to look at the still-empty seat beside her, and could not help frowning slightly.

Which vacant seat belongs to Irena, of course!

In fact, these people eat dinner together happily like this almost every night, it looks like a big family, so now Irena's place is still neatly arranged with various tableware and meals. Plates and napkins or something.

Unfortunately, until now, Irena has not appeared.

Hermione didn't think too much about this, because, in the past, Irena would occasionally be late once or twice, sometimes a few minutes, sometimes ten minutes, and they were actually used to it.

It's just that I don't know what's going on today, until now, almost half an hour later, and they've all eaten half of it, but Irena still hasn't seen her return, and she doesn't know if the other party is busy. some what.

But anyway, Hermione knew that the other party was definitely not in the palace. She came to eat after changing clothes and bathing from their room. She didn't see any signs of Irena coming back, presumably, Now the other party must still be wandering around somewhere in the city, right?

Shaking her head, she complained that Irena didn't come back on time for dinner or leave a message in advance.

After all, if you don't eat quickly, Misaka Mikoto and Tohsaka Rin, the two guys who are still fighting openly and secretly, will clash again at some point, and then under the instigation of some immeasurable teacher, she will lift the plate and turn the table. You have to take the time to eat your own.

"..."

"Hey!"

"Mikoto, what's up, do you have the confidence to make it to the quarter-finals?"

Eating and eating, Hermione, who couldn't understand why Irena didn't come back for dinner, simply didn't think about it, and asked directly to Misaka Mikoto next to her.

Originally there was no competition at night, but from today onwards, in order to speed up the process, and for the thousands of tourists stranded on the floating island to have something to do at night so as not to cause trouble (for example, Harry, because of burning A hotel has a huge debt and is now under residential surveillance), the competition committee unanimously decided after research that there will be a booster game tonight until the final four finalists of the semi-finals are decided. !

And tonight, the place for the 1/8 final will be decided, and it will be the final round of knockout rounds in which the 16th place will be decided from among the 32 players.

And whether it was Hermione herself or Misaka Mikoto, or Tohsaka Rin and Illya who looked up at them across the table at this time, they all needed to make relevant preparations after dinner.

Now, there are only less than two hours before the start of the game.

"Um……"

"A game?"

After she stopped eating, Misaka Mikoto bit her spoon and turned her head, looked at Hermione, and immediately remembered her many secret weapons.

She and Kuroko secretly went to a deserted place on the edge of the floating island to test. If they used the gold coins given by Annie to launch the 'super-electromagnetic gun', the range could be at least several kilometers or even farther. The 50-meter range is simply not a grade!

As for the rate of fire, it has been increased from eight rounds per minute to twelve rounds per minute, that is, every five seconds, which fully ensures that she can react quickly and counterattack in the game, so that she has a better chance of winning. a little more fully.

And ah, because gold is the best conductor, and they have been 'enchanted', they can really resist high temperature burns, they will not melt too quickly, and then the weight is several times that of ordinary game coins, so, specifically The power, after she and Kuroko made a brief estimation, felt that if there is enough acceleration distance, it is very likely that it would not be a big problem to penetrate a big mountain?

In short, the power or something, it is very scary anyway!

"fine!"

"After solving the ammunition problem, I thought, there shouldn't be much of a problem, right?"

"I still have a little bit of confidence."

However, Mikoto didn't care enough about the secret weapon to say it all here, she just responded to Hermione's question with such a vague smile.

After all, she is not stupid. Although Hermione has a good relationship with her, and she has long known that she is worried about the ammunition, the other party is also one of the competitors, and there are two strong competitors across the table that have not yet been eliminated. The opponents are eyeing them, so her trump card, those gold coins, will definitely not be said easily.

In fact, after getting the gift from Annie, she and Kuroko also went to the city to exchange some silver coins of suitable size. There is a small improvement, but the ordinary silver coins are not obvious, and the heat-resistant gold coins that are said to have been enchanted by an old dragon are not directly used.

That's her trump card. Before the most critical moment, Misaka Mikoto would definitely not use it or say it out easily.

Even, she had discussed with Kuroko that those gold coins would only be used at the decisive moment or at a unavoidable and critical moment, and dealt a fatal blow to the competitor.

Think about it, the 'super-electromagnetic gun', which usually only has a range of more than 50 meters, and whose power can be defended, has suddenly become a dimensionality reduction strike that ignores the distance, and its power and piercing ability have improved countless levels. , That kind of thing must surprise the competitors, right?

"Is that so?"

"Um!"

"fine!"

She nodded, and then Hermione looked at Illya and Tohsaka Rin, who were listening to the situation across the table.

Of course, the two of them also entered the top 32, so tonight will also have their game.

"So!"

"Rin, and Illya, how about you?"

"Are you sure?"

While Hermione asked, she also looked at the Command Spells in the hands of those two with some fear.

She knew that it was the magic engraving of their summoning heroic spirits from another world, and it was improved by her professor Anne, and after being eliminated, she could take the initiative to transfer it to another person. It can be said to be very cunning and shameless. kind of stuff.

But there is no way. It is only natural for the mage to summon helpers. Just like Hermione, she will occasionally summon water elements or fire elements during the game, or even summon **** guards to interfere and attack opponents. In comparison, the Command Spells of those two little guys were indeed a little too strong.

Anyway, Hermione knew that those heroic spirits, in a one-on-one situation, could defeat the strongest knight in the continent of Alusaria. The speed is enough to defeat them, otherwise, the result will be unpredictable.

"grasp?"

"It should be fine, right?"

"Anyway!"

"As long as you don't touch Illya, you'll be fine!"

Tohsaka Rin said firmly.

She has the help of her stupid sister Arturia, and when the time comes, she will directly summon the other party to attack people, and she can just hide behind the cold and cast magic, it is not too easy.

As long as she doesn't encounter the **** Illya who has two Command Spells and can summon Sister Jeanne and Medusa at the same time, she will definitely win.

"Humph!"

"It doesn't matter if you touch me!"

"At that time, Rin, you can just surrender directly, and then I will have three Command Spells!"

"Ha ha!!"

As she spoke, Illya smiled smugly.

She was already thinking, when the time comes, with the three Command Spells in her hand, as long as she summons the first time, then hides by herself, hides in the distance and puts mirrors, stealth, traps, etc. Anyway, as long as she protects herself , and then, you can wait for victory to come.

Aside from herself and Rin, Illya definitely doesn't believe that among the remaining thirty opponents, who else can resist the combined attack of the three Heroic Spirits!

"!!"

"But why didn't you surrender?"

"Why do you want me to surrender?!"

Tohsaka Rin was furious, and slapped the table and asked loudly.

"Because I have two Command Spells!"

"you think……"

"When the time comes, my Joan of Arc will drag your Artoria, and then Medusa and I will go after you to fight, are you convinced?"

"Are you scared?"

Illya raised her eyebrows proudly at Tohsaka Rin, and asked with some contempt and disdain.

"hateful!"

"You're less complacent!"

"Maybe, you will soon be eliminated by others, and then you will give me the Command Spell while crying!"

Tohsaka Rin, who was a little furious, but couldn't think of a reasonable reason to refute, had no choice but to curse with a blushing face.

Because, in fact, it is exactly what Illya said. They are each other's strengths. No one can do anything about the other, and they are still very familiar with each other. If you only have Arturia, the other party is With Joan of Arc and Medusa helping her, in a three-on-two situation, she would definitely not have much chance of winning.

"Ah!"

"It's really a headache..."

"Mikoto..."

"look!"

"No matter who wins or loses, it's not good news for us!"

Seeing the two people staring at each other and arguing, Hermione suddenly felt that her hope of winning the game seemed a little vague?

"If they lose together, that's news!"

"Pray!"

"Pray that they don't get separated, and then, it's better to meet those super-powerful players at the same time?"

Misaka Mikoto thought about it for a while, then fantasized about it, hoping to express her expectations.

Although she now has a secret weapon, if possible, she really doesn't want to confront those two tricky guys across the long table who can summon heroic spirits and at the same time have all kinds of bizarre magic.

Think of a powerful heroic spirit rushing towards him, and there is a mage throwing spells in the distance, that kind of situation, in the eyes of Misaka Mikoto, is simply a nightmare!

"Ha ha!"

"Yes, it is……"

"Speaking of which, it seems that there are quite a few powerful guys in the top 32!"

With that said, Hermione began to recall the battle report she had seen in the afternoon.

There are a lot of powerful warriors and mages on it, and there are guys who are both warriors and mages, such as the orc named Thrall. Attacking from a distance is really not easy to deal with.

There are also thieves who can attack from a distance and stealthily at close range. Just thinking about it makes Hermione feel a little scalp tingling.

In this way, Hermione began to chat with Misaka Mikoto, while on the opposite side of the table, Tohsaka Rin and Illya quarreled.

"..."

(￣～￣) Chew!

"??"

(??～??)

"Hey! Hermione, where's that idiot Irena? She's not coming back for dinner tonight?"

(???c)

At this time, Annie, who had not spoken for a while, suddenly asked aloud and successfully attracted everyone's attention.

"what!"

"This is..."

"I don't know much either."

Hermione stopped whispering to Mikoto, then turned her head once more to look at the empty seat beside her that was still vacant.

"It sounds weird."

"I didn't see her in the room before. She didn't seem to come back and didn't say where she was going."

"but……"

"It's already this time, she doesn't seem to be so late usually?"

Saying that, Hermione couldn't help frowning and worried, because this situation was the first time in so many days of contact.

"Is that so?"

(°ー°〃)

"Forget it! Leave her alone!"

(￣～￣) Chew!

Seeing that Hermione didn't know it, Annie started to eat again on her own.

After all, that guy Irena didn't participate in the competition, and it doesn't seem to matter if she doesn't come back for dinner. Anyway, she definitely won't care about that guy too much. Since she doesn't know if she asks Hermione, then it doesn't matter. That's it.

"what!"

"I remember!"

Suddenly, Hermione exclaimed, and then quickly took out a big thing like a desk clock in her seamless expansion pocket.

"??"

(???.???)????

"what?"

∑('△')? !

Seeing this, Annie stopped her movements and expressed a little curiosity.

"nice one!"

"The wall clock of Ron's house, Professor Anne, you should still have an impression, right?"

Ron's wall clock has the name of every member of the Weasley family engraved on each hand, pointing to where each family member may be present, including 'home', 'school', 'prison', 'missing' ', 'Quidditch', etc., and at 12 o'clock on that clock, 'Fatal Danger' is also engraved, just like the mobile phone location and other instruments in the Muggle world, it is very easy to use.

"But this is not from Ron's family. This is an experiment we made together after I talked to Irena before."

"Although it's not perfect, but you are optimistic, it can also be used!"

After explaining, Hermione pulled out her wand, shook it in the air, and then pointed to the dial of the wall clock.

The next second, something magical happened.

On the wall clock on the table, a pointer with Hermione's head appeared?

Then the hand began to turn very fast on its own, and the pattern and text on the dial began to change, and after a certain scale pattern of Anne's beautiful palace appeared, it quickly turned there and stopped. down.

"Look!"

"This is where I am now, the palace, right?"

"then……"

"It's Irena's, she also left her mark on this clock before, and then..."

Hermione twitched her wand in the air again, and then pointed upward again, casting some sort of spell.

"what?"

!(;?o?)o

"It's turning in the direction of twelve o'clock, what does blood mean?"

|?˙?˙)?

At this moment, Annie saw that the pointer with the head of Irena's idiot quickly turned to the scarlet one at twelve o'clock, and there was a scale with a drop of blood, and at the same time, the original Irena's The abominable smiling face instantly turned into a miserable crying face, not to mention how fun it was.

(…)

(●￣?￣●)

"not good!"

"Professor Anne, Irena is in danger!"

"quick!"

"We must go to her immediately!!"

Unlike Annie who had a playful look and the curious crowd, Hermione took a deep breath when she saw this. Then she made a decisive decision, pushed the chair away, and hurriedly stood aside and said loudly.

"All right!"

"I've located her, it seems a little far from here!"

"Everyone, I'm leaving first!"

"Transfiguration!!"

After speaking, Hermione raised her wand resolutely after sensing a coordinate object that she had placed on Irena under everyone's astonished gaze, and then disappeared in this luxurious palace in an instant. in the restaurant.

Although, Hermione will also have the more comfortable portal technology, but, because she is not very skilled, she is still used to using the kind of Apparition that she is better at most of the time, even if the spell is really It's uncomfortable, like squeezing someone down the toilet and flushing it away, but now, she can't handle that much.

"Really, I haven't finished eating yet!"

(?????)

Seeing that she had only drank half of the thick soup in her plate and bowl, Annie was slightly dissatisfied.

"Everyone knows that Irena is a useless idiot!"

???(＿＿*)??

"All right!"

ε=('ο'*))) alas

"Just go and see!"

╮(╯▽╰)╭

Thinking that I was almost full, thinking that even Irena would be in danger, and thinking that there was an additional Annie who Hermione might also be delivering food, she had to reluctantly jumped off her chair, and then, with a wave of her hand, She opened a portal and walked in carelessly.

After all, she didn't want her two students to burp all of a sudden, it would definitely be a bit humiliating to say that kind of thing.

"Oops!"

ヾ(=?ω?=)o

"Almost forgot!"

(????-)?

(…)

(●￣(?)￣●)

Then, Annie, who had just walked into the portal, suddenly turned back, first made big faces at Mikoto, Tohsaka Rin, and Illya, who were still a little overwhelmed, before grabbing the table. A certain bear Tibbers, and then drilled into the portal again, and disappeared completely.

"Decided!"

"I also need to go!"

"Wait for me!"

Finally, Misaka Mikoto came to her senses.

Although she didn't know what happened or what the magic was about, all she knew was that something happened to Irena, so she felt that she couldn't turn a blind eye to her, so she hurriedly got up and wiped her mouth with a napkin. , and then planned to run to that portal and go see what happened together.

"no!"

However, before Mikoto could start to act, a pair of hands suddenly stretched out and firmly protected her.

"Sister, you can't go!"

"You have to play tonight!"

"What if you can't come back by then?"

"I don't allow you to go!!"

Of course, those hands belonged to Kuroko Shirai, and while hugging Mikoto, she plausibly explained her reasons.

"I know!"

"But Irena is in danger..."

"Say more!"

"Maybe we'll be back soon?"

"It's more than an hour before the game starts now!"

Mikoto felt that although the time was a bit rushed, if it was faster, maybe it would be too late?

"No! No!"

"What if I don't come back?"

"and!"

"Maybe, it will never come back!"

Kuroko protested, still holding her sister Mikoto tightly, and she refused to let go of the other party no matter how hard she struggled.

"How can it be?"

"Stop joking!"

Mikoto felt a little dumbfounded. In her opinion, with Hermione and Annie here, there was no way that something that would never come back would happen.

"Don't listen! Don't listen!"

"Anyway!"

"Sister, I won't let you go!!"

Heizi didn't want to hear it, just gritted her teeth and hugged her elder sister's slender waist, refusing to let go of anything.

"But!"

"Irena is our friend!"

"friend?"

"What about friends?"

"The big deal, you don't have to prepare her dinner in the future, what's the big deal?"

"But!"

"Kuroko, is it more important to have friends or competition?"

"Humph!"

"Of course it's the big sister's game that matters!"

Actually, in Kuroko's heart, the elder sister's talent is the most important, followed by the elder sister's competition, then her Kuroko, and then, other people or things, for example, the wild man named Irena woman or something?

"etc!"

"cold!"

"Don't worry!"

At this time, when I heard Kuroko Shirai's words, Illya also stopped vigilantly, and as soon as she reached out, she grabbed the hand of Rin Tohsaka, who wanted to follow him to the portal, and motioned for the other party to look at a certain Say a competitor.

"elder sister?"

"??"

Seeing the two stopped, Tohsaka Sakura and Luvia who were walking in front also turned around suspiciously, and while asking with their eyes, they did not forget to look at Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko who were arguing with each other. The two looked.

"Ha ha!"

"They've always been like this, you don't really need to mind."

Sitting on the chair, as a 'non-combatant', Index, who had never thought of causing trouble with her, could only laugh like this, facing the four magical girls across the table. explained.

"..."

Mikoto didn't have time to pay attention to what the four people on the other side of the table were thinking. She was just trying to break free from Kuroko's mess.

"!!"

"open!!"

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After arguing for a while, Mikoto, who found that she couldn't get rid of the opponent's entanglement, finally became angry, so a trace of lightning began to flash on her forehead, directly threatening with force.

"Don't let it go!"

It's a pity that Kuroko didn't even lift it, still hugged tightly and buried his head on Mikoto's waist.

"you!!"

"Can you let it go?"

??

More lightning flashed on Mikoto's forehead, 'crackling', and began to grit her teeth to threaten with words and actual actions.

"!!"

"Don't let it go!!"

"Don't let go if you kill me!"

Kuroko said stubbornly, and at the same time hugged her hands even tighter. She even buried her head firmly in Mikoto's stomach. Just after she was full, she was still a little bulging. She leaned against her very comfortable stomach and rubbed hard. Ah rub.

"..."

??

Click!

Finally, the impatient Mikoto unleashed a 100,000-volt electric shock!

Then, the star-eyed Kuroko twitched all over, and at the same time slowly released his hands and flopped down gorgeously on the restaurant floor. On the gold red carpet in El'Thalas high elf style.

"!!"

"Really!"

"Can you stop me?"

After clapping her hands and getting Kuroko, Mikoto planned to turn around and walk to Annie's portal~lightnovelpub.net~ But...

"what!"

"hateful!"

When she solved the troubles of Kuroko, she turned her head and found that the blue portal just now had completely disappeared without a trace.

"Kuroko!"

"It's all your fault!"

Then, Mikoto, who was annoyed in her heart, turned her head angrily and glared angrily at Kuroko on the ground.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still outsiders here, she might have to give him another million-volt electrotherapy package to make him incontinent!

"Hey!"

"cold!"

"Anyway, if our teacher is here, it will be fine. Otherwise, we won't go, right?"

At this moment, Illya blinked her beautiful red pupil eyes, and then proposed like this.

Although they had a way to open the portal and follow, but seeing that the competitor, Misaka Mikoto, didn't go, she thought about it, and was afraid that there would be a change and would not be able to come back, so she also fought. Back off.

"Seconded!"

Although she was eliminated, Luvia raised her hand to express her approval immediately.

"Okay!"

"There must be no problem with that guy from the teacher!"

Holding his arms, Tohsaka Rin also thought more and more that, compared to saving people or something, it seemed that their game was more important?

Besides, their little teacher is so powerful, it is probably a disservice for them to go, so it is better not to go!

"elder sister…..."

Hearing the three people's words, Tohsaka Sakura, who was on the side, was a little worried and wanted to follow her, but she was a little afraid of being scolded, so she timidly shrank aside, not daring to talk much at this time.

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