Labyrinth and Magic Gunner
I never would've thought I had the ability to copy magic.
Maybe I'll get to be a super protagonist who can use all magic!
No, you won't!
I can't believe you...
You can only copy someone's "vessel."
You need to figure out what sort of process it takes to do it.
Oh, well.
I guess it won't be that eas—
Why is everyone asleep?
Hey, Selina.
Wake up.
Maybe everyone's boycotting your class?
What?! That can't be...
You need to shape up, Lilith.
This is what happens when you neglect your duty as a teacher.
I'm not neglecting my duty!
No, this is something else.
It's a breakdown phenomenon.
All the students without strong magic such as yours have fallen asleep.
Basically, that's what's going on here.
So on that note...
Let's go mess with the cute chicks sleeping out there!
Looks like it's time for me to get ser—
You didn't have to hit us, Lilith-chan.
What if I start to like it?
Stop messing around!
This is stupid.
Let's go, Akio.
We just have to get rid of the breakdown phenomenon, right?
Y-Yeah.
You should all work together and—
No.
Huh?
The two of us are enough to handle this.
Later.
What? Did she fall in love with me?
You're pretty egotistical, aren't you?
It wouldn't hurt to show off a little more yourself, you know.
Like letting you see me naked again?
You can't do that!
This is pretty difficult.
Actually, Headmaster...
Huh?
Is this really a breakdown phenomenon?
Yeah.
There's powerful magic overflowing from beneath the school.
Beneath the school?
You mean... Yui-san?
Isn't Yui...
that girl who has the second best body after Lilith?
Don't remember me just for my body!
That's correct.
She lives in the dungeon beneath the school.
Her magic has run amok, which is causing this.
You have a dungeon here?
This is a magic academy, after all.
This place is pretty creepy.
Normally, it's just an ordinary giant labyrinth.
It's probably all Yui's doing.
She's about to awaken.
Awaken? Is she asleep?
Yui-san is a mage who lives
on the other side of this world, in the world of dreams.
And that's her Thema.
That's why she's sealed.
Sealed?
She has cardinalism magic.
She's the second most powerful person here, after the headmaster.
Because of her great power,
she'll eventually put the world itself to sleep.
What does it mean for the world to fall asleep?
Well, in simple terms, the world is destroyed.
It's very possible that she was influenced
by the demon lord candidate because she met Arata.
Which means that this breakdown phenomenon
is my fault, too?
It's okay.
We can still fix this.
Lilith...
Come on.
Let's find her before Mira-san and Akio-san do.
Why?
One of Grimoire Security's duties
is reformatting breakdown phenomena,
and destroying the impurity that caused it.
If they find Yui-san, they're sure to destroy her.
Got it. Let's hurry.
It's dangerous where we're going.
Everybody shift to Magus mode.
Right.
Oh, looks like somebody's come to greet us.
What are those things?
Demons.
They appear where magic is in flux, or during breakdown phenomena.
They're beings from another dimension.
They come to eat magic and its wielders.
Which means...
That gun from before will come in handy?
What's wrong, Arata?
How do I do that, again?
Hey, grimoire.
Turn into that gun from before, would you?
Gun?
What was that thing made of, again?
Hey, you did it so easily last time!
You remember!
Shall I put up a barrier so they can't get close?
Please do.
Here we go!
Yeah! This is the— Huh?
Was this how it looked?
Well, whatever.
Here I go!
Huh?
What? Hey, nothing's happening!
Work! Work!
Stupid thing!
H-Huh?
Wh-What are you doing, Arata?
You're useless.
This is bad.
The barrier...
I get it.
I undid Lilith and Arin's Magus mode.
Arata-san.
It's dangerous, so stay down.
Let's hurry.
Ninjas are pretty amazing, aren't they?
Levi-san's abilities are top class.
She's probably one of the top five mages at fighting.
Are all of the Trinity Seven like that?
But she's a little different this time.
You're right.
Maybe Yui is special to her somehow.
I think we've come pretty far...
It's gotten a lot darker.
You're right.
What do you think you're touching under the cover of darkness, Arata?
This size and softness... It's Lilith, isn't it?
What makes you think you can...
Hey, Arata!
Where are you sticking your hand into?
It's not me!
Actually, something's inside my clothes, too!
In the name of Ruina,
I execute the macro recorded in the grimoire Ragna-Yggdrasil.
Tiwaz.
Ah, no, not there!
Awesome!
That's my Chaosic Ruin.
Hey, grimoire.
My power is copying, right?
Try doing what she just did.
I haven't achieved Process 1, so that's impossible.
Pro... what?
Process.
It seems certain rules have to be fulfilled
if you want to use someone else's magic.
You just happened to clear them last time.
I see.
What's the rule?
That I've seen their boobs?
You've seen my boobs.
True.
This is pretty difficult.
Stop saying "boobs" over and over when we're in a place like this!
You're saying it more than anybody.
Your magic is pretty handy, Arin.
I just wrote it into my grimoire
and registered it as a macro.
Eihwaz.
A defense spell.
I don't want the shadows playing with you.
Thanks, Arin!
Yeah.
Anyway, you need to learn macros and spells, Arata.
If you register a macro in your grimoire and chant a spell,
the registered magic will take effect.
I'd appreciate it if you could master it quickly.
To save Yui-san,
we need the power you have
that can erase breakdown phenomena.
Really?
My Thema is expectation, by the way.
So I'm expecting great things from you, demon lord candidate.
Now then,
we're almost at the lowest level.
It was surprisingly simple to get here.
Shadows that weak couldn't beat Levi-san
even if they all came at her at once.
Yeah.
If there's a real threat, it's...
We came straight here!
How'd you get ahead of us?
S-Straight here?
Yeah.
First we destroyed the floor,
and then we destroyed all the walls in a straight line.
Now, let's go, Akio.
Yui-san is up ahead.
Wait a second.
Are you planning to kill Yui?
She's causing a breakdown phenomenon.
That's too short-sighted!
I wouldn't mind starting with you.
Your magic doesn't work on me, after all.
Fine.
Are you going to fight me, Levi?
These intense plot twists are kind of fun.
You're right.
I've always wanted to fight you for real.
Akio, we don't have time.
If Sensei or Levi interferes here, we can't go any further anyway, right?
We have to fight.
Finish it as quickly as possible.
Yeah, leave it to me.
Everyone else, go on ahead.
Arata-san is the only one who can save Yui-san.
Roger.
Connect to Invidia Archive.
Execute Thema.
Rise of Divine Wind!
What's with this wind?
B-Bunny panties?
Akio!
Finish this up quick and crush this impure boy already!
The boss is so pure-hearted.
Just hurry!
Office of Yui the Evil Mage Hours: 9:00 - 15:00 Yui is now "in"
This is Yui-san's room.
What is this sign?
I'd say either Levi-san or the headmaster wrote it.
I'm opening the door.
Such poisonous aura...
H-Hey...
Yui-san!
She seems a little different than last time.
What you saw in your dream was Yui-san's ideal form, husband.
It was?
The loli boobs she's got here are pretty outrageous, too.
Arata!
Husband!
His magic and that of the dragon are resonating.
No...
Then Arata is...
Arin!
No, Arata!
Realize!
Buster mode!
Did we get it?
Not yet!
Its magic is as powerful as ever!
Oh, look at them go.
Hi, guys.
It's a Code D.
So it really had materialized.
A fantasy given physical form, huh?
Where's the ninja?
No... Did Levi-san...
I'm right here.
Temporary truce?
Well, with that thing here, we'll have to.
A Phantasmal Demon in dragon form,
said to be the strongest of the Phantasms.
There's a possibility that Akio may not be able to handle it alone.
Well, I'm gonna give it a try.
Let's go.
I'll back you up.
Are you okay, Arata-san?
Catch your breath and focus your mind on your grimoire.
It should make you feel a lot better.
Well?
Yeah, I feel a lot better.
Wow.
Want to join in?
Join in?
Don't you have to go help, ninja?
Of course I'm going.
But I want you to join in the fight, Arata-san.
The battle of a mage who can erase breakdown phenomena...
If you want to find your cousin,
you'll have to fight a battle like that eventually.
To find Hijiri...
Ninja,
I'm going to use my gun.
Tell me how to fight.
Sure thing.
I think that's the easiest way to save Yui-san.
You really are good friends.
No, I never expect anything of anybody.
And Yui-san will never be friends with anybody.
We're a lot alike.
You don't expect anything?
Your magic Thema is the thing that's farthest from you.
That's how it often is.
So, since I can't expect anything of anybody,
I expect everything.
That's right. Magic is doing what's farthest from what one considers rational.
Do you want to control everything?
Yeah.
I want to control this whole insane breakdown phenomenon.
Okay.
Lilith-sensei!
Right!
Give Arata-san a lecture on magic.
Listen, Arata.
First, decide on your spell.
Spell?
What Lilith was just using.
Can it be the same as Lilith's?
Sure, that's fine.
But...
Be careful.
You have a tendency to underestimate magic.
Use it too much and it'll devour you someday.
What?
Alchemy is bound by the theory of material exchange.
It uses your magic or psyche as its cost.
If you overuse it,
that cost will go beyond your limits, and...
You'll be devoured by the magic
and turn into a demon yourself.
Then those things were...
Yep.
If you let your magic go out of control,
that might happen to you.
Especially because you're demon lord class.
You'll become a monster far more difficult than that dragon.
I'll turn into something like that?
What's wrong, master?
Did that scare you?
Fine.
I'll do it.
Take my magic, or whatever you want.
In exchange, I'll control even that.
Sounds good, master.
Your magic, talent, potential...
Hit me with everything you've got.
Then here's my last lecture for you.
Imagine the process by which a grimoire becomes a gun.
A gun has a grip.
A barrel.
A trigger.
I put my magic there.
Now just imagine you're firing a magic bullet from your fingertips.
S-Sounds great.
Magic in my fingertips...
Envision it becoming a gun.
Let's go, grimoire!
Realize!
Okay, master.
Execute macro!
This magic power...
Everybody, get out of the way!
Arata!
Blow away the breakdown phenomenon!
Meteo Punisher!
Levi-chan?
Looks like you're awake.
H-Hey.
Are you okay?
Onii-san!
You saved me, didn't you?
I love you!
W-Wait!
Hey, Arata!
You're such a—
I love you so much, Onii-san!
Hey, you're naked!
Arata!
A demon lord candidate
who lived up to my expectations and destroyed a Code D in a single hit.
How very interesting.
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