Chapter 79 - 079: Club Recruitment

Tents covered one school ground to another; it almost made this place look like a fair with street vendors, it seems like there's a festival going on here.

"Arthur, can we take a look at the tent over there?" Echidna excited voice is answered by a sigh from Arthur

"I fulfill my promise to bring you here, from today onward you must consume your medicine followed the instruction of the doctor and you can't skip the meal"

A weak after the recruitment Arthur quite busy with his schedule, training in the morning, school, study at night and drive Mari to her home. And because of that he failed to notice Echidna who didn't consume her medicine and flush it to the toilet. In the end, they need to pay a visit to the hospital again.

There is an automatic wheelchair, but Echidna said there is no familial love on that thing and stubbornly want to use an old fashioned wheelchair, so Arthur needs to push her from behind while taking her tour around the school. It's all thanks to Mayumi and Mari he can take her to the school for this one week with a condition to arrange a meeting between Arthur, Echidna and the principal Momoyama. Arthur accepts the condition because there is nothing wrong with it.

At first, when the members of the Public Moral Committee have a briefing before patrolling there is no one who objects Arthur or doubts him as a new member because of his scores and Mari's word. But it was different with Tatsuya, even if they didn't say it loud they didn't believe in him. So to make them shut up Mari just give them an answer also suggestion for their doubt.

"Mayumi is the one who recommended Tatsuya, so if there is someone here who has a doubt about his ability, you can have a heart to heart conversation with Mayumi"

With that sentence Mari makes all of Public Moral Committee members close their mouth and didn't talk about it again. One of the upperclassmen tells Arthur, if he didn't want to be played by Mayumi's mischievous side and have a torturous life, it's better to don't bother with her.

But when Mari says Arthur can patrolling wherever he want, it raises another dissatisfaction from other members. But Mari didn't answer them, verbally. She just held her baton shape CAD in her hand with her eyes scanning the room. A true example of dictatorship.

Mari says it will be a bit 'rowdy' but look like she just simplifies it, Arthur itself didn't just wander around the school without doing his job, the reason there is no one who wants to block his way is the incident that happened in the gymnasium.

Half an hour ago...

Arthur picks Echidna at the school entrance where she is waiting there with Abby, at first Arthur want to ask Abby to follow them in but she refuses and says there is a lot of things she needs to do at home and leaving Echidna under Arthur care.

"Where do you want to go?"

"I will use this opportunity to get inspiration first before having fun, so do you know a place where I can see people who practice with a sword?"

"Then we need head to the gymnasium, let's see... ugh, it's Kenjutsu club"

"Oh! I know that! Let's go there! Let's go there!" Echidna shouts excitedly like a kid who is the first time going to an amusement park and it attracts a lot of attention.

"Alright, but can you lower your voice?"

"Arthurchair! Take off!!!" Echidna didn't do what Arthur said and instead of making fun of him and she laughed to her heart content

Arthur didn't reprimand her and just let it be

'You seems to have so much fun... sanctuary...right'

The two made their way into the 2nd gymnasium, also known as the "Arena", where the Kendo club was performing, but it's seems they arrive at the wrong time, they saw a swordsman and a swordswoman confronting each other.

"Haah, why this is still happened" Arthur know it will happen but he hopes because it was the different dimension with the world he knew the events will have a difference. But after that, he spots Tatsuya and Erika join the crowd, a smirk appear on Arthur's face and he pushes the record buŧŧon on the recording device given to him by Mari before send him patrolling on his own.

"Why you didn't interfere? I thought it was one of your jobs, right?" Echidna has a confused look because she didn't understand why Arthur didn't stop them

"There is another person who will stop it"

The duel between Sayaka and Kirihara is over with Sayaka come out as a winner.

But maybe he received a hit on his head before and make his judgment is cloudy, Kirihara active his magic and attack Sayaka. And the next thing that happens is, He is hit the floor with Tatsuya pinning him down.

Tatsuya responds make Kenjutsu club angry and attack him, more than ten people join the brawl but they can't touch him, let alone punching him.

*Plak*

"Alright, playing time is over now"

When everything nearly out of the hand and the spectator want to run afraid of being implicated, a clear voice is heard clearly for everyone in the gymnasium. The source of this voice is Arthur who clasping his hands, and at the same time when the sound of him clasping his hands is heard, cold sensations are spread to the whole gymnasium and the members of Kenjutsu club who 'attack' Tatsuya have their foot until their chin cover by ice crystal.

Arthur pushes the wheelchair and stop in front of Tatsuya and make an announcement for the spectator.

"Public Moral Committee is working here! Unrelated people leave this place immediately!" This time there is no one who dares to stubbornly stay. What if his next magic aims to the spectator?

"You quite active, Tatsuya" Arthur looks at the students who he trapped inside the crystal and silence them with his glances "with this you will become a hot topic, a course two students who can stop a senpai from course 1 without using 'magic', right?"

"Why you didn't interfere from the start?" Tatsuya have a feeling he is treated as an amusement for Arthur

"Of course because you need someone to record all of this commotion in better positions, you must grateful I use stronger approach so they will mentioned me more rather than you because as we know they will not spread what happened here and make you as a vocal point if there is me, student from course 1 who can stop fourteen people from year two students" Arthur stop a moment and look at where Sayaka and her club members go "and I didn't want to have a conversation with a girl who had her eyes cloud by trickster"

"You're right, it's better if they didn't even remember what I do here, who might it be?" Tatsuya accept Arthur explanations because there is nothing to lose and shift his attention to the new face that comes with Arthur 'there is no psion or pushion on her body, commoner?'

"That is slightly impossible because your entrance quite flashy itself, she is Echidna, she comes with me from England"

"You're a friend of Arthur? You have unique techniques for countermagic... something similar to cast jamming?" Seeing how Tatsuya can stop magic being used, and how it affects the other students who want to use magic, Echidna compared it with another way to counter magic available in this world before reaching the conclusion.

Arthur didn't tell her about it, so he is also quite amazed by her analytical skills and knowledge, well she is the witch of greed after all.

But Arthur knows this is not the right place to discuss it so he patted Echidna's head and warn her to not mention it again lightly

"Sorry about it Tatsuya, this girl is overly enthusiast when it comes to magic. Can I leave this place to you? I need to take this girl tours"

"You can, but you need come to the club headquarters with Tatsuya when the school ends today for explaining what really happened here" before Tatsuya answered, Mari who is coming with other Public Moral Committee members and some medics answer him.

"Well, then I will take my leave now, thank you Mari-senpai" Arthur wave his hand and the ice crystals trapping the students is vanishes, and he leaves the gymnasium and continues to take Echidna to satisfy her curiosity.

News circulating fast, now there is nobody dares to make commotion when there is Arthur in the vicinity afraid he will turn them into an ice sculpture. When there is beads of sweat gather slightly on Echidna's forehead Arthur change his direction and head to students council room where there is Mayumi, Suzune, Miyuki and Emilia monitoring the whole event.

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Just before the school gates closed, in the club headquarters Tatsuya and Arthur are called there for provided details concerning the attempted brawl.

"Why you didn't interfere, Arthur?"

"So, in other words, none of you know the exact reason for their argument?" Mari and Mayumi is the one who asks questions while Katsuto just a good listener.

"The situation is concerning the Kenjutsu Club's barging in on the Kendo Club's demonstration for new members." Because he is the one who experiences the event Tatsuya answer from his own observation.

"I think it will be amusing if I let Tatsuya stop Kirihara-senpai so I act as his cameraman" but Arthur comment make Mayumi and Mari have the same feeling, 'we found a new partner in crime' but they didn't show it because there is Katsuto here.

Mari decides to ignore him for the time being and direct all of the questions to Tatsuya, but all of this back to the square one because Tatsuya and Arthur didn't know the real cause for this commotion.

"Chief, I'm sorry for being discourteous." By that, Tatsuya was signaling to Mari that he wanted permission to leave.

"Oh, right, both of you can leave now. Thanks for both of your hard work."

Receiving permission, Arthur and Tatsuya turned around and left the club headquarters. On Arthur part, his job can't say as hard work but there is no one who can deny with just his presence alone there is no one who dares to break the school rules, it's all thanks to the rumor that spreading to the whole school.