“…”
In the luxurious palace, Hermione was casually following their terrible little teacher (professor), Mikoto Misaka, Kuroko Shirai, Indyx and the magical beauty group, namely Rin Tosaka, Sakura Tosaka, Ilia, and Luvia, who were having their dinner together.
As she ate, Hermione turned her head and looked at the still empty position beside her, and she couldn't help but frown slightly.
Which empty seat belongs to Irena!
In fact, they would have dinner together happily almost every night, and it looked like a big family. Therefore, the position of Irena still neatly arranged various tableware, plates and napkins.
Unfortunately, until now, Irena has not appeared.
Hermione didn't think much about this, because, in the past, Irena would occasionally be late once or twice, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for more than ten minutes, and they were actually a little used to it.
However, I don’t know what happened today. Until now, almost half an hour later, and they all ate almost half of it, but Irena still didn’t see her coming back, and she didn’t know what the other party was busy with.
But anyway, Hermione knew that the other party must not be in the palace. She had just come to have dinner after changing clothes and taking a shower in their room. She didn't see any signs of Irena coming back. I guess, the other party must be wandering around somewhere in the city now, right?
Shaking her head, she felt a little complaining that Irena didn't come back to eat on time and didn't leave a message in advance, and she struggled for a while, and then did not think about it anymore. Instead, she continued to slowly eat the delicious food on her plate.
After all, if you don’t eat quickly, the two guys Mikoto Misaka and Rin Tosaka and the other two were still fighting openly and secretly, and then they would hold the plate and overturn the table at the instigation of a teacher Wuliang. She had to hurry up and eat her own.
“…”
"Hello!"
"Mikoto, how about you, are you confident of reaching the quarterfinals?"
As she ate, Hermione, who couldn't figure out why Irena didn't come back for dinner, simply stopped thinking about it, but asked Mikoto Misaka next to her.
There was no competition at night, but, starting today, in order to speed up the process and to the over 10,000 tourists stranded on the floating island had something to do at night and would not cause trouble (for example, Harry was now under surveillance because he burned a hotel and was now under surveillance). After research, the competition committee unanimously decided that starting today, the competition would be held to strengthen the competition at night until the last four rosters of the semi-finals were decided!
Tonight, the quota for the eighth finals was decided, and the final knockout round was decided by sixteen of the thirty-two players.
Whether it is Hermione himself, Mikoto Misaka, or Rin Tosaka and Ilia who looked up at them from across the table, they all need to make relevant preparations after dinner.
Until now, it is less than two hours before the start of the competition.
"Um……"
"Am I a match?"
Stopped the eating action in his hand, Mikoto Misaka bit the spoon and turned her head, looked at Hermione, and then immediately remembered her many secret weapons.
She and Heizi secretly went to an uninhabited place on the edge of the floating island. If the gold coins given by Annie were used to fire the "super electromagnetic gun", the range could reach at least several kilometers or even further, which was not the same level as the original fifty meters range!
As for the rate of fire, it increased from the original eight rounds per minute to twelve rounds per minute, which is every five seconds, which fully ensured that she could react quickly and counterattack in the game, making her more confident of winning.
Moreover, because gold is the best conductor, and they have been "enchanted" and can really withstand high temperature burning and will not melt too quickly. Then, the weight is several times that of ordinary game coins. Therefore, after a brief estimate of the specific power, after she and Kuroko, she felt that if there was enough acceleration distance, it would be a big problem to penetrate a mountain?
Anyway, power or something is really scary anyway!
"fine!"
"After solving the ammunition problem, I think there should be no big problem, right?"
"I still have a little bit of confidence."
However, Mikoto was not too stupid to tell her everything about the secret weapons. She just smiled so vaguely and responded to Hermione's question.
After all, she is not stupid. Although Hermione has a good relationship with her and has known that she is worried about ammunition, the other party is also one of the competitors. Moreover, there are two powerful competitors across the table who have not been eliminated, so her killer moves and gold coins will definitely not be easily told.
In fact, after receiving the gift from Annie, she and Kuroko went to the city to exchange some silver coins of suitable sizes. Then in the previous games, she only used ordinary silver coins with a small increase in firing rate, range and power, but not obvious, so she did not directly use the heat-resistant gold coins that were said to have been enchanted by an old dragon.
That was her killer move. Before the most critical moment, Mikoto Misaka would definitely not easily take it out or say it out.
She even discussed with Heizi that those gold coins would only be used at the decisive moment or at the critical moment of necessity, and would give a fatal sudden blow to the competitors.
Think about it, the "super electromagnetic cannon" that usually has a range of more than 50 meters and can be defended suddenly became a dimensional reduction attack that ignores distance in the entire field, and its power and penetration ability have been improved by countless levels. That kind of thing must be a surprise to the competitors, right?
"Is that true?"
"Um!"
"fine!"
Nodded, then Hermione looked at Ilia and Rin Tosaka, who were listening to the situation on the other side of the table with their ears erected.
Of course, the two of them also entered the top 32, so there will be their game tonight.
"So!"
"Rin, and Ilia, where are you?"
"Are you sure?"
While Hermione asked, she also looked at the spell on the hands of the two people with some fear.
She knew that it was the magic seal they summoned heroes from another world, and it was improved by her Professor Anne. After being eliminated, she could actively transfer it to another person. It can be said that it was a very cunning and shameless thing.
But there is no way, it is natural for the mage to summon helpers. Just like Hermione, she will occasionally summon water elements or fire elements during the competition, or even summon god guards to interfere with and attack opponents. However, compared to the spells of the two little guys, the spells were indeed a bit too outrageous.
Anyway, Hermione knew that those heroes could defeat the strongest knight in the continent of Elusalia in one-on-one situation. If she met two of them herself, she would have to defeat them as fast as possible, otherwise the result would be unpredictable.
"grasp?"
"It should be OK, right?"
"Anyway!"
"As long as I don't meet Ilia, it's okay!"
Tosaka Rin said with a determined look on her face.
She had the help of her sister Artoria, and she summoned her to come up and chop people up, and she could just hide behind her and use her magic. That would be too easy.
As long as she doesn't meet Ilia's bastard who has two spells and can summon Sister Joan of Arc and Medusa at the same time, she will definitely win.
"snort!"
"It doesn't matter if you meet me!"
"At that time, Rin, you just need to surrender directly. In that case, I will have three order curses!"
"Ha ha!!"
As he spoke, Ilia smiled proudly.
She was already thinking about it. At that time, she would just summon her three spells as soon as possible, then hide herself, hide in the distance and place a mirror, invisibility, traps, etc. Anyway, as long as she protects herself, she can wait for the victory to arrive.
Apart from himself and Rin, Iriya definitely doesn't believe that among the remaining thirty opponents, who else can resist the joint attack of the three heroes!
“!!”
"But why didn't you surrender?"
"Why do you want me to surrender?!"
Tosaka Rin was furious and slapped the table and asked loudly.
"Because I have two order curses!"
"You want to..."
"At that time, my Joan of Arc drags your Artoria, and then Medusa and I go after you to fight, are you convinced?"
"Are you afraid?"
Iriya raised her eyebrows proudly at Tosaka Rin and asked with some contempt and disdain.
"hateful!"
"You're less proud!"
"Maybe, you will be eliminated by someone else soon, and then you will cry and give me the spell!"
Rin Tosaka, who was a little angry but could not think of a reasonable reason to refute, had to curse with a red face.
Because, in fact, it is indeed the same as what Ilia said. They are both equally strong and no one can do anything to each other. And they are still very familiar with each other. If only Artoria is the only one, but Joan of Arc and Medusa are helping each other, she will definitely not have much chance of winning in the case of three-for-two.
"Oh!"
"What a headache..."
"Mikoto..."
"Look!"
"No matter who they loses and who wins, it is not good news for us!"
Seeing the two people staring at each other and quarreling, Hermione suddenly felt that her hope of winning the game seemed a little slim?
"If they lose together, that's news!"
"Pray!"
"Pray that they'd better not be separated, and then, it's better to meet that super-awesome player at the same time?"
Misaka Mikoto thought about it, then she fantasized and expressed her expectations in hopes.
Although she now has secret weapons, if she can, she really doesn't want to face the two tricky guys opposite the long table who can summon heroes and also have all kinds of strange magic.
Think of a powerful hero rushing towards him, and there is a mage in the distance throwing spells hard. In Mikoto Misaka, that situation is simply a nightmare!
"Ha ha!"
“Yes…”
"Speaking of this, it seems that there are indeed many powerful guys who have entered the top 32!"
As she said that, Hermione began to recall the battle report she had read in the afternoon.
There are many powerful warriors and mages on it, as well as those who are both warriors and mages, such as the orc named Thrall. The other party is carrying a hammer that can lightning, and can fight in close combat and attack from afar, which is indeed difficult to deal with.
There are also thieves who can attack from a long distance and raid invisible at close range. Just thinking about it, Hermione feels a little numb from scalp.
In this way, Hermione started chatting with Misaka Mikoto, and opposite the table, Rin Tosaka and Ilia quarreled, and no one wanted to give up easily and give up his heroic spirit to the other party.
“…”
(￣～￣) Chew!
“??”
(??~??)
"Hey! Hermione, where is that idiot Irena? She won't come back for supper tonight?"
(???c)
At this time, while eating, Annie, who had never spoken, suddenly asked out loud and successfully attracted everyone's attention.
"ah!"
"Well..."
"I don't know much, either."
Hermione stopped whispering to Mikoto, then turned her head again to look at the empty seat next to her that was still empty.
"It's weird to say."
"I didn't see her in the room before. She didn't seem to come back and didn't say where to go."
"but……"
"It's already this time, it seems she didn't seem so late in the past?"
As he said that, Hermione couldn't help but frown and worry, because this situation was the first time in so many days of contact.
"So that?"
(°〼°〃)
"Forget it! Don't worry about her!"
(￣～￣) Chew!
Unable to know about Hermione, Anne began to eat again on her own.
After all, that guy Irena did not participate in the competition, and it seems that there is nothing important whether or not to come back for dinner. Anyway, she definitely won’t care too much about that guy. Since she asked Hermione, she wouldn’t know, so she would just let it go.
"ah!"
"I remembered it!"
Suddenly, Hermione exclaimed, and then quickly took out a big thing like a bell in her infinitely expanded pocket.
“??”
(???.???)??????
"What?"
∑(′△)?!
Seeing this, Anne stopped what she was doing and expressed a little curiosity.
"nice one!"
"You should still have an impression of the wall clock at Ron's house, Professor Anne, right?"
Each needle of the Ron family wall clock is engraved with the name of every Weasley family member, pointing to places where every family member may appear, including 'home', 'school', 'prison', 'missing', 'Quidditch', etc., and at 12 o'clock on that clock, there is also 'fatal danger', which is as easy to use as the mobile phone positioning of the Muggle world.
"But this is not from Ron's family. This is an experimental product that we worked together after I talked to Irena before."
"Although it has not been perfect yet, you have a good idea and it can be used!"
After explaining, Hermione pulled out his wand, then shook it around in the air, and then pointed to the dial of the wall clock.
The next second, something magical happened.
The wall clock placed on the table actually showed a pointer with Hermione's avatar?
Then the hand began to turn rapidly on its own, and the patterns and texts on the dial began to change, and after a certain scale pattern of Anne's beautiful palace appeared, it quickly turned there and stopped.
"look!"
"This is my current location, the palace, right?"
"then……"
"It's Irena's, she also left a mark on this clock before, and then..."
Hermione shook the air with her wand again, then pointed at it again and issued a spell.
“Huh?”
!(;?o?)o
"Switched to the direction of twelve o'clock, what does blood mean?"
|?˙?˙)?
At this time, Annie saw that the pointer with the foolish avatar on it quickly turned to the scarlet at twelve o'clock, and there was a drop of blood pattern. At the same time, the originally despicable smile of Irena instantly turned into a miserable and crying face, not to mention how fun it was.
(…)
(●￣?￣●)
"not good!"
"Professor Anne, it's Irena in danger!"
"quick!"
"We must go and give her a try now!"
Unlike Anne who looked funny and the curious, Hermione took a breath when she saw this. Then she made a quick decision, pushed the chair away, then hurriedly stood aside and said loudly.
"alright!"
"I have already located her, it seems a bit far from here!"
"Everyone, I'll set out first!"
"Move shape and change shadows!!"
After saying that, Hermione, under the astonishing eyes of everyone, sensed a coordinate object she placed on Irena, resolutely raised her wand and disappeared into this luxurious palace restaurant instantly.
Although Hermione also has a more comfortable portal technology, because she is not very skilled, she is still used to using the phantom movement that she is better at. Even though that kind of spell is really uncomfortable, it is like squeezing people into the toilet and flushing them away, now she can't control so much.
"Really, I haven't finished my meal yet!"
(??????)
Looking at the soup that had only been half drunk in her plate and bowl, Anne was a little dissatisfied.
"I just knew that Irena was just a useless idiot!"
???(＿＿*)??
"All right!"
ε=(′ο｀*))) Alas
"Just go and have a look!"
╮(╯▽╰)╭
Thinking that she was almost full, even Irena would be in danger, and she felt that there was an extra Hermione who probably delivered food, Anne, so she had to jump out of her chair reluctantly. Then, with a wave of her hand, she opened a portal and walked in casually.
After all, she didn't want her two students to be burping all of a sudden. If she said that, it would definitely be a bit embarrassing to tell her.
"oops!"
ヾ(=?ω?=)o
"I almost forgot!"
(????-)?
(…)
(●￣(?)￣●)
Then, Annie, who had just walked into the portal, suddenly turned back. She first made a big face at Mikoto, Tosaka Rin, Ilia and others who were still at a loss, then grabbed a certain Bear Tibers on the table, and then got back into the portal and disappeared completely.
"I've decided!"
"I'm going too!"
"Wait for me!"
Finally, Mikoto Misaka came back to her senses.
Although she didn't know what happened or what the magic was like, she only knew that something happened to Irena was so unaware that she couldn't ignore it, so she hurriedly got up, first wiped her mouth with a napkin, and then planned to run to the portal and go to see what was going on.
"no!"
However, before Mikoto started to act, her hands suddenly stretched out and kept her tightly.
"Sister, you can't go!"
"You have to compete tonight!"
"What if you can't come back then?"
"I don't allow you to go!!"
Of course, those hands were from Kuroko Shirai, and while hugging Mikoto, she also spoke her reason with strikingly.
"I know!"
"But Irena is in danger..."
"Besides!"
"Maybe, we'll be back soon?"
"Now, there is more than an hour left before the game begins!"
Mikoto felt that although time was a bit rushed, if it was faster, maybe it would be too late?
"No! No!"
"What if I don't come back?"
"besides!"
"Maybe, I will never come back!"
Kuroko argued that she still hugged her sister Mikoto tightly, and she refused to let go no matter how hard the other party struggled.
"How is that possible?"
"Stop kidding!"
Mikoto felt a little amused. In her opinion, with Hermione and Anne, it would be impossible for something that would never come back.
"Don't listen! Don't listen!"
"Anyway!"
"Sister, I won't let you go!!"
Heizi didn't want to hear it, but just gritted her sister's slender waist tightly, and refused to let go of her hand no matter what she said.
"But!"
"Irena is our friend!"
"friend?"
"So what about friends?"
"At worst, I don't have to prepare her supper in the future. What's so awesome?"
"But!"
"Hiko, is it important for friends or games?"
"snort!"
"Of course it's my sister's game that matters!"
Actually, in Heizi's heart, the most important thing is the elder sister, followed by the elder sister competition, and then her Heizi, and then, there is other people or things, such as the wild woman named Irena?
"etc!"
"cold!"
"Don't be anxious first!"
At this time, when he heard Kuroko Shirai's words, Ilia stopped vigilantly, and reached out and grabbed the hand of Rin Tosaka who wanted to follow him to the portal, signaling the other party to see a competitor first.
"elder sister?"
“??”
Seeing the two stop, Tosaka Sakura and Luvia who were walking in front also turned around in confusion. While asking with their eyes, they did not forget to look at Mikoto Misaka and Kuroko Shirai who were having fun together.
"Ha ha!"
"They have always been like this, you don't have to mind."
Sitting on the chair, as a "non-combatant", Indyx, who had never thought of causing trouble, had to smile dryly and explain to the four magical beauties opposite the table.
“…”
Mikoto didn't have time to pay attention to what the four people across the table were thinking. She just tried to break free from the unreasonable troubles of the black man.
“!!”
"open!!"
?
After arguing for a while, Mikoto, who could not get rid of the other party's entanglement, finally got angry. So a trace of lightning began to flash on her forehead and threatened directly with force.
"Don't let it go!"
Unfortunately, Kuroko didn't even lift her, and she still hugged her tightly and buried her head on Mikoto's waist.
"you!!"
"Do you want to let it go?"
??
More lightning began to flash on Mikoto's forehead, and it "cracked" sounded, and began to threaten with words and actions with gritted teeth.
“!!”
"I won't let it go!"
"I won't let you go if you beat me to death!"
Kuroko said stubbornly, and at the same time she hugged her hands tighter. She even buried her head tightly in Mikoto's just eating, but she was still a little bulging at this time, leaning on her very comfortable belly and rubbing hard.
“…”
??
Click!
Finally, the impatient Mikoto launched an electric shock of 100,000 volts!
Then, the blackspot with golden eyes twitched all over, and at the same time, he slowly let go of his hands and fell gorgeously on the super gorgeous and exquisite embroidered patterns on the restaurant floor. It looked like he knew it was on the red carpet of the golden silk belonging to the style of the High Elf of Quel's Salas.
“!!”
"Really!"
"Can you stop me?"
After clapping his hands and getting rid of Kuroko, Mikoto planned to turn around and walk to Anne's portal.
However...
"ah!"
"hateful!"
When she solved the problem of Heizi, she turned around and found that the blue portal just now had completely disappeared.
"Hyposses!"
"It's all your fault!"
Then, Mikoto, who was frustrated, had to turn around hatefully and glar at Kuroko on the ground with anger.
If there weren't anyone else here, she might have to give the other party a million-volt-level electrotherapy package to make the other party incontinence!
"Hey!"
"cold!"
"Anyway, with our teacher here, there will definitely be no problem. Otherwise, we won't go, right?"
At this time, Ilia blinked her beautiful red eyes and then suggested like this.
Although they had the means to open the portal and follow him, when they saw that the competitor Mikoto Misaka stopped going, she thought about it and was afraid that there would be any accidents that would lead to no return, so she also gave in.
"Address!"
Although he was eliminated, Luvia raised her hand to agree immediately.
"good!"
"It's definitely no problem to have that guy in the teacher!"
Holding his arms, Tosaka Rin thought about it more and more, it seemed that their game was more important than saving people.
Besides, their little teacher is so powerful, they probably will be helping too much when they go there, so it would be better not to go!
"elder sister…..."
When she heard the three of them, Tosaka Sakura beside her was a little worried and wanted to follow her, but she was a little afraid of being scolded and had to hide timidly, not daring to talk too much at this time.
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Chapter completed!