Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei Light Novel Discussion

[azziz]

Originally Posted by Dreyakis

Hehe...... "Casualties", eh? The answer to all your questions will be revealed 6 days from now. (evil smirk)

still,this beg the question,knowing how undefeatable-or at less undying-are high school student,why didn't chinese send their own instead of their professional-but fodder-magicien soldier?
certainly chinese must have no only the equivalent of the numbered clan-no just hundred,but perhars thousand.So they just need to pick a few handsome teenager,like the us did with lina sirius-sending a bishoujo against (unaware)pimp tatsuya was a mistake,but choosing straight guy(or girl like isumi)should do the deal-as long they're less than 19,of course.

ps:why didn't the kurobane twin sibling cousin didn't join first high?like sakura,they should be first year,right?

[Flere821]

Originally Posted by Mentar

This is SO awesome ^_^ ... thanks Flere!

Most likely it should be romanized as "Ernst" Rosen. This would be a proper German name.

Noted, and will use this for future summaries unless someone else have a better suggestion.

Originally Posted by belatkuro

Shouldn't these just be grandfather and grandmother?
Otherwise, thanks for the summary.

The original wording was like that, so I kept it. This was to make sure the distinction that this is mainly on Erica's mother's (Maternal) side as well.

[henzaeroz]

post your 'thanks' or any staff appreciation related matters here for Mahouka.

Originally Posted by Vahanar

aww

Though I will be MayumixTatsuya supporter forever.

me too.

[waffler]

how strong is takumi? i dont think hes as strong as tatsuya but i heard he was pretty strong

[Chimurry]

Mayumi private opinion about Miyuki: She is a S...??, what??, sadist?, son of beach*?

[blackwhite67]

Originally Posted by waffler

how strong is takumi? i dont think hes as strong as tatsuya but i heard he was pretty strong

Who's Takumi? You mean Shippou?

I think he's the heir to his family, which is no a master clan so he's obviously NOT on Tatsuya's level. Let's be honest. At this point in the story, the power level of any "famous" magician that is not strategic-class or in the military isn't worth mentioning compared to Tatsuya.

[babbo3d]

Originally Posted by blackwhite67

Who's Takumi? You mean Shippou?

I think he's the heir to his family, which is no a master clan so he's obviously NOT on Tatsuya's level. Let's be honest. At this point in the story, the power level of any "famous" magician that is not strategic-class or in the military isn't worth mentioning compared to Tatsuya.

While all you said is true, he is part of the ten just not the recognize 18. Thanks for the chapter Dreyakis-san.

[blackwhite67]

Originally Posted by babbo3d

While all you said is true, he is part of the ten just not the recognize 18. Thanks for the chapter Dreyakis-san.

There are 28 clans and only the strongest ten are called the Ten Master Clans. The 18 that don't make the cut are called the Assistant Houses or Clans. Takuma's family is one of the Assistant clans.

[SoloPanda]

Originally Posted by Flere821

Noted, and will use this for future summaries unless someone else have a better suggestion.

The original wording was like that, so I kept it. This was to make sure the distinction that this is mainly on Erica's mother's (Maternal) side as well.

Thanks for the summarys Flere, I'm really looking foward to seeing what happens next. I'm hopeing they sent the other guy to take Erica (for marriage or something) and Leo fights him in a duel to get him to leave, there by accidentally ending up in an inescapeable relationship with Erica... ok so i'ts just my wishful thinking


Btw are the translations you read in chinese mandarin?

[cyberdemon]

Originally Posted by blackwhite67

Who's Takumi? You mean Shippou?

I think he's the heir to his family, which is no a master clan so he's obviously NOT on Tatsuya's level. Let's be honest. At this point in the story, the power level of any "famous" magician that is not strategic-class or in the military isn't worth mentioning compared to Tatsuya.

His name is Shippou Takuma

[Xacual]

Originally Posted by Chimurry

Mayumi private opinion about Miyuki: She is a S...??, what??, sadist?, son of beach*?

Sadist probably.

[Seitsuki]

S obviously stood for sister ._.

Anyway Sashiko seems to be having a bit of difficulty and there's no way in hell I'm letting anyone else touch loli imouto Miyuki so I may as well step in while my holiday lasts. Now if only I could find v8 somewhere..

/hinthint

[Anthony.N]

Originally Posted by Seitsuki

S obviously stood for sister ._.

Anyway Sashiko seems to be having a bit of difficulty and there's no way in hell I'm letting anyone else touch loli imouto Miyuki so I may as well step in while my holiday lasts. Now if only I could find v8 somewhere..

/hinthint

No, in that situation, with the way Mayuki's speaking to Mizuki, its ~Sadist

[Awrya]

Originally Posted by Seitsuki

S obviously stood for sister ._.

Anyway Sashiko seems to be having a bit of difficulty and there's no way in hell I'm letting anyone else touch loli imouto Miyuki so I may as well step in while my holiday lasts. Now if only I could find v8 somewhere..

/hinthint

May I interpret this as Seitsuki pressuring Sashiko behind the scenes?

[Rava]

Originally Posted by Anthony.N

No, in that situation, with the way Mayuki's speaking to Mizuki, its ~Sadist

...

There's Mayumi...

And there's Miyuki.

There's no Mayuki and no way to know which of the two you actually meant.

[Anthony.N]

Originally Posted by Rava

...

There's Mayumi...

And there's Miyuki.

There's no Mayuki and no way to know which of the two you actually meant.

Did Mayumi speak to Mizuki at that moment ?
Its grammar mistake but I know to whom Im talking about

[Tru3Ph03niX]

Originally Posted by Anthony.N

Did Mayumi speak to Mizuki at that moment ?
Its grammar mistake but I know to whom Im talking about

I think Mayumi is speaking more to herself in this.
After listening to what Miyuki said to Mizuki

[belatkuro]

Originally Posted by Rava

...

There's Mayumi...

And there's Miyuki.

There's no Mayuki and no way to know which of the two you actually meant.

*cue DBZ Fusion dance*

Tatsuya will feel so conflicted.

[Flere821]

Originally Posted by SoloPanda

Btw are the translations you read in chinese mandarin?

Yeah.


And I've done the rest of Double Seven part 3 summary now, the rest of the plot isn't as worthy of as much detail as the first third IMO.

Spoiler for Part 2 of 3:

Time skip to Clubs Week. Azusa hoped this year would be peaceful, and her hopes are dashed by Friday April 13th.

After school, Tatsuya and Miyuki stayed to help out. With their skills nobody can protest them performing as a team to go out and solve problems, even if they’re both vice-presidents of the student council. Hattori seems to have things well in head as the new Clubs leader – despite being less charismatic than Juumonji he had the foresight to establish patrols from within club members, ending up with a force of personnel larger than the committee or the council. One of the 3rd year girls patrols cam back and reported the kendo club is about to start their performance, and Kirihara remarked the boxing club stuck to their schedule. Tatsuya asked isn’t Kirihara going to go watch, he spends most of his time at the kendo club back in March anyway. Kirihara then found out when Tatsuya was still part of the committee Tatsuya came to observe a few times, and he never noticed as Tatsuya was too good at sneaking. Kirihara was at first frightened and wary of Tatsuya’s actions, than gave up even on that as Tatsuya was too much of a monster for this capability to be a surprise, plus Tatsuya didn’t care about him. Their discussion was interrupted by a message saying the mechanics club have some problems, and the Shiba siblings were requested by Hattori to go out and solve this.

It turns out it’s a dispute between the Bikes club and mechanics club (the former revolves on rebuilding and upgrading two-wheeled machines while the latter is a bit more generalized. The two used to be the same club before it split. The two have budget differences and does not play well with each other). The two sides, mostly 2nd & 3rd year girls, are fighting over Kent Smith, the new shota student (the one in awe of Tatsuya’s mechanic skills that was introduced in the previous Mahouka Double Seven magazine update) with platinum hair, silver eyes and pale skin. Both sides wanted to recruit him as a mascot of sorts. Things are boiling to a disaster when the Clubs patrol group arrived, a 2nd student with Shippou tagging along learning the ropes. While Shippou had people attention declaring the patrol has arrived Smith snuck off. Miyuki shot a fascinated look at Tatsuya that for once she meets someone new the focus wasn’t on her but on Tatsuya (who deserved the recognition more), and he ignored that look. It turns out Smith had originally only planned to come have a look, then was approached from behind by some group or another and then things escalated with clubs fighting over to recruit him. In the middle of this Kasumi arrived declaring herself to be a committee member to take care of things. Kasumi and Shippou then got into an argument to the point their enmity overrode the previous one between clubs, and was about to deteriorate into a magical duel; both Shippou and Kasumi were allowed to wield CADs due to their position. Smith was told to escape by Tatsuya as the focus was no longer on him. Shippou’s sempai from the clubs tried to intervene between the brewing fight, but didn’t have the charisma to defuse the situation. Ultimately Miyuki had to step in and break things up, saying the student council will settle this incident, not the committee or the clubs patrol, and report it themselves. Tatsuya added nobody will be punished for this incident, and the two clubs went their own way quietly. The Shiba siblings went back to base after this, with the only ones left Shippou, Kasumi, and Shippou’s sempai looking at them leaving.

Spoiler for Part 3 of 3:

That evening, Kasumi complained to Izumi about Shippou’s behaviour, that despite only being a Shippou he’s being all high and might towards one of the Saegusa. Izumi wondered if Shippou Takuma’s grudge was a personal one and not the result of Shippou family’s position – the current Shippou head of family is a soft-spoken man and isn’t prone to conflict.

Meanwhile Koichi, the current Saegusa family head, is having the actress Mari over as a guest. Mayumi led Maki to Koichi, and wondered why was someone from the entertainment industry contacting one of the Ten Clans.

The Saegusa Twins took their thoughts to Mayumi after she finished dealing with Maki, asking her what does she think about the current Shippou family head. Mayumi figured out the twins would only be asking this if they got into some trouble with Takuma, and confronted them about this. Kasumi didn’t manage to even attempt to fake nothing happened with Mayumi’s sharp instincts. Before Mayumi could start lecturing the twins Izumi said it’s not Kasumi’s fault, and Mayumi decided to trust them for now. Mayumi confirmed the current Shippou family head isn’t a confrontational one, so it’s purely a personal issue by Takuma. The twins then started theorizing why would he do this, discarding theories like he has some personal magical skill to rival the Ten Clans members to there’s some other backer behind his actions. Mayumi told the twins they’re thinking too much into this, but they’re not convinced.

Maki proposed a deal to Koichi, asking him to not intervene when her father break the pact between the mages and the anti-magic faction. Koichi agreed eventually, on the condition whatever her side is doing they leave the Saegusa-affiliated mages out of it.

After Maki left, Koichi contacted Kudou with a visual call. He calls Kudou by ‘sensei’ rather than Kudou’s other titles, a habit from back when he was Kudou’s student with Yotsuba Maya and Miya. Koichi told Kudou he had just received one of USNA’s agents who’s part of their plot to subvert the Japanese media to use as leverage against the Japanese mages. Kudou remarked Koichi would have known all this before today, he has his own sources. Koichi revealed he plans to use the USNA to weaken the Yotsuba, that particular Clan has become too powerful, far superior to the rest of the Ten Clans and can dictate the fate of their nation if they wished to. Kudou has similar sentiments to Koichi, but said nothing outwardly since both side knew this already. Koichi plans to reveal the existence of the student who’s in 1st High and is part of the 101st Battalion, the media and the human rights focused politicians will eat this reveal right up. Koichi also waved aside Kudou’s remark Koichi’s daughters currently attending 1st high will be affected by this, Koichi thinks in this case the other students will only be seen as victims. Kudou commented Koichi is probably doing this mainly because 1st High’s Principal holds a neutral position and refuses to take sides in the politics within the Ten Clans – basically, the principal had refused to ally himself to the Saegusa. Koichi denied the importance of that particular tidbit, saying his main focus is weakening the Yotsuba, and this attack on 1st High is because the 101st Battalion is close to the Yotsuba. Koichi thinks attacks on 1st High students by anti-magic factions are within acceptable losses, and it’ll serve to twist public opinion against the anti-magic faction, which is a boon for the Ten Clans (in his POV). Kudou said he does not hold the authority to approve of Koichi’s plans, nor had he ever had that authority. Koichi replied authority aside, Kudou still has the influence over the plan if he wished to intervene. Kudou in the end declared he does not disapprove of Koichi’s plans, which Koichi then thanked Kudou and closed the conversation with satisfaction.

Before the screen has turned off, Kudou’s face looked like a weary old man fitting his real age.

[Chimurry]

Originally Posted by Tru3Ph03niX

I think Mayumi is speaking more to herself in this.
After listening to what Miyuki said to Mizuki

This was cuz Miyuki was teasing Mizuki due Mikihiko offering "protect her" under the current circunstances, remember what this means under Japanese Culture, so Miyuki took the context with People which have high imagination flow (Mizuki and Mikihiko), Mayumi notice Miyuki actions and think to herself, Miyuki is an S....



EDIT: Thanks Flere821.