[Johnny]

Originally Posted by belatkuro

Thanks for the translation of volume 3. Though I felt like there wasn't much of a cliffhanger feeling in the last chapter. Stuff did happen but it didn't feel much of a closing for a volume, it just kinda ended abruptly on that part. It was the same with volume 1. Well whatever, just my two cents on this.

I have a few questions about Tatsuya and his abilities:

Spoiler for Tatsuya:

1. What does Gram Demolition and Gram Dispersion do?
2. What is Flash Cast? And is this unique to him or not?

Cheers!

Spoiler:

1. Thanks to zephyr325 over jcafe for this explanation of Gram Demolition.

Spoiler for for space:

There are quite detailed descriptions of how Gram Demolition works.
For a Non-System Magic like Gram Demolition, the Interference Strength of a Magician casting it doesn't really matter.
What really matters are Psion Reserve of the Magician and Interference Strength of opposing Magician.

If it is a clash between 2 different System Magic, the Interference Strength of both Magicians matters because the one with higher Interference Strength prevails. The power of System Magic is determined by the Interference Strength of the Magician casting it.

However, the power of Gram Demolition is determined by how dense (compressed) the Psion particles are which has nothing to do with Interference Strength value.
Of course, if the opposing Magician has high value of Interference Strength, his/her Magic (including Initiation Code and Magic Code) will be more resistant to outside interference, so you would need more powerful Psion projectile (meaning it consumes more Psion particle to generate) in order to destroy the opponent's Initiation Code or Magic Code.

Think of Gram Demolition as high-pressure water coming out from a fire hose.
Let's assume that the pressured water itself isn't lethal enough to kill a person, but strong enough to tear accessories off the person.

That accessory is comparable to Initiation Code or Magic Code, and usually the process of them being torn off would usually break them as well.
Gram Demolition itself doesn't really have any destructive property. The force that tears the Codes off a Magician is usually enough to destroy the Codes (Codes are basically a temporary and fragile structure, not designed to withstand such force by themselves

Mari described it as Carpet Bombing (Actually, What Tatsuya used is most likely Gram Dispersion, since Mari did not see a Psion shell (or flow) generated by Gram Demolition. The description of multiple Magic Codes suddenly destroyed with no apparent reason fits more closely with Gram Dispersion.) because she is used to seeing Mayumi's Psion Bullet which is basically a minor version of Gram Demolition.

If Mayumi's Psion Bullet is a sniper rifle that kills the target by hitting its weak point with precision aiming, Tatsuya's Gram Demolition is an artillery barrage that levels the whole ground.

Thanks to whsie for this one.

Gram Dispersion- It seems dispersion is the one that can forcefully sweep over and disperse any magic that is already fired. It's weaknesses are the same as Gram Demolition- hard to use, high energy expenditure, and short range.

2. Someone can explain better than I if I'm missing or have it wrong.

Spoiler for just because:

I've seen some say he had this before and I've seen claim this was given to him when he was experimented on. Short and sweet it's his regeneration technique to heal from just about anything, so he can protect Miyuki...

As for unique, those that think he was given this during the "let's see what magic we can shove into him" operation. He's the only one known to survive it. Whether that meant the operation itself or just this technique, dunno...?