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Yumiko-chan.

Here we go!

Transform to swords, my Code!

In that case...

I did it!

No way.

Koyomi.

I did it!

Koyomi!

It's futile.

You have no chance of winning.

6 hours earlier

This should be far enough...

Jeez!

Hey!

What was that just now?

What a horrible day.

Someone's trying to kill me,

and the entire lower half of my body is catching way too much air.

Take that!

Ichinose Yumiko wears striped panties!

Yeah!

If you want to see them so bad,

why don't you spend the rest of your life with them stuck to your face?

I did nothing wrong!

You went too far.

You stand out.

If you don't try to get along with those around you a bit better,

you won't be able to make any friends.

I don't want to make friends with people of such a low level!

I'm at my wit's end.

Elementary school is not where I belong.

Today is when I put my plan into action.

Yumiko, what's wrong?

Shouldn't you still be at school?

Mother...

I'll bid farewell to this worthless world and become a mage.

That is my plan.

What started all this

were the notes I happened to find, left by my great-grandfather,

and this staff, named Kerykeion.

At the beginning of his notes, it says

that if one cannot see magic, that one will not be able to read the notes.

And when I continued reading, I understood

exactly what I am.

I am a natural-born mage,

inheriting the blood and talent of my great-grandfather, Karl Cristbarth.

These purple eyes and silver hair of mine are all proof of that.

But there's one problem.

There's nothing in here that tells you how to use magic at all!

It seems that you have to construct a Code, but...

What does that even mean?

However, there is a hint.

A school that will teach you magic...

If I go there, I should be able to understand what a Code is.

The Anehara Cross School of Magic.

Misa-san!

Anehara Misa-san!

Stop that. It's embarrassing.

You're a kid, aren't you?

Don't just say "you" all the time.

My name is Morishita Koyomi.

I might be smaller than you, but I'm a lot older, Soshiro-kun!

Older, huh?

I wonder where Misa-san is...

She's just shopping for dinner, so I don't think she went too far.

Wouldn't it have been better if we had waited at home?

You're right.

I guess we should go back.

Besides, what do you need my sister for, anyway?

There's something I have to ask her about magic.

Magic?

What are you saying?

You really are just a kid.

No, I'm not!

Magic really does exist.

Then show me.

So you were just lying, then?

I wasn't!

Give me a cell phone!

Me, too!

Watch this.

Concentrate. Concentrate...

I'll change this Code into the one magic that I know.

I'll restructure it into that other Code.

Ouch...

Soshiro-kun!

Huh? Why am I buying a cell phone?

Sorry, I'd like to return this.

Ow...

Are you okay?

But you did see the magic, didn't you?

This wash basin... You planned this, didn't you?

How was that magic? If anything, it was a magic trick!

It was magic!

There's no way magic actually exists!

Don't get so mad-

Shut up!

Wait!

Don't run away!

If I don't hurry...

And if I don't figure out what a Code is before he finds me,

I'll...

be killed.

Joyeux Noël, mademoiselle.

Do the people of this country not respond to greetings?

Good afternoon.

You have a nice Code.

As to be expected from one with Cristbarth's blood running through them.

Who are you?

I guess those of your household, when asking another's name, don't first state their own?

Ichinose Yumiko Cristina.

Jean-Jacques Guibarthez.

Did you need something from me?

I'll take your staff.

This is mine!

I have some business with the Sorceress's Library sealed within that staff by Cristbarth.

Now, hand it over.

I refuse!

Understanding the strength of an enemy is also a skill, mademoiselle.

The next one won't miss.

No!

A police booth.

I'm saved.

But how can I explain the situation?

I'm being chased by some weird mage?

He won't believe that.

What's wrong, miss?

N-Nothing at all!

I can only depend on myself.

I need the power to fight.

If I can make it to the Anehara Cross School of Magic,

then I'm sure I'll be able to learn to use magic!

P-Please help me!

Until a second ago, customers were flying at me, but now, they've suddenly stopped coming.

At this rate, my sales...

My quota!

That's weird...

The Code I constructed to raise people's desire to spend was completely erased.

I wonder what the cause was.

You don't know the reason...

I'm finished.

Everything's over!

No need to worry.

My sales!

Here I go.

Transmit!

Sell them to me!

All the phones in this store!

Me, too!

I'll buy some, too!

Wow.

Way to go!

As a bonus, I upped the effectiveness a bit.

Now you'll be able to reach your quota, right?

Thank you very much!

Is there anything I can do for you?

I'm already getting paid quite a bit, so it's okay. Don't worry about it.

But I guess, if you insist,

maybe I'll take that.

Anehara

Is this really the place?

It's almost like a haunted house.

For your destination to be Anehara... I guess fate is in full swing.

Did you enjoy that game of hide-and-seek?

I wonder if Misa-san'll get back soon.

Oh, is that...

What is it?

Okay, playtime is over.

Will you give me the staff, or will you go to your grave?

You get to pick.

Giving away the staff means giving up on magic.

And I'll be back to the same old stupid thing every day.

I don't want that, even if I die!

This staff means everything to me!

I won't hand it over to anyone!

I see.

In that case...

I'm going to get killed.

Yumiko-chan!

You must be Yumiko-chan!

You're Yumiko-chan, right?

You're Yumiko-chan!

Who are you?

Why do you know my name?

You're so small and cute!

Hey!

I don't know you at all!

That's true.

You're right.

You don't know about me at all yet.

What's all the noise about?

Your hair was cute when you were younger, too.

How nice...

You had silver hair when you were younger, too.

I guess now that I think about it, it's pretty obvious, but I like it anyway!

What's with you?

Go away!

Shoo shoo!

You know her?

Yep.

We're friends.

But I guess this is Yumiko-chan's first time meeting me.

Since we just met, I guess we're friends, right?

What are you talking about?

You done talking?

Huh?

I didn't say anything.

Not you, Soshiro-kun.

It's nice you got to meet her before you die.

I'll kill you with Cristbarth's own Code.

If thou art the one who moves time, then I have come back through it.

If thou art the one who fights against time, then I am the one who moves it.

That spell... It can't be.

Wax and wane, until the tremors calm,

for thine is the clock that I shall wind.

W-Wait a second!

A wash basin?

Jeez, another magic trick?

What are you doing, sending the Code of Swords at someone?

To be able to restructure my Code in an instant...

I see. You must be Anehara Misa.

Anehara Misa?

Anehara Cross School of Magic

This girl is Anehara?

You have a good Code.

You do indeed have the blood of Anehara Kenjuro running through you.

Um, Misa-san is...

But next time, it won't go the same way.

Yumiko-chan, get back.

Do you think you can oppose me?

I don't know, but I don't think what you've done is good.

So, then you'll put your life on the line?

I'm scared. I want to run away,

but I've decided that when it matters,

I won't run away, and I'll stand my ground.

My legs might be shaking, but that's fine.

That's the way it's going to be.

I can't really say it correctly, but... Uh, you know...

Yeah!

At first, it may have just been chance, but depending on what you choose,

you can change chance into fate!

That's a nice mindset you have there, but you won't be alive for long.

Uh... Um...

Since we've run this far, we should be okay.

Huh? Yumiko-chan?

Cold!

Oh, my. You followed me?

It might have been better for you to have gone to Anehara Misa, though.

Anehara Misa...

She looks a lot different than the mages I had pictured.

That goofy look she had on her face...

Depending on what you choose, you can change chance into fate!

That's not true at all!

My fate was sealed the moment I was born with these eyes and this hair.

Thanks to them, I was constantly stared at and made fun of.

I never had a friend.

Ichinose-san looks like a doll. So pretty.

But she's kind of scary.

She gives me the creeps.

But I'm not lonely at all.

After all, I'm special!

I don't need friends.

Yeah, friends.

I won't be fooled!

Besides, how did she know my name when it was the first time we'd met?

I'm sure she's just like Guibarthez.

She must be planning something!

What's wrong?

Wh-What is that?

We're taking this chance to run.

No way...

Hide here.

I can't...

die here!

Think back.

You should have seen with your own eyes... How to use magic,

how to construct a Code.

If thou art the one who moves time, then I have come back through it.

If thou art the one who fights against time, then I am the one who moves it.

Wax and wane, until the tremors calm,

for thine is the clock that I shall wind.

Transform to swords, my Code!

This is magic?

I can see it. I can see it!

The world was filled with Codes all along!

To defeat my familiar...

The Code I just felt, that was Cristbarth's Code.

You really are his descendant if you mastered it just by seeing it once.

Guibarthez.

I'm sure you could have become a wonderful mage if you had continued to practice,

but I'm out of time.

You will die here.

Farewell!

Yumiko-chan!

Misa-san!

Thank god.

I finally found you!

I have no clue who you are, but I'm not very impressed.

You're bullying such a small girl.

Santa Claus?

Merry Christmas.

Six years from now, that's where I should have been originally.

It's the story of the day I made the first step.

That day, I met a mage.