Bøger af Kana Ishida

Only a scant few weeks remain before the Thesis Competition, which becomes the perfect excuse for Tatsuya and Miyuki to scour Kyoto for the fugitive Gongjin Zhou. Together with Minoru Kudou, a Kyoto local, they comb the ancient city's streets in what appears to be a fruitless search. Even though the clock is ticking, all their leads seem to go nowhere-until Tatsuya gets word that Mayumi's bodyguard has turned up dead by the Katsura River. With new clues and new allies kicking the manhunt into high gear, the party quickly closes in on their quarry's hideout, unaware of what lies in wait for them once they finally catch up...

Two months have passed since the nefarious events surrounding the latest Nine School Competition, and its cerebral counterpart, the Thesis Competition, is fast approaching. Helping out First High with the event, Tatsuya will surely have his work cut out for him even if everything goes according to plan. Of course, nothing ever does, which might explain the letter from Maya Yotsuba containing a curious request: to assist in the capture of Gongjin Zhou, one of the masterminds behind the recent Parasidoll incident. Tatsuya and Miyuki depart for Kyoto, where they'll have to keep their wits about them to safely navigate the hidden schemes and shadowy conflicts that lurk just beneath the surface of the ancient capital!

July 2096. A new year means a new summer, anda new summer means another Nine-School Competition. Just to spice things up, theparticipants were informed only weeks before the event that there are somemassive rule changes! While everyone''s running around trying to figure out whatthey should do, Tatsuya hears rumors that another plot might be brewing aroundthis year''s competition. As the shadows rise for the second year in a row...letthe games begin!

Translation of: Mahaoka kaokao no rettosei.

USNA Major Angie Sirius's arrival in Japan as Lina the American exchange student was suspiciously coincident with the vampire attacks occurring in the vicinity of Magic High School. With the parasites behind the uproar finally neutralized, things have mostly settled down. However, since they merely vacated the bodies they were inhabiting, it's only a matter of time before the parasites find new hosts. As soon as Tatsuya learns the vampiric creatures are still on the loose, he rejoins his friends on the hunt to eliminate the monsters once and for all-even if Major Sirius hounds him in the process!

Miyuki''s classmate Shizuku Kitayama is on her way tostudy abroad. For magicians, this is normally impossible, since allowing thegenes of someone who can use magic outside their home country''s borders istantamount to giving up national secrets. But it''s allowed to happen in onecase-exchange programs. And that''s how Angelina has arrived in Japan from theUSNA to study at First High. But it seems she''s a part of something much biggerthan a simple cultural exchange!

December, 2095. In exchangefor Shizuku going to study in the USNA, Lina has been attending Magic HighSchool in Japan. Tatsuya figured out her true identity as a member of USNAspecial forces right away but as soon as one mystery is solved, another breaksout. Right around the same time as Lina''s arrival in Japan, there has been aseries of attacks on magicians by something called the "vampire." But whileTatsuya and Mikhiko try to use old magic to discover the identity of thiscriminal, an assault on their school occurs!

It''s time for the National Thesis Competitionto take place in Yokohama but what was supposed to be a grand event for theparticipating students has been turned into a battlefield. A mysterious band ofarmed magicians and mechanized weapons have stormed in and it may be up toTatsuya and the others to get everyone home safely!

The video message from Raymond Clark, one of the Seven Sages, makes waves not just in Japan but across the entire world by announcing the Dione Project, which Tatsuya realizes is essentially a plan to exile magicians from the planet. To counter this, Tatsuya unveils his very own ESCAPES Project, a project utilizing a stellar reactor that he has been researching for some time. The time to determine the future of magicians everywhere has come!

Watching the news has been rather unpleasant for Tatsuya lately. It seems like whenever he tunes in, it's just one bad story after another. Just as he feared, it was only a matter of time before strategic magic was used again-this time by the Great Asian Alliance. Things hit much closer to home when a spell Tatsuya developed for the Nine School Competition years ago is tied to a brutal guerilla attack against GAA forces. These violent events only fan the flames of anti-magician sentiment, and it isn't long before rising tensions provoke a response, culminating in the announcement of the Dione Project, an ambitious plan to develop Venus with magic. While Tatsuya has his doubts about the new space program's true goal, this problem is about to get very personal when Taurus Silver is named as a prime candidate!

It's March of 2097 when Synchroliner Fusion is deployed in South America, and the worldwide upheaval that rose up in its wake has finally reached Japan. The following month, Tatsuya and Miyuki receive a message from the head of the Juumonji clan, Katsuto. They are both formally invited to a conference of the Eighteen Support Clans over rising hostilities directed at the group, ensuring yet more trouble in Tatsuya's future.¿

Spring is here, and the graduating seniors of First High are planning a getaway to sunny Okinawa. At the same time, Tatsuya and Miyuki will be on the island as the Yotsuba family’s representatives at a memorial service for the victims of the invasion there several years earlier. Of course, this is just a cover for their true purpose: foiling a terrorist plot hatched by some deserters and Australian operatives. Their primary target is a party that Shizuku and Honoka will be attending—What are the chances? Romance is in the air, and danger is on the horizon, making this a vacation they’ll never forget!

A suicide bombing brings the Master Clans Council to an abrupt close! Armed with only the knowledge that the explosion was triggered by corpse manipulation magic, Tatsuya sets off in search of the perpetrator along with Juumonji. After being egged on by his father, Masaki trails behind them to Tokyo in an attempt to one-up Tatsuya’s investigation. But things take a turn for the unexpected when Masaki summons up the courage to propose to Miyuki…

With the New Year comes a wave of changes. Though few are surprised that Miyuki has formally been recognized as the next head of the Yotsuba family, no one could have anticipated her engagement to Tatsuya would be finalized at the same time. As Honoka and the others try to digest the information, the Ichijou family immediately objects to the union, proposing that Miyuki marry their scion, Masaki Ichijou, instead. Meanwhile, with the world of magic watching intently, the powerful gather to select the next Ten Master Clans...

The invitation has arrived. It is time for the New Year’s Reception at the Yotsuba family residence. This year, Miyuki and other candidates will gather there to decide who will be the next leader of their powerful clan. If chosen as the successor, she would never have to see her brother live as a pariah ever again. At the same time, such a position surely entails a political marriage, plunging her mind into complete turmoil. Complicating matters, the current head of their family sows doubt with the shocking claim that Miyuki is not Tatsuya’s sister. When the new year comes, their relationship may be changed forever...