Chat Group For Magicians 143 The Awakened Second Par

The clue that I am waiting for is finally here. Now I am able to find out who is the awakened one. With the clue that the awakened one came from the Kendo Club, I can now easily cut off those who are not involved and those who are the involved parties. But I didn't expect that the awakened can be this destructive. Since someone died according to Asuza, this enemy is already a murderer. It will be hard to revert someone back to normal if they are already a murderer.When lunch came, I opened my phone and started to send a message to the chat group. The chat group is silent at the moment and I think they are just lurking. I am well aware that the chat will start getting alive once a certain topic appeared on the chat. Therefore, I send one message and immediately, everyone started to appear and talk.…Kazuma: Hey guys, what happens if an individual who just awakened becomes a murderer and used magic to kill an innocent?Zan: An awakened? Are you saying a normal human who just awakened his magic skill?Yaya: Is this about your mission, Kazuma?Titan: Using magic to harm innocent people is unforgivable even in the law of the magicians!Kazuma: Yes. This is about the mission. The awakened at the moment just killed someone.Raigaki: @Kazuma! Let's have some fun!(System Announcement: Raigaki is muted for 10 hours: Reason: Interrupting the conversation)Rena: It's unfortunate but I can't really say much for the case @Kazuma.Kazuma: Why?Moonlight: According to the law of us magicians, if the awakened just used this first chance for self-defense and used the power in accident, apprehending the said person is the only way. However, if a second or third event appeared, then it's time to liquidate the target to avoid the said person to continue its rampage.Zacharias: @Kazuma, just interact with the said awakened for now. Observe his or her behaviors and do not engage until you are sure that he is planning to do something else. If he is trying to pull you in on his schemes, then capture him and bring him to the society.…The conversation started shifting into the topic of the newly awakened people appearing all around Tokyo while many started talking about who is the real perpetrator that caused this stuff to occur.I recalled Itazura and take some lunch with Erina. As usual, Erina is so talkative so I decided to use her talkativeness to gather a few information by asking. Since Erina is much more open, I have been able to take a lot of info in the kendo club. Many of these info are hard to determine whether it connects to the awakened one or not. But I did not dismiss the chance that these guys might be one of the awakened one.After taking lunch, I visit Asuza in her office. When I opened the door, I saw a police officer inside talking with Asuza."...my guess might not be accurate," the police said but I am not able to hear what is the first part and only heard the latter part of his sentence.They quickly noticed me and Asuza beckons me."Come Kazuma. I know you came here due to the new awakened right after you sent your Familiar to gather info right?" Asuza said and presented the vacant seat."Who is he Asuzsama?" the police asked."Ah, that's right. Kazuma did not know you yet nor you know that there is someone promising joined our ranks. Kazuma, this is Wakaba Ryoji, a magician-policeman and cousin of Rena. He is one of the undercover police in the Tokyo branch. Ryoji, is Fukuyama Kazuma, the newbie magician who just joined the magicians. Please be nice to each other.""Wait, is this the guy who is also going undercover in this school?" Ryoji looks at me."Yes. He is the one. He may be fresh blood in our ranks but he is not someone to be underestimated. You can even check out his ability right here and now, Ryoji.""No, we need to find the perpetrator first before we can conduct a test of strength. Since he is deployed too, then he has a good ability. Let's let him get in our conversation then," Ryoji said.I took a seat and looked at the two of them especially on Ryoji. When I activated the Mana Scan, I immediately detected him as a Rank 4: Wizard. I am a bit of a lower rank than him since I was still a Rank 3: Conjurer after my training for months. The two started talking about the case."Alright, let's get back to the topic. The perpetrator might have used a magic blade to kill the student inside the gymnasium. According to the autopsy, the student died from a sharp slash of a blade which is likely a sword," Ryoji said,"Did he die immediately after being sliced or did he die a little bit later?" I asked."According to the data, the student did not manage to live after being slashed which means it was an instantaneous death. The student's heart is sliced in half which made him die without being able to survive. He died around the time the bell rings."I did not expect that I missed the awakened seconds away. I just left the gymnasium and a few meters away from it already when the bell rang. Damn it, I could have stopped the murder."This is hard. There are thousands of students attending the school and we can't just determine the perpetrator only by the murder weapon alone. Even the crime scene did not leave too much info."This time, it was my cue to chime in."I already know where to find the guy. The only thing we just needed to do is to weed him out and identify this guy."Asuza grinned. "As expected of Kazuma. You have done your job."Ryoji's eyes lit up and pulls out his small pocket notebook. "Tell me everything you know.""Ummm, but it involved magic...""No worries. I know the rules. I will not put in the report the magic stuff. Just tell me since this is going to be a vital info.""Okay. Earlier, I surveyed the whole school and I managed to find a lot of spilled mana in the club room of the Kendo Club. I did not manage to track it down because it disappeared abruptly causing me to halt my investigations. Now, if this awakened person used a blade as a weapon to kill the poor guy, then my guess is that his power is similar to Moonlight's ability which is to transform a weapon like the bamboo sword into a weapon that is lethal enough. Maybe identical even," I explained.Ryoji nodded and closed his pocket notebook."Now we know where to look. That was a vital info which would cut our time from investigating in unnecessary places.""You believe me?" I looked at Ryoji."Of course. We lacked the person who can scan and is sensitive enough on mana sensing and many times we located the perpetrator, we always ended up too late. This happened a lot of time before so the info you gave us is one of the best leads we have right now.""Good Job Kazuma. I hope we can find out the cause with these tactics," Asuza said."It's going to be hard, Asuzsama. With the random awakenings and random rampages done by others, it's going to make the real mastermind to slip out of our grasp. Therefore, we still have no choice but to stop anyone including the awakened or else, the mastermind will be able to brew whatever he or she is planning."

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