Shiba Tatsuya:A Second Chance

The reason that Tatsuya and Miyuki had gone to Okinawa few years before the original timeline is due to Tatsuya asking Maya to create a R and D facility. Here we can find him testing the cardinal codes for any mordification of their magic sequences.

He also planned to hack the satellites of few nation's having registered stratigic class magicians and to search and find out about the unregistered ones. Since he had already faced 3 of the registered ones and faced their stratigic class magic, he wanted to create better versions of them and create anti stratigic class magic to counter them. The names of the magic he faced were Barionac, Tsuman bomb and the unnamed .

The parts of his projects were being delivered to him by the branch family. During the time he isn't doing all this he would accompany Miyuki to places she would want to go but the distance between them still remained.

A few years passed like this him reaserching and doing all the other mundane activities now Shiba was 13 and Miyuki 12.

{Miyuki pov}

[Miyuki]:Okaa-sama, I would like to take a short walk.

I am aware that since we have just arrived, things are too unsettled for me to go on a swim, but on the other hand, being shut up in the vacation house would be wasteful, so I would like to take a walk. Walking to Manzamou would be impossible because it is a little too far but, just walking leisurely along the path alongside the beach would undoubtedly feel pleasant.

[Miya] :Miyuki-san, have Tatsuya accompany you on your walk.

Unfortunately, when I heard Okaa-sama's reply, I felt that my long awaited walk was spoiled from the start. I really wished to proclaim that I would be alright alone however, I did not want to worry her unduly.

[Miyuki]:—I understand.

It took all my strength to keep my voice from being petulant. I pulled my wide brimmed straw hat low, did not look behind me, and walked out beneath the waning rays of the sun. The ocean breeze fluttering the hem of my summer dress is as I thought it would be relaxing.

If I turned around, however, undeniably at a little distance away, Ani is accompanying me. Because Ani is my Guardian. Why do I not use "bodyguard" but a grandiose term like "Guardian", I do not understand. Even one reason, why, even now. However, a "Guardian" of Yotsuba is somehow different from a simple "bodyguard", that is something I think I am able to understand. A bodyguard does a "job", a guardian performs a "duty". Bodyguards risk their lives to protect the ones they are guarding in exchange for earning a monetary reward. There are cases like an SP of the police who conduct protection operations as part of their professional duties, but since those people also receive a salary for their professional duties, I think that they unmistakably meet the broad definition of occupations that receive monetary compensation. In contrast to that,

Guardians receive no monetary rewards. All the necessities of living are provided by Yotsuba. Whenever cash is needed, Yotsuba supplies it. To be correct that is not a reward, it is the cost of maintaining the power of protection. I conclude that it is thus, a bodyguard protects in order to eat; a Guardian eats in order to protect.

The one who is unable to escape is him. Despite the fact that I am the only person that can let him return to the life of an ordinary middle school student. The one who keeps him, Ani, from being able to be an ordinary middle school student is I; because, I will not release Ani.

—I do not know how to interact with Ani.

—I do not hate Ani. Then why, am I

confining him to this cruel condition?

The answer does not come. Whenever I think about this matter, for some reason my mind goes blank. With my gaze fixated on the ground beneath my feet, I quickened my pace. I who had my eyes cast downward and my feet going at a fast walk; suddenly, my arm was grabbed and it seemed like I was going to fall backward. Immediately, before I impacted with what would be a thud; I deplorably fell into Ani's arms. I made no complaint to Ani. Just now, was the fault of me, who was not looking ahead.

—The fact that I reflexively raised my voice is a secret; I have no intention of telling anyone. The problem is after my body was restrained by Ani that I received an impact from the front. I was not the one who bumped into someone, clearly I had been the one bumped. Even though I am angry, this is obviously a set up. I focus my anger filled gaze upward. However, all I could see is a bulky wall of muscles. I set my gaze even higher.

Finally, I knew the identity of the one who bumped into me. A big black male teenager, who wore a disheveled worn out army uniform — a 'Left Blood'.

{ Due to the intensification of the twenty years of continuous border conflicts, the American (at the time it was still the USA) forces garrisoned in Okinawa eventually withdrew to Hawaii and left behind their children. The majority of them were not abandoned by their parents, their fathers had died in the war; however, many of them were taken in and raised by the National Defense force who had inherited the base, afterwards they became part of the military. They are valiant soldiers who superbly fulfill the duty of defending the border and many of their children, also become soldiers. However, a private Okinawa Tourist Guide website contained an article warning that many of those children, in short the second generation, were known for behaving badly so one should be wary of them.}

Behind the large youth, there were two teenagers also wearing old tattered army uniforms in a sloppy manner with similar builds, releasing sneering laughter in a nauseating fashion. My reflexive anger was naturally changed into fear. My mind was so crammed with fear that the natural thought that if the worst happens, I can use magic could not be formed.

—Until my field of vision was blocked by Ani's back. It was the lean back of a young boy. Nevertheless, it was a broader back than mine. I did not notice when it started but, I was being sheltered by Ani's back.

"Hey, I got no business with a brat like you?"

Disdaining us with scorn, the big youth peered at Ani's face. Ani made no response.

"You too scared to speak?Ha ha, a chicken boy. Just, trying to show off!"

The two youths behind him, deride and threaten Ani.

(There might be some problems hear and there as I am editing on my phone ,my laptop went rogue )