Ancient City Insurrection III is the eleventh episode of the third season of the Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei anime and the third episode for the Ancient City Insurrection Arc of the Anime.
Summary[]
The Thesis Competition for High School students, sponsored by the Magic Association of Japan will be held in Kyoto this year. Due to last year's Thesis Competition being attacked by the Great Asian Union, Public Morals Committee Chairman Yoshida Mikihiko proposes to the First High School Student Council that they should scout the area around the venue in advance to ensure thorough security this year where Tatsuya, Miyuki, Minami, Saijou Leonhard, and Erika will accompany him. On the way home after the Student Council meeting, Tatsuya learns on the news that Mayumi's bodyguard, Nakura Saburou, has been murdered by an unknown assailant in Kyoto.[2]
Plot[]
October 12, 2096. At First Hight School. Mikihiko lays down a map of Kyoto and discuss the plan to securing the area of the Kyoto New International Convention Center where the Thesis Competition will be held. As Izumi points out, the venue is far from the city center while Mikihiko adds that there are less buildings for the enemy to infiltrate but its surrounded by so much nature which is also provides plenty of places to hide. After Miyuki clarifies Mikihiko's plan of preventing a repeat last year by securing the wider area of the venue, he decides that he will be going to Kyoto wherer Leo and Erika will join him for protection while Kitayama Shizuku will fill in for him in the Public Morals Committee. Mikihiko also enlists Tatsuya to join him, causing Miyuki to accompany while she assigns Mitsui Honoka to handle the budget and Vice President Saegusa Izumi to fill in for her for the Student Council. With their tasks assigned, Mikihiko tells them they will check the venue on October 20 to 21 and Tatsuya also asks Minami to join Miyuki to support Miyuki.
While riding a Cabinet on the way home, Tatsuya sees the news of Nakura being murdered that he shows Miyuki and remembers he was the bodyguard Mayumi introduced to them.
October 13, 2096. At the National Magic University, Mayumi is with Watanabe Mari at the cafe and asks why she is sighing a lot so Mayumi tells her that Nakura was murdered. Mayumi confronted her father who tells her that he had business in Kyoto but he refuses to answer anything else and has no further lead. Since Mari does not have a lot of time to spare after enrolling at the National Defense Academy, she suggests talking to Juumonji Katsuto but Mayumi refuses since the Ten Master Clans's rule of prohibiting collaboration unless its approved in a meeting. Mari then suggests asking Tatsuya that shocks Mayumi why ask him but Mari reasons since he will also be at Kyoto for the Thesis Competition.
October 15, 2096. At First High School, Tatsuya meets Mayumi at the reception room and Tatsuya gives his condolence when Mayumi questions if he knows Nakura that he saw in the news. Mayumi elaborates that Nakura was sent by his father for a secret task and she wants to know the truth as a daughter of the Saegusa Family. Tatsuya declines helping but Mayumi mentions that the culprit is linked to the Yokohama Incident last year which causes Tatsuya to change his mind. Tatsuya and Mayumi then schedules to visit the spot where Nakura is killed on October 21 and Tatsuya ask about Nakura's belongings so he can inspect them which Mayumi plans to contact the detective who contacted her for the arrangements.
That night at the Yotsuba Main House, Hayama Tadanori reports Tatsuya's progress while in Nara to which Yotsuba Maya affirms that Tatsuya is taking his mission seriously of searching for Zhou Gongjin. Maya questions why he didn't ask for additional details since the mission could change the mind of the rest of the Yotsuba family's impression towards him. But Hayama points out that Tatsuya being her nephew is reason enough, causing Maya to call him out and Hayama apologizes.
Outside the Yotsuba Main House, Hayama is retiring for the night but Kuroba Mitsugu is waiting for him to inquire about his conversation with Maya. While both of them are aware that the mission is to test Tatsuya's loyalty, Mitsugu does not believe that Tatsuya is loyal to the Yotsuba which leads Hayama to deduce that Mitsugu's basis was from the the time Tatsuya was to be killed by the Yotsuba after he was born that angers Mitsugu. Hayama then explains that even though Tatsuya has no loyalty to the Yotsuba, Maya still assigns him to be Miyuki's Guardian and Loyalty is unnecessary as long as he can complete the mission just like weapons does not need to have souls. Mitsugu calls out Hayama for treating Magicians to be weapons but Hayama reminds him that he is also a Magician and after telling him off that an innocent person being killed because of his potential might be the better person, Hayama bows and departs.
October 20, 2096. At the Kyoto Station, Tatsuya, Miyuki, Minami, Mikihiko, Erika, and Leo are greeted by Minoru who just arrived to pick them up which shocks Tatsuya's friends to see someone as "drop-dead gorgeous" as Miyuki exists. After Minoru introduces himself, they head to the hotel to leave their luggage then proceeds to the Thesis Competition Venue.
At the Kyoto New International Convention Center, the group expresses the same concerns on how a smaller group of 2 or 3 can infiltrate residential homes. Since splitting the group would be inefficient, Mikihiko suggests to use a search spell and asks Leo and Erika to accompany him while Tatsuya, Miyuki, Minami and Minoru checks out the town as discussed last week.
At the Sanzenin Temple where Zhou Gongjin was last spotted from the Kuroba's intel, Tatsuya's group discuss Zhou Gongjin might be hiding in a Traditionalists base in Mount Kurama but Tatsuya suggests to go back to the city as Zhou Gongjin could be hiding to blend among a lot of people. Minami questions why the Traditionalists are aiding Zhou Gongjin to which Tatsuya deduces that Zhou Gongjin is bolstering their forces by providing refugees from Great Asian Union that he smuggles and suggests to search down town.
At the neighborhood near the Kyoto New International Convention Center, Mikihiko is using a search spell with Leo and Erika accompanying him and upon reaching the woods of Mount Sato, they sense the killing intent and is attacked by an Onibi that Erika blocks with her parasol which got destroyed but is actually her Weaponized CAD. A barrage of Onibis followed that Erika also parries then Mikihiko blocks the remainder by activating Wind Barrier with his Metal Fan Charm. A Traditionalist appears behind them while Erika and Mikihiko are handling the Onibis and tries to stab Mikihiko with his kunai but Leo tackles the Traditionalist and wondering if they are ninjas. One of the Traditionalists suddenly attack Leo from his side that Erika parries and Mikihiko blocks a wind attack afterwards. After thanking Mikihiko, Leo wears a pair of knuckleduster for each hands that was given to him by Rosen Magicraft as an apology for the previous incident.
Leo charges on the Traditionalists but his vision is blurred by a gust of wind and leaves but Leo manages to parry some of the kunais thrown at him as Mikihiko nullifies the magic to clear their vision. Leo is then struck by dizziness after hearing a whistle from a Traditionalist then another enemy tries to stab him with a knife but Leo disarms him and follows up with a left hook, sending the enemy flying and knocked unconscious. Another enemy shows up and spews a fireball from his mouth that Leo dodges then Mikihiko reverses the trajectory of the magic and the fireball hits its caster's head and collapses.
Meanwhile behind Mikihiko, Erika is battling an enemy dual wielding knives who suddenly uses Bunshin that produces a shadow clone but Mikihiko's Spirit Magic nullifies the clone and Erika defeats the enemy by striking his arms and legs. Mikihiko then uses Thunder Child to finish off the rest of the enemies.
As they are discussing that the Ninjutsu users who attacked them are based in Mount Kurama, they are once again attacked as Mikihiko sends his Shikigami to search but four pillars of water from the pond behind them suddenly rises created by Kugutsu Shiki Oni (lit. Demon type puppets) and four water made animals appears. Erika strikes the monkey like animal which returned to being water but more of the animals appear and approaches the defeated enemies and gnaw upon their bodies. This causes Erika and struck the animals that turned them to water again then Mikihiko uses Karura En on the rest. After confirming the downed enemies are alive, Erika notices that the waters are not seeping to the ground but are moving to the pond with the blood of the downed enemies.
Realizing its the enemy's magic that is moving the blood to the pond, they see a giant snake with nine human faces emerge from the pond that Mikihiko calls Souryuu who begins to spit blood colored mud from each heads that they tried to avoid while Mikihiko is using his Wind Barrier but the mud also strikes the downed enemies who scream in pain. Mikihiko searches for the caster as he dodges the mud and locates them by the mountain and calls on Erika and Leo to retreat while Mikihiko ponders on using Summoning Magic to summon a deity but his thoughts were interrupted when a Weaponized CAD's trigger is pulled and the Souryuu explodes that causes them to be soaked from the water that splattered. Seeing the Souryuu gone, Leo recognizes the user of the CAD to be Ichijou Masaki who asks if they are all right.
Locations[]
- Yamanashi
- Kyoto
- Kyoto Station
- Kyoto New International Convention Center
- Sanzenin Temple
- Mount Sato
Differences from the Light Novel[]
- The event where Mayumi confronts Kouichi about Nakura's death has been cut
- The event where Mari concludes that Mayumi has feelings for Tatsuya that Mayumi denies it has been cut
- The event where Mayumi visiting First High School to see Tatsuya that causes gossip among students and Izumi questioning Tatsuya about Mayumi's visit has been cut
- The event where Hayama meets with Tatsuya regarding the progress of the mission and the development of Baryon Lance has been cut
- The event where Shizuku and Honoka have a discussion in the bath has been cut
Trailer[]
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
TBA
References[]
- ↑ Information from the ending credits of the episode.
- ↑ https://mahouka.jp/3rd/story/?id=11