Unleash The Magic (Takashi Agera)

Unleash The Magic (Takashi Agera)
Date of Cutscene:	13 October 2025
Location:	Tokyo
Synopsis:	Takashi makes an offer to a not-mundane girl trapped in a mundane life.
Thanks to:	Macaron
Cast of Characters:	Takashi Agera, Yuyami Kagayaki
Tinyplot:	Director Riventon

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Takashi had been leaving the Radiant Heart Academy side of Tokyo - those four wards surrounding the campus - and heading to a location on the opposite side of Tokyo. Because while Magic was the strongest in the area around the Towers, the whole of Tokyo was a place where magic could erupt - and according to his sensors, something very much had. Or rather, and more curiously, something *else* was trying to find magic, using magic of its own to do so. And that magic was... largely unfamiliar, but in terms of things that had the closest energy signal he could figure? It was rather like Kirakirafantastica magic - similar, yet different. And it wasn't Hinoiri - he knew where she was some of the times the signals were recorded, and it wasn't on the other side of the world's biggest city.

This is what lead him to Kesshō private school - it wasn't a campus like Radiant Heart, but it oozed 'we send our kids here because we have money and we want them to succeed, or we want to not think about them, or some combination of the two'. And in keeping an eye out over a few days, he'd discerned the source of the energy readings. A girl with long black hair with a purple stripe - or rather, something she'd... found? built? created? He wasn't sure, but it certainly seemed to react to magic. In fact, in at least one occasion he'd had to distract her from wandering into a Witch's Labyrnth! And punted a Kyubey who was heading towards her as well. Not Today, Marshmallow Satan.

But he didn't make his presence known. He'd done that with Hinoiri Kirara once, a time ago, but that hadn't worked out as well for him as he wanted things to work now - and wandering foolishly into Witch Labyrnths aside, the girl didn't seem to be putting herself in the same immediate danger of actually pulling herself into the Dusk Zone as Hinoiri had.

So over the following few weeks he kept an eye on her - not just in how she used her compact to wander near magic but not quite achieve it - but in how she interacted with her peers. In how... badly... her interactions with her peers went. Put simply - Kesshō academy was full of some terrible people, terrible girls, and they took that out on the girl he was watching. Some of them would absolutely have had Riventon throw them out of his department, and attempt to oust them from Obsidian itself, for needless, pointless cruelty. More than once Riventon had to resist jumping in because it was just... bad.

But that in itself also provided an opportunity. The girl who was alone, without friends, seeking something she couldn't see, poking at the edges of a world that very obviously had her interest, and she just needed a little bit of a push across the threshold. In short... she could be brought into his fold, manipulated, made dependent on him, in a way Hinoiri, Fate, Mami, Norie - never were. All of them had magic and power on their own, but for this girl - while he had no doubt if she avoided the pitfalls she nearly walked into she'd eventually find magic of her own to compliment whatever low-level thing she'd already gotten - if he stepped in before that, he'd be her gateway to this whole world.

And when he decided to move, Riventon figured, the thing that would call to her strongest, he reasoned, was an artifact from the heist Riventon, Double Trouble, and Hinoiri pulled in Kirakirafantastica so long ago - an artifact with Kirakirafantastic energy. Just meant he had to deal with singing a few songs to himself while he picked one out.

But eventually Riventon waited for her; an abandoned house just close enough from Kesshō Private School to hopefully pull her attention, the golden monocle stolen from that world hanging from ceiling fan, chain wrapped around the fan's dangling chain.

When all you wanted was an escape, even old abandoned houses didn't look... quite so terrifying. And while it had seemed strange, it had also been the strongest signal she had received to date. So when Yuyami stopped outside the house, she had hesitated for only a moment to make sure nobody saw her, before she broke the rule she knew she shouldn't.

She walked inside. Walking into a house that she knew she shouldn't, holding a device she created that, frankly, most people thought didn't even work. It just made flashy lights or did nothing. It led her to....

A monocle?

"How did you get up there?" she asked, unsure of how to even get it down.

It was about when she asked that, that Riventon realized this was... well, maybe not the most ideal plan. But he also had needed her somewhere he could talk to her without interruptions, and she was here, he was here, the magic was here... might as well.

"Magic stuff from other worlds ends up in the strangest places." Takashi says. He's not really even been hiding, so much as aware that if there was something magical in an abandoned place this girl probably wouldn't exactly case the room perfectly once she got a signal from her compact. So the boy was just leaning against a wall - a boy in a very not Kesshō Private School uniform, with long white hair and crossed arms. Not her school, not even a school on this side of town, not a uniform she'd really remember seeing.

"Honestly, what's more surprising is how your compact leads you right to it. Seems like that thing's only faintly magic, if at all. You must have used at least one part you found that was magic to get it this far, right?"

And then, Yuyami said the same thing that *everyone* always said. The same thing they *always* said. Every time. Without fail. Because of course they said it. "Magic isn't real," she said. "It's just a term we use for things we don't understand."

Because of course she said it. Why wouldn't she say it? Because magic didn't exist for normal people. Magic wasn't real. If you were a normal person...

"I was tracking a strange energy source that this... monocle is exerting," Yuyami said before adjusting her glasses. Trying to look bigger, stronger than she was. Eyes wandering towards the door. Suddenly aware that... this was not a good idea. That she WAS in an abandoned house. With someone she didn't know, now. And she shouldn't be here. She could be arrested. Or get detention!

But Takashi didn't move. "I'm not going to stop you from leaving, if that's what you're worried about. I'm over here and you're over there, and the thing you're tracking is up there." he points out. "The door's not any more closed than - well actually it's more open than it was before you snuck in." he says.

"But you're wrong. Magic is real. Even when you understand parts of it, it's slippery. It defies conventional understanding. There are rules you can usually follow, but then sometimes it still surprises you. Of course, maybe that's all just part of some other bigger thing we don't understand, and there are more variables at play. But, you'll never know any of that if you turn around and leave out that door. Your energy is faint, and the time you have to make your decision to follow this path is extremely limited... soon you'll lose this chance, and one day you'll dismiss this as a childhood flight of fancy, you'll even tell yourself our little talk was in your head and I was an imaginary friend or something..."

It was those last few things he said that made her pause. That made her stop and not run towards the door. That made her decide to lose the compact and stare at him.

'Imaginary', 'in her head', 'flight of fancy'.

"But if I do stay, you'll help me understand?" Yuyami asked. And then she raised her device and... gasped. Staring at it.

"You're... incredible." she said.

"Oh, how rare! You're perhaps as smart as you look." Takashi replied, though it was more to her calling him incredible than the rest.

"That's what I'm here to do. Offer you a chance to understand. A chance to see worlds that most don't get to see. A chance to research phenomena that the rest of the world can't even perceive. I'm looking for... a lab assistant." he says, and he flicks his hand out - and suddenly in it, like a magic trick, is a flower. But the flower is purple, shimmering - solidified dark energy in the shape of a bloom. A belladonna bloom.

"I've come here from the other side of Tokyo - and frankly, from places much further than you can imagine or describe with simple ideas like distance - for you, Yuyami, for the girl who was able to break through the clouds of ignorance and seek knowledge others want to deny to you." he says. "For just a brief moment, a blink of time, you're capable of growing into so much more than the world wants you to be."

He is holding the flower as if to offer it to her.

Yuyami listened and... slowly... she reached out towards it. A world others didn't see. Phenomena they didn't imagine... They didn't...

Slowly... her hand reached out... and she touched the flower with her finger tips and--

Her device reacted. There was a strange, hissing sound as the flower seemed to actually be... absorbed... into the compact, and for a moment? It just... stopped. "W-what?" Yuyami asked. "What's--" Then it popped. Before coming alight. "O-oh... wow. I've never gotten readings like this before," she said, the purple light reflecting ominously in her eyes.

"Of course not. They don't want you to. You're very similar to me - attunable to what they would call Dark Energy." This time he's outright lying - or at least nearly so. She's just a magically aware person, and truthfully anyone could be attuned to the concentrated creation he just forged, when absorbed into a creation of their own heart's truest desires.

"But now I've broken you out of that - I've allowed you to remove the blindfold they put on you, because the energy you're connected to isn't something they want the world to have more of." he says. Emphasizing the enemy. Emphasizing his help. Letting the energy he donated to her help with the work too.

"So, I'd like you to offer you a chance I've never offered anyone." Not in these specific words; Hinoiri became a lab partner, Hotaru was already an employee. "I'd like to have you become my hand-picked lab partner, and come to work with me - I have a laboratory in Obsidian Tower in Mitakihara. Of course it's kind of... problematic for your commute, so I'd also like you to come to Radiant Heart Academy. I've got most of the paperwork done and your frankly absurd grades will carry the rest of the way... Yuyami. I know it's a lot to handle all at once... but..."

"It's clear to me you've always been an outcast. It's not everyone in this world who likes to think." Was he being melodic? Damn horselandia energy. "To find potential such as in you - I've had one or maybe two - but the good ones fade out before I blink."

"M...move? Schools! Across town? So suddenly? But my parents sent me here and..." and that was it. She had no friends here. Not even really enemies as such. Just bullies.

"Now, I understand you have your resignations. I know! It's hard to have a brain as large as yours." he says, stepping forward. "But if you don't take this chance, it won't be happenstance - magic will slip through your fingers forevermore." Stupid. Friggin. Horse. Magic.

"Forever? But even now I feel like... I already..." she protested. "...I can't just lose it..."

"They've hidden it from you, it's such a shame. But I can use magic..." he says, creating a few more flowers, turning them into balls of glowing Dark Energy he passes from his hand to his other hand, and then squeezing them, drops of Dark Energy slipping through his fingers, condensing into little Dark Energy sootsprites move around the room and occasionally tug on Yuyami's shoelaces as if coaxing her. "...and if you come with me, one day you'll be able to do the same..."

Yuyami's eyes were so wide as she watched him just... create things, break the rules of science as she knew them, show her that the things she had scarcely imagined, and showing her that her seeking could have an answer.

"Call it power - call it magic - if you lose it, it will be tragic! And more importantly, the knowledge you'll have lost. This chance won't come again - you'll regret not giving in! Isn't understanding magic worth the cost!" he continues. Well, he's in it now, and she's tentatively moving closer, so he can fix his lyrical mode later. "You've no friends here after all. My only interest, in this business, is seeing how far you can go, once you follow magic's call."

Her hand reached out slowly. Her compact continued to absorb some of the Dark Energy Takashi created. Her eyes continued to shift in color, too.

"You only want to learn about the magic that you've stored. And with me, all of this can be explored! But if you lose out on this, it'll be a crime. You've tried so hard, don't fail at this most important time."

And in her mind, Yuyami was following along. 'Imagine all I can learn, the door's wide open - if I want to run... or I can follow and..." her hand moved almost before she knew what she was doing, grasping his.

"Y-yes. Yes. Yes, please!"

And Takashi smiled. "Let me show you my lab."