Mana Mission

Mana Mission
Special Short Story from Date A Live Blu-ray Vol.6

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- At DEM England HQ in City of London, Mana was in the training room with Jessica. Jessica blocked Mana's attack with her Territory, but realized Mana has an advantage in magic power. Jessica then try to attack Mana with her cannon in point-blank range. Mana use her Territory to deflect her attack.
- Not before long, Mana's laser blade is placed on Jessica's neck. Jessica accept her loss by lifting her both hands. Mana's CR-Unit <Murakumo> disappeared and she is back to DEM's uniform. The surrounding scenery is then back to a room surrounded by a white wall.
- Mana looks at herself in the mirror in the training room, in the mirror, it is a small girl aged about 13 to 14 years old with a mole under her eyes. Mana don't exactly know her age. After fixing her hair, Mana try to leave the room, but Jessica stopped her.
- "Is there anything you still want?"
- "Obviously there is! I won't allow you to just win and leave!"
- "Win and leave… I said I have something to do, but you forced me with your match, and you promised only one match. The bank will close if I don't leave now."
- "Shut up! If I said one match, I mean one match until I won!"
- "What kind of logic is that…"
- Jessica then point her finger at Mana and complain how she can't accept an Asian girl being in Adeptus Number, even more being Adeptus 2, exceeding her who is Adeptus 3. Mana said she don't care, if Jessica want to Adeptus 2 that much, she should ask either the Department Manager or the Company Director for it.
- "That kind of self-confident. Don't tell me… you…"
- "Eh?"
- "I see… I thought it was weird, so that's what happened. What a dirty girl…! You seduced Westcott-sama for your current post…"
- "Aww… the company director is a Lolicon?"
- "No way he is! I don't allow anyone to insult Westcott-sama."
- "…I think I know someone who indirectly insulted him just now."
- After some chatting, the door in the training room opens. A girl with nordic blonde hair in a black suit then appeared. Ellen M. Mathers. Ellen asks Mana and Jessica what are they doing, as she don't receive any application for training room usage.
- "This is… a kind of training…"
- "That's right. Jessica said she won't allow Wizards ranked higher than her and said to me who won the match will become Adeptus 2. Then she said she will defeat Mathers Department Manager and become world's strongest! Or something."
- Jessica argue Mana, saying she didn't say she want to become world's strongest. Ellen took interest in Mana's words and look at Jessica. Jessica shivers in fear. Ellen tell Jessica it has been a while for someone to challenge her and change into her CR-Unit <Pendragon>. Mana waves her hand and leaves her room.
- Mana leaves the room. After hearing a screaming voice from inside, Mana thinks she may overdid it and gives Jessica a Japanese-style prayer. Mana then went to locker room, change her clothes and leaves the building.
- Looking up to the DEM's building, Mana took out her locket. In the locket, there is a picture of boy and girl next to each other. One of them is Mana, and the other person is her brother, who became separated from her for life.
- "Nii-sama…" Mana grip her locket tight and mumbles. The locket is the only clue for her past. Mana don't have any memory, nor she knows why she was in England, nor why she had a high aptitude for Wizard. DEM saved her and took her in.
- Mana sigh a little and look at the locket. The chain broke. When Mana was in hurry to get the chain fixed, Jessica asked her for a match. Mana puts her locket back to her pocket and heads to the bank to withdraw some money before going to the repair shop.

- Thanks to Mana, Jessica is forced to a training with Ellen. After they finished, Ellen rebuke Jessica that the world's strongest title is not something someone of Jessica's skills could shouldered on. Jessica objects Ellen saying she never said it.
- After that, an announcement is heard from the speaker calling for Three Persons of Second Execution Department—an alias for Adeptus 1-3, Ellen, Mana and Jessica—to go to Westcott's office immediately. Ellen and Jessica quickly rushed to the office. Inside, a man in a black suite greets them. DEM Industry Management Director, Isaac Westcott.
- Westcott explains that he received a call from the police, requesting for help. There is a bank robbery going on in the bank in the city, and is taking nearly 100 people as a hostage. While Jessica thinks it would be an easy job—although it must be kept secret—for Wizards with an Emergency Device, Ellen seems not convinced and questions Isaac.
- "Although the head count is small, The Yard also have Wizards. Why do they ask us?"
- "Because there are few Wizards in the criminal group."
- "I see. Even still, they could still use their own Wizards. If they don't have enough people, they could always ask SSS. Artemesia Ashcroft alone should be more than enough."
- "Also, a Wizard? Whose Wizards are they?" Jessica questions. Wizards have to put a part in their brain. Except DEM, it is impossible to receive such surgery without being associated to government's agency.
- Westcott explains that they are Charlotte Meyers with two other partners. Westcott scouted them right before they are punished by SSS due to Realizer misuse. Ellen tell him she already warned him to not pick up someone with such problem.
- Westcott then as where Mana is, since he thinks Mana would be the best fit for the job. The criminal would easily be caught off-guard for a girl with her age.
- "Ah… she leave a while ago."
- "To where?"
- "Err… I think she said she is going to a bank…… ah."

- "…So, why did it come to this?"
- In the lobby floor of the bank, Mana got her hands tied on her back, surrounded by group of criminal equipped with guns. When she enter the bank to withdraw the money, the criminal group rush in and take over the floor then shuttered any exits.
- Mana looks around the lobby. The 5 criminals in the lobby are done with their robbery. Before them is the Boston bag full of money. Even though their objective have already done, the criminals are not leaving. The police already surrounded the building, but they still have some allowance.
- Mana then noticed the head count is fewer when they rushed in. She come up with a conclusion that they must have some other objective and a way to escape. "Well, it's no use thinking about it" Mana mumbles.
- While Mana could easily defeat them, she can't equips her Wiring Suite since there are witnesses. Mana then decided to just observe the situation. That moment, one of the criminals gets annoyed by the crying voice of a girl and point a gun to the her. Their comrade warn him the boss tell him not to kill.
- Hearing the warning, the criminal then put his gun away. "So it's okay if I don't kill?" he said and try to kick the girl's head. Before the kick could reach the girl, the criminal's body stopped moving.
- "W… what? My body, it can't…"
- "When I thought I'm going to quietly observe the situation…" Mana said while holding his leg with one hand. "What are you!?" said the criminal. "Right, right, please be quiet." Mana then pull her hand down. The criminal sidespinned and fainted when his head hit the floor.
- Mana is using her Territory to defeat the criminal. She could actually defeat the criminal without ever moving, however since there are witnesses, she had to act a little as an excuse. Other criminals noticed the situation and point their guns to Mana.
- Mana shrugs her shoulders. "Haa… well, since I started it there is no use thinking." Mana kicked the floor to the criminal in front of her. "Huh!?" the criminal surprised at her speed. Mana punched him on the pit of the stomach. Mana then attack other criminals.
- After most criminals fainted away, Mana attacked the last criminal in the lobby, make he dropped his gun and pin him down to the floor. The criminal groans in agony.
- "Awwwwww…"
- "Stop screaming. Before that, let me ask something. There are more of you than this when you come in. What is your objective?"
- "Ha! No way I'd tell—"
- "Hoi" Mana twisted his arm.
- "Aawwwwwww! The strong room… the boss is going to steal all the moneys in the underground strong room."
- Mana questions him back, asking if he is serious. Even if they could open the strong room, there is no way they could transport such amount of money. The criminal then laughs and say their boss knows a way.
- "Hmp? What kind of way?"
- "Are you idiot? No way I could tell y—"
- "Tou!" Mana twisted his arm again.
- "Ahwwwwwwwwwwwwww! The boss is a Wizard… the boss said after she got the money, she will just get away from the front entrance…"
- "…! What!?" Mana frown her brows. That moment, her phone rang. Mana chop the criminal's neck with her leg fainting him away and answer the phone. "It is Mathers. Mana, where are you?" Ellen asks. "I'm at the bank. What is it?" Mana answered.
- Ellen then explains that DEM Wizard is involved in the bank robbery and order Mana to get on it immediately. Mana hangs up the phone and sighs. "Well, let's finish this quick."

- On the way to underground strong room, two watchmen in ski mask are on their lookout. After chatting about how much money in the strong room, one of two watchmen suggested that he is going to leave the country and buy a house at Akihabara in Japan with the money. The tall criminal asks him why.
- "Ah… I want to meet Misty."
- "Misty?"
- "You don't know Valkyrie Misty? It's a popular show. After its broadcast in Japan every Sunday morning, there will be a translated subtitle uploaded on the video sites the same day. Those normal girls when in crisis will use power of light and transformed into a Battle Otome and defeat the enemy."
- "So it's a cartoon? They won't exists. It's unreal for a small girl to defeat such enemy."
- "What are you talking about? Japanese girls are special. In their small body are full of power of love. You will know if you watch Anime."
- "…is that so."
- The tall criminal then scratch his cheek. He then noticed a girl coming his way. The girl seems to be an Asian girl. The tall criminal tell the girl to go back to lobby if she don't want to get shot.
- However, the girl don't stop and head his way. The tall criminal point his gun to her. The fat criminal tell him to not shoot. The tall criminal says he won't kill, but only shoot her legs. The fat criminal protest him "That is not what I meant! What will we do if she is a Japanese girl!?"
- The tall criminal ignore him and pull the trigger. The bullet lands down on the floor. The fat criminal relieved it was only for intimidating. However, the tall criminal tell him it was not.
- The girl approach the tall criminal and poke him. The tall criminal is thrown to the wall and lose conscious. The fat criminal point his gun to her. The girl say she is putting him to sleep for a moment. The next moment, the fat criminal feel an impact run through his body and fainted away.
- Before the fat criminal lost conscious, he mumbles with a joyful face.
- "As expected… you are a Japanese girl…"

- Mana defeated the lookouts on her way (one of them seems happy for some reason) and reached the strong room. After release all hostages and rush here, Mana did not met any Wizards on the way and concluded that other criminals are disposable personnel. In front of her, there is a strong room's door that has been forcibly opened up.
- Mana try to peek inside the room, but jumped away afterward. The next moment, a magic spark is seen at where she was. Mana quickly realized it is attack using a Realizer. Two girls in Wiring Suit then appeared behind her.
- A long haired girl—Daisy—can't believe Mana evaded her attack. The glasses girl—Izabel—tell Daisy it was a fluke and point her gun to Mana. Next moment, a short-haired girl—Charlotte—appeared from inside the strong room suggesting that Mana is a Wizard.
- Two other Wizards don't believe such a child like Mana is a Wizard. Charlotte suggests them "You can't be tricked by the appearance. If you use Realizer to manipulate metabolism, you can look like a child forever. ——In fact, I heard Yard uses a Wizard with such appearance in order to catch the criminal off guard."
- "So this child is the police's!?"
- "Judging from the timing she appeared, no doubt that she is. SSS won't get involved in this, and there's no way a strong Wizard would got mixed up in hostages by accident like in the movies." Charlotte said and laughs.
- "…Um, it's hard to say this, but…"
- "Hey, you. Do you feel like cooperating with us? You will get your life's worth of salary in a second? Before that, this is a 1 vs 3, no way you could win? Also—we are all DEM's Wizards. You know what it means?"
- "Is that so…" Mana looks back at Charlotte with her eyes half-open. Since they belongs in different post, Mana never met them and they never met Mana. Charlotte then urge Mana an answer, saying it is obvious which one is the smarter choice.

- "That is right. I don't even have to think——I refuse."
- Daisy and Izabel who are standing-by behind Mana attacks her the moment she finished her words. Mana expand her Territory and deflect the attack.
- Both Wizards then draw their laser blade and attack Mana. Mana evades the attack from them. Fighting without Wiring Suit, Mana is caught off-guard for a split moment. The laser blade cut her shoulder. Mana quickly jump back to the wall and hold her shoulder.
- "Hmp. Despite what you said, you seems quite weak."
- "But it's too late. I'll make you regret that you disobey DEM Wizards."
- "The legal department will scold at me if I overdone it… well, since there's only Wizard here, I guess it's okay. The other party is also using it."
- Mana then take out an Emergency Device from her pocket. Charlotte quickly realized what it is and order Daisy and Izabel to attack her before she could wear her Wiring Suit. Daisy and Izabel quickly follow Charlotte's order and attack Mana.
- Mana's speed, however, is much faster than average Wizards, before the attack could reach her, Mana is in her blue and white Wiring Suit with CR-Unit <Murakumo>. Charlotte noticed that and order Daisy and Izabel to stop, but it is already too late.
- Mana orders "<Murakumo> —— Sword Style" and turn her shield part on her shoulders into a twin swords and slipped Daisy and Izabel's attack. When Izabel attempt to attack Mana again, she found Daisy is already fall to the floor. The next moment, Izabel loss her strength and follows Daisy to the floor. Mana attacked them with her magic sword when she slipped their attacks.
- Charlotte clicked her tongue "Twin Sword Wizard…? That's an unfunny joke. Why is DEM's Adeptus Number here?" Charlotte asked.
- "Oya? Do you happened to know me?"
- "Of course, DEM's second strongest Wizard next to Mathers. I have heard about your rumors, but never thought you are such a small girl." Charlotte frown her face and answered.
- "So… what will you do?" Mana asked her and point her sword to Charlotte.
- "I don't want to fight a fight that I can't win." Charlotte said while raise up her hand.
- "Hmp… smart choice. Then de-arm yourse——"
- Before Mana could finished her words, Charlotte moves her fingers a little. The next moment, Mana's sight is filled with a light and could see nothing. Charlotte used a flash bomb to blind her.
- Although Mana could easily defend it, she was caught completely off-guard. Mana attempt to use her Territory to track down Charlotte's location but couldn't found her.
- "Ahaha! You know I was one of the best in SSS with the hiding skills. Even if you are Adeptus Number, you won't be able to find me out easily!"
- Charlotte voice could be heard. Charlotte is using her Territory to diffuse the voice. Mana couldn't identify the direction. Charlotte continues laughing.
- "Fufufufufu. Pityful! How pitiful! Ahahaha. Even Adeptus Number is this level? Hahahahahahaha. Looks like DEM is nothing after all!"
- "……………" Mana heard that word and can't let it pass.
- "Aannn…? What is that? Have you made up your mind?"
- "…What a third rate, know your position."
- "Hyahahahahahaha! Do you even realized your own situation? What can you do with that looks dechuuka~?"
- Mana then heard a low "un" sound from a laser blade. Charlotte continues "That's enough. Just die already!" Charlotte then approach near Mana. Mana don't know her direction.
- "I'm going to do this dechuuyo." Mana smile. Parts on her shoulders and twin swords on her hands changed its form into a cannon pointing to all directions. "<Murakumo> —— Blaster Style"
- "Wh——"
- The next moment, the strong room is then full of light.

- In front of the bank, there are police forces and news reporter standing by as well as the onlookers. Several tens of minutes after the robbery began, the hostage that were hold inside were released. All of them said uniformly that they have been saved by a girl.
- Even still, the police still don't break in. That fact gives the event an even larger attention from public. On the outer area of the bank, a detective is pressing chief inspector asking why the police is not breaking in.
- "I don't know. Higher-up tell us to standby."
- "What does that means!?"
- "As I said, I don't know. They said if we get in now, the police force will be injured——"
- Before the chief inspector could finish his words, an explode sound could be heard from the bank. Followed by a shake as if there is an earthquake. Window glasses broke, a dazzling light could be seen from inside.
- "W-what just happened!?" The detective surprised and say to chief inspector "Inspector, we can't wait anymore! Please break in——"
- However, the detective have to cut his own words. A lot of bank notes are falling from the sky. "W… what? A money…?" the detective mumbles.
- After dumbfounded for a second, several hundred people who are gathered in front of the bank pushed and shoved each other try to gather the money.

- The next day in DEM HQ building. Mana is forced to sat on the floor with Ellen questioning her.
- "——So you release magic power in all directions, and destroyed the strong room?"
- "……Haa, yes."
- "Even though they could recovered the bank notes to some extend, the total damage including cost of repair reached 5 million pounds. The police and the bank are also complaining us."
- "…I have no excuse."
- "Ahahaha! What an idiot! Why can't you act smarter?"
- "…The enemy's laughing were like Jessica, so I got annoyed…"
- "What!?"
- "Anyway. If we use your salary to pay, it would take about 100 years and a little. It would be nice if you could stay in service until then."
- "Eh? I'm paying!?"
- "Of course. ——However, let's see. If you could defeat a spirit, I will give you special bonus 5 million pound each. I'm looking forward to your hard work."
- "Wai——"
- Ellen then leave the room without hearing Mana's words. Jessica stick out her tongue and follow Ellen to leave the room. Mana who is left on the room alone dumfounded for a while, after then she helplessly falls down to the floor.

[Ended]

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Mana: Even though we had some discord, as sisters of the same brother. Let's get along.
Kotori: Yes, let's get along.
Mana: Ah, by the way, between Kotori-san and me, who is older?
Kotori: Eh?
(Both pair of eyes look into each other's breast.)
Mana: Kotori, let's get along, 'kay?
Kotori: Why suddenly acts as if you're older!?