Book 1: Records of Magus Killer – Chapter 16 - The Grim Dark Future (Patreon)

"Grandmother." Maya then noticed her grandmother was here, so she greeted her in a greeting befitting her aristocratic upbringing that was d

"Grandmother."

Maya then noticed her grandmother was here, so she greeted her in a greeting befitting her aristocratic upbringing that was deeply engraved into her bones from her childhood.

"Contrary to your fianceé, you are slacking again, my dear."

Stated Ayame as she looked at her granddaughter, who was currently having a drink and lying on the sofa.

"Kiritsugu nowadays has too much free time on his hands, after he finished training Khaos Brigade and fortifications on the Village and his other projects are still underway."

Maya knew that her finaceé had a loot much work, though she would never admit it openly that she was slacking because it wouldn't really look good.

"When he is not sitting on the roof of some random house and smoking. In that case, he is with Hidetsugu, researching the magic rituals while I am drowning in paperwork and meetings. My beloved father is leisurely spending his time drinking afternoon tea... only that for him, the entire day is afternoon."

Maya gritted her teeth as she finished the sentence.

Only after several months did she realize that her father had tricked her into accepting the position of Clan Head and Kiritsugu as Enforcement Elder, as he basically got rid of most responsibilities and could spend his time freely.

She realized that she was scammed by her father, who wanted to get rid of troublesome duties and have some free and leisure time for himself, which now he certainly had.

"I talked with your Fianceé, and it didn't escape me that your courtship period is already done, so it is an appropriate time to organize a wedding, my dear. Then you can finally have some children, as I can see you have practiced producing them already; it should not be a problem."

The elderly woman teased her granddaughter, to which Maya coughed up her drink as she went a bit red, both from embarrassment and subsequent anger.

"When I was your age, I already had two children; you need to hurry."

Maya barely calmed herself as she was debating on what to say.

'It is indeed the truth that the courtship period has ended, so the marriage is not a problem, but I don't know if I am ready for children right now... hopefully, Kiritsugu won't be against it if I tell him that I want to wait with this.'

She thought in her head as she imagined many things.

"Okey... I will talk about it with father... then you can start preparing for the wedding, as it appears that you already started just without telling anyone about it."

The new Clan Head of the Yotsuba Clan answered after a brief time of silence.

***

14th of June, the Year 2070, Yotsuba Village, Main House, Meeting of the Elders.

"Now, let us finish this meeting as fast as possible."

As the Patriarch of the Yotsuba Clan and Head, she was also responsible for opening the meeting of the Elders that took place each month on a periodical basis. Most of these meetings were pretty boring because either the old men here bragged or squabbled with each other.

However, compared to before, this meeting was a bit special, as not only the Elders of the Yotsuba Clan were attending, but also the Heads of Branches. Normally the Heads of Branches didn't attend the meetings; only when something crucial was discussed were they invited.

"Now, I have something important to announce."

Yotsuba Maya stood up as she was going to say her announcement, while the Psions themselves swirled around her as a show of power, attracting the attention of everyone present.

After several years of practice, she finally achieved her goal and became a full-fledged Strategic-Class Magician several days ago.

"What I am going to say is information of utmost secrecy and of top importance to the survival of the Clan."

She continued as she gestured to Kiritsugu as he stood up and stood next to her.

Even among the Yotsuba Clan itself, the knowledge of the Project Exodus was known to them two, Genzou and Eisaku. The rest of the Clan knew that something was going on, but nobody questioned it as they continued with their ordinary lives.

"What you are seeing on the video right now is the reason for Project Exodus. Several years ago, I took an unnoticing assassination mission to dispose of some devils worshipping cult of magicians that were performing blood sacrifices. After I cleaned them up and found their leader, after a bit of interrogation and mind-reading, I found that they were, in fact, really worshipping real Devils that are right now, as we are speaking, encroaching on the Earth."

Kiritsugu paused as he waited for the reaction of the rest of the people present as he played a video on how the cult leader got possessed by his master, his flesh melted, and he turned into a weird mutated monstrosity that he then killed.

"The reason for this is how some of you may have guessed the Psionization. After our planet has undergone psionization and magic has returned to the Earth, some kind of barrier that was separating our world from others has started cracking, and in a few decades, it would be completely destroyed, meaning this world would be left open to all outer threat."

The silence in the room was becoming unbearable before he continued.

"And I want to say, and we are impossible to fight back, the entities that are eyeing this planet could destroy entire worlds in a split second; in front of them, we are insignificant ants."

An uncomfortable silence took over the room, as everyone looked pale and grim.

"So, the only choice is to leave the world before extraterrestrials could completely invade and either slaughter us or enslave us."

Kuroba Juuzou, head of the Kuroba Branch Family, new where Kiritsugu was heading.

"Indeed, from the information currently available to us, we know that the Magician Ranking System is divided into several Orders, and we are currently aware of the existence of 6 Orders."

The Enforcement Elder of the Yotsuba Clan nodded his head in agreement.

"Right now, the strongest Magician on Earth is only the 3rd Order, not even achieving what is termed as Star Order Magician, who have destructive abilities above that of the 3rd Order. From the mind of the cult leader I fought and interrogated, the beings eyeing this planet are at least 6th Order entities. And, stronger factions have even more powerful experts behind them, which in turn makes any resistance futile."

Kiritsugu explained the same story that he already gave to several people within the Japanese Imperial Hierarchy.

"But on the light side, I got something special from the mind of the Cult Leader. It was a method of how the Dreadlord he served could temporarily bypass the world barrier and enter our world. It is doable only for those under the 6th Order and could be modified. Basically, we can search for a suitable new world, to relocate, and then we just leave the Earth behind."

Now, many realized why their Clan pursued the creation of the new nation so vehemently.

"Is this the only way?"

Someone from the crowd of people attending the meeting questioned, while Kiritsugu had an unpleasant expression on his face as he was going to respond.

"The only way to survival. Unfortunately, the foundation of Earth is too shallow, or rather, the magic has disappeared from our world for too long, and it is not something that could be outweighed in a few decades."

Explained Kiritsugu as Elders and Branch Clan Heads begrudgingly accepted it.

"Even I am now only reaching Star Order, and even though I am close, even Star Order is nothing but a stronger cannon fodder when the invasion begins. Our only choice is to leave for a new world where we can develop safely."

It was kind of humiliating to escape before the fight even began, but the rational ones could see when the fight was worthy of fighting and when the fight was lost even before it had begun, and this was the second case.

Just one force that Kiritsugu encountered, the Burning Legion; the Dreadlord of the Burning Legion possessed the cult leader of some really insignificant cult and was probably way stronger than the 6th Order, which was historically the maximum limit that someone reached on planet Earth.

And that was probably just one of many, so the most logical choice is to escape, relocate, develop and grow stronger in a safer environment.

Especially the oldest ones agreed and praised Kiritsugu's approach, as they could see that the chances of even surviving on Earth were slim, and not to mention other things.

After the Clan Meeting ended, the results were better than Maya and Kiritsugu expected as most of the Elder and Branch Family Heads were motivated about the expansion and relocation to the new world and further advancing on their paths as Magicians, instead of dwelling on the grim dark future of their homeworld.

"Are you going somewhere? We need to go look for suitable wedding dresses and other things that I want to have at my wedding."

Maya asked with a serious voice as she saw that her fianceé was attempting to leave her stealthily.

He knew that even though Maya was never a fan of these things, she wanted to have a perfect wedding and insisted that he partook in this too, so they would be going to Tokyo with her sister Miya.

"Just to prepare a car for us so that we can depart."

He answered smoothly.

"Just as I thought... you need to go more on the fresh air, aside from training, or you will become as pale and creepy as Uncle Eisaku and Hidetsugu."

She stated, kissing him on the cheek, before she departed to find her twin sister Miya.