Oh, come on. Isn’t that going a bit too far to threaten an amateur?”
The next thing Raymond knew, a man in formal clothes was standing in the center of the military dock.
Raymond had no idea how or when the man had gotten there.
A single card floated through the air like a leaf.
Someone with good eyes may have been able to see that it was the ace of swords, a tarot card from the minor arcana.
He was one of the magicians who had entered the Hawaiian Islands along with Leivinia Birdway.
He was a member of the Dawn-Colored Sunlight.
He was Mark Space.
“…”
One of the soldiers in a silver uniform, the woman with the sharp voice, checked something over her radio. The details were unclear, but battles between magicians were beginning on Lanai and Hawaii as well.
She sharpened her already sharp voice and said, “So you were concealed all over the place to gather information.”
“More or less.”
Like a stage magician, a large number of cards flew from the man’s right hand to his left.
Even if the American military and the Dawn-Colored Sunlight joined forces, they could not do much more than what Gremlin was already doing. The overwhelming difference lay in how many magicians each side had.
“I doubt we can completely turn this around, but we can at least buy some time even if all it allows us is a more effective retreat,” the man said.
“Do you really think a mere magician trained from a young age can reach the level of Gremlin?”
“Fortunately, I have the full minor arcana at my disposal to entertain you with.”