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The World's Strongest Wizard.

That's what they called to her, however, at this moment, Ellen Mira Mathers, is covering herself as the photographer of a travel agency for this trip that is sponsored by the DEM.

At first, she thought that this will be an easy task but reality strikes to her.

Only three people can defeat the world's strongest wizard of humanity.

Whenever she wanted to tail Shido, these three people unknowingly block her path.

This might be the cause of the initial plot but no matter what she does, she can't get away from the trio's cliche.

The three people are named; Ai, Mai, and Mii.

Their names are a pun on the expression "I, my, me".

That's why she is currently sighing while sitting in the lobby of the hotel they are currently in.

She doesn't know when this trio will show up because even if she put up her guard, they always pop out in thin air.

Looking at her camera, she sighs again and stands up to continue her mission to observe "the princess" with her human buddy.

It's already 2 pm and fortunately, she still does not fall into the cliche of the trio even though she saw Tohka, seemingly looking for something.

She decided to approach her to ask what she looking for.

"Hey missy, is there something wrong?"

"Yeah, do you see Shido?"

Tohka realizes that she is talking to a stranger, which means she might don't know Shido so she decided to tell his appearance.

After telling her his appearance, Ellen shook her head and tell that she didn't see him.

Well, it's true so she didn't lie.

Ellen got an idea.

Since Shido is not here, she can lure her somewhere isolated to capture her.

She decided to "help" her and Tohka became happy when someone wanted to help her.

They started to look around together as she lured her to the back of the hotel.

When they arrived, robots immediately surrounded her.

Tohka wanted to alarm Ellen but when she saw her on the side of the robots, she learned that she fell into a trap.

Ellen commands the robots and Tohka summons her weapon and angel, Sandalphon.

A fight happened as Tohka easily defeated the robots but the problem is that their numbers are more than she expected.

Since she is in a sealed state, she can only release a small percentage of her original spirit power, when her mind is in a normal state.

Ellen saw that she is now tired so to end this, she transforms into her suit form and attack her.

As expected, within a second, she defeated Tohka who struggling to fight.

"Shido."

That's her last words before she became unconscious, Ellen make her sleep after all.

Ellen contacted her base and was about to take Tohka away when suddenly someone tap her back.

She immediately attacks it but there is no one on her back.

Looking around, she is in an alert state.

She thought that this might not be just her imagination so she spread her awareness and found someone.

Immediately, she attack that location however, she felt that no is there.

Another problem pops out, within a meter of the location, a boy is looking at her smiling.

Despite seeing this boy, Ellen doesn't feel anyone here, it's like he is an illusion but he is there and this person is someone she knows.

This person is the one that Tohka is looking for, Shido.

"Put her down and I will leave you unhurt."

(A/N: I think this might have a fourth arc. I don't know. This is not planned in the first place so if the story ends as I thought right now then it will have a fourth arc. Oh boy, what a surprise to myself.)