Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - ep08

Things start out a bit light heart with Miyuki practicing for the magical high school competition with Tatsuya and Kokonoe's help. This is when Tatsuya detects Ono Haruka, and she reveals her true purpose for being at the school. That she is keeping an eye on the school at the governments behalf, that in return for keeping her secret she will inform Tatsuya of any potential plots like what happen with Blanche. Then from her they introduce a new character Yoshida Mikihiko, who was the one that left early at the beginning of the year. That also it seems that he's been avoiding Erika and Mizuki for some reason since he is an old childhood friend of theirs. This raise the question on what role he will end up playing in things to come.

Now for Tatsuya's involvement in the coming arc, has interesting parallels to the previous arc in how he join the moral committee. It seems that Mayumi is having trouble gathering together engineers for the High School Battle. The reason being is that the third years are more orientated towards practical magic and then a lot of the seconds years do not have the experience to be useful. Also it seem that they haven't thought about recruiting Tatsuya because how he resolved things with Blanche. Then in seeing the direction the conversation is going he tries to escape before he get involved, but that draws their attention to him causing them to remember that he is the one that tunes Miyuki CAD also there is the fact that he is aspiring to be an engineer. However he is against the idea because he has been drawing too much attention to himself. There is also the fact that there has never been a first year on the engineering staff let alone a course 2 student. Although Mayumi feels these matter are unimportant.

This leads to a meeting to appoint Tatsuya as a engineer, although as he expected there is resistance but some do approve of his selection. However things get down to once again testing Tatsuya skills, that he will have to adjust someones CAD. The question become who's first Juumonji volunteers, the Mayumi steps that it should be her since she is the one that selected Tatsuya. Things end with Kirihara stepping forward, and with him selected they see the how capable Tatsuya is by him tuning the competition class CAD to a level that Kirihara can't tell the difference from his high spec personal CAD. Although there are still some complaints but that is resolved by Hattori stepping forward that they shouldn't be concerned about precedent with their schools pride on the line.

Things end with a look into Tatsuya living his double life as a military contractor. That with a call from his superior telling him about his next project. Then while he is at it, he also informs him of the “No-Head Dragon” crime syndicate that it is likely that they will try something at the Magical High School battle. Which raise the question was his appoint so coincidental or was his subtle action plan to have Mayumi appoint him so that he could remain close to Miyuki. Then we also see Tatsuya completing a general purpose flying spell, which seem to implies that Tatsuya is Tarus Sliver. This also cause him to be a target again because Blanche Target for his anti-magic spell. Now this Crime Syndicate might just target him for his flying spell.