Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - ep20

It was nice to see that Mayumi and Mari are not quite written out of the story just yet even-though they are not in-charge of the school anymore. It was interesting to see Mayumi's interaction with Tatsuya and I don't believe that this meeting was as accidental as she tries to make it seem. The question is Mayumi honestly interested in Tatsuya or is she being prodded by her family to pursue him. Another thing it seems like it is likely that this arc will continue on until the end of the series. It will also be interesting to see what role Mari will be playing in the future.

Although the main issue with this episode was focus on security as they are being wrapped and they are preparing to head to the convention. The first issue of this is Tatsuya's home computer get hacked, and the conversation with Mari hints at the fact that for some reason the spying is unnaturally aggressive. This is also reinforce when he meets with Haruka and learns about illegal entries into Yokohama, which implies that there is an outside interest in this years convention. This leads to things starting to heat up with Tatsuya noticing one of his pursuers, although they do get away but this failed attempt also ends up bring the attention of a greater enemy. The reason being is that they are interested in where the Magatama is being kept that they have reason to believe that Tatsuya or Miyuki might know where it is because of their connection to Sayuri.

Although this greater focus on the First High School is noticed by Mizuki where she is noticing the gaze the is focused on the school. This leads Tatsuya to suggest that it might be aimed at multiple students or one specific teacher. However Mizuki wants to dismissed that it is her imagination by mikihiko rejects that idea because he has notice a disturbance in the spirit particles that seems to imply a use of shikigami. This cause Tatsuya to question the natural of the magics origin which Mikihiko can only reply that he doesn't believe it is native to this country.

The action continue to build as they go to a cafe after school this is partly done to draw out their stalker. Which turns out to be an old man working for the west whose interested is prevent the east from stealing magic research. That it isn't long after his encounter with Tatsuya's friends does he die from a different enemy to goes by the mocker “the man-eating tiger”. That this is part of the true threat that Tatsuya will be facing. Now as thing are going is seems like Tatsuya double life is going to intersected, the interesting things is going to be when the enemy realize that Tatsuya isn't someone to be messed with. The question is what is going to happen when they travel to Yokohama.