On the magic side, for such a zealous organization, they were not raised up as something worthy of respect, but of complete and utter fear. Right now (at least for now), they were subservient to the Japanese government, but if they suddenly morphed into terrorists, they were held as individuals who could pull the trigger on World War IV.

The existence of the Yotsuba Family lay in the entirely opposite direction. Solidly progressing towards improving their own efficiency, ranked with the Saegusa in the top of the Ten Master Clans only by the virtue of their magic power, it was a clan which can be said to be heretical even among the Ten Master Clans.Ĭurrently, the magic group with the most power in Japan isn’t the Nation Defense Force, but actually the Yotsuba Family. In the policy of independence if portrayed positively, or the policy of self-centeredness if portrayed negatively that the Yotsuba adopted (though, the independence doesn’t originally have a bad meaning), they had always adopted the stance of not caring about what the other Houses do. When these two (Tatsuya & Miyuki) individuals become the center of the Yotsuba Family, the other 27 Houses constituting the Ten Master Clans and 18 Assistant Houses might become useless in terms of suppressing the Yotsuba Family, even as a group. They have long surpassed the Ten Master Clans and are beginning to upset the balance of the country. Their ever-growing power and influence have caused other Ten Master Clans to be wary of their growth and status to the point that some of the other Family's are trying to weaken them by any means possible. With Shiba Miyuki, Shiba Tatsuya, and Yotsuba Maya existing in the same family at the same time, it is believed that the Yotsuba may become an existence that will eclipse the Ten Master Clans.

ĭespite the system of checks and balances to prevent the possibility of Magicians losing control of themselves, placed by the creation of the Ten Master Clans, the Yotsuba Clan is gradually becoming too powerful, even among the powerful Ten Master Clans. The current Head of the Yotsuba Clan, Yotsuba Maya, the next heir of the Yotsuba Clan, Shiba Miyuki and Shiba Tatsuya being her fiancé were the only recognized official members of Yotsuba known to the world. Bearing the number Four (四) in their name, it is a clan where its members' lives are shrouded in secrecy. four leaves) Clan is one of the two most influential and strongest houses in the Ten Master Clans. Plan to Assassinate Tatsuya Shiba, Volume 1, Chapter 11 Because they cannot be comprehended, nor could the power they possessed, nor were their identities known, they were an existence to be feared like a superstition. It was that if you did touch them, the demons would return a calamity of destruction. It was not that you were prohibited from touching them.

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