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Originally Posted by -Mahesvara_

Courtesy of Loss

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After school on May 2nd.

Tatsuya has returned to his daily life, with some of his friends still being angry with him about the “kidnapping” incident. But since there was misunderstandings and a lack of communication, the whole incident just seemed to pass by.

Nothing mentioned in preview that his friends was still being angry with them.

Originally Posted by -Mahesvara_

I think she's the strategic class magician from GAA(now GAU), who used Thunder Clap in Africa.

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The magic used was Thunderclap Tower, however the user announced by the GAU was not Liu Yunde, but a girl named Liu Li Lei. This was attracting a lot of attention due to the fact that there is now another nationally recognized strategic class magician.

It is mentioned that Yunde has disappeared and hasn’t been seen for over a year. While the GAU has tried to keep the information surrounding Yunde a secret, it couldn’t be hidden completely. Tatsuya knew that Liu Yunde had died in “Scorched Halloween”.

They believe that this Liu Li Lei is here to replace Liu Yunde. Revealing another strategic class magician is a form of deterrent for the GAU. Izumi asks if this was used as a way to restrain France and also a demonstration for the rest of the world.

At their favorite coffee shop, Leo and Erika joins them with the main topic still being the strategic class magic used in Africa. Tatsuya gives the same information and explanation again to Leo and Erika.

They discuss the age of Liu Li Lei and that she is only 14 years old. Within an hour of the first report, the GAU gave a detailed report of their new strategic class magician. The main content condemned the inhumane acts of the armed groups in Africa and they appealed for the legitimacy for the use of Thunderclap Tower. And it named her as the newest “apostle”.
Erika seemed a bit irritated and surprised that a girl this young was being outed and announced to the world. They were all surprised at how easily the GAU gave up the information about Liu Li Lei. Tatsuya throws in a comment suggesting that he isn’t fully convinced that she is the magician responsible for Thunderclap Tower. Erika guesses at his speculation that maybe she is being exposed as a symbol for morale for her country.

Liu Li Lei backstory seems to be a young girl who wants to succeed her grandfather. And once again they are unsure if she really is his granddaughter, but it was included in the information released by the GAU.

It is said that over 800 people have died in the strategic class magic used in Africa. It is less than in the incident that occurred in South America. Tatsuya then starts to give an explanation of Thunderclap Tower.

Spoiler for Additional info:

Thunderclap tower is can be viewed simply as sending the large cloud of electricity to target region.
With Leo wondering why the casualty was far lower than Synchroliner Fusion,
Tatsuya explained to them because Thunderclap tower had other unexpected feature other than killing enemies within area. Due to continuous short-interval electricity pulse given by the cloud, it could disabling/damaging any electrical/electric-dependent equipment.

While the basic magic construction is different, if viewed from the effect, it can be said same as EMP.

Originally Posted by azarhal

Why would being Silver change anything to their plan?

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They want to brainwash him because they fear his power already, being Silver would just add to their reasons, not stop them from doing so.

As long their "re-education" didn't disable Tatsuya's ES, Aoba wouldn't interfere. What interest Aoba about Tatsuya I think is his Elemental Sight (Not that it's explicitly explained before)