Chapter Summaries

Yoru Machi rescued Cleya and stabilized her Demon Possession, astonishing Alpha and Sid, who both mistook the other for a powerful protagonist and rival. Yoru Machi returned Cleya to the Kagenou Family, where Baron Kageno gratefully welcomed them.

• Yoru Machi told Sid that he recognized his strength and had saved Cleya from a Magic Overload caused by her captors.
• Alpha recognized that Yoru Machi had stabilized Cleya's Diablos Factor, a feat she had thought only Lord Sid could accomplish.
• Yoru Machi asked Sid to take Cleya home and keep his identity secret, while Sid privately imagined Yoru Machi as his lifelong rival.
• Yoru Machi carried Cleya back to the Kagenou Family, and Baron Kageno thanked him for rescuing the family's heir.

Yoru Machi’s rescue of Cleya made him famous and brought the Omega and Kagenou families closer, while Sid secretly built Shadow Garden with the Seven Shadows. Seven years later, Yoru Machi and Sid traveled to the Midgar Swordsman Academy, where Cleya had already enrolled.

• Baron Kageno publicized Yoru Machi’s role in rescuing Cleya and destroying the Diablos Cult hideout, earning him renown across nearby territories.
• The Omega and Kagenou families grew closer and considered a betrothal between Yoru Machi and Cleya, but Yoru Machi kept preventing it.
• Seven years passed, and fifteen-year-old Yoru Machi and Sid prepared to attend the Midgar Swordsman Academy in the royal capital.
• Cleya visited Yoru Machi before leaving for the academy and challenged him to a spar, hoping to close the gap between them.
• Yoru Machi and Sid rode toward the academy in an Omega Family carriage, and Yoru Machi reflected on how Sid’s Seven Shadows had formed Shadow Garden.

Yoru Machi and Sid arrived at Midgar Swordsman Academy, where Sid tried to build an inconspicuous persona by befriending two jealous students. He introduced himself as Yoru’s resentful neighbor and claimed Yoru had taken his beloved older sister, though Sid privately considered Yoru his savior.

• Medis encouraged Yoru Machi to attend Midgar Swordsman Academy, and Yoru chose to enroll alongside Sid.
• At the academy gates, Sid distanced himself from Yoru so he could maintain his image as an ordinary extra.
• Sid overheard Jaga Imo and Shuro Gari complaining about Yoru and decided they were ideal companions for his persona.
• Sid pretended to resent Yoru and told Jaga and Shuro that he had once planned to ambush him.
• Sid introduced himself as Sid Kagano and claimed Yoru had taken the affection of his older sister, Cleya.

Sid Kagano was pushed by Jaga and Shuro to confess to Alexia Midgar, the academy’s Ice Queen, expecting her to reject him. Instead, Alexia accepted, leaving Sid stunned and questioning why she would choose someone as ordinary as him.

• Yoru Machi overheard Sid, Jaga, and Shuro discussing him and silently objected to their claim that he had pursued Cleya.
• Jaga and Shuro explained that Alexia Midgar was the royal Second Princess known as Midgar Academy’s Ice Queen, then pressured Sid to pursue her.
• Sid decided that a public rejection would help him seem like an ordinary background character, so he confessed to Alexia.
• Alexia accepted Sid’s confession, stunning him and the watching Jaga and Shuro.
• Sid questioned why Alexia would accept someone with so little to distinguish him.

Alexia recruited Sid to pose as her boyfriend and shield her from her arranged fiancé, offering him a gold coin per week. Yoru Machi then took Sid to the popular Yotsukaze Trading Company, where Sid noticed customers wearing unusual modern clothes and carrying hamburgers.

• Alexia told Sid that she had chosen him to help her avoid her arranged marriage to the swordsmanship instructor Geno Griffy.
• Sid declined to be Alexia’s shield until she offered him one gold coin per week, and he agreed.
• After Alexia left, Yoru Machi revealed that he had been watching and teased Sid about accepting the offer.
• Yoru Machi took Sid to the Yotsukaze Trading Company, where Sid saw a long queue and customers wearing modern-looking clothes and holding hamburgers.

Yoru Machi and Sid visited the Yotsukaze Trading Company, where Sid discovered that Yoru Machi’s modern knowledge had helped shape the city’s businesses and fashions. Gamma and her subordinates welcomed them as Lord Shadow and Lord Night, reaffirming that Shadow Garden considered Yoru Machi one of their own despite his refusal to join.

• Yoru Machi teased Sid about the modern clothes and hamburgers around them, and Sid asked whether he had created them.
• A Yotsukaze Trading Company clerk named Nyu escorted Yoru Machi and Sid inside and introduced herself as Gamma’s subordinate responsible for intelligence work.
• Nyu addressed Sid as Lord Shadow and Yoru Machi as Lord Night, a nickname Sid had given him that Shadow Garden had adopted.
• Gamma welcomed Sid to a throne and apologized for not preparing a special seat for Yoru Machi.
• Yoru Machi declined special treatment, and Gamma told him that the Seven Shadows and Shadow Garden respected and thanked him for repeatedly saving their members.

Yoru Machi and Sid visited the Yotsukaze Trading Company, where Gamma treated Yoru Machi to supplies and food. At the academy gate, Sid teased Cleya by claiming Yoru Machi had taken him to a place full of beautiful young ladies, then disappeared and left Yoru Machi to face her anger.

• The Seven Shadows believed Yoru Machi had helped Shadow Garden by rescuing Demon Possessed girls and sending them to the organization.
• Sid discovered that the Yotsukaze Trading Company belonged to Shadow Garden and was impressed by how Gamma and the others had used his modern knowledge to build it.
• Yoru Machi asked Gamma for daily necessities, and she gave him bags of goods and food without charging him.
• Sid complained that Yoru Machi had used him to get free goods, and the two walked back to the academy together.
• At the academy entrance, Sid told Cleya that Yoru Machi had taken him to a place full of beautiful young ladies, then vanished while Cleya confronted Yoru Machi.

Cleya confronted Yoru Machi after he and Sid avoided her in the Royal Capital, believing they had spent the day sightseeing and visiting a place full of beautiful women. Yoru Machi tried to explain himself, but realized Sid’s claim about the women was technically true, leaving him trapped under Cleya’s questioning.

• Cleya waited at Midgar Swordsmanship Academy for Yoru Machi and Sid, then angrily approached Yoru Machi after Sid fled.
• Yoru Machi recalled how Cleya had often visited his home since he saved her from the Diablos Cult, and how their families had spoiled her.
• Cleya explained that she had waited to welcome Yoru Machi and Sid and show them around the Royal Capital, but learned they had gone sightseeing without her.
• Cleya confronted Yoru Machi about Sid’s claim that he had taken him to a place full of young, beautiful women.
• Yoru Machi realized the Yotsukaze Trading Company was staffed by beautiful women, including elves and beastfolk, and hesitated to deny Cleya’s accusation.

Yoru Machi convinced Cleya that he had bought her a gift, shifting her anger onto Sid. Sid avoided his furious sister by sneaking into Yoru Machi’s dormitory, where Yoru Machi blamed him for trying to betray him.

• Cleya drew her sword and confronted Yoru Machi, who claimed he had gone to the Yotsukaze Trading Company to buy her a gift.
• Yoru Machi gave Cleya a limited-edition red silk scarf and persuaded her that Sid had caused the misunderstanding.
• Cleya apologized to Yoru Machi and turned her fury on Sid, who was hiding nearby.
• Sid found Cleya waiting outside his dormitory and decided to seek shelter at Yoru Machi’s room.
• Sid climbed through Yoru Machi’s window, and Yoru Machi blamed him for trying to shift the blame onto him.

After Sid’s relationship with Alexia became academy gossip, Alexia brought him to swordsmanship training to provoke her fiancé, Geno Griffy, who challenged Sid to spar. Geno assigned Yoru City to spar with Alexia, and Yoru City agreed while keeping an eye on Sid.

• Yoru City impressed the class with his academic answers while Jaga and Shuro resented Sid for dating Alexia and having Cleya as his sister.
• Students learned that Cleya Kagano and Yoru City were childhood sweethearts after Cleya had stopped them at the academy gates.
• Alexia brought Sid to her swordsmanship class and told Geno Griffy that she and Sid were genuinely in a relationship.
• Geno challenged Sid to spar and asked Yoru City to spar with Alexia.
• Yoru City reluctantly took a wooden sword and reassured Alexia that he was concerned about Sid’s match.

Yoru Machi decisively defeated Alexia in a swordsmanship spar, leaving her discouraged as she compared herself to natural geniuses. He challenged her belief that his strength came from innate talent and praised the resilience in her sword, leaving her to reconsider his words.

• Alexia questioned whether Sid could defeat Geno Griffy, and Yoru Machi said the current Sid probably could not.
• Yoru Machi and Alexia began their spar, and his strike knocked her backward.
• Yoru Machi used localized Mana Reinforcement to close the distance and point his wooden sword at Alexia’s throat.
• Alexia realized Yoru Machi’s skill far surpassed hers and fell into despair over the gap between geniuses and ordinary people.
• Yoru Machi praised Alexia’s sword and told her that calling his strength inborn talent erased the effort he had put into training.

After Yoru Machi’s spar with Alexia left her doubting her ability, he used ordinary swordsmanship to show her that experience and determination could overcome a lack of talent. Alexia recovered her resolve but asked him to train her, while Geno Griffy privately proposed a cooperation with Yoru Machi.

• Yoru Machi challenged Alexia to another spar and used only basic sword movements without magic, but defeated her again.
• Yoru Machi encouraged Alexia to value experience, mentality, and willpower, and compared her situation to someone overshadowed by a talented sibling.
• Sid lost his spar with Geno Griffy, who praised Yoru Machi and privately suggested they cooperate.
• Alexia thanked Yoru Machi and asked him to guide her swordsmanship training.
• Yoru Machi tried to refuse, but Alexia said she trusted him more than Geno Griffy, whom she found hypocritical.

Geno Griffy recruited Yoru Machi into the Diablos Cult by promising immense power and eternal life in exchange for helping kidnap Alexia. Yoru Machi agreed and was ordered to lure her to the forest outside the royal capital that night.

• Geno Griffy secretly approached Yoru Machi and proposed kidnapping Alexia, offering cooperation with the Diablos Cult.
• Yoru Machi questioned why Geno needed his help and what he would gain, while Geno revealed the Cult’s power and promised eternal life.
• Geno explained that Alexia trusted Yoru Machi and had been spending time practicing swordsmanship with him.
• Yoru Machi agreed to join Geno and asked how to help with Alexia’s kidnapping.
• Geno instructed Yoru Machi to lure Alexia to the forest that night and gave him a blue pill, promising the antidote after the kidnapping.

Yoru Machi lured Alexia to a grove and helped Geno Griffy kidnap her while pretending to seek the antidote to a poison. Geno handed Yoru Machi a poisoned antidote and took Alexia toward the Diablos Cult, but Yoru Machi recognized the deception and swallowed the pill anyway.

• Yoru Machi took the blue pill Geno Griffy offered after analyzing it.
• Yoru Machi met Alexia in a grove, told her he was on her side, and knocked her unconscious.
• Geno Griffy revealed himself, praised Yoru Machi for helping kidnap Alexia, and threatened to hand her over to the Cult.
• Yoru Machi asked Geno Griffy for the antidote and the promised Diablos Cult membership, while Alexia realized Geno had coerced him with poison.
• Geno Griffy gave Yoru Machi a red pill, took Alexia, and said he would bring Yoru Machi to the Cult's secret base.
• Yoru Machi recognized that the red pill contained another poison and swallowed it.

Yoru Machi followed Geno Griffy to the Diablos Cult’s sewer base, where he learned that the cult had kidnapped Alexia to use her royal blood in experiments. After returning to the capital for food, he found it in chaos and was summoned by Alice Midgar to answer questions about Alexia’s disappearance.

• Yoru Machi followed Geno Griffy to the cult’s base and saw a mutated girl imprisoned in a cage.
• Geno Griffy and the scientist drew blood from Alexia, then locked her in a cage as a source of royal blood for experiments on holders of Diablos’s bloodline.
• Geno Griffy ordered Yoru Machi to buy food, and Yoru Machi returned to find the royal capital in chaos over Alexia’s kidnapping.
• Alice Midgar led the Kingdom Knights to investigate the Demon Swordsman Academy and summoned Yoru Machi and Sid for questioning.

After Alexia disappeared, the Kingdom Knights placed Yoru Machi and Sid under house arrest while allowing Geno Griffy to move freely. Yoru revealed that he was involved in Alexia’s kidnapping to infiltrate the Diablos Cult, and Alpha explained that Geno was a cult member and Alexia’s abductor.

• Claire vouched for Sid, while Alice considered Yoru Machi, Sid, and Geno Griffy as suspects in Alexia’s disappearance.
• The Kingdom Knights placed Yoru Machi and Sid under house arrest but let Geno Griffy move freely within the royal capital.
• Sid complained about being confined and asked whether his fee for pretending to be Alexia’s boyfriend still counted.
• Yoru admitted that he was the mastermind behind Alexia’s kidnapping and had intended to use it to infiltrate the Diablos Cult.
• Alpha appeared with another subordinate and explained that Geno was a cult member, and Yoru had accompanied him to find the cult’s base and higher-ups.

Yoru Machi and Shadow Lord responded as a giant monster appeared in the royal capital, while Shadow Lord sent Alpha to help Yoru Machi so he could confront Geno Griffy alone. Geno Griffy fled through the sewers after his test subject broke Alexia out of her cage, leaving Alexia on the run.

• Alpha reported that Geno Griffy was a low-ranking Diablos Cult member and that Shadow Garden had located his hideout.
• A massive monster appeared in the royal capital, and Yoru Machi leaped out to confront it.
• Sid assumed the Shadow Lord persona and ordered Alpha to assist Yoru Machi while he pursued Geno Griffy alone.
• Geno Griffy injected his newly developed medicine into the captive test subject and prepared to flee as Alice searched for Alexia.
• The test subject used her remaining consciousness to smash Alexia's cage, and Geno Griffy chased Alexia through the sewers.

Yoru City Omega appeared during Alice Midgar’s desperate battle against a regenerating monster and severed one of its arms. Alice recognized him as the academy’s talented freshman, but his sudden display of strength surprised her.

• Geno Griffy pursued the escaped Alexia, intending to capture or kill her because she knew too much.
• Alice Midgar and the Kingdom Knights fought a gigantic monster whose wounds healed almost instantly as it advanced toward the royal palace.
• Alice realized the monster could be killed by overwhelming it with Magic Power or inflicting rapid, repeated injuries, but she could not use either method effectively.
• A female Kingdom Knight faced the monster’s attack, and Yoru City Omega arrived and cut off its arm with a single strike.
• Alice recognized Yoru City from the academy and recalled that she had considered his God-given Child reputation exaggerated.

Yoru Machi joined Alice against the regenerating monster and concealed much of his strength so he would not overshadow the Kingdom’s Strongest Demon Swordsman. He attacked the wound Alice opened, intending to save the demonized girl trapped within the monster.

• Yoru Machi arrived after seeing unrest in town, severed the monster’s arm, and asked Alice whether he would be punished for escaping surveillance.
• Alice forgave his escape and asked him to help defeat the monster, recognizing that his condensed magic power let him damage it as effectively as she could.
• Yoru Machi judged the Kingdom Knights and royal capital to be surprisingly weak and decided to hold back to protect Alice’s dignity.
• Alice struck a deep wound in the monster’s chest and directed Yoru Machi to attack it before it regenerated.
• Yoru Machi followed up with gentler magic-powered strikes and vowed to free the girl from her suffering.

Yoru Machi recognized the Demon Monster as a kidnapped girl and suppressed her rampaging magic, while Alice mistook Alpha and Shadow Garden for the source of the capital’s chaos. After Alpha easily disarmed Alice, she ordered Delta to subdue the princess without killing her.

• Yoru Machi recognized the Demon Monster as the girl he had seen at Genos Griffith’s base and used his sword to suppress her magic, making her wounds stop healing and her body shrink.
• Alpha and the other Shadow Garden members appeared, and Alice connected them to the Demon Monster and Alexia’s disappearance.
• Alpha told Alice that Shadow Garden targeted only the Diablos Cult and warned her not to interfere.
• Alice charged Alpha, who blocked her greatsword one-handed and knocked it from her grasp.
• Alice erupted with crimson magic after her defeat, and Alpha ordered Delta to calm her down without killing her.