Chapter Summaries

Noah defeated Kokone Toru in a final sparring match before leaving, but encouraged him and Torazaki Aoi to keep growing stronger. Imari then brought Noah to the rooftop and asked how she could become as strong as him.

• Noah overpowered Kokone Toru in a clash of Annihilation Strike, and Kokone admitted defeat because his injured arm could not continue fighting.
• Noah pulled Kokone to his feet and urged him and Torazaki Aoi to keep improving, then promised Kokone they would fight again.
• Imari arrived, quietly led Noah away from Kokone and Torazaki Aoi, and took him to the devastated hotel rooftop.
• Imari stood beside Noah at the rooftop edge and asked how she could become as strong as him.

Imari told Noah she wanted to grow strong enough to fight beside him, and they promised to reunite as stronger partners. After the others departed, Noah returned to Between Worlds, where a restored world-feather urged him to enter its world.

• Imari explained that she had once tried to catch up to Noah, but settled for Rank III to fulfill her goal of saving her family business.
• Imari told Noah she wanted to become stronger than Julie, Lilith, and even him so she could fight alongside him next time.
• Noah and Imari hooked little fingers and promised to fight side by side when they met again.
• Kukonoe Sakuya led Imari, Julie, Lilith, Tachibana Tomoe, Miyabi, Kokone Toru, Torazaki Aoi, and the Grave Guardians away from the hotel while Noah watched them go.
• Noah returned to Between Worlds, where a restored feather trembled as if urging him to enter its world.
• Noah touched the feather and vanished in a burst of white light.

Noah was diverted into a strange white realm, where he met Gaia and Alaya, the Counter Forces of the planet and humanity. They revealed that they had guided him into the newly stabilized world and called him the world’s chosen savior and beloved.

• Noah entered a vast white realm after his arrival in the new world was unexpectedly redirected.
• Two powerful girls appeared before Noah, and he felt an intense sense of familial closeness toward them.
• The girls introduced themselves as Gaia and Alaya, identifying themselves as the planet’s will and humanity’s collective consciousness, respectively.
• Gaia and Alaya explained that they had guided Noah from Between Worlds through the newly stabilized world.
• Alaya told Noah that he was the world’s chosen savior and beloved, and Gaia invited him to call them Mom.

Noah struggled with doubts about his identity until Gaia and Alaya assured him that he was human and accepted him as family. They explained that he would search for World Shards in parallel worlds and sent him off with a golden Treasure Tool scabbard and limited guidance.

• Noah was stunned when Gaia and Alaya called themselves his mothers, but Alaya assured him that he was human and Gaia comforted him.
• Noah declined to call them Mom, though he began to regard Gaia and Alaya as family.
• Alaya explained that their world had recovered and that World Shards from other worlds remained in its parallel worlds because it had once been destroyed.
• Gaia and Alaya said they could only guide Noah because of the need to preserve the world's balance, and Gaia gave him a golden Treasure Tool scabbard altered to be his.
• Gaia and Alaya sent Noah into a passage toward the parallel worlds, and the scabbard enveloped him in light.

Noah arrived in a modern city and learned that the scabbard Gaia and Alaya gave him was a powerful treasure tool. After a citywide barrier reacted to his mana, he hid from a flock of magically animated birds and suspected the city held secrets.

• Noah emerged from a spatial vortex in a forest, complained about being discarded by his mother, and inspected the scabbard in his hand.
• Noah absorbed Gaia and Alaya’s implanted memories and learned about the world’s hidden supernatural side and the scabbard’s identity as a treasure tool.
• Noah poured mana into the scabbard and sensed that an invisible barrier covered the city.
• Noah sealed his mana and hid behind a tree as a flock of lifeless birds carrying mana searched the forest.
• Noah watched the birds fly away, remarked that the city had secrets, and absorbed the scabbard into his body.

Noah explored Misaki City and discovered it sat above a powerful Leyline guarded by a magus, then concealed his power and arranged a new identity. He followed a striking girl from the forest where he had arrived to Misaki High School, leaving him curious about her investigation.

• Noah learned that Misaki City was a developing rural town and sensed powerful magical energy flowing beneath it toward a nearby mountain.
• He identified two barriers and concluded that a magus was protecting the city's Leyline, then sealed away his power to avoid detection.
• Noah hacked into the national database to create personal records and considered ways to earn money.
• Noah noticed a stern, black-haired girl in a school uniform and followed her through the city.
• The girl investigated the forest where Noah had arrived, then went to Private Misaki High School, while Noah read the sign and headed back.

Noah Dreyar transferred to Private Misaki High School after meeting its Chairman and defeating him at chess. He met Student Council President Aozaki Aoko, whose wariness of him left their first encounter tense.

• Aozaki Aoko questioned Tsukushi Enmaru about the transfer student his father had ordered him to look after.
• Tsukushi Enmaru told Aozaki Aoko that the transfer student would visit the student council office after enrolling.
• Noah Dreyar entered the office and introduced himself as a foreign transfer student.
• Aozaki Aoko challenged Noah about why he had come to a private school in Misaki City.
• Noah explained that the Chairman had invited him to enroll after losing money to him in chess.
• Aozaki Aoko introduced herself as the student council president.

Noah toured Misaki High School with Tsukushi Enmaru and Aozaki Aoko, who watched him warily. After Noah revealed he had won twenty million from Tsukushi Enmaru’s father but forgave the debt, Tsukushi guided him to Class 2-A and warned him against pursuing Aozaki.

• Tsukushi Enmaru showed Noah around Misaki High School while Aozaki Aoko watched him with suspicion.
• Noah revealed that Tsukushi Enmaru’s father had lost about twenty million to him in chess.
• Noah said he had told the Chairman he did not need the money repaid, and Tsukushi Enmaru and Aozaki Aoko were astonished.
• Aozaki left for class, and Tsukushi Enmaru warned Noah that she had no interest in romance and would reject anyone who pursued her.
• Noah denied having a crush on Aozaki, and Tsukushi Enmaru led him toward Class 2-A and offered to treat him to dinner.

After becoming famous at Misaki High School and finding a lucrative tutoring job, Noah investigated Aozaki Aoko’s unusual connection to Gaia and Alaya. He lured her—or something drawn by the city’s barrier—into the forest, where a singing figure approached him.

• Noah impressed Misaki High School with his flawless answers, received a bento from the Chairman, and defeated upperclassmen who tried to attack him.
• Noah enjoyed ordinary school life and earned nearly one hundred thousand yen tutoring children in schoolwork and piano.
• At his apartment, Noah stored magical power in the conceptual scabbard and sealed his own strength, then considered Aozaki Aoko’s mysterious magical nature.
• Noah went to the forest outside Misaki City and released some of his magical power, triggering the city’s barrier to reveal his location.
• Noah waited in the forest until a figure approached through the cold wind, singing a song said to call forth death.

Noah encountered a doll-like girl in black who guarded the forest and challenged him with powerful Mystic Eyes. After she restrained him, Noah broke free by unleashing his vast magical power and prepared to return her attack.

• A singing voice led Noah to discover a beautiful, emotionless girl in black beneath the moonlight.
• The girl told Noah that uninvited guests were unwelcome and offered him the chance to leave rather than play a game.
• When Noah refused, the girl used her scarlet Mystic Eye to immobilize him.
• Noah identified her ability and broke its restraint by releasing a storm of magical power.
• Noah withdrew his power and said he would return the favor, making the girl show a trace of gravity.

The black-clad girl summoned a colossal monster called Bridge to attack Noah, who protected himself with a golden barrier. As the girl watched the clash from a distance, two Slit-Mouth Men ambushed her.

• The black-clad girl dropped a cat-shaped bell into the earth and summoned Bridge with a nursery rhyme.
• Bridge emerged from underground and swung a massive arm down at Noah.
• Noah manifested a golden scabbard that broke apart into a crystalline barrier, which blocked Bridge’s strike.
• The shockwaves forced the black-clad girl to retreat behind a protective barrier.
• Two Slit-Mouth Men emerged from nearby brush and lunged at the black-clad girl, who noticed them too late.

Noah rescued the girl in black from two Slit-Mouth Men, then told her he did not follow magus logic and sent a message to Aozaki Aoko. The girl watched him disappear into the forest as the giant faded away.

• Noah used the Ornate Scabbard to block the Slit-Mouth Men’s knives and destroyed one attacker with a single strike.
• The giant crushed the second Slit-Mouth Man as he fled, leaving both assassins dead.
• The girl in black asked Noah why he had saved her, and Noah replied that he had done so because he wanted to.
• Noah told the girl not to impose magus logic on him, said the game was over, and asked her to give Aozaki Aoko his regards.
• The girl watched Noah vanish into the forest, and the giant faded away behind her.

Noah joked with Tobiichi and his classmates about his tutoring job and abilities, drawing Aozaki Aoko’s attention. After Noah teased her about asking him on a date, Aozaki Aoko used school rules to insist she would wait for him after his tutoring work.

• Noah told Tobiichi that he had stayed up late because of his tutoring job, then claimed he was proficient in every language in the world.
• Tobiichi’s shocked reaction drew the class into a noisy crowd around Noah.
• Aozaki Aoko silenced the classroom and asked Noah if he was free after school.
• Noah teased Aozaki Aoko about asking him on a date and said he had tutoring work after school.
• Aozaki Aoko cited school rules limiting part-time work to four hours and told Noah she would wait for him.

Aozaki Aoko brought Noah to her eerie mansion on Shirainuzuka Slope, revealing that it was her home and the place where Misaki City's leyline converged. She ordered him to weed the garden, and their argument turned into a fight when Noah dodged and tripped her.

• Aozaki Aoko led Noah up Shirainuzuka Slope to an overgrown mansion surrounded by mist and withered trees.
• Aozaki Aoko told Noah the mansion was her home, and Noah realized she was one of Misaki City's leyline managers.
• Aozaki Aoko ordered Noah to pull the weeds from her garden, but Noah turned to leave.
• Aozaki Aoko kicked at Noah, but he dodged, grabbed her ankle, and tripped her to the ground.
• Aozaki Aoko sprang up, denied deliberately targeting Noah, and kicked at him again.

Noah agreed to pull weeds at Aozaki Aoko’s mansion, hoping to learn more about Misaki City’s maguses and Leyline administrators. As Aoko went inside, Noah noticed a flock of magical Gray Starlings watching him from above the mansion.

• Noah repeatedly defeated Aozaki Aoko in hand-to-hand combat, and she finally stopped attacking him.
• Aozaki Aoko explained that she wanted help clearing weeds because her roommate hated humans and offered to pay Noah.
• Noah agreed to pull the weeds so he could observe the mansion and learn more about Misaki City’s Leyline administrators.
• Aozaki Aoko warned Noah not to enter the mansion and then went inside.
• Noah spotted magical Gray Starlings circling the mansion and realized that a magus was keeping watch over him.

Noah finished clearing weeds at the mansion while Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu watched him with suspicion. After they left, Aoko and Yuzhu discussed their concern about Noah and prepared for a mission in which Aoko intended to kill someone.

• Noah finished pulling weeds and filled a large pile of garbage bags in the mansion courtyard.
• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu arrived, and Yuzhu stared at Noah as if she sensed something unusual about him.
• Aozaki Aoko told Noah she would pay him at school the next day and asked him to take the garbage away.
• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu left, while Gray Starlings kept watch over the mansion; Noah then walked out alone.
• On the dark slope, Yuzhu told Aozaki Aoko she was concerned about Noah, and Aoko insisted she was prepared and would kill them.

Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu confronted a suspected leyline intruder at the ruins, but discovered the apparent target was only a doll. Noah, who had accidentally revealed himself while kicking the doll away, fled as Aozaki Aoko pursued another figure.

• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu arrived at the ruins, where Yuzhu said one of the intruders was nearby and the other two had already been dealt with.
• Aozaki Aoko prepared to face the intruder alone, while Yuzhu stayed back and did not intervene.
• A doll burst from the stone pile and shattered, while a figure escaped down the road.
• Aozaki Aoko chased after the fleeing figure, leaving Yuzhu behind at the ruins.
• Noah emerged in a distant alley and realized that kicking away the doll had exposed him to Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu.

Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu tracked the automaton’s attacker to an alley, where they discovered Noah had intervened. Noah revealed his enormous magical power, confirming Yuzhu’s suspicion that he was the person who had saved her the previous night.

• Aozaki Aoko searched for the person who had destroyed the automaton and worried that the culprit might be an ordinary person.
• Two Little Pigs attacked Noah in an alley, but he dodged their snapping jaws.
• Aozaki Aoko arrived and recognized Noah, while Yuzhu joined her and recalled the person who had saved her the previous night.
• Yuzhu asked whether Noah had been that person, and Aozaki Aoko realized he was a magus.
• Noah released his immense magical power, and Yuzhu confirmed his aura matched the person she had encountered the night before.
• Aozaki Aoko questioned how Noah had concealed his magical power from the barrier.

Noah revealed Avalon, a Treasure Tool that isolated him from all outside interference, during his confrontation with Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu. Unable to harm him, the two returned to consider how to protect Misaki City's Leyline.

• Aozaki Aoko activated her Magic Crest and fired a barrage of magical bullets at Noah.
• Noah summoned Avalon, which formed a dreamlike barrier and made the bullets harmless.
• Noah explained that Avalon isolated him from outside interference and let him leave the fight safely.
• Yuzhu stopped Aozaki Aoko from pursuing Noah and warned that they faced their greatest problem yet.
• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu decided to return and consider how to deal with Noah's threat to Misaki City's Leyline.

Noah’s classmates questioned him about his meeting with Aozaki Aoko, who then invited him to meet her and Yuzhu after school. Noah went with Aozaki to Yuzhu’s mansion, where Yuzhu was waiting outside the front door.

• Tobiichi and the Class 2-A students pressed Noah about his supposed date with Aozaki, and Noah told them he had gone weeding.
• Aozaki arrived in the classroom and invited Noah to an after-school meeting with her and her roommate Yuzhu, calling it an unforgettable date.
• Noah recognized that Aozaki and Yuzhu likely wanted to negotiate because they had no way to overcome Avalon.
• Noah and Aozaki silently climbed to the mansion, where Aozaki warned him that Yuzhu treasured it and disliked visitors.
• Aozaki and Noah found Yuzhu waiting outside the mansion with a book.