Chapter Summaries

Noah, Aoko, and Yuzhu discovered that Shizuki Soujuurou had stumbled into the aftermath of their operation, but an enemy used him to lure Aoko into an attack. Noah destroyed the doll that struck her and found its poison had also incapacitated Yuzhu, while Yuzhu revealed the other anchor point had already been eliminated and this encounter had been a trap.

• Aoko pursued Shizuki Soujuurou after he witnessed the remains of the dolls and the Magic Crest on her arm activated.
• Noah sensed a lifeless presence approaching Aoko, then heard a crash and her scream from the main road.
• Noah caught Aoko as a doll resembling her attacked, and he destroyed it with a burst of light.
• The doll released poisonous powder that affected Aoko and Yuzhu, while Noah remained unharmed.
• Yuzhu told Noah that the other anchor point had been eliminated and this side had only been a trap.

Noah discovered that a dissolved neurotoxin had blocked Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu's Magic Circuits, leaving them unable to fight for the Leyline. He decided to use a method of transferring magical energy, ending the chapter by kissing Yuzhu to begin it.

• Noah used Avalon to heal Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu, but it could not remove the dissolved toxin or restore their blocked Magic Circuits.
• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu explained that the neurotoxin had stopped their magical energy from circulating, threatening their ability to defend their Leyline position.
• Yuzhu suggested injecting magical energy into their Magic Circuits to force them to move again.
• Noah recalled a method for transferring magical energy and hesitated to use it, while Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu insisted they wanted to recover.
• Noah lifted Yuzhu and kissed her, leaving Yuzhu stunned and Aozaki Aoko speechless.

Noah replenished Yuzhu and Aozaki Aoko’s magic power by transferring it through kisses, then brought the unconscious Shizuki Soujuurou to his room. The night passed with Soujuurou still in Noah’s care.

• Noah chose saliva rather than blood as a safer way to transfer magic power to Yuzhu and Aozaki Aoko.
• Noah kissed Yuzhu and transferred enough magic power to restore her Magic Circuits.
• Noah caught Aozaki Aoko’s punch, pulled her close, and transferred magic power to her through a kiss.
• Noah stopped once both girls had received enough magic power and left the Living Room.
• Noah found the unconscious Shizuki Soujuurou by the entrance and carried him to his room.

Shizuki Soujuurou woke in Noah’s care and learned that the boy could use magecraft, though he barely understood why it was unusual. Noah brought him to Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu, whose attention shifted to Soujuurou as they faced the urgent situation.

• Shizuki Soujuurou regained consciousness in an unfamiliar room and remembered Noah standing amid the carnage in the park.
• Soujuurou tried to flee, but Noah restrained him with a Rune and warned him to stay within sight for protection.
• Soujuurou admired the Rune instead of fearing it, so Noah decided Aozaki Aoko should explain the situation to him.
• Noah entered the Living Room, where Aoko and Yuzhu glared at him over the forced kiss that had restored their magical energy.
• Noah brought Soujuurou into view, and Aoko and Yuzhu became serious when they saw him.

Noah brought Shizuki Soujuurou to Yuzhu’s mansion, where Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu wanted to kill him for learning about magecraft. Noah refused to let Shizuki die and proposed erasing his memories with runes, leaving Aozaki Aoko to handle him in the meantime.

• Yuzhu confronted Noah for bringing Shizuki Soujuurou into her home without permission, and Aozaki Aoko calmed the argument.
• Aozaki Aoko moved to kill Shizuki, but he said he would rely on Noah to protect him.
• Noah declared he would oppose the Mages Association rather than let Shizuki die, insisting he acted according to what he liked.
• Noah proposed using advanced runes to erase Shizuki’s memories of magecraft, and Yuzhu left, signaling her agreement.
• Noah left Aozaki Aoko to deal with Shizuki until he learned the forgetting rune, prompting her to yell after him.

Noah visited the vast library at Kuonji Estate and began studying its collection of books on Runic Sorcery. Because Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu were recovering from poisoning and feared another attack, Noah stayed behind to protect them, then returned to find Aozaki Aoko and Shizuki Soujuurou arguing.

• Yuzhu led Noah into her mother's library, where he was stunned by its enormous collection and learned that less than one-tenth of the books recorded magecraft.
• Yuzhu told Noah to search for the books on Runic Sorcery herself, and Noah decided to study the entire system of runes and their combinations.
• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu took leave from school to recover their Magic Circuits after the poisoning, and they also had Noah stay home to guard them against the cunning enemy.
• After reading in the library until evening, Noah returned to the Living Room and found Aozaki Aoko and Shizuki Soujuurou fiercely arguing.

Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu tried to keep Shizuki Soujuurou from leaving the mansion, but he explained that he needed money to support himself. Noah marked him with a Burning Rune to keep him from revealing their secrets, then allowed him to go out and work.

• Aozaki Aoko angrily told Shizuki Soujuurou that he was a prisoner and could not leave, while Yuzhu arrived and fixed him with a hostile stare.
• Shizuki Soujuurou said he wanted to go out to find a part-time job because he needed money to live.
• Noah remembered his tutoring job and realized that staying home could cost him several hundred thousand yen in income.
• Noah inscribed a Burning Rune on Shizuki Soujuurou and warned that it would burn him if he revealed their secrets.
• Noah allowed Shizuki Soujuurou to leave, telling him to return before ten o'clock.

Noah persuaded Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu to let Shizuki Soujuurou remain in the mansion under surveillance, suspecting he might be cooperating with the outside magician. He then proposed eliminating two of Misaki City's remaining barrier anchors so they could focus their defenses and lure the enemy into a trap.

• Yuzhu and Aozaki Aoko opposed letting Shizuki Soujuurou stay in the mansion, but Noah argued that keeping him close would help them determine whether he was an enemy accomplice.
• Noah explained that Shizuki Soujuurou might have known about the enemy's plans from the start and said he would be watched by Yuzhu's familiars.
• Yuzhu suggested killing Shizuki Soujuurou, but Noah said they could use him to draw the outside magician into the mansion's defenses.
• Noah proposed that Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu eliminate two of Misaki City's three remaining barrier anchors, leaving one anchor to defend and surround with traps.
• After Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu listened to his plan, Noah said the real show was only beginning.

Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu removed two more Leyline barrier anchor points and prepared to catch the hidden mage while Noah studied sorcery at Kuonji Estate. Their quiet routine ended when a dangerous priest arrived and invited Noah to seek out the “lambs” hidden in Misaki City.

• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu removed two of Misaki City's remaining Leyline barrier anchor points, leaving traps and Six Song Chocolate to guard the last one.
• Noah studied Reinforcement Sorcery and Runic Sorcery while Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu monitored the city, and Shizuki Soujuurou settled into Kuonji Estate under suspicion.
• Aozaki Aoko interrupted Noah and Yuzhu's library session to say someone outside was looking for Noah.
• Noah, Aozaki Aoko, and Yuzhu went to the gate, where a priest greeted Noah and asked him to help find the hidden “lambs” in the city.

Noah met Touko, the mage who had outmaneuvered his group, after Fumitsuka Eiiri brought him to a park in Misaki City. Touko revealed that she was speaking through a puppet and asked Noah who he really was.

• Noah questioned Fumitsuka Eiiri about the hidden mage and learned that someone had asked him to bring Noah to the park.
• Touko arrived, and Noah recognized her as the mage who had outmaneuvered his group.
• Touko said she and Fumitsuka Eiiri had made a non-aggression agreement, then sent him away.
• After Fumitsuka Eiiri left, Touko discussed Noah's encounter with Beo and Noah sensed that she was a puppet.
• Touko admitted she had projected her will into the puppet and asked Noah who he really was.

Touko Aozaki confronted Noah about his identity after explaining that Beo had evolved into a powerful but unintelligent beast. She revealed Beo’s contract-bound connection to her and demanded to know why he had become violent and disobedient only after encountering Noah.

• Touko Aozaki explained that Beo had evolved toward becoming a Divine Beast, gaining immense power while losing his intelligence.
• Noah suspected that the World Shard inside Beo had caused his abnormal evolution and limited his intelligence.
• Touko Aozaki said she had found Beo in a Northern European cave and bound him with a contract he accepted without resistance.
• Touko Aozaki revealed that Beo had once disobeyed her by disappearing and appearing before Noah, then became more violent around him.
• Touko Aozaki said her investigation found no reliable record of Noah in the magecraft world or ordinary world, and demanded to know who he was.

Noah confirmed that Touko Aozaki was Aoko’s sister and declared that Aoko belonged to him, prompting Touko to treat him as her enemy. After their meeting, Noah attacked Fumitsuka Eiiri, who had been watching him, and overwhelmed him in close combat.

• Touko Aozaki asked Noah about his relationship with Aoko, and Noah realized that the two women were sisters.
• Noah said that he and Aoko had kissed, then declared that Aoko was his property rather than the other way around.
• Touko decided Noah was Aoko’s trump card and announced that their next meeting would be a fight to the death.
• Fumitsuka Eiiri watched Noah leave the park, and Noah told him they would never get along before launching an attack.
• Fumitsuka Eiiri counterattacked with a sword, but Noah caught his wrist, kicked him into a wall, and stomped him into the ground.

Noah defeated Fumitsuka Eiiri and discovered that the priest had tried to kill him without any motive beyond wanting to see whether he could. Noah left Eiiri with a Rune of Agony that punished any rising killing intent, then headed back to Kuonji Estate while Eiiri remained in pain.

• Noah disarmed Fumitsuka Eiiri and confronted him about hiding nearby to attack after Touko Aozaki told him to withdraw.
• Fumitsuka Eiiri admitted he had wanted to see whether he could kill Noah, and Noah judged him to be a weapon whose only purpose was killing.
• Noah inscribed the Rune of Agony on Fumitsuka Eiiri, causing intense pain whenever killing intent rose in him.
• Noah explained that removing the rune would require magical energy equivalent to what thirty magi could expend.
• Noah left for Kuonji Estate, leaving Fumitsuka Eiiri behind as the rune's pain continued.

Noah returned to Kuonji Estate and told Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu that he had met Touko Aozaki. Aozaki Aoko explained the Aozaki Family’s inheritance of Magic and concluded that Touko’s real target was the Magic in her hands.

• Noah returned to Kuonji Estate and found Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu waiting in the Living Room.
• Aozaki Aoko asked Noah what Fumitsuka Eiiri had wanted, and Noah revealed that he had taken him to meet Touko Aozaki.
• Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu realized Touko’s familiarity with Misaki City’s barrier explained how she had evaded its detection.
• Noah asked why Touko had not inherited the Aozaki Family’s Magic Crest, and Aozaki Aoko explained that the family’s purpose was to pass down its Magic.
• Aozaki Aoko said Touko’s target was probably the Magic she had inherited, not Misaki City’s Leyline.

Aozaki Aoko explained why her sister Touko had returned to seize the Aozaki Family’s True Magic, and Noah realized Touko’s questions had focused on whether he was Aoko’s possession. He decided to confront Touko about her intentions.

• Aozaki Aoko told Noah and Yuzhu that Touko had once been groomed to inherit True Magic but was abandoned when Aoko proved more suited to it.
• Aozaki Aoko said Touko had returned as a mage seeking True Magic, while Noah suggested her attack on Misaki City’s barrier was meant to weaken Aoko and Yuzhu.
• Yuzhu redirected the conversation to why Touko had taken Noah aside, and Noah concluded that Touko had only cared whether he was close to Aoko.
• Noah explained that Touko began treating him as important after learning he and Aoko had kissed, because Touko liked taking things that belonged to Aoko.
• Noah decided to show Touko who the protagonist of the battle was.

Noah struggled to understand why Touko Aozaki and Aozaki Aoko accepted fighting each other over the Aozaki Family’s inheritance, while Aoko explained how she endured the magician’s path. Noah declared he would defy any fate that forced him to fight his loved ones, and an unseen listener remained in the corridor.

• Noah left the Living Room and brooded over Touko Aozaki and Aozaki Aoko’s coming fight, which he could not reconcile with his belief in family.
• Aozaki Aoko joined Noah and said she avoided dwelling on home because it was the only place where she could keep her weakness.
• Noah praised Aoko’s strength, and she said she would bear her unavoidable fate until she could no longer endure it.
• Aoko asked whether Noah would run from fate, and Noah vowed to shatter any fate that made him fight his family, friends, or loved one.
• Aoko called Noah gentle after he left, while an awkward person listened unseen from the corridor outside the Living Room.

Noah prepared for the coming confrontation with Touko Aozaki by summoning his Blazes and using Runic Sorcery to strengthen his Knight Sword. He left the sword with hardening, sharpness, and acceleration runes carved into its blade, while the decisive battle still lay ahead.

• Shizuki Soujuurou left for his newspaper delivery job after Noah told him to return early and stay out of trouble.
• Noah decided Shizuki was probably not Touko Aozaki's accomplice, but remained wary of the coming battle.
• Noah returned to his room and summoned his Knight Sword and revolver Blazes for the first time in about a month.
• Noah carved hardening runes onto the Knight Sword to improve its toughness and striking power.
• Noah added sharpness and acceleration runes to the Knight Sword.

Noah permanently enchanted his Knight Sword and revolver to prepare for a fight with Golden Wolf Beo. He then discovered Aozaki Aoko practicing magic in the mansion courtyard, where she had left Yuzhu displeased by causing heavy damage.

• Noah inscribed Hardening, Sharpness, and Acceleration runes on his Knight Sword, then used Permanent Enchantment to make them lasting.
• Noah strengthened his revolver with Hardening, Acceleration, and Vitality runes, preparing to claim the World Shards inside Golden Wolf Beo.
• Noah heard an explosion and found Aozaki Aoko standing by a smoking crater in the courtyard while Yuzhu watched with obvious displeasure.
• Aozaki Aoko admitted she was practicing because a battle with Touko Aozaki could happen soon, and Yuzhu regretted letting her practice in the courtyard.

Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu urged Noah to withdraw from the coming fight because he still had a home and people who cared about him, but Noah chose to fight for them. Yuzhu revealed that Touko Aozaki had activated the final anchor point, and Aoko announced the final battle would take place that night.

• Aozaki Aoko questioned whether Noah feared dying and urged him to leave the fight if the thing he wanted from Touko Aozaki's familiar was not worth his life.
• Yuzhu explained that Noah still had a home, giving him a reason to survive that she and Aoko did not share.
• Noah said he would not run from battle and declared that he would fight for Aozaki Aoko and Yuzhu.
• Yuzhu reported a magical reaction at the final anchor point and identified it as Touko Aozaki's challenge.
• Aozaki Aoko announced that the final battle would begin that night.

As night approached, Noah, Aozaki Aoko, and Yuzhu prepared to face Touko Aozaki and Golden Wolf Beo at the final anchor point. They confined Shizuki Soujuurou to his room, then left the mansion to begin the decisive battle.

• Aozaki Aoko ordered Shizuki Soujuurou to stay in the mansion, and Noah and Yuzhu warned him he would be confined to his room until morning.
• Noah explained that if they returned alive, they would erase Shizuki Soujuurou's memories of magecraft and let him leave.
• Aozaki Aoko admitted she had little chance of defeating Touko Aozaki alone, while Yuzhu said she and Aoko together would not be weaker than Touko.
• Yuzhu warned Noah that if Golden Wolf Beo defeated him, they would all be finished, and Noah declared he would fight back.
• Noah, Aozaki Aoko, and Yuzhu left the mansion at night and headed toward the final anchor point.