Chapter Summaries

Azer learned that Yaze Natsune did not want to return to the Aldikia Kingdom, so La Folia arranged for her to stay temporarily at his home. La Folia also told her father about Azer seeing her and Natsune naked, leaving Azer expecting trouble from the king.

• Azer and La Folia discussed Natsune's health, and La Folia said she could leave the hospital after another day of observation.
• Azer correctly guessed that Natsune did not want to return to the Aldikia Kingdom, and La Folia explained that her family wanted a trustworthy guardian for her.
• La Folia suggested that Azer protect Natsune, then explained that she would remain on Itogami Island until her family came to meet with Natsune.
• Azer suspected La Folia had provoked her father, and she admitted telling him that she and Natsune had been naked in front of Azer.
• La Folia relayed her father's threat, and after Natsune was discharged, she brought her to stay temporarily at Azer's home.

Azer traded access to Artificial Sacred Gear data for La Folia’s explanation of Aldikia’s Craftsman Hero System, then used the Hōgyoku to create a more versatile formula for raising weapons’ spiritual ranks. After a celebration for Yaze Natsune’s hospital discharge, Natsune visited Azer in his room, leaving him wondering what she wanted.

• Azer gave La Folia and Yaze Natsune his bedroom and asked to learn the principles behind Aldikia’s Craftsman Hero System in exchange for Artificial Sacred Gear data.
• La Folia explained the system, and Azer used the Hōgyoku to derive and inscribe a formula that could enhance combat weapons using any kind of energy.
• Azer tested the formula and found that it raised the power of different weapons by varying amounts, but did not work on non-weapon armaments or biological weapons.
• Akatsuki Nagisa prepared a celebration for Yaze Natsune’s discharge, and Akatsuki Kojo joined her and Azer for the feast.
• After the Akatsuki siblings left, Azer noticed the Holy Ring Knight Order’s surveillance and went to bed in the Computer Room.
• Yaze Natsune knocked on Azer’s door after her bath, and Azer let her into his room.

Yaze Natsune visited Azer to thank him for saving her when she became a Fake Angel, and he comforted her about her painful past. She embraced him, leaving Azer awkwardly aware of their close contact.

• Yaze Natsune entered Azer's dark room and thanked him for rescuing her as an Artificial Angel.
• Yaze Natsune recalled fighting Azer and being saved, and he soothed her while using the Stone Bowl Before the Buddha to calm her.
• Azer told Yaze Natsune to let go of her painful past and look toward the future.
• Yaze Natsune wondered why Azer had saved her, and he said she deserved and needed to be saved.
• Yaze Natsune embraced Azer in gratitude, and he awkwardly realized she was not wearing a bra.

Azer listened to Yaze Natsune confide in him until she fell asleep, then carried her back to the bedroom she shared with La Folia. After Himesaka Sayaka delivered a message from the Lion King Organization, Azer suspected that Yukina would soon arrive despite Sayaka insisting she was still in training.

• Yaze Natsune told Azer about her childhood and her feelings about learning her origins, then fell asleep in his arms.
• La Folia revealed that she had been listening and said Natsune saw Azer as her prince and knight before he carried Natsune back to bed.
• La Folia told Azer that he looked like a dream prince in his white armor, and Azer returned to his room.
• Himesaka Sayaka told Azer that the Lion King Organization still wanted him to protect Akatsuki Nagisa and planned to send a new monitor and caretaker for La Folia and Yaze Natsune.
• Himesaka Sayaka insisted Yukina could not come because she had 105 days of training left, but Azer suspected she would arrive soon.

Azer enjoyed a peaceful month on Itogami Island as he grew closer to Nagisa and Yaze Natsune, while the island prepared for its Borou Festival. After learning the festival coincided with a period of unstable space-time, Azer wondered whether he should stop whatever was about to happen.

• Kojo stopped walking to school with Azer, Nagisa, and Yaze Natsune because the attention from jealous students and his friends' teasing became unbearable.
• Azer spent more than a month relaxing, going to school and shopping with Nagisa and Yaze Natsune, while keeping watch over Nagisa with his animals.
• Itogami Island began preparing for the week-long Borou Festival, which welcomed tourists and featured events modeled on Halloween.
• Yaze Motoki explained to Kojo and Aiba Asagi that Halloween had roots in protection from spirits and that space-time could become unstable during the season.
• Azer recalled that something seemed to happen during the Borou Festival and wondered whether he should stop it.

As Saikai Academy prepared for the Borou Festival, Azer grew annoyed at Nangong Nayue’s warnings and decided to stir up trouble. He rejected his classmates’ attempts to recruit him for festival work by revealing plans with Nagisa and La Folia, leaving Akatsuki Kojo and the other boys devastated before he went after Nayue.

• Nangong Nayue warned her class to behave during the Borou Festival and singled out Azer, making him increasingly determined to cause trouble.
• The boys surrounded Azer and tried to recruit him for festival stalls and competitions, hoping Nagisa and the Middle School Division’s Saintess would join him.
• Yaze Motoki explained the boys’ motives, and Akatsuki Kojo rushed to recruit Azer after realizing it could keep him from dating Nagisa.
• Azer refused the invitations and said Nagisa wanted him to meet her mother during the festival.
• Azer added that La Folia’s family had asked to meet him, shocking Akatsuki Kojo and the other boys.
• After provoking his classmates, Azer left the classroom and headed after Nangong Nayue.

Azer warned Nangong Nayue that the Library might target her during the Borou Festival to free a captured senior official and reclaim a powerful Grimoire. He left the threat for her to handle, and Nangong Nayue began preparing for the Library’s possible attack.

• Nangong Nayue warned Azer not to call her by an unwanted nickname, and he teased her about her reputation as the Witch of Gaps.
• Azer brought up the Library, prompting Nangong Nayue to ask what he knew about the criminal organization.
• Azer revealed that the Library’s Great Librarian had been captured by Nangong Nayue years earlier and that she possessed the Librarian’s powerful Grimoire.
• Nangong Nayue realized that the Library might target her during the Borou Festival to rescue its official and recover the Grimoire.
• Azer refused to handle the threat for free, slipped away from Nangong Nayue, and left her to make preparations.

Azer accompanied La Folia and Yaze Natsune to Central Airport to greet the Aldikia royal family, where La Folia’s furious father, Lucas Rihavein, attacked him over rumors that La Folia had found a husband. Azer stopped Lucas’s battle axe with one hand, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Azer traveled with La Folia and Yaze Natsune to Central Airport, recalling his time at the Star Martial Festival and asking why he had to greet their family.
• La Folia revealed that she had told her family about Yaze Natsune sleeping in Azer’s room and teased him about meeting her parents.
• Lucas Rihavein arrived aboard Aldikia’s Air Battleship and demanded that La Folia explain her claim about finding a husband abroad.
• Lucas spotted Azer between La Folia and Yaze Natsune, leaped at him, and brought down his battle axe.
• Azer caught Lucas’s battle axe in one hand without being injured.

Aldikia’s King Lucas confronted Azer over his closeness to La Folia and Yaze Natsune, then challenged him to prove himself as a worthy husband. La Folia wanted Azer to win her father’s approval, and the chapter ended as Azer faced Lucas’s Simulated Holy Sword strike with Dragon’s Fluctuation.

• Lucas’s knights and the airport guards surrounded Azer, but Azer stopped Lucas’s opening battle-axe strike with one hand.
• Lucas accused Azer of taking advantage of La Folia and Yaze Natsune, and Azer’s silence fueled Lucas’s anger.
• Lucas attacked Azer, who evaded his blows while Lucas demanded a fair fight and declared he would only accept a husband who could defeat him.
• La Folia explained that she had chosen Azer as her husband and wanted him to pass her family’s test, while Yaze Natsune reacted with surprise.
• Lucas powered his battle axe with the Air Battleship’s Spirit Furnace, turning it into a Simulated Holy Sword, and Azer met the descending weapon with Dragon’s Fluctuation.

Azer defeated Lucas’s Simulated Holy Sword by repeatedly using Divide, then froze Lucas with Hyōrinmaru’s power. Polyphonia Lihavain revealed herself as Aldikia’s queen and Yaze Natsune’s elder sister, and the group left the airport with Lucas still shivering from his cold.

• Azer used Divide ten times to weaken Lucas’s Simulated Holy Sword, then froze Lucas and his battle axe with Hyōrinmaru’s power.
• Polyphonia Lihavain arrived, stopped the knights from attacking, and apologized to Azer for Lucas’s conduct.
• Polyphonia identified herself as Aldikia’s queen, La Folia’s mother, and Yaze Natsune’s elder sister, and explained that her royal blood let her provide Lucas with Spirit Power.
• After the welcoming ceremony, Azer, Lucas, Polyphonia, La Folia, and Yaze Natsune left Central Airport in an extended limousine.
• Lucas complained about Azer’s freezing magic and demanded another fight, but he sneezed from his cold before he could continue.

Azer met with the Aldikia royal family after defeating Lucas, while Polyphonia and La Folia thanked him for saving La Folia and Yaze Natsune. Yaze Natsune accepted her royal family’s affection but remained unsure whether she wanted to return to Arudikia, leaving Polyphonia’s question unanswered.

• Lucas questioned Azer about how he had defeated him and broken the Simulated Holy Sword, but Azer brushed off the question.
• Polyphonia thanked Azer for saving La Folia and Yaze Natsune, while Lucas remained resentful that Azer had set his sights on his daughter.
• Polyphonia welcomed Yaze Natsune as her biological younger sister, but Natsune said the royal family still felt distant to her.
• Yaze Natsune explained that she felt gratitude rather than resentment toward the family and the Monastery that had raised her, and Polyphonia was moved by her response.
• La Folia revealed that she had assessed Yaze Natsune and found her harmless, then Polyphonia asked whether Natsune would return to Arudikia with them.

Yaze Natsune refused to return to Aldikia and said she wanted to live with Azer, prompting Lucas to challenge him. La Folia proposed that if Lucas lost another duel, he could no longer interfere with her or Natsune marrying Azer.

• Yaze Natsune declined Lucas and Polyphonia’s offer to take her to Aldikia, explaining that she wanted to remain where she had grown up.
• Polyphonia asked what Natsune would do without family on Itogami Island, and Natsune admitted she wanted to live with Azer.
• Lucas accused Azer of influencing Natsune and drew his battle axe, but La Folia reminded him that Azer had easily defeated Dimitriye Vatra.
• La Folia proposed that Lucas’s defeat in a duel would end his right to interfere with her and Natsune marrying Azer.
• Natsune agreed to La Folia’s proposal, while Lucas raged and Polyphonia considered whether La Folia truly intended to marry Azer.

After the Aldikia royals took La Folia and Yaze Natsune into their manor, Azer returned home and left Athena to guard Akatsuki Nagisa. A message summoned him to the Lion King Organization’s Itogami Island office, where he reunited with his old Master, Endo Yukari.

• Lucas took La Folia from Azer’s home, and Polyphonia brought Yaze Natsune to stay with the Aldikia royals.
• Azer left for home while Athena remained inside the Gorgon Stone to watch over Akatsuki Nagisa.
• Azer received a message from an old friend and went to the Lion King Organization’s hidden office in Itogami Island’s western district.
• Azer recognized Endo Yukari’s black-cat familiar and greeted his former Master.
• Endo Yukari said she was overseeing the office while Azer and the Fourth Primogenitor were on the Artificial Island.

Azer met Endo Yukari at the antique shop, where she inspected Silver Radiance Qilin and asked about his mission monitoring the Fourth Primogenitor. After discussing Akatsuki Nagisa and the Lion King Organization’s hands-off stance, Azer was addressed by someone who recognized him.

• Endo Yukari examined Silver Radiance Qilin, noticed its enhanced technique, and told Azer he could do as he wished with the weapon.
• Endo Yukari reflected on how Azer’s power had silenced proposals to seize or study him, then asked how the monitoring mission was going.
• Azer said Aurora remained asleep within Akatsuki Nagisa and that the girl had avoided the recent incidents.
• Endo Yukari observed that Azer was fond of Akatsuki Nagisa, and Azer said Aurora was not entirely unrelated to him.
• Endo Yukari assured Azer that the Lion King Organization did not intend to interfere with their growth, while Azer considered the power he had yet to reveal.
• A voice behind Azer called him “Senior?” with surprise and delight.

Azer reunited with Himegi Yukina, who had arrived on Itogami Island as a Lion King Organization Sword Miko. Endo Yukari assigned Yukina to monitor Yaze Natsune alongside Azer, and Yukina prepared to move into his home.

• Azer met Himegi Yukina at Endo Yukari's antique shop and learned she had arrived to take up a new assignment.
• Endo Yukari explained that Yukina had graduated early, earned her Attack Mage Official license, and been chosen to monitor Yaze Natsune at Saikai Academy.
• Yukina challenged Azer's doubts about her suitability, and Endo Yukari warned her not to rely too heavily on Spirit Vision.
• Endo Yukari said Yukina would monitor Yaze Natsune while staying at Azer's home, and Azer accepted the arrangement.

Azer learned that Himegi Yukina had been given the dangerous Seven-Type Assault Demon Subduing Machine Gun, then accompanied her into Itogami Island’s festival crowds. As they headed home, a mysterious golden-haired girl with flaming eyes brushed past Azer and disappeared.

• Azer recognized Himegi Yukina’s spear as the Seven-Type Assault Demon Subduing Machine Gun and warned her not to use it casually because it could turn its wielder into an angel.
• Himegi Yukina told Azer she had not contacted Himesaka Sayaka, and they discussed Sayaka’s clashes with Azer and Yukina’s worry that her senpai had changed.
• Azer reassured Himegi Yukina, and they walked hand in hand into the crowded festival streets.
• Azer saw a fairy-like golden-haired girl with flames in her eyes pass by, but she vanished into the crowd before he could find her.

Dimitriye Vatra welcomed Peresh Arador, the War King Domain’s Speaker, with a full-strength Familiar attack as Arador arrived near Itogami Island. Vattler learned that Iblisbel Azazel may also be on the island, and looked forward to testing himself against the powerful visitors gathering for the Borou Festival.

• Dimitriye Vatra summoned his serpent Familiar Manasa and attacked the flying boat carrying Peresh Arador.
• Peresh Arador summoned his sword Familiar and destroyed Manasa’s attack, then rebuked Vattler for striking before they had exchanged greetings.
• Vattler asked whether the other Progenitors had sent agents to Itogami Island, and Arador said the Chaos Princess had made no clear move.
• Arador reported that Iblisbel Azazel, the Ninth Prince of the Extinction Dynasty, might already have arrived on the island.
• Vattler welcomed the prospect of facing Iblisbel Azazel, while Arador wondered whether the King of Magical Beasts could withstand the coming upheaval.

Nangong Nayue defeated the Meyer Sisters and sent them toward the Prison Barrier, but Aurora Florestina appeared and trapped Nayue and Ring King in a space-consuming Familiar. Aurora left to pursue someone on Itogami Island, leaving Nayue’s warning to the transfer student as a brown-skinned boy arrived at the coast and recognized Aurora’s magical power.

• Nangong Nayue defeated the Meyer Sisters’ tentacle Guardian with Ring King and bound the sisters in the Chains of Discipline.
• Aurora Florestina appeared on the shore and revealed that only a trace of her soul remained, but she had come to meet someone.
• Nangong Nayue summoned Ring King to stop Aurora, but Aurora swallowed them both into a dark space created by her Familiar.
• Aurora said the sealed space would keep Nayue from interfering, then disappeared while Nayue warned the transfer student not to die.
• A brown-skinned boy arrived at the shore, recognized Aurora’s magical power, and said she had come in person again.

Azer brought Himegi Yukina to his apartment and introduced her to the kittens in his Cat Room before Akatsuki Nagisa swept her away to meet her friends. At the Akatsuki Family home, Yukina met Sendogi Yuma, while Akatsuki Kojo reacted with hostility toward Azer and curiosity about Yukina.

• Azer showed Himegi Yukina the apartment and told her she would share a room with Yaze Natsune, but Yukina became captivated by the kittens in his Cat Room.
• Himegi Yukina mistook Akatsuki Nagisa for the Fourth Primogenitor and reached for her weapon, but Azer stopped her and calmed them both down.
• Akatsuki Nagisa enthusiastically questioned Yukina, learned their prepared story that Yukina was transferring schools, and invited her and Azer to dinner.
• Azer sent the kittens back to their room and followed Akatsuki Nagisa and Yukina to the Akatsuki Family home.
• Akatsuki Nagisa introduced Sendogi Yuma as her and Akatsuki Kojo's childhood friend, and Kojo questioned why Azer had come and who Yukina was.

Akatsuki Nagisa introduced Azer and Himegi Yukina to Sendogi Yuma, and the group agreed to celebrate the Borou Festival together the next day. While Himesaka Sayaka unknowingly followed a decoy sent by Vattler, Azer woke in the night with a cold gleam in his eyes.

• Akatsuki Nagisa scolded Akatsuki Kojo for staring at Himegi Yukina, and his explanation that she resembled Nagisa only strengthened the others’ belief that he was a sister lover.
• Akatsuki Nagisa introduced Azer, Himegi Yukina, and Sendogi Yuma, while Azer noticed a strange glimmer in Sendogi Yuma’s eyes when she looked at him and Nagisa.
• The group ate at the Akatsuki Family home, agreed to skip the festival’s eve parade, and planned to celebrate the Borou Festival together the next day.
• Azer told Himegi Yukina that her mission was on hold until Yaze Natsune returned, while Himegi Yukina said she missed Himesaka Sayaka.
• Himesaka Sayaka watched two vampire nobles whom Vattler had sent as a decoy, unaware that Arador had arrived on Itogami Island and was staying at Azer’s home.
• After Azer and Himegi Yukina went to bed, Azer suddenly opened his eyes with a cold gleam.