Chapter Summaries

Sakura prepared to face the Illusion Card again after Yukito discovered her outside at night. Meanwhile, Adam’s contract was activated by a starving, injured boy in the Black Clover world, and the boy received a golden ring linked to Aquarius.

• Yukito called out, causing the Illusion Card to flee, and Sakura confirmed her identity when she answered him.
• Adam teleported away with Tomoyo so Sakura could deal with Yukito alone.
• The next day, Sakura scolded Toya and vowed to capture the Clow Card that had impersonated her mother.
• Adam answered the contract of a gravely ill boy who wished for the power to protect himself, then let the stars resonate with the boy’s fate.
• After the stars’ changes drew attention across the four kingdoms, a golden ring appeared on the boy’s hand, revealing that Aquarius had answered his wish.

Adam learned that the nameless orphan was fourteen and would soon attend the Grimoire acquisition ceremony, then helped him choose a name. The boy chose Gabriel, and Adam took him to a river to catch fish after learning he was hungry.

• Adam confirmed that the orphan was fourteen and considered investigating the Grimoire Tower, but the boy could not enter before the ceremony.
• Adam asked Yukito and Toya for name suggestions, and the boy chose Gabriel because he wanted to seize his fate with strength.
• Adam learned that Gabriel had gone nearly five meals without eating and used to try catching fish in a river south of town.
• Adam decided to take Gabriel to the river and catch fish.

Gabriel used Adam’s guidance and the Aquarius Celestial Spirit Key to improve his chances of surviving on the streets, then fought a gang of homeless children who tried to take his fish. After sweeping them into the river and escaping, Gabriel asserted his name while Adam examined their leader’s Grimoire.

• Adam helped Gabriel catch a large fish with an improvised rod, and Gabriel knocked it unconscious and roasted it.
• The leader of a gang of homeless children confronted Gabriel and ordered his companions to take the fish.
• Gabriel used his trained magic and the Aquarius Celestial Spirit Key to send a huge wave over himself and the six attackers.
• Gabriel found his bearings underwater and swam toward shore as the others struggled in the river.
• Gabriel told the gang, “I'm not called 'Hey.' My name is Gabriel,” while Adam examined the leader’s Grimoire.

Adam warned Gabriel that other vagrants might target him, then took him upstream to live and train in a forest cabin. Later, Sakura and Tomoyo showed Adam their art, and Sakura remembered why they had come to the dessert shop.

• Adam confirmed that the vagrant who had chased them was dead when his Grimoire vanished, and warned Gabriel that other vagrants might notice him.
• Adam and Gabriel headed upstream to a forest, where Adam helped Gabriel train and told him fairy tales beside their cabin.
• Adam reflected on his three young contractors and made a makeshift Grimoire notebook to record stories and other notes.
• Sakura and Tomoyo showed Adam their paintings, and he praised Tomoyo's realistic work while describing Sakura's as abstract and surrealist.
• Tomoyo reminded Sakura that they had come to discuss their trip to the Art Museum, and Sakura recalled their reason.

Sakura and her friends entered the Art Museum to capture the Silence Card, but discovered a girl trying to restore her late father's altered painting. Sakura chose to help the girl and recover the card, leaving Tomoyo to cover them with a red cloth as the plan began.

• Adam enhanced Sakura so the guards would not notice her, and the group sneaked into the Art Museum.
• Tomoyo and Adam imagined themselves as phantom thieves until Kero heard footsteps and spotted the girl Sakura had seen earlier.
• Sakura learned that the girl believed the Silence Card had replaced her in her late father's final painting, and that she had come to scrape away the altered layer.
• Sakura decided to help restore the painting while capturing the Clow Card, and Tomoyo covered Sakura and the painting with a red cloth.

Sakura captured Still Card by using Illusion, then helped the emotional girl return home with Adam. After Adam saw Sakura off, he confronted Li Xiaolang, who had been secretly watching them and had been chased through the park by Mimi.

• Sakura used Illusion to calm Still Card and sealed her back into a card, though Still Card briefly broke free before the capture was complete.
• The little girl cried after seeing the painting restored, and Sakura, Tomoyo, and the girl hid from the approaching security guard.
• Adam made the security guard forget his investigation, then took Sakura and the girl home while Tomoyo left with her own driver and bodyguards.
• Yukito arrived at Sakura's house to speak with Toya, and Adam gave him the hot cocoa he had brought.
• Adam intercepted Li Xiaolang in a park and discovered that Mimi had chased him through eight streets after frightening him by swallowing his talisman.

Adam confronted Li Xiaolang about secretly following Sakura and Tomoyo, then visited the Li family in Hong Kong to ask how he could escape the world Clow Reed’s cards had trapped him in. Li Yelan questioned how powerful the cards were, and Adam offered to demonstrate one.

• Adam challenged Li Xiaolang for spying on the girls and pressured him into giving him Li Yelan’s phone number.
• Li Xiaolang spent the night worrying that his mother would call, then arrived at his new class and discovered Sakura and Tomoyo were his classmates.
• Adam contacted Li Yelan and visited the Li residence to explain his connection to the Li family and ask how he could leave the world.
• Li Yelan said the Li family had records of the Clow Cards but had never understood their power, and Adam offered her a card to test.

Li Yelan tested the Wheel Card herself, discovering that its power trapped her in a looping sequence of identical rooms. She stopped before revealing more of her abilities, then arranged to investigate the Li family’s records while Adam kept quiet about Sakura’s eventual claim to the Clow Cards.

• Li Yelan asked to test the Wheel Card, and Adam activated its power while promising not to interfere.
• Li Yelan used wind and fire spells to open doors and break through floors and ceilings, but each route led to another identical room.
• Adam explained that breaking the Wheel Card’s loop required more than disrupting its physical connections, and Li Yelan worried about Li Xiaolang’s safety.
• Li Yelan ended the test, deciding the Wheel Card was too powerful to challenge further without exposing her trump cards.
• Li Yelan told Adam she would search the family’s records, saw him out, and decided to call Syaoran to check that he was safe.

Adam encountered a new child contractor, Luca, who wished for everyone in his village to die because that was his brother’s wish. Before Adam agreed to the contract, a female demon appeared, leaving him to question her while he concealed how little power he had.

• Li Xiaolang broke down and apologized to his mother, Li Yelan, when she called him.
• Adam sensed a new contract and met a starving child named Luca, who wished for everyone in his village to die.
• Luca explained that he wanted the villagers dead because his brother wanted it and asked Adam, whom he mistook for a demon, to grant his wish.
• Adam questioned Luca’s reasons and held back from accepting the contract, which would require him to kill everyone in the village except the brothers.
• A female demon emerged from the shadows, and Adam asked her to introduce herself while hiding his lack of combat power.

Adam met a female demon who mistook him for a powerful fallen angel after he introduced himself as Adam. When she tried to leave, he confronted her over her hurried excuse and summoned familiars.

• The female demon failed to identify Adam and judged him too powerful to provoke.
• Adam introduced himself as Adam, and the female demon suspected he was a fallen angel using a false name.
• Adam gave up trying to contact Yahweh and considered how to handle the demon.
• The female demon claimed she had an urgent matter and offered compensation so she could leave.
• Adam mocked her excuse and her three identical familiars, then approached as she began to explain.

Adam learned that his contractor was Luca, the brother whose soul Hannah had devoured before the events of Black Butler, and decided to make Luca and Jim nobles. He planned to use magic power loans to give the brothers magic circuits before preparing his method for securing a noble identity.

• The she-demon gave Adam her true name and revealed the triplets’ true names, allowing their conversation to proceed smoothly.
• A month later, Adam identified their world as Black Butler and recognized Luca as the brother whose soul Hannah had devoured before the story began.
• Adam decided that he and the children would become nobles, despite Hannah warning that a convincing noble identity would be difficult to establish.
• Adam rejected slower or more conspicuous ways of obtaining a title and chose an enhanced version of taking over someone else’s identity.
• Adam explained that he would lend magic power to Luca and Jim so they could use it to form magic circuits suited to them.

Adam oversaw Jim’s successful transformation into a half-demon and sent the triplets after Claude, who had been spying on them. He planned future experiments using a Grim Reaper and turned his attention to securing a noble identity in Britain.

• Adam agreed to help the brothers kill the villagers after the triplets uncovered evidence that the villagers trafficked children.
• A surge of magic confirmed that the experiment had succeeded, and Adam spotted Claude fleeing into the forest.
• Adam sent the triplets to catch Claude, and they blocked his escape with Shadowless Stream.
• Adam examined the unconscious Jim, who had transformed into a half-demon, while Hannah pretended to be unconscious nearby.
• Adam decided that a Grim Reaper would be the next experimental target and planned to obtain a noble identity in Britain.

Adam chose House Joseph as the target for his plan to install a bastard as the duke’s heir, then discovered the duke’s son was already imprisoned and mad. He also recorded Li Xiaolang’s harsh treatment of Sakura, and hurried to help when Tomoyo reported that Rika was chasing Sakura with a sword.

• Adam used a hundred-sided die to select House Joseph, whose wealth had been badly depleted by Duke Joseph’s reckless son.
• Adam’s group arrived at the Joseph residence, and Hannah reported that Duke Joseph was in his study and Joseph Jr. was confined.
• Hannah found Joseph Jr. in the dungeon and told Adam that he had gone mad.
• Adam recorded Li Xiaolang criticizing Sakura as she tried to capture the Thunder Card, and decided to film him again later to reveal his contrasting behavior.
• Tomoyo called Adam the next day to report that Rika was chasing Sakura with a sword, so Adam teleported to her and asked where Sakura was.

Adam explained that the Sword Card tested Sakura and that Rika could not truly hurt her, while Tomoyo took the Sword Card and fought to protect Sakura. When Li Xiaolang joined the battle, Adam urged Sakura to act as Rika began overwhelming him.

• Adam said the Sword Card’s power depended on its user’s heart and explained that Rika did not want to hurt Sakura.
• Tomoyo took the Sword Card, charged Rika, and told Sakura to capture the Clow Card while she held Rika back.
• Sakura struggled to find a way into the sword fight, and Adam prompted Kero to advise her before The Nothing carried Kero away.
• Li Xiaolang arrived and joined Tomoyo against Rika, then apologized to Adam for previously confessing his problem himself.
• Adam told Sakura that attachments could weaken someone’s fighting ability and pointed out that Rika was nearly defeating Li Xiaolang.

Sakura used the Illusion Card to stop Rika, allowing Tomoyo to disarm her and Sakura to capture the Sword Card. After Yukito arrived, Li Xiaolang blushed at his attention and fled, while Adam secretly enjoyed the reaction.

• Li Xiaolang realized the Sword Card had boosted Rika's strength and weakened his teammates, leaving him overwhelmed as Rika focused her attacks on him.
• Sakura used the Illusion Card to make Rika see the person she cared about most, and Tomoyo knocked the sword from Rika's hand.
• Sakura captured the Sword Card, and she and Tomoyo carried the unconscious Rika inside while Li Xiaolang struggled to recover.
• Sakura invited Li Xiaolang to rest, but Kero and Suppi teased him until he angrily refused.
• Yukito arrived to return Toya's discs, and Li Xiaolang blushed at his concern before rushing out of the Kinomoto residence.
• Adam took a photograph of Li Xiaolang's reaction, then led Yukito away to visit the shop.

Adam planned to replace House Joseph’s corrupt staff and considered recruiting Sebastian as a headhunter, then sensed an incarnation activate in a world with dragons. He met the young dragon Hughgel, accepted a contract to grant his wish for more treasure, and asked to inspect Hughgel’s five plain wooden chests.

• Adam decided that most of House Joseph’s servants needed replacing and assigned Claude, Hannah, and the triplets key roles.
• Adam considered asking Sebastian to work as a headhunter while planning how to staff his new household.
• Adam sensed two incarnations activate and discovered that one had appeared before a dragon, though not in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh.
• Hughgel questioned why a magical contract had summoned a human, and Adam offered to fulfill his wish for treasure.
• Hughgel asked for the treasure beneath Adam’s feet to be multiplied tenfold, and Adam asked permission to open the five wooden chests.

Adam opened Hughgel's treasure chests and created enough gold to impress the dragon, who mistook him for Mahat of the Golden Land. Adam realized the world was Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, while another Adam clone secured Index's memories and began studying her Grimoires.

• Adam found only a small amount of treasure in Hughgel's five chests, then created a mountain of gold coins for the dragon.
• Hughgel guessed that Adam was Mahat of the Golden Land, and Adam identified the world as Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
• Adam realized that Serie and Frieren could provide a shortcut to collecting the world's magic.
• Adam · Index Librorum Prohibitorum · Reed made a contract with Index and gave her a Celestial Spirit Key to protect her memories.
• Adam began studying the 103,000 Grimoires from Index's memories, using her magical power to overcome the Puritan Faction's protections.

Adam decided to take Index away from the Puritan Faction so she could learn the magic missing from her memories, and Index agreed to leave without saying goodbye. Before they set out, Adam replaced her trackable Walking Church with Joan of Arc’s outfit and gave her a powerful defensive flag.

• Adam explained that Index’s memories did not contain every spell and that he would seek the missing magic after digesting her grimoires.
• Index said she had no one in the Puritan Faction she needed to say goodbye to, and Adam prepared to leave with her.
• Adam conjured Joan of Arc’s outfit for Index to wear in place of her trackable Walking Church.
• Index emerged in the new clothes, added a cloak, and accepted Adam’s flag, which he identified as a defensive Noble Phantasm.
• Adam told Index it was time to begin their journey.

Adam considered how to increase Gabriel’s magic power and planned to seek valuable magic, while Lucy insisted on taking a day off. Adam then prepared to travel to Oisast with Hughgel, who agreed after being promised a reward in gold.

• Adam decided Gabriel needed more magic power and considered August and the Spriggan 12 as sources of knowledge.
• Lucy demanded a day of fun, and Adam let her go while planning to find a wizard guild after completing her contract.
• Adam considered joining Fairy Tail to obtain valuable magic, including Lumen Histoire, and Felt continued training.
• Adam told Hughgel they would travel to Oisast, frightening the young dragon with the danger of entering a human city.
• Adam promised Hughgel gold for carrying him, and Hughgel eagerly set out for Oisast.

Adam tried to find a suitable mount for his journey to Oisast, but learned that Hughgel was only four years old and could not guide him reliably. Meanwhile, Adam watched Sakura win a school sprint and join her friends for a lunch that included an abundance of food and desserts.

• Adam conjured a Reins of the Rider King and tried to ride Hughgel to Oisast, then discovered Hughgel was only four years old and felt guilty about treating him as a mount.
• Adam decided to raise Hughgel while he worked, asked him about nearby magical beasts, and rejected the unsuitable creatures Hughgel listed before learning Hughgel did not know which way Oisast lay.
• Adam watched Sakura win the school sprint and applauded with Tomoyo as she celebrated with Yukito and Toya.
• Yukito explained that he and Toya had prepared stacks of lunch boxes, and Adam pointed out his returning Adam Card food cart as Sakura and Tomoyo welcomed the desserts.