Chapter Summaries

Grevias told Roa about Claire Alstein’s painful past and asked him to look after her. After Claire apologized and asked Roa to help her get stronger, the two ran into Eris and became entangled in a misunderstanding before heading to the library together.

• Grevias explained that Claire had been shunned since her sister Rubia Alstein betrayed the Fire Spirit King, bringing punishment on the Edicia Empire, and asked Roa to help Claire.
• Claire apologized to Roa for attacking him, then followed him and asked how she could become stronger.
• Claire explained the Elysia Spirit Academy’s classes to Roa and said that she was a student in the troublemaking Crow Class.
• Claire and Eris argued when they met, and Claire’s teasing claim that Roa had defiled her made Eris draw her sword at him.
• Roa cleared up the misunderstanding, teased Claire by tousling her hair, and continued to the library with her despite the other students’ contemptuous looks.

Roa protected Claire from hostile academy girls, then taught her about spirits and agreed to help her become stronger. In an Elf Forest clearing, he performed a blazing Blade Dance that left Claire comparing him to Ren Ashbel.

• Roa stepped between Claire and the academy girls, shielding her from their contemptuous stares.
• Claire explained the four ranks of spirits to Roa as they studied in the library.
• When Claire asked how to become stronger, Roa decided to test her foundations and teach her Blade Dance.
• Roa led Claire to a clearing in the Elf Forest and performed a radiant Blade Dance with his Knight Sword.
• Claire watched Roa and wondered whether she could challenge him if he were Ren Ashbel.

Roa performed Sun Breathing for Claire, whose admiration for the dazzling Blade Dance turned to doubt when she realized she could not imitate it. After Claire asked him to teach her, Roa encouraged her and began guiding her sword movements.

• Claire watched Roa perform Sun Breathing and was reminded of Lian Ashbel’s Blade Dance.
• Claire admitted that she wanted to become stronger and asked Roa to help her catch up to Lian Ashbel.
• When Claire doubted she could learn the Blade Dance, Roa smacked her forehead and challenged her to try.
• Claire accepted Roa’s offer, but struggled to perform even the first move with the Knight Sword.
• Roa stood behind Claire and guided her hand and steps as he began teaching her Sun Breathing.

Roa taught Claire the twelve forms of Sun Breathing, then left her at the academy and returned to the Elf Forest for another training session with Grevias. He ended the chapter under pressure as Grevias relentlessly attacked him with the Absolute Sword Technique.

• Roa guided Claire through the movements and breathing of Sun Breathing, helping her focus as he taught her the forms.
• After the lesson, Claire became misty-eyed, but she told Roa she was happy and gave him the Crow Class dormitory address for future lessons.
• Roa parted from Claire and went to Grevias, who praised his punctuality and took him back to the Elf Forest.
• Grevias trained Roa in the Absolute Sword Technique, forbade him from using Sun Breathing, and overwhelmed him with her Purple Thunder attacks.

Roa trained with Grevias in the Absolute Sword Technique and continued making remarkable progress as a Spirit User. The next morning, he went to find Claire and discovered the state of her room.

• Roa clashed with Grevias in a prolonged sword lesson, and the two ended their training after their Kamui energies faded.
• Grevias praised Roa’s rapid progress in swordsmanship and Spirit User abilities, then continued training him through another sleepless night.
• Roa went to the girls’ dormitory to look for Claire and asked Eris to lead him to her room.
• Claire took ten minutes to answer the door, and Roa saw her room cluttered with clothes, cans, and trash.

Roa took Claire to the Elf Forest shrine so she could try to contract with the spirit sealed in the holy sword. The sword rejected Claire and blasted her away, and Roa caught her just as a beam of light shot from the altar toward him.

• Roa continued training Claire in Sun Breathing and, on the appointed day, accompanied her from Grevias's office to the shrine in the Elf Forest.
• Roa broke the barrier protecting the shrine, and he and Claire entered the dark, damp passage leading to the altar.
• Claire tried to contract with the spirit in the holy sword, pouring in her Kamui as the sword's force pushed back against her.
• The spirit refused to communicate, and the holy sword released a shock wave that sent Claire flying.
• Roa caught Claire in his arms, then a beam of white light erupted from the altar and shot toward him.

Roa and Claire faced a powerful steel Sword Spirit after Claire failed to contract it. As Scarlet fell and the sword turned on Claire, Roa seized the weapon and held it fast.

• The steel Sword Spirit awakened and attacked Roa and Claire, and Claire admitted nothing as she prepared to try again.
• Claire summoned Scarlet, her high-ranking fire spirit, to battle the sword.
• Scarlet briefly clashed with the Sword Spirit, but the sword unleashed its full speed and pierced the fire cat.
• Claire rushed to Scarlet, and the Sword Spirit redirected its attack toward her.
• Roa activated Dragon Blood and his magic power, then grabbed the sword’s hilt and stopped it from breaking free.

Roa overpowered the Holy Sword’s resistance and formed a spirit contract with it. The sword vanished into his right hand, and he learned its name was Terminus Est.

• The Holy Sword unleashed powerful Kamui, and Roa met it in a fierce clash that forced Claire back.
• Roa drew Kamui from nature, causing the Holy Sword to stop resisting.
• Roa recited the Contract Spirit incantation, and the Holy Sword began merging its Kamui with his.
• A spirit seal appeared on Roa’s right hand, completing the contract, and the Holy Sword vanished into him.
• Roa heard the name Terminus Est, and Claire congratulated him on contracting with the powerful spirit.

Roa returned to Elysia Spirit Academy with Claire, learned that Scarlet was still bonded to her, and received instruction from Grevias on summoning his contracted spirit. He summoned the holy sword, which introduced herself as Est, and asked why she had stopped resisting him.

• Roa and Claire returned to the academy, where Grevias explained that Scarlet had not been lost and Claire could summon her again after recovering her Kamui.
• Claire saw that Scarlet's spirit seal remained on her hand, cheered up, and left the office after Grevias sent her to rest.
• Grevias admitted she had not known the sealed spirit was the legendary holy sword, then took Roa to the Elf Forest to teach him how to summon it.
• Roa used the contract formula to summon the holy sword and sensed its power and connection to him.
• Est spoke to Roa in his mind, told him he could call her Est, and said she felt warm and comfortable around him.
• Roa asked Est why she had stopped resisting him earlier.

Roa learned that Est was an Elf Magic Armor and continued training with Grevias before going to Eris's dormitory to take her up on her invitation to live there. Eris showed him his room and warned him not to sneak into hers at night.

• Est told Roa she had chosen him because she could not refuse him when he was determined to obtain the sword.
• Grevias confirmed Roa had summoned an Elf Magic Armor and urged him to keep practicing the Absolute Sword Technique.
• Roa went to the Mole Class dormitory and found Eris's room after Grevias let him leave early.
• Eris let Roa into her mansion and showed him the bedroom where he would stay.
• Eris warned Roa that she would turn him into grilled Pacific saury if he tried to sneak into her room at night.

After Roa teased Eris and enjoyed the meal she cooked, he considered the Sword Dance Festival before falling asleep. In his dream, he encountered the holy sword and watched a golden-haired girl approach it.

• Roa found that Eris had cleaned their room, then teased her when she offered to cook for him.
• Eris prepared dinner, and Roa praised her cooking before going to bed.
• Roa considered winning the Sword Dance Festival and questioned whether its wish-granting contest concealed a conspiracy.
• Roa dreamed that he existed only as a point of view and saw the holy sword in a run-down altar.
• A golden-haired, blue-eyed girl entered the altar and calmly studied the sword without trying to draw it.

Roa experienced Est’s dream of Aresia Itis drawing the holy sword, then woke to find Est in his bed and met Eris’s fury. After learning Roa had obtained a Contract Spirit, Grevias told him to assemble a team of four for the Spirit Sword Dance Festival.

• Roa watched Est’s dream of Aresia Itis drawing the holy sword and setting out to defeat the Demon King.
• Roa woke to find Est sitting naked on him, and Eris burst in and attacked after seeing them together.
• Roa stopped Eris’s Elf Magic and explained that Est was his Contract Spirit, the legendary Demon-Slaying Holy Sword.
• Eris helped Est put on an academy uniform, and the three ate breakfast together.
• Roa went to Grevias’s office, where she told him the Spirit Sword Dance Festival required a team of four.

Roa learned that Elysia Spirit Academy would select its three teams for the Spirit Sword Dance Festival through missions and team battles, so he set out to ask Claire about potential teammates. After confronting a mysterious black-winged girl who had been watching him, Roa went to Claire’s room to speak with her.

• Grevias rejected Roa’s plan to enter the Spirit Sword Dance Festival alone and explained the academy’s selection process for its three team slots.
• Roa considered asking Claire to join his team because Eris seemed committed elsewhere, then sensed someone watching him in the academy corridor.
• Roa tracked the watcher to a black-haired girl with feathered wings, but she flew away after saying it was not yet time for them to meet.
• A silent woman in the garden said Roa seemed more suited than Ren to inherit a certain power.
• Roa went to Claire’s room, and Claire opened the door after recognizing his voice.

Roa visited Claire and invited her to join his team for the Spirit Sword Dance Festival, then went with her to ask Linslet Laurenfrost to join as well. Linslet questioned whether Roa and Claire could succeed, and Claire angrily challenged her.

• Roa visited Claire and found her room cluttered with canned food, learning that she relied on it because cafeteria meals were too expensive.
• Roa invited Claire to join his Spirit Sword Dance Festival team, and she eagerly accepted.
• Roa asked Claire to suggest other teammates, and Claire admitted she had few friends before naming Linslet Laurenfrost.
• Roa and Claire approached Linslet, who reacted coldly to Claire's invitation and doubted that the two of them could succeed.
• Claire angrily asked Linslet whether she was looking down on them.

Roa watched Claire and Linslet summon their Contract Spirits and learned that Linslet wanted to join their team. After taking Claire to the Elf Forest to teach her Blade Dance, Roa ended the training by catching and grilling fish for them.

• Carole stopped Roa from intervening as Claire and Linslet summoned their Contract Spirits, and Roa persuaded them to stop before Eris arrived.
• Carole revealed that Linslet wanted to join the team, and Linslet reluctantly agreed after Claire invited her.
• Est told Roa that his unusual fragrance had drawn her to him, while Linslet learned that Est was Roa's Contract Spirit and admired her.
• Roa took Claire to the Elf Forest and demonstrated Sun Breathing for Claire and Est before teaching Claire the sword forms.
• Roa noticed Claire was tired, caught fish, and grilled them for Claire and Est to eat.

Roa trained Purple Lightning with Grevias, shared a meal with Eris, and then entered another dream of Aresia fighting the dark elves and Solomon. As Aresia battled the Demon King, Roa realized the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword was absorbing the curses released by the dark elves, while Aresia remained locked in a fierce clash with Solomon.

• Roa practiced Purple Lightning while Grevias sparred with him and helped him improve his Blade Dance.
• Roa ate a meal prepared by Eris, who warned him that the academy was unsettled and dark elves nearby had grown more active.
• Roa spoke with Est about his Blade Dance, and Est said it seemed better suited to a fire-element spirit than to her.
• Roa dreamed of Aresia slaying dark elves with the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword and noticed that the sword absorbed the ominous mist they left behind.
• Aresia reached the Demon King's bedchamber and fought Solomon, whose greater strength and Kamui offset her superior sword technique.

Aresia defeated Solomon in Roa’s dream, but Roa woke unsure whether the Demon King was truly dead. He learned more about Est’s past and ability, then bonded with her by dressing and braiding her hair, leaving Eris flustered by Est’s claim that Roa belonged to her.

• In Roa’s dream, Aresia empowered herself with Kamui, dodged Solomon’s crushing strike, and severed his head with the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword.
• Aresia thrust the holy sword through Solomon’s torso and used its light to devour the black mist within him, but Roa woke before he could learn what followed.
• Roa found Est beside him, asked about her past and ability, and learned that her Steel Blessing gave her a steel-like body, curse-dispelling power, and high-grade magic resistance.
• Roa helped Est dress and braided her hair; Est smiled at her reflection and sincerely thanked him.
• At breakfast, Est told Eris that Roa had braided her hair and added, “Master is mine,” leaving Eris blushing and accusing Roa of teaching Est strange things.

Roa searched the academy library for information about Aresia and the Elf Element World, then received an invitation to join a team for the Spirit Sword Dance Festival. He declined because he already had a team, while Est watched the exchange closely.

• After eating, Eris hurried out, and Roa took Est around the academy before visiting the library.
• Roa found the library's accounts of Aresia overly idealized and turned to books about the Elf Element World.
• Roa read profiles of Aresia Idoris and Grevias Sherumais, including Grevias's achievements and her role as headmistress of Aresia Spirit Academy.
• Est noticed girls glancing at Roa and asked whether he was a pervert, while Roa dismissed the attention as gossip.
• A brown-haired girl invited Roa to join her Spirit Sword Dance Festival team, but Roa declined because he already had a team.
• After the girl and her companions left, Est tugged on Roa's clothes.

Roa learned that a large group of Magic Beasts was attacking the academy, and Grevias sent him to help the Wind King Knights defend the gates. When he arrived, the Knights' barrier was struggling to hold back the beasts, with Eris already straining to maintain it.

• Est warned Roa that he needed to reject girls more firmly, and Roa agreed to be harsher.
• Eris told Roa that Magic Beasts were gathering to attack the academy gates and asked him to warn students and prepare them to evacuate if the Knights failed.
• Grevias explained that the unusually large group seemed to have been driven toward the academy and told Roa to help, after he mentioned seeing a powerful girl with black wings.
• Grevias identified the girl as Lestia Ashdoll and wondered what she was planning.
• Roa reached the gates and saw the Wind King Knights struggling to sustain their barrier against the attacking Magic Beasts, with Eris leading the defense.

Eris charged out to subjugate the Magic Beasts attacking the academy, but Roa rescued her when she was struck down. He summoned Est as the Demon-Slaying Holy Sword and unleashed Excalibur, flattening the area before the gates and destroying the horde.

• Eris summoned the high-ranking wind spirit Smough and attacked the Magic Beasts with wind magic, but her strikes failed to stop them.
• A giant snake struck Eris with its tail, and Roa caught the attack and helped her up.
• Roa summoned Est as the silver-white Demon-Slaying Holy Sword and told Eris to move away.
• Roa poured his Kamui into the sword and unleashed Excalibur as the Magic Beasts tried to flee.
• The holy slash flattened the area before the academy gates.