Chapter Summaries

Senka Kiritsugu visited the Garan no Dō Agency to ask Tōko Aozaki for help with her brother Kiritou Kaguya, who could not wake from an endless sleep. Tōko suspected a curse or another magical cause and said she would need to examine both his body and soul, then turned to discuss her fee.

• Senka Kiritsugu arrived at the Garan no Dō Agency and greeted Michael and Shiki, mistaking Shiki’s resemblance to Ori for a possible twin relationship.
• Tōko Aozaki arrived and offered Senka a joking 99% discount for the agency’s help.
• Senka explained that her brother Kiritou Kaguya had fallen into an endless sleep.
• Tōko said a sleeping curse or another magical method might be responsible, and explained that she needed to examine Kaguya’s body and soul before identifying the cause.
• Tōko began discussing the price of the investigation with Senka.

Tōko Aozaki examined the unconscious Kiritou Kaguya at the hospital and discovered that his soul had left his body. She explained that they needed to find it quickly, or something worse could happen to him.

• Tōko Aozaki drove Shiki and Michael to the hospital, where they met Senka Kiritsugu and the unconscious Kiritou Kaguya.
• Tōko used Rune Script to send the medical staff out of the ward so the group could examine Kiritou Kaguya in private.
• Michael recognized Kiritou Kaguya as a former student, while Tōko found no traces of a curse on him.
• Tōko examined Kiritou Kaguya and concluded that his soul was gone, leaving his body in an unconscious state.
• Tōko explained Soul Departure to Senka Kiritsugu and warned that they had to find Kiritou Kaguya's soul quickly.

Tōko Aozaki explained that floating spirits would try to possess Kiritou Kaguya as his soul-body connection weakened, and assigned Shiki to guard him while she and Michael searched for his soul. Shiki destroyed an approaching spirit, but many more swarmed her and surrounded her in the hospital room.

• Tōko Aozaki told Senka Kiritsugu that stray soul fragments could gather into floating spirits and seize Kiritou Kaguya’s body.
• Tōko Aozaki said she and Michael would search for Kiritou Kaguya’s missing soul while Shiki guarded him and killed any approaching spirits.
• Around two in the morning, Shiki sensed a powerful floating spirit drifting toward Kiritou Kaguya’s bed.
• Shiki used her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and dagger to cut the spirit’s death line, making it dissolve.
• More floating spirits poured into the room and surrounded Shiki.

Shiki destroyed the hospital’s wraith and remaining Floating Spirits while guarding Kiritou Kaguya’s body. Michael, Tōko Aozaki, and Senka Kiritsugu found Kaguya’s missing soul atop Witchtail Building, where Senka saw her walking with a boy.

• Shiki cut the wraith’s line of death, pinned it with a blade, and destroyed it.
• Shiki cleared the remaining Floating Spirits and returned to rest beside Kiritou Kaguya’s hospital bed.
• Michael guided Tōko Aozaki across Kanbōzi City using a Mage’s Garment that tracked Kaguya’s soul.
• Michael and Tōko arrived with Senka Kiritsugu at Witchtail Building, where Kaguya’s soul floated above the roof.
• Tōko gave Senka enchanted glasses, and Senka saw Kaguya walking hand in hand with a boy beneath the moon.

After transmigrating into the disgraced Young Marquis Qin Hu, a former special forces soldier realized he had been framed and sent to the front lines, where camp soldiers were trying to freeze him and Qin An to death. Qin Hu decided to save Qin An and seek help from Centurion Li Xiaokun.

• Qin Hu recovered the memories of his new life and learned that Chen Ruoli had impeached him after he was accused of molesting Princess Chang'an.
• Qin Hu and Qin An went out into a freezing snowstorm to stand watch while the relieved sentries extinguished their bonfire and left them exposed.
• Qin Hu recognized that his enemies were trying to kill him through harsh treatment in the Vanguard Camp and vowed to return to the capital for revenge.
• Qin Hu asked Qin An how much money remained and learned they had only twenty taels of silver.
• Qin Hu decided to keep Qin An alive and identified Centurion Li Xiaokun as the man he needed to approach.

After awakening in the body of the disgraced Champion Marquis Qin Hu, a modern soldier realized he had been framed and sent to the front to die. As he and his pageboy Qin An struggled through a deadly night patrol, Qin Hu decided to seek help from Centurion Li Xiaokun.

• Qin Hu regained memories of his new life and understood that Duke of Chen, Chen Ruoli, and Princess Chang'an had conspired to ruin him for their own gain.
• Qin Hu and Qin An were sent into a freezing snowstorm to patrol while the relieved sentries extinguished their fire and left them without shelter.
• Qin Hu recognized that the poorly defended Vanguard Camp and its brutal conditions were putting both him and Qin An at risk of death.
• Qin Hu learned that they had no banknotes and only twenty taels of silver, then decided to approach Centurion Li Xiaokun for help.

After awakening in the body of Young Marquis Qin Hu, a disgraced noble exiled to the front lines, Qin Hu realized he had been framed and that soldiers in his camp were trying to kill him. He resolved to survive and considered bribing Centurion Li Xiaokun for help.

• Qin Hu awoke in a military camp and recovered memories revealing that Chen Ruoli had impeached him and he had been exiled after being accused of molesting Princess Chang'an.
• Qin Hu concluded that Duke of Chen, Princess Chang'an, and others had conspired against him to break the engagement and seize the Champion Marquis family's fortune.
• Qin Hu and Qin An were sent to patrol through a freezing snowstorm after off-duty sentries extinguished their warming fire.
• Qin Hu recognized that the camp's harsh treatment and lack of supplies were meant to kill him and Qin An.
• Qin Hu decided to use his remaining silver to seek help from Centurion Li Xiaokun, who was in charge of the Vanguard Camp.

Michael Stefan Animusphere visited the terminally ill Utou Kirie, returned the sapphire containing her other personality, and explained her family’s supernatural heritage. He then asked about Kiritou Kaguya, leaving Kirie’s feelings for the boy as the conversation’s next subject.

• Michael Stefan Animusphere introduced himself to Utou Kirie and offered to fulfill a commission, including curing her illness.
• Michael described the severity of Kirie’s condition and praised her endurance as she reflected on her painful, lonely life.
• Michael returned the sapphire containing Kirie’s other personality and discussed her dual existence.
• Michael explained that the Utou Family descended from the Miyojin Family, whose bloodline was connected to spirit possession and sight of the underworld.
• Michael asked Kirie about Kiritou Kaguya and whether she liked him.

Utou Kirie learned that Souren Araya had arranged the accident that killed her family, and Michael offered to restore her health in exchange for something. Senka Kiritsugu began studying magecraft under Tōko Aozaki and arrived at the hospital for her first lesson.

• Utou Kirie admitted that she loved Mikiya and recalled how being with him had made her feel alive.
• Michael told Utou Kirie that Souren Araya had arranged the truck crash that killed her family.
• Utou Kirie remembered Souren Araya visiting her and offering her a body that could move freely.
• Michael offered to restore Utou Kirie's health so she could gather evidence, then whispered what she would need to give in return.
• Senka Kiritsugu asked Tōko Aozaki to take her as an apprentice so she could protect her brother.
• Tōko Aozaki told Senka that magecraft would not require her to abandon her former life, then taught her not to trust others' words too easily.

Asagami Fujino returned home and shared a warm meal with her mother, who teased her about her crush on a white-haired boy. After Fujino cut her finger and felt pain for the first time, her Mystic Eyes awakened and wrecked the kitchen, leaving her stepfather horrified.

• Asagami Fujino returned home from Reien Girls' Academy and helped her mother prepare dinner.
• Fujino's mother asked about her school life and teased her about the boy she liked.
• Fujino admitted she had a crush on a boy who seemed to have a girlfriend, Ryōgi Ori.
• Fujino accidentally cut her finger, and the unfamiliar pain awakened the spirals in her eyes.
• Fujino's power twisted the kitchen and shattered the knife, injuring her cheek.
• Asagami Kōzō saw the ruined kitchen and called Fujino a monster.

Seo Shizune returned to school with contraband for Naomi and used her ability to glimpse the future. After foreseeing a gang of Bōsōzoku youths attacking her in an alley, she fled, but they spotted her and gave chase.

• Seo Shizune waited for a bus and reflected on her family’s brewing business and her ability to see glimpses of the future.
• Seo Shizune traveled toward Reien Girls' Academy, carrying a foreign band album that Naomi had asked her to bring.
• Seo Shizune saw a brief vision of Bōsōzoku youths capturing and drugging her in an alley.
• Seo Shizune turned and ran from the alley, but the Bōsōzoku youths spotted her and pursued her on motorcycles.

Seo Shizune fled four Bōsōzoku boys until she collided with Michael, who stepped in to protect her. He defeated the boys, and Seo Shizune was overwhelmed with relief and realized she had fallen in love with him.

• Seo Shizune ran from four Bōsōzoku boys pursuing her on motorcycles and collided with Michael.
• Michael recognized that the boys were pursuing Seo Shizune and agreed to help her.
• Michael reassured Seo Shizune, then fought the four boys and shattered their bones without killing them.
• Seo Shizune cried with relief at Michael's kindness and thought she had fallen in love with him.

Seo Shizune returned to Reien Girls' Academy feeling relieved after discussing her future-seeing ability with Michael. In the common room, she reunited with Senka Kiritsugu, spotted Asagami Fujino, and began telling Senka about the handsome man she had met.

• Seo Shizune returned to her dorm after deciding that her ability to see the future was an inborn talent rather than cheating.
• Seo Shizune found her roommate Senka Kiritsugu's notebook in their empty room, changed into her uniform, and took an album to the common room.
• Seo Shizune found Senka Kiritsugu reading with Asagami Fujino nearby and greeted her roommate.
• Senka Kiritsugu noticed the Suede album, and Seo Shizune admitted she liked the band without explaining why she had brought it.
• Seo Shizune exclaimed that she had fallen in love with a handsome man she met that afternoon, then lamented that she had not gotten his name or contact information.
• Senka Kiritsugu asked what had happened, and Seo Shizune began recounting her afternoon.

Senka Kiritsugu told Seo Shizune and Asagami Fujino that the white-haired man who rescued Seo was Michael, whom both girls wanted to meet. At Ahnenerbe café, Utou Kirie met Kiritou Kaguya after recovering from her illness and invited him to see a movie.

• Seo Shizune recounted how a white-haired, blue-eyed young man had rescued her from the Bōsōzoku, and Senka Kiritsugu realized he was probably Michael.
• Senka told Seo and Asagami Fujino that Michael was her senior at work, and Asagami revealed that he had helped her before.
• Senka thought about Michael's girlfriend, Ryougi Shiki, and his ambiguous relationship with Teacher Touko.
• At Ahnenerbe café, Kiritou Kaguya congratulated Utou Kirie on recovering and being discharged from the hospital.
• Utou asked Kiritou to call her Kirie and invited him to see a movie with her that night.

After waking in the body of the disgraced Young Marquis Qin Hu, a modern soldier realized that powerful enemies had framed him and were trying to kill him in the army. Facing a freezing night watch with his sickly servant Qin An, Qin Hu decided to use his remaining silver to seek help from Centurion Li Xiaokun.

• Qin Hu woke in a military camp and learned he had transmigrated into the body of the Champion Marquis, who had been exiled after his fiancée Chen Ruoli accused him of numerous crimes.
• Qin Hu pieced together that Duke of Chen and Princess Chang'an had conspired against him to end the engagement and claim his family’s wealth.
• Qin Hu and Qin An went out to stand watch in a fierce snowstorm, while two off-duty sentries extinguished their warming fire and left them exposed.
• Qin Hu realized the camp’s harsh treatment was meant to finish him off and vowed to survive and return to the capital for revenge.
• Qin Hu learned they had no banknotes and only twenty taels of silver, then decided to use it to win help from Centurion Li Xiaokun.

Seo Shizune foresaw Asagami Fujino's death in an explosion and saved her by pulling her away from the blast. The bomb's maker, Kuramitsu Ruka, watched the future he had predicted fail and reflected on how his ability to see fixed outcomes had made his life feel empty.

• Seo Shizune saw that a roadside trash can would explode and kill Asagami Fujino, so she pulled Fujino back before she could reach the corner.
• A bomb exploded nearby, but Seo Shizune and Asagami Fujino survived and Senka Kiritsugu rushed to them.
• Asagami Fujino thought she saw someone watching from a nearby rooftop, but the figure was gone when she looked again.
• Kuramitsu Ruka watched from the rooftop and was surprised that his bomb had failed to kill Asagami Fujino as he had foreseen.
• Kuramitsu Ruka left the rooftop, intrigued and unsettled that the future had changed, and recalled how his foresight had made his life seem predetermined and tedious.

Kuramitsu Ruka, the Bomb Demon, accepted a five-million-yen commission from Asagami Kōzō to kill Asagami Fujino and planned a bombing near a cinema. His right eye showed Fujino surviving the explosion despite his certainty that the future was fixed, leaving him desperate to learn why his vision had changed.

• Kuramitsu Ruka described his work as a contractor who staged bombings and relied on his right eye to see futures in which he succeeded.
• Asagami Kōzō offered Kuramitsu Ruka five million yen to kill his stepdaughter, Asagami Fujino.
• Kuramitsu Ruka went to Reien Girls' Academy to plant a bomb, then changed his plan after seeing Fujino and her companions leave with movie tickets.
• Kuramitsu Ruka planted a steel-ball bomb in a trash can near the cinema and foresaw it killing Fujino and injuring those around her.
• Kuramitsu Ruka saw that Fujino and her companion survived, contradicting the future he had expected, and wanted to discover why.

After repeated bomb attacks targeted Asagami Fujino, Senka Kiritsugu asked Garan no Dō Agency for help. Michael suspected the Bomb Demon had Future Sight and explained its types, while Fujino rested and Shiki and Seo Shizune stayed with her.

• Senka Kiritsugu told Michael that Fujino had survived three bomb attacks after the movie theater bombing, with Seo Shizune’s Future Sight helping her avoid them.
• Shiki served coffee, and Michael sent the exhausted Fujino to rest with Seo accompanying her.
• Michael concluded that the Bomb Demon likely had a form of Future Sight, and explained how its ability had interfered with Seo Shizune’s predictions.
• Michael described predictive, measurement, and Absolute Future Sight, and said measurement-type Future Sight could make the Bomb Demon more difficult to handle.

Michael received information about the Bomb Demon and traveled to a newly completed luxury hotel to stop him. With minutes left before the announced bombing, Michael located the Bomb Demon in the hotel garden.

• Senka Kiritsugu gave Michael information about the Bomb Demon and agreed to ask her brother, Kiritou Kaguya, about joining Garan no Dō.
• Michael teased Shiki about worrying over him, prompting her to draw her sword when he called her a tsundere.
• Kiritou Kaguya became an employee of Garan no Dō, while Michael attended the hotel completion ceremony in Tōko Aozaki’s place.
• Michael found the Bomb Demon’s detailed criminal declaration and inferred that the culprit had a measurement-type Future Sight.
• With twenty-six minutes remaining before the bombing, Michael spotted a small figure wandering in the hotel garden and identified the Bomb Demon.

Kuramitsu Ruka waited for the bombs he had planted at a hotel to destroy a floor, but Michael appeared and forced him into a game of hide-and-seek. At 8:00 p.m., the bombs failed to detonate, and Kuramitsu Ruka was left marked and unable to see the future.

• Kuramitsu Ruka waited in the hotel courtyard for the bombs he had planted to detonate during the opening ceremony.
• Michael approached Kuramitsu Ruka, revealed that he knew his real name, and introduced himself as The Fool.
• Michael held a blade to Kuramitsu Ruka’s throat, and Kuramitsu Ruka agreed to play hide-and-seek after his future-seeing ability failed.
• Michael gave Kuramitsu Ruka until midnight to run, then vanished into the shadows and left a red smiling mark on his hand.
• At 8:00 p.m., Kuramitsu Ruka saw that the hotel ceremony continued without an explosion or smoke.