Chapter Summaries

Li Yu and his classmates received one million credits each and began planning purchases and customized weapons. Asuna confessed that she wanted to date Li Yu, and he accepted; at dinner, Mahiru Shiina decided to buy a Tree of Life branch for a powerful healing staff, with Asuna, Yukino Yukinoshita, and Kato Megumi offering to lend her credits.

• The class received one million credits each, and Li Yu advised everyone to buy Tungsten Sand Gold and choose materials for their customized weapons.
• Asuna climbed onto Li Yu's balcony, confessed that she wanted to be with him, and Li Yu agreed to date her.
• Asuna joined Li Yu, Kato Megumi, Yukino Yukinoshita, and Mahiru Shiina for dinner, where the others noticed her closeness to Li Yu.
• Mahiru Shiina asked Li Yu about a staff for support magic and proposed using a Tree of Life branch to create a powerful healing weapon.
• Asuna, Yukino Yukinoshita, and Kato Megumi offered to lend Mahiru Shiina credits for the materials she needed.

Mahiru Shiina exchanged all her credits for a rare weapon material, and Asuna bought her a Space Backpack while Li Yu arranged for Tsubaki and the others to help upgrade the group’s weapons. The next morning, just as Li Yu was heading out for breakfast, Asagi Aiba urgently asked him to bring Mahiru Shiina to treat a child.

• Li Yu offered to forge Mahiru Shiina a weapon using materials he had, and Mahiru Shiina exchanged her remaining credits for the needed material.
• Asuna ordered Mahiru Shiina a Space Backpack, and Mahiru Shiina transferred her the money at the school’s exchange rate.
• Li Yu contacted Sister Mi and learned that Tsubaki and the others were on Boundary Island and would help with the weapon upgrades.
• Li Yu and Asuna video-called, discussed the plans, and meditated after chatting until midnight.
• The next morning, Asagi Aiba messaged Li Yu and urgently asked him to bring Mahiru Shiina over because a child needed treatment.

Li Yu and Mahiru Shiina helped save Kayo Senju, a wounded child rescued by Asagi Aiba and the others, from severe injuries and Gastrea corrosion. After Kayo recovered, Li Yu recognized her exceptional intelligence and summoned Nangong Natsuki to handle her separately, while Asagi reported that their mission had succeeded.

• Li Yu brought Mahiru Shiina and Asuna to the dimensional passageway, where Mahiru joined the medical staff treating a gravely injured child.
• Li Yu recognized the child as Kayo Senju and helped Mahiru heal her while the staff obtained and administered gene-repair medicine.
• Asagi Aiba explained that she and the others had rescued Kayo while returning from their mission, and Kayo said she was Kayo Senju and believed people had hunted her to study her.
• Li Yu took Kayo to wash and change, then told Asagi Aiba that Kayo had the Dolphin Factor and an exceptionally high IQ.
• Li Yu summoned Nangong Natsuki to meet Kayo, and Asagi Aiba confirmed that their mission was complete before saying she needed rest.

Li Yu brought Asagi Aiba and the others back to school after rescuing Kayo Senju, while Nangong Natsuki decided to raise Kayo and teach her Space Magic. After breakfast, Li Yu led his classmates toward Sister Mi’s shop on Boundary Island, where they were surprised by its enormous size and location beside an interdimensional passage.

• Asagi Aiba exchanged credits for supplies and asked Li Yu to make her a magic-amplifying bracelet.
• Nangong Natsuki took Kayo Senju into her care, and Kayo said she wanted to learn Space Magic.
• Li Yu returned to school with Asagi Aiba, Asuna, and the others, then gathered the exchanged materials and brought them to the dormitory area.
• Li Yu sent the class the address of Sister Mi’s shop and told them to meet there for weapon enhancements from Tsubaki Collbrande.
• Asuna told Yukino and the others that Mahiru Shiina had helped save the dying child Natsuyo.
• Li Yu, Asuna, Mahiru Shiina, and their classmates left school and arrived at Sister Mi’s enormous shop beside an interdimensional passage.

Li Yu and the students visited Sister Mi’s Weapon Shop, where he forged weapons for the new Hestia Familia members and learned from Asuna about the medieval fantasy world beyond the shop’s passage. After the break ended, Li Yu began university classes and quickly mastered several spells.

• Li Yu and his group visited Sister Mi’s shop, where Tsubaki and the Hephaestus Familia were forging and enhancing weapons.
• Li Yu forged weapons for the new students, including Kojou Akatsuki’s greatsword Heavenly Demon Fall, and gave them the weapon blanks as a Hestia Familia benefit.
• Asuna told Li Yu that the world beyond the passage had dragons and gods and was the source of their world’s magic, and they agreed to explore it when they had time.
• Li Yu and the students returned to their dorms to study before classes resumed on Monday.
• Li Yu attended university magic classes and mastered several spells after roughly one lesson each.

Li Yu and his classmates entered a full-dive combat training simulator where they could use magic and create weapons. Yor arranged for Li Yu and Ais to demonstrate a no-rules battle, leaving their classmates eager to see who would win.

• Yor and Hiratsuka Shizuka led the first-years to the D District combat training area and had them enter its game pods.
• Li Yu arrived in a virtual stadium, tested its synchronized sensations by pinching Xia Yu, and confirmed that he could use magic and fly.
• Yor explained how students could create weapons and told them that injuries and death in the simulation would only cause temporary mental fatigue.
• Yor chose Li Yu and Ais to fight first, then sent the rest of the class to the spectator stands.
• Asuna and Xia Yu backed Li Yu to win while Yukino Yukinoshita watched and considered how she might challenge him.

Li Yu defeated Ais in the virtual combat arena with a single slash, then tried unsuccessfully to challenge Hiratsuka Shizuka. Yor explained how to ease Ais’s lingering phantom pain and sent the students to begin their own fights, leaving Li Yu without any volunteers to face him.

• Ais fought Li Yu with swordsmanship and magic, but his stronger Phantom Sword Dance overwhelmed hers and he knocked her out with one slash.
• Li Yu asked Hiratsuka Shizuka to fight him, but she refused because she suspected his motives and feared being defeated.
• Hiratsuka Shizuka brought the observers into the arena, where Ais reappeared shaken by the realistic sensation of dying.
• Yor advised Ais to cover herself in magic power to dispel the phantom pain, then told the students to choose opponents or team up against someone.
• Xia Yu and the other students rejected the idea of teaming up against Li Yu, unwilling to face a one-sided slaughter.

The class held a battle against Li Yu, and he overwhelmed the students who chose to challenge him. Shikimori, Lefiya, Ais, Yukino, and Sayaka Kirasaka remained in the arena as the fight continued.

• Xia Yu warned the newcomers about Li Yu’s past fights, but Shikimori and most of the new students still wanted to challenge him.
• Yor let the class choose sides; Yukino, Ais, Lefiya, the Amazon twins, and several newcomers joined the fight, while Xia Yu and the others watched from the stands.
• Yukino, Lefiya, and the others attacked Li Yu, but his shield absorbed their strikes and he charged into the group unharmed.
• Li Yu cut down the Amazon twins and then defeated Kojou Akatsuki and the other students with his Tang Dao.
• Yor judged Li Yu’s strength and recovery ability extraordinary, while Xia Yu and Hiratsuka Shizuka were relieved they had stayed out of the fight.
• Shikimori, Lefiya, Ais, Yukino, and Sayaka Kirasaka remained in the arena after Li Yu eliminated the other challengers.

Li Yu defeated Ais and the others in the arena with his overwhelming speed and strength. Afterward, Xia Yu asked him to teach her the technique, and he agreed to show her Flash Step.

• Li Yu eliminated Lefiya, Sayaka Kirasaka, and Shikimori with swift attacks, leaving Yukino Yukinoshita and Ais as the last opponents.
• Li Yu struck down Yukino Yukinoshita after she compared his speed to that of a special Dungeon boss.
• Li Yu defeated Ais by combining rapid attacks with an unexpected ice blade and a powerful slash.
• Xia Yu asked Li Yu to teach her the burst-movement technique, and he identified it as Flash Step, which he had learned from Juggernaut.
• Asuna briefly felt jealous when Xia Yu clung to Li Yu's arm while pleading for lessons.

Li Yu taught the group Flash Step after their virtual battle, and they practiced the new technique across the arena. Xia Yu challenged Li Yu to test her newfound speed, but she charged straight into his blade and was defeated before returning to the arena.

• After Ais helped Yukino and the others recover from the simulated deaths, they returned to the arena and heard Li Yu offer to teach them Flash Step.
• Li Yu explained that Flash Step required at least Rank Four strength, and Hiratsuka Shizuka quickly learned to use the technique by practicing her explosive power.
• The group practiced Flash Step, and after about half an hour Ais and the others had begun mastering it while Asuna received private guidance from Li Yu.
• Xia Yu challenged Li Yu, believing her new speed would keep him from defeating her instantly, but she charged into his Tang Dao and was killed.
• Xia Yu returned to the arena soon afterward, while Li Yu and Asuna discussed how she needed to learn to control her speed.

Li Yu and his classmates trained with Flash Step, while Xia Yu sought advice on controlling her speed and improving her reflexes. Later, Li Yu and Asuna visited the seaside, where he detected a new Dimensional Rift and alerted Nangong Natsuki, who arrived and decided to teach him advanced Space Magic.

• Xia Yu failed to control Flash Step during training, and Li Yu's classmates refused to spar with him, so he learned assassination techniques from Yor.
• Xia Yu asked Li Yu how to handle her speed outpacing her reflexes, and Asuna advised her to practice and consider medicine that improved reflexes.
• Li Yu and Asuna became openly recognized as a couple and later visited the crowded seaside together.
• Li Yu sensed a weakening spatial point over the sea and sent Nangong Natsuki its coordinates.
• Nangong Natsuki confirmed a spatial rift, triggered an evacuation, and told Li Yu to stay so she could teach him advanced Space Magic.

Nangong Natsuki anchored a one-way passage to another world and sent Li Yu and Asuna through to explore it. They arrived in a world Li Yu recognized as Re:Zero, where both gained new powers from the World's Blessing and began concealing themselves.

• Nangong Natsuki taught Li Yu the Chain of Commandments spell and used spatial chains to stabilize and seal the Dimensional Rift into a one-way passage.
• Nangong Natsuki sent Li Yu and Asuna through the passage to investigate the other world before the rest of their class joined them.
• After sending the pair, Nangong Natsuki also dispatched Teacher Li Shengshun and continued overseeing work to expand Boundary Island around the rift.
• Li Yu and Asuna arrived in an alley, sensed that something had noticed them, and discovered that Asuna had gained the Blessing of Water.
• Li Yu copied Asuna's new ability, received additional powers from the World's Blessing, and recognized the world as Re:Zero.
• Li Yu gave Asuna and himself aura-concealing cloaks from his Space Ring so they could explore without drawing attention.

Li Yu and Asuna encountered Subaru Natsuki and Emilia after sensing Subaru's first Return by Death, then helped defeat Elsa Granhiert and recover Emilia's insignia. Reinhard took Felt away after recognizing her as another royal selection candidate, while Li Yu froze the captured Elsa and left Emilia curious about him and Asuna.

• Li Yu and Asuna witnessed time reverse around them, followed the source, and met Subaru Natsuki as he chased Emilia.
• Li Yu recognized Subaru's Return by Death, and Asuna attacked Elsa Granhiert, who had been hiding nearby to ambush Emilia.
• Reinhard van Astrea arrived, heard how Emilia's insignia had been stolen, and recognized Felt as a royal selection candidate.
• Reinhard took the unconscious Felt with him and returned Emilia's insignia after Li Yu explained that it had glowed in Felt's hand.
• Li Yu struck Elsa with holy light, then froze her after Asuna pulled her sword free, while Emilia thanked them and grew curious about their magic.

Li Yu and Asuna explained to Emilia and Puck that their worlds had become connected, and they were visiting to investigate. As the group traveled toward Emilia’s home, Emilia asked whether people in Li Yu’s world would dislike her for her white hair and resemblance to a Witch, and Asuna assured her they would not.

• Li Yu left Rom’s house after handing the captured assassin over as compensation, and Emilia paid for the damage before following him with Subaru Natsuki.
• Li Yu told Subaru Natsuki and Emilia that he and Asuna had come voluntarily from another world, and Asuna said they were there to investigate.
• Puck emerged from Emilia’s pendant, introduced himself, and agreed to discuss the connected worlds with Li Yu and Asuna at a more suitable place.
• Emilia led the group to her dragon carriage, where Ram and Rem greeted her; Rem drove Emilia, Li Yu, and Asuna away while Ram gave Subaru Natsuki gold coins and followed them.
• Li Yu explained that the worlds’ connection was inevitable, and Asuna told Emilia that people in her world welcomed white-haired girls when Emilia asked whether they would dislike her.

Li Yu and Asuna arrived at Roswaal’s estate with Emilia, where Roswaal welcomed them and learned about their world’s dragons and resources. Li Yu and Asuna agreed to stay at the estate, while Li Yu began discussing magic with Puck and learned that Emilia’s magic controlled temperature.

• Emilia considered whether travel to another world could help free her frozen kin, but kept the idea to herself because she barely knew Li Yu and Asuna.
• Emilia led Li Yu and Asuna to Roswaal’s estate, where Roswaal welcomed them and offered to answer their questions about the world.
• Li Yu told Roswaal that dragons in his world’s newest Dungeon could be killed repeatedly, exciting Roswaal, who sought dragon blood for the Witch of Greed’s resurrection.
• Roswaal invited Li Yu and Asuna to stay at the estate, then left to handle his affairs and reconsider his plans.
• Emilia offered to show Li Yu and Asuna around while Puck discussed magic with Li Yu.
• Li Yu asked whether Emilia’s magic was truly ice magic, and Puck explained that it controlled temperature.

Li Yu sparred with Emilia, copied her temperature magic and nearly limitless mana, and helped her improve her ice attacks. After learning that she hoped to become queen so she could save her frozen clansmen with the Dragon God's power, he offered to help.

• Emilia agreed to spar with Li Yu, and Puck refereed as they fought in the count's estate courtyard.
• While blocking Emilia's ice and fire attacks, Li Yu copied her magic and learned how she absorbed energy from the world to replenish her mana.
• Li Yu's strength increased as his experience rose from 60% to 90%, bringing him close to the sixth rank.
• Li Yu countered with ice spikes that shattered Emilia's ice walls, then advised her to make her ice harder.
• When Emilia said no one supported her bid to become queen, Li Yu suggested killing everyone who opposed her, and Puck objected.
• Li Yu asked about Emilia's wish, and she explained that she wanted to become queen to save her frozen clansmen using the Dragon God's power.

Li Yu offered Emilia Sun God blood to thaw the Frozen Lands and invited her to leave with him for another world, but she asked for time to consider. After dinner, Li Yu contacted Nangong Natsuki and described the new world, then she asked what he thought of it.

• Li Yu gave Emilia a bottle of Sun God blood, which she believed could free her people from the ice, and assured her he had more.
• Emilia asked why Li Yu was helping her, and he invited her to come with him to his world; Puck supported the idea, but Emilia requested time to decide.
• Li Yu and Asuna ate dinner at Emilia's manor, where Ram and Rem arranged a single guest room for them.
• Li Yu contacted Nangong Natsuki and told her about the world's dragons, witches, blessings, and spirits.
• Nangong Natsuki considered how that world's powers might work elsewhere and asked Li Yu what he thought of it.

Li Yu spent the night with Asuna at the count's estate, where Emilia continued her morning spirit lesson. The next morning, a spatial ripple led him into Beatrice's library, where he met the guardian and eyed the Witch of Greed's vast collection of knowledge.

• Li Yu told Nangong Natsuki that he was mainly interested in bringing Emilia back for her immense magic power, and mentioned the modern world connected to the fantasy world.
• Asuna prepared her bedding, then urged Li Yu to be more proactive when they went to bed together.
• The next morning, Li Yu watched Emilia draw magic power from spirits while Asuna woke exhausted and drank an Intermediate Red Potion.
• Asuna left to train, and Li Yu sensed a spatial ripple at the door and stepped into Beatrice's library.
• Beatrice introduced herself as Puck's little sister and told Li Yu he could leave by opening the door.

Li Yu traded magical knowledge with Beatrice for access to her library and rapidly memorized its books while she studied his. After two days, he stopped reading, leaving Beatrice astonished and wondering whether he needed any more magic.

• Li Yu offered Beatrice a magic book from his world in exchange for permission to read her library's books, and she accepted the deal.
• Li Yu quickly memorized books from Beatrice's library while Beatrice studied his book and later asked him for more.
• Asuna called Li Yu and learned he was in Beatrice's separate-dimension library, then brought him breakfast with Rem.
• Beatrice limited Li Yu to two days of reading, and he focused on rare time-based and spatial magic while skipping elemental spells.
• Li Yu told Emilia that the library's time-based magic had broadened his horizons, then returned to the library the next day.
• After two days of recording rare magic books, Li Yu stopped reading, and Beatrice asked whether he needed any more magic.

Li Yu finished learning Beatrice’s magic and expanded her library space, then taught Emilia, Ram, and Rem a new method of storing magic power. Ram successfully stopped her magic from leaking away, and Li Yu prepared to return to his own world with Asuna.

• Li Yu demonstrated that he had mastered Beatrice’s spatial magic, expanded her library, and gave her several magic books before leaving.
• Li Yu noticed Ram’s inability to retain magic power without her horn and offered to teach her and the others his world’s meditation magic.
• Emilia quickly formed and stored converted magic power, while Ram successfully meditated and found that her magic no longer leaked away.
• Rem thanked Li Yu and began meditating herself after seeing Ram regain the ability to store magic power.
• Li Yu left the hall with Asuna and said they could return now that they had learned what they needed from this world.