Who Isn't a Herrscher?

"Expulsion and erasure..."

"If you are expelled for breaking the rules, you will never again be allowed to travel between worlds. Erasure means that your records, soul, and even your existence will all disappear."

"Is that so..."

"But there is one thing the host must remember. If it happens with the World Consciousness's tacit approval, the world will also undergo slight changes."

"Understood."

"Will you execute world travel now?"

After taking a deep breath, Luo Mio calmed his racing heart and said, "Execute."

"Confirmed. Travel has now been initiated. With each trip, the host will receive a small gift package."

Hearing the system mention a small gift package, Luo Mio froze. "Huh? What is that? There's even a little gif—Package!!! Damn it~!"

Luo Mio was suddenly enveloped in white light. In the blink of an eye, he appeared in a pitch-black universe filled with stars. Then he saw an enormous World Bubble, while he himself was as tiny as dust before it. Soon afterward, his consciousness sank into darkness and flowed into the World Bubble.

Yet after Luo Mio fell asleep, he failed to notice a red-and-white feather appearing on his body. Carrying a vivid, warm red glow, it covered Luo Mio's brain before vanishing.

Outside Earth, points of light suddenly began flashing across the dark starry sky.

"Hey, look at the sky!!!"

"OMG."

"So many shooting stars! Make a wish, hurry!"

"I wish I could become European!!!"

Of course, those were merely the words of ordinary people.

Elsewhere, among this world's Three Great Powers.

"This number of meteors..."

"Could it be the League..."

"What the hell are you thinking? How could a meteor shower on this scale be man-made?"

"Then..."

"Enough. The higher-ups just sent word that the top figures of the Three Great Powers have all been summoned."

Meanwhile, in an orphanage somewhere in Japan.

A young girl was playing on the grass when she was drawn to a shooting star flashing across the sky.

"Mommy Director, look! It's a meteor shower." The girl looked up at the sky and excitedly spoke to the woman behind her.

"Then hurry and make a wish. They say that if you make a wish upon a shooting star, Touka, your wish will come true." The director looked kindly at the girl named Touka.

"Really!"

"Really."

The girl's sparkling eyes were filled with joy. Looking at the meteor shower, she closed her eyes and clasped her hands beneath her chin.

"I'm done wishing." The girl opened her eyes and looked at the director.

"What did Touka wish for?" The director walked over, stroked Touka's head, and asked.

The girl shook her head and said innocently, "Can't tell, can't tell. If I say it, the wish won't come true."

"Alright, alright, then we won't say." The director smiled kindly.

"Come on, Touka. Let's go back."

"Mm."

The director held the girl's hand, and the two walked across the grass toward the orphanage.

Just then, the sound of a crying baby reached Touka and the director's ears.

Hearing the crying, the director said in surprise, "What is that... Come on, Touka, let's go take a look."

"Mm." The girl followed behind the director.

The director hurried toward the crying. Reaching a patch of grass, she pulled it aside and found a completely naked baby crying within the bushes.

The director quickly picked up the baby.

"Who would abandon such a tiny child here?" The director pulled off part of her clothing and wrapped the baby in it.

As the director soothed the baby, she turned to look at Touka. Touka's mouth was slightly open as she stared blankly at the infant.

The director looked at Touka in confusion and asked, "Touka? What's wrong?"

The girl murmured dazedly, "My wish came true."

"Huh?"

Touka snapped back to her senses and happily leaned closer, looking at the baby in the director's arms.

"Mommy Director, Mommy Director, my wish came true!"

The director looked at Touka, then at the crying baby in her arms. As she soothed the child, she asked Touka, "Then what did Touka wish for?"

"I wished for a little brother or sister!"

Enrollment! Hagun Academy!

From the moment people were born, they were bound by the so-called fate of this world. It belonged to the world, and it was also this world itself.

People called this power "magic power."

"Magic power" became the foundation of this world's people's strength, as well as the "lock" binding humanity's fate. It could not be increased through effort alone. It was only natural for those with high magic power to achieve great things, while those with low magic power could only submit to mediocrity and become one of countless lives incapable of resisting fate.

Therefore, so long as someone possessed great magic power, whether good or evil, light or darkness, they would be recorded in history, because they possessed the power to accomplish the feats they were meant to accomplish. Thus, in later generations, everyone in the world cared deeply about a person's amount of magic power.

"Blazers." They were special humans, with only a few appearing among several thousand people. They could use magic power to perform all kinds of abilities beyond common sense and manifest their souls as weapons or armaments—their Devices.

In ancient times, people called them "mages" or "witches."

The stronger among them could manipulate time and space or control natural disasters, while even the weaker ones could reach superhuman realms.

Modern martial arts and weapons were incapable of resisting them.

In this world, warfare was also built upon the power of Blazers.

A war could be completely overturned by the power of a single powerful and skilled Blazer. This made every nation in the world attach immense importance to the birth of Blazers, and thus they formulated a whole series of laws and regulations for them.

The Magic Knight System was one such example.

The so-called Magic Knight System required one to graduate from a Blazer academy recognized by an international organization, obtain a license and the social status known as a "Magic Knight." Only after obtaining these could Magic Knights legally use their abilities.

Hagun Academy was a vast campus located in Tokyo, on the island nation of the Far East, covering an area roughly equivalent to ten Tokyo Domes.

This academy was one of the seven Knight academies in the Far East island nation where one could obtain a Magic Knight license.

And now, it was also the season when this academy welcomed incoming students.

Early in the morning, the sun had only just peeked over the horizon. There were only a few students walking along the road. Among them was a handsome gray-haired, blue-eyed young man. He wore red-framed glasses before his azure eyes and Hagun Academy's uniform.

Walking along the road before the academy gates, he had a fairly upright build. His youthful yet heroic face wore a confident smile, and his slightly long hair was tied into a ponytail hanging behind him.

"So this is Hagun. No wonder it's one of the seven academies." The young man was Luo Mio, though he could now also be called Toudo Miohua.

Luo Mio entered the school gates. Looking at the other freshmen entering alongside him, he sighed. "I never expected to reincarnate directly as a baby. I really didn't see that coming."

[Confirmed. Considering the host's circumstances, reincarnating as a baby was the most effective method.]

"Then why didn't you tell me when I was crossing over?"

When Luo Mio reached a storefront, he saw his reflection in the glass. Touching his face, he murmured, "Teacher, tell me. With a face so similar to yours, do you think I'd succeed if I used it to flirt with girls?"

"Please do not casually use someone else's face to hit on people." A clear, pleasant voice rang helplessly within Luo Mio's heart.

"Hehehe... Teacher, let me tell you, if you put on men's clothes, you wouldn't look much different from a man."

Within his soul, a certain figure raised a delicate eyebrow.

"Are you saying I have no femininity?"

"..."

Hagun Academy, Student Council.

Wearing Hagun Academy's female uniform was a woman with chestnut-colored hair tied into three braids. She had a delicate and pretty face, a gentle yet somewhat heroic temperament, and plain glasses resting on her face. She was Hagun Academy's strongest Student Council President, as well as one of the top four finalists from the previous Seven Stars Sword Dance Festival: Toudo Touka.

Yet this Student Council President, ranked among the nation's top four, was currently smiling with narrowed eyes, humming a tune as she paced back and forth in delight.

A petite girl with wheat-colored skin looked at Toudo Touka in confusion. "What's gotten into the President? She seems so happy."

She was the Student Council's administrative officer, a second-year Class Two student ranked third in the academy, the C-Rank Knight nicknamed "Speed Addiction"—Usamaru Renren.

"Her little brother is one of this year's freshmen." The one who answered was a tall woman dressed in a pure white formal gown. Though indoors, she held a parasol as she elegantly smiled at the wheat-skinned girl. She was the eldest daughter of the Kidewara family, one of the Far East island nation's foremost noble families—Kidewara Kanata. She was also the Student Council's treasurer, a third-year Class Two student ranked second in Hagun Academy, second only to Toudo Touka in strength. Nicknamed the Scarlet Lady, she was a B-Rank Knight.

At that moment, a rough-looking flat-haired man with his arms folded appeared and said, "Speaking of which, the Vice President, the President, and Senior Kanata are childhood friends, right? The Vice President knows the President's little brother too, doesn't he?"

He was the Student Council's secretary, a capable second-year Class Two student ranked fourth in the academy, the C-Rank Knight nicknamed Castle Breaker—Saishiro Rai.

"Oh my, I practically watched that child grow up." Kidewara Kanata smiled in a very ladylike manner.

"That child lived with Touka and the others until they were taken in. Come to think of it, I seem to have received a message from Miohua this morning." A small boy with the appearance of an elementary school student spoke up.

The elementary school-looking boy was the Student Council's Vice President, Miyabi Awa, a third-year Class Two student. Though he had no academy ranking and had never participated in selection battles or competitions—indeed, he always announced his withdrawal before the selection battles even began—his popularity rivaled Toudo Touka's. He was the D-Rank Knight nicknamed "Unobservable," and also Toudo Touka's childhood friend.

Toudo Touka had been happily swaying her head with narrowed eyes, delighted that her little brother would soon be attending the same school as her. However, upon hearing Miyabi Awa's words, she suddenly froze.

"Touka, what's wrong?"

Everyone in the Student Council noticed Touka's unusual reaction and asked.

"Eeeehhhhh----!!!!!!"

Toudo Touka let out a mournful scream and appeared before Miyabi Awa at a speed that ordinary people could barely even perceive.

"W-Wait... What are you doing, Touka?!" Miyabi Awa was clearly startled by Toudo Touka suddenly appearing before him.

"Wh-Why!!!!!! Why did Miohua send you a message but not me?! Answer me, Mu-kun!!!" Toudo Touka grabbed her childhood friend by the shoulders with both hands and shook him wildly.

"Huh! That's what this is about?!"

"Answer me, Mu-kun!!!"

Hagun Academy, Board of Directors Office.

Inside an extremely luxurious office, a woman wearing an OL-style business suit sat before a desk. She was Hagun Academy's chairwoman, Shinguji Kuroko.

Shinguji Kuroko looked at the two documents before her and could not help sinking into thought.

The two documents were the entrance examination results of two new students.

Blazers possessed abilities and aptitude beyond those of ordinary humans. Their very existence was equivalent to national assets, so the country did everything possible to have Blazers become official Magic Knights, placing them under national management and command so they could become one of the nation's core strengths. Therefore, in this country, the seven Knight academies basically had no entrance examinations. Anyone with Blazer aptitude could enroll.

That changed after Shinguji Kuroko became Hagun Academy's new chairwoman.

In order to select Blazers with great potential and worth cultivating from the moment students enrolled, the academy implemented a full boarding system along with subsidies, allowing students to enjoy free food, clothing, housing, and tuition.

Based on a Blazer's abilities, whether they were student Knights or official Knights, data was established according to their respective capabilities.

After reading the documents, Shinguji Kuroko rubbed her forehead and said with a headache, "Why did this brat come here? Could it be just because Toudo is here?"

Name: Toudo Miohua

Age: 16

Nationality: Japan