Chapter Summaries

Origami Tobiichi asked Lin Guang about the flame Spirit she believed had killed her parents, but he told her the Spirit was not responsible and refused to reveal who was. After Origami left, Lin Guang explained the truth to Kanae Kocho and learned that Shido Itsuka was preparing to help Kotori Itsuka.

• Origami Tobiichi asked Lin Guang to carry her downstairs, then questioned him about the flame Spirit who had appeared after her battle with Kurumi Tokisaki.
• Origami told Lin Guang she had spent five years seeking the Spirit she believed killed her parents and vowed to kill her.
• Lin Guang said the flame Spirit had not killed Origami's parents and admitted he knew what had happened, but refused to tell her until she could bear the truth.
• Origami left the Itsuka Household, determined to keep searching, and Lin Guang told Kanae Kocho the truth through their soul link.
• Lin Guang received a call from Shido Itsuka about Kotori Itsuka and the plans of Reine Murasame and the others, then encouraged Shido to handle the situation.

After Shido Itsuka completed Reine Murasame’s training, Lin Guang encouraged him to confront his worries about Kotori and the events from five years earlier. Shido resolved to save Spirits and reseal Kotori, then began their date, only to run into Lin Guang, Tohka Yatogami, and Yoshino at the swimming facility.

• Shido Itsuka finished Reine Murasame’s special training, and Lin Guang took him out for a walk and a beer.
• Shido told Lin Guang that he and Reine had found blurry footage of a possible Spirit and a figure resembling Lin Guang at the scene of Tobiichi’s parents’ deaths.
• Shido vowed to take sealing Spirits seriously, reseal Kotori, and save other Spirits so Tobiichi would not suffer the same loss.
• Shido went on a date with Kotori, but they unexpectedly encountered Lin Guang, Tohka Yatogami, and Yoshino at the swimming facility.

Lin Guang watched Shido Itsuka and Kotori Itsuka’s date, then stepped aside so they could spend time together. Meanwhile, Origami Tobiichi stole the AST’s White Spider Lily, and Shido and Kotori ended their amusement-park date on friendlier terms.

• Lin Guang reassured Tohka Yatogami and Yoshino about Shido and Kotori, then left the swimming facility after encouraging Shido to protect Kotori.
• Origami Tobiichi asked whether the AST’s White Spider Lily could defeat [Flame Demon], then watched footage identifying Kotori Itsuka as the Spirit and struggled with her hatred.
• Shido Itsuka discarded Kyohei Kannazuki’s earpiece and took Kotori to the amusement park, where Lin Guang briefly joined them for go-kart racing before giving them space.
• AST staff discovered that Origami Tobiichi had taken the White Spider Lily and all its ammunition from the base.
• Shido and Kotori rested on a bench after their day at the amusement park, traded teasing remarks, and admitted they had enjoyed themselves.

Shido Itsuka tried to ask Kotori Itsuka about the events five years ago, but Origami Tobiichi attacked them before he could finish. Lin Guang intervened as Kotori and Origami began fighting, and Shido told him that the footage of the fire showed another Spirit.

• Shido Itsuka and Kotori Itsuka recalled that they had last visited the amusement park five years earlier, when Kotori became a Spirit.
• Shido Itsuka began asking Kotori about five years ago, but Origami Tobiichi's Territory barrier appeared and an explosion destroyed part of a bench.
• Origami Tobiichi arrived in her prototype armor, White Spider Lily, and ordered Shido to leave while the amusement park's visitors fled in panic.
• Lin Guang sensed Origami's attack and told Tohka Yatogami and Yoshino to hide before he used the Space Stone to reach Shido, Kotori, and Origami.
• Kotori Itsuka summoned Camael and fought Origami Tobiichi as Lin Guang tried to stop their conflict.
• Shido Itsuka told Lin Guang that footage of the fire five years earlier showed another Spirit, and Lin Guang confirmed that he knew about the blurry figure.

Lin Guang stopped Origami Tobiichi from killing Kotori Itsuka and told Origami that another Spirit had appeared five years ago. After taking the unconscious Origami to the AST base, Lin Guang returned to find that Shido Itsuka had sealed Kotori's powers.

• Lin Guang used Susanoo to protect Kotori after Origami's attack, then sent Shido to seal Kotori's spirit power.
• Lin Guang told Origami that he had sealed another Spirit who appeared five years ago, and refused to reveal the Spirit's identity while Origami was driven by hatred.
• Lin Guang shattered Origami's White Spider Lily armor and stopped her from harming Kotori.
• Origami passed out, and Lin Guang took her to the AST unit's base before lifting the interference over Amusement Paradise.
• Lin Guang returned and told Reine Murasame that Shido had sealed Kotori's powers.

After three months, Lin Guang had established Sa.vior and trained its new Endlave pilots to fight DEM Industries. As he discussed developing more powerful combat robots, Mei Terumi told him Origami Tobiichi had arrived at his home.

• Lin Guang returned to the Fatebreaker and saw that Arisa Shūkyōin had recruited 523 pilots and that Sa.vior had grown to more than 500 members.
• Mei Terumi reported that the recruits had trained for two and a half months and could each take on three or four AST members using their Endlave robots.
• Lin Guang said Sa.vior might soon face DEM Industries and explained that its robotic combat units could still pose a nuisance despite being weaker than its Wizards.
• Mei Terumi asked Lin Guang to build powerful robots so the group would not be mistaken for Spirits, and Lin Guang explained that he had difficulty designing units for Inori Yuzuriha and Mitsuri.
• Mei Terumi received a message that Origami Tobiichi had arrived at Lin Guang's home and asked whether he was going.

Lin Guang met with Origami Tobiichi, reassured her about his identity, and agreed to consider joining her on a school trip. Elsewhere, a gray-haired girl recognized his writing, while DEM Industries learned that Nia Honjo had returned without Spirit readings and sent Ellen to investigate.

• Lin Guang met Origami Tobiichi in a park, where she told him she had been confined for two months and remained uncertain about what happened to her parents.
• Origami Tobiichi asked whether Lin Guang was human and said she had kept his identity as [White Dragon] from her superiors; Lin Guang said he was human and his power was not an Astral Dress.
• Origami Tobiichi invited Lin Guang to help pick drinks for a school trip, and he revealed that he was an author using the pen name Kōki Kawama before suggesting he might join the trip.
• A gray-haired girl abandoned her manga drafts, read Lin Guang’s novel, and praised his writing.
• At DEM Industries, a man learned that Nia Honjo had returned as Souji Honjo without Spirit readings and ordered Ellen to investigate.

Lin Guang learned that Westcott was searching for Nia Honjo while the school trip began without him. He met Nia at a café and asked why she wanted to see him.

• Arisa Shūkyōin told Lin Guang that Konan had detected Westcott in Tengu City, and Lin Guang asked her to keep watching him.
• Origami Tobiichi and Tohka Yatogami saw Lin Guang as the school trip plane took off, and Shido Itsuka stopped Tohka from standing during turbulence.
• Westcott reviewed reports about Tohka, Lin Guang, and Mana Ouma, then asked Ellen to find Nia Honjo.
• Lin Guang's editor, Mia, told him that Souji Honjo had adapted his novel, and Lin Guang realized Nia was the artist.
• Lin Guang met Nia and Mia at a café, confirmed that he and Nia had met before, and asked Nia what she wanted to discuss.

Lin Guang spotted Ellen and other DEM Industries forces near Nia Honjo and took Nia to his car to protect her. He promised DEM would not capture her again, partially restored her Spirit Power, and Nia used Rataibako to reveal their preparations as Lin Guang vowed to destroy them.

• Nia Honjo teased Lin Guang about his novels and whether he was attracted to her while they sat together in a café.
• Lin Guang noticed Ellen nearby, took Nia from the café, and explained that DEM Industries might be targeting her again.
• Nia panicked at the thought of returning to DEM's captivity, and Lin Guang comforted her and promised they would not take her away.
• Lin Guang loosened the restriction on Nia's Spirit Power, allowing her to summon Rataibako.
• Nia used Rataibako to reveal DEM's special forces and aerial warships, and Lin Guang threatened to wipe them out while Ellen watched nearby.

Lin Guang and Nia Honjo traveled to Homi Island, where the Yamai Sisters appeared and joined Shido Itsuka’s school trip group. Ellen followed them and, at Westcott’s direction, joined the trip as an accompanying teacher.

• Lin Guang planned to lure DEM Industries into making a move and took Nia Honjo to Homi Island, where he hoped to test his secret weapon.
• A sudden storm swept over Homi Island, and Lin Guang recognized it as a sign that the Yamai Sisters had appeared.
• Lin Guang and Nia Honjo met Shido Itsuka and the Yamai Sisters at the museum, and Nia introduced herself to Tohka Yatogami as a Spirit saved by Lin Guang.
• Tohka accepted Nia and went off with her after Lin Guang promised her fifty soybean flour bread rolls.
• Reine Murasame and Tamae Okamine arranged identities for the Yamai Sisters and let Lin Guang and Nia join the school trip.
• Ellen contacted Westcott, who arranged for her to join the trip as an accompanying teacher.

Lin Guang learned that Shido Itsuka had met Phantom and was now facing the Yamai sisters’ demand that he choose which of them would remain. At the bathhouse, pranks and a switched entrance curtain left Lin Guang exposed to Nia Honjo, before Tohka Yatogami arrived and found them together.

• Shido Itsuka told Lin Guang that Phantom had appeared before he met Yuzuru Yamai and Kaguya Yamai, who said they would eventually merge and asked him to decide which personality would survive.
• Lin Guang encouraged Shido to think through the choice, then went with him to the bathhouse.
• Yuzuru Yamai and Kaguya Yamai switched the bathhouse signs and entered the men’s bath with Shido, prompting him to shout in surprise.
• Lin Guang hid with the Snake Talisman, but Nia Honjo appeared after the entrance curtains were switched back and tried to provoke him.
• Tohka Yatogami jumped into the bath and was startled to see Lin Guang and Nia Honjo there.

Lin Guang escaped the crowded bathhouse while Shido Itsuka distracted the boys so Kaguya Yamai and Yuzuru Yamai could get away. Later, Ellen was pulled into a pillow fight while DEM withdrew its Beasts, and Nia Honjo set out to visit Lin Guang.

• Lin Guang fled to his room after girls entered the bathhouse, while Nia Honjo grinned and Tohka Yatogami wondered why he was unhappy.
• Shido Itsuka told Kaguya Yamai and Yuzuru Yamai to escape, then convinced Hiroto Tonomachi and the other boys that he had entered the bathhouse to check whether it was usable.
• Origami Tobiichi and Tohka Yatogami went to Ai Yamabuki, Mai Hazakura, and Mii Fujibakama's room to judge their contest.
• Ellen tracked Tohka Yatogami and Nia Honjo for Westcott, but the trio dragged her into a pillow fight.
• The DEM Airborne Battleship captain ordered the Beasts to withdraw, and Nia Honjo left her room to see Lin Guang.

Lin Guang spent the day at the beach with Tohka Yatogami, Origami Tobiichi, and Nia Honjo, then listened as Shido Itsuka explained the Yamai sisters’ sacrifice dilemma. Kaguya Yamai and Yuzuru Yamai confronted each other after learning they each wanted the other to survive.

• Nia Honjo climbed into Lin Guang’s bed, and Lin Guang revealed he had been awake before the two spent the night together.
• The next morning, Lin Guang told Tohka Yatogami that Nia Honjo was still asleep, then took Tohka to the beach; Ellen discovered Nia had escaped and continued tracking Tohka.
• Lin Guang spent the day at the beach with Tohka Yatogami and Origami Tobiichi, and Nia Honjo later joined them for beach volleyball.
• Shido Itsuka told Lin Guang that Kaguya Yamai and Yuzuru Yamai each wanted the other to survive, leaving him unsure what to do.
• Kaguya Yamai and Yuzuru Yamai appeared and angrily challenged what they had heard, while Shido Itsuka tried to stop them.

Lin Guang intervened as DEM attacked Ratatoskr and ambushed Tohka Yatogami and Nia Honjo. The Endlaves destroyed Ellen’s Beast robots, and Lin Guang confronted Ellen while Ratatoskr counterattacked DEM’s airship.

• Ratatoskr entered the airspace above Homi Island, and DEM’s airship prepared to destroy it.
• After Arisa Shūkyōin warned Lin Guang that DEM was targeting Ratatoskr and that Tohka and Nia were in danger, Lin Guang told Shido Itsuka to find a third option and vanished.
• Ellen and her Beast robots ambushed Tohka and Nia, but Tohka manifested her Astral Dress and destroyed the charging robots before fighting Ellen.
• Kyohei Kannazuki led Ratatoskr in flawlessly defending against DEM’s attacks, while the [Fatebreaker] crew watched and assessed the battle.
• Lin Guang ordered Endlave robots deployed; fourteen of them crushed the Beast robots around Ellen, and Lin Guang appeared to challenge her as Ratatoskr counterattacked.

Lin Guang’s [Fatebreaker] destroyed a DEM Airborne Battleship and helped Tohka Yatogami and Nia Honjo escape, though Ellen got away. Afterward, Tohka learned Lin Guang had a younger sister and stumbled upon Shido Itsuka with the Yamai Sisters just after he sealed their Spirit Power.

• Arisa Shūkyōin ordered the [Fatebreaker] to fire its Electromagnetic Railgun, which annihilated the DEM Airborne Battleship alongside Ratatoskr’s attack.
• Arisa contacted Kyohei Kannazuki, offered cooperation, and then returned the [Fatebreaker] to stealth mode.
• Lin Guang left with Tohka Yatogami and Nia Honjo while Endlave Robots held Ellen back, but Ellen escaped.
• Arisa reported that the [Fatebreaker] had destroyed the battleship and robots, lost nine Endlave Robots, and let Ellen escape.
• Lin Guang told Tohka about his younger sister, and Tohka asked to meet her someday.
• Tohka ran ahead, saw Shido Itsuka with Kaguya Yamai and Yuzuru Yamai after he sealed their Spirit Power, and blushed before running into Lin Guang.

After the school trip, Nia Honjo joined the Spirits living next door to the Itsuka household, while DEM Industries began extending its influence into Tengu City. Shido Itsuka was chosen as Raizen High’s festival executive committee member, but a Spacequake alarm interrupted his chores and brought him to Ratatoskr with Lin Guang.

• Lin Guang took Tohka Yatogami and Nia Honjo back to the inn, and Shido Itsuka returned with the Yamai sisters after the incident ended.
• After the trip, Nia Honjo moved in next door with Tohka Yatogami, Yoshino, Kaguya Yamai, and Yuzuru Yamai.
• Major Tsukamoto lifted Origami Tobiichi’s confinement, while Ryoko Kusakabe protested DEM Industries’ new AST unit and Jessica Beli introduced herself as its transfer.
• Westcott decided to move into Tengu City by establishing DEM’s independent AST unit, seeking the Spirits there for his plans.
• Shido Itsuka was voted Raizen High’s festival executive committee member and spent the day running errands.
• A Spacequake alarm sounded, and Shido Itsuka and Lin Guang arrived at Ratatoskr after Kotori Itsuka contacted them.

Lin Guang identified the new Spirit as Miku Izayoi and explained that she disliked men, while Shido Itsuka's first attempt to contact her had gone badly. Ratatoskr decided Shido would have to disguise himself as a girl to approach Miku.

• Lin Guang left Ratatoskr with Yoshino and told Kotori Itsuka to send Shido to contact the Spirit.
• Lin Guang used Nia Honjo's [Rataibako] to identify Miku Izayoi and explain her hostility toward men to Tohka Yatogami and Yoshino.
• Tohka and Yoshino looked up Miku with Nia and saw embarrassing material about her.
• Shido returned home discouraged, and Lin Guang showed him and Kotori Miku's photograph and revealed that she liked girls and hated men.
• The next day, Lin Guang presented Miku's information at Ratatoskr, and the group agreed that Shido would dress as a girl to approach her.

Lin Guang prepared to leave the Tengyo Festival plans to Shido Itsuka and traveled to space to find Mukuro Hoshimiya. He reached the sleeping Spirit but realized he needed to enter her protective barrier to wake her safely.

• Kotori Itsuka and the others forced Shido Itsuka to dress as a girl for the plan involving Miku Izayoi.
• Arisa Shūkyōin told Lin Guang that the search team had found Mukuro Hoshimiya drifting through space, and Lin Guang ordered them not to approach her.
• Lin Guang left Tengu City aboard the [Fatebreaker] and met with his companions, who warned him about Mukuro Hoshimiya and her Angel, [Michael].
• Lin Guang teleported near Mukuro Hoshimiya and tried to wake her, but her Spirit Power barrier prevented him from reaching her with his voice.
• Lin Guang ruled out destroying Mukuro Hoshimiya's barrier and prepared to use the only other way to wake her.

Lin Guang confronted Mukuro Hoshimiya, endured her attacks, and unlocked the emotions she had sealed away. Mukuro agreed to return to Earth with him and try fun things, while Lin Guang left her memories sealed for now.

• Lin Guang entered Mukuro Hoshimiya's protective barrier, deflected her attacks, and introduced himself as a human who wanted to seal her Spirit powers.
• Lin Guang told Mukuro that she had shut away her emotions and was running from something, provoking an angry outburst before she returned to her expressionless state.
• Lin Guang interfered with the Fatebreaker surveillance feed, took Michael from Mukuro, and used it to unlock the first lock on her heart.
• Lin Guang restored the Fatebreaker feed, and Arisa Shūkyōin saw that Mukuro appeared to have emotions again.
• Lin Guang invited Mukuro to explore Earth with him, and she agreed to join him and do fun things.

Shiori Itsuka approached Miku Izayoi at the festival venue, building rapport with her before an accident gave Shido Itsuka an excuse to meet her again. Meanwhile, Lin Guang arranged another meeting with Mukuro Hoshimiya, promised Nia Honjo a rematch on her terms, and proposed building Custom Endlaves.

• Shiori Itsuka met Miku Izayoi on the stage and, with Ratatoskr's guidance, struck up a conversation that made Miku take an interest in her.
• Miku Izayoi explained her love of performing and reassured Shiori Itsuka that their unauthorized visit would stay secret.
• Shiori Itsuka tripped over cables, and Miku Izayoi bandaged her scraped hand before leaving.
• Shido Itsuka returned home, changed out of his female clothes, and made dinner, glad the encounter gave him a reason to see Miku Izayoi again.
• Lin Guang finished a meeting with Mukuro Hoshimiya and agreed to meet her again the next day; aboard Fatebreaker, he also agreed to Nia Honjo's request to be on top next time.
• Lin Guang told the women in the command room that Endlave Robots could not handle High-Level Wizards alone and proposed building Custom Endlaves with their help.